MattW
Administrator
Well with the variety of commentary names included, we'd be lucky to get all of the commentators with all of the games, let alone multiples of them to keep it interesting. Perhaps with the nicknames there will be a decent number of lines for those.
EA's games did the strict separation of play-by-play and colour commentary, so Benaud was the only one who recorded the player names despite having two commentators. Codemasters' recent games just used 'the fast bowler' and the like to avoid names - except for the long spiels about players I don't think anyone was mentioned by name in the commentary in AC09/IC10.
BA are saying 40 hours of commentary, and their other games also have very rare event things in them, you see a few people who were still finding new things in RLL2 a year after release because of that.
But it probably is impossible to make it generally last. I just hope that if they have more than two commentators, they rotate them through a game, so that what lines there are spread well - another area AC09/IC2010 fell down.
Cricket 97's commentary is nice - you even get to see Benaud do cut scenes in the studio - sure you used those up very quickly, but that was great to see.
Cheerleaders are in the game.
