King Pietersen
ICC Board Member
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2006
- Location
- Manchester
Got the day off sixth form and just my luck that BLIC arrives, been playing now for about 2 hours and heres my view on the game.
Graphics:
Simply amazing tbh, cricket in HD just looks brilliant. The dust coming off the pitch, the amazing stadia, great player likenesses, it has it all. I am very happy with the graphics of the 360 version. Also, the menus are all very nice and shiny and colourful, really pleasent on the eyes. Also, Day-Night matches pwn, one of the better new features of the game i think, quality.
Gameplay:
Cracking fun and also pretty realistic. The shot variations are brilliant, the swing although abit exaggerated is really fun to play around with. The idea of realistic and even teams is awesome. I have started a champions trophy on county difficulty with england, played India in the first game and mauled them, scored over 350 in 20 overs and then got them all out for under 60 in 7 overs. I was expecting it to be the same in my current game with australia, but it isnt. Australia are dominating my bowlers, scoring 106-0 in 13.2 overs. I have been bowling good line and length with swing away yet Gilchrist and Watson are just smashing me around abit. I have bought the medium pacers on to slow the run rate down and that seems to work. Awesomely realistic.
Also, the feeling when you hit a slog sweep off a fast bowler into the stand is awesome, did it a few times to RP singh in my match against india and it just looks awesome. Another thing, i've strangled Watson so he cant get any runs, confidence is down to 0 and now he is just playing like a tail ender :P Just prods his bat in the way, still cant get him out though, gonna bring on freddie and jimmy for the last 2 overs.
Overall:
Feels much better than the demo, if you love cricket then you'll love this game, good variation of options, online, good player likenesses, and cracking graphics. so far 8.5/10.
Any questions, ask away ?
Graphics:
Simply amazing tbh, cricket in HD just looks brilliant. The dust coming off the pitch, the amazing stadia, great player likenesses, it has it all. I am very happy with the graphics of the 360 version. Also, the menus are all very nice and shiny and colourful, really pleasent on the eyes. Also, Day-Night matches pwn, one of the better new features of the game i think, quality.
Gameplay:
Cracking fun and also pretty realistic. The shot variations are brilliant, the swing although abit exaggerated is really fun to play around with. The idea of realistic and even teams is awesome. I have started a champions trophy on county difficulty with england, played India in the first game and mauled them, scored over 350 in 20 overs and then got them all out for under 60 in 7 overs. I was expecting it to be the same in my current game with australia, but it isnt. Australia are dominating my bowlers, scoring 106-0 in 13.2 overs. I have been bowling good line and length with swing away yet Gilchrist and Watson are just smashing me around abit. I have bought the medium pacers on to slow the run rate down and that seems to work. Awesomely realistic.
Also, the feeling when you hit a slog sweep off a fast bowler into the stand is awesome, did it a few times to RP singh in my match against india and it just looks awesome. Another thing, i've strangled Watson so he cant get any runs, confidence is down to 0 and now he is just playing like a tail ender :P Just prods his bat in the way, still cant get him out though, gonna bring on freddie and jimmy for the last 2 overs.
Overall:
Feels much better than the demo, if you love cricket then you'll love this game, good variation of options, online, good player likenesses, and cracking graphics. so far 8.5/10.
Any questions, ask away ?
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. When a team bats first they tend to just knock it around for abit, hitting singles, but they always take advantage of really wide short ones, except when they have extremely low confidence.
