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HDBird
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I?ve come to the conclusion that the Playstation 2 version of Cricket 2004 is far too similar to Cricket 2002. Okay, so we?ve got more teams and tournaments, but the gameplay is nigh on indentical.
Let me start with the wicket keeper. He can be standing up for a spinner and you can defend one down to your toes. Call for a run and the wicket keeper will leave it to a fielder who?s 20 yards away, rather than get it himself when it?s 2 yards from him. And then on the odd occasion that he does go for it he goes into a wearing-concrete-boots-while-wading-through-treacle mode. Really really slow motion.
And when a fielder does come in to get it the keeper stands facing the wrong way until the fielder (who?s now 2 yards from him) hurls it into his gloves like he was making a return from the boundary.
(Here?s what was said in his interview:
In Cricket 2002 the wicketkeeper would never run up and pick up the ball even if he was the only player close to the ball. We had to wait for one of the other fielders to throw it to the wicketkeeper. That?s not too realistic. Have you sorted out this wicket keeper problem?
I am pleased to say that we certainly have) Well I am sorry to say you certainly haven?t.
And another thing. I was playing a game when the bowler bowled one down leg side. I tried to hook it and it hit me. The keeper had dived and was on the ground. I took a single and the bowler made a direct hit, but I was in my ground, so I took another cos the bails were off at the keeper?s end and there was no-one at the bowler?s end. So in comes the fine leg?s throw, the keeper get it at his bail-less stumps, flicks the stumps as if the bails were on and I?m run out. This showed me a complete lack of knowledge of the game on the developer?s part.
The commentary is just as bad as it was in C2002. You can hit one which is caught by a man who?s stepped over the line, and Benaud prattles on about how good a catch it was at the same time as the umpire?s signalling six.
And the overthrows thing. You can run two, a wayward throw comes in, you run the overthrows, but it cuts to Benaud saying that?s a four but you only get your two runs and it all stops like as if it was a boundary.
I have now played two 20 over World Cups and I am yet to see a catch by the keeper or slips ? same as Cricket 2002 here again. And I thought fast bowlers could swing the ball? Not in any of my games anyway.
And you can consistently bowl Yorkers with no problem at all. No sign of the system AW mentions where the cursor gets sprayed all over the place.
What about this World League that Andrew Wilson goes on about in his interview???!!!! I?ve searched everywhere but can?t see it anywhere. Buying and selling players? How and where in the game is this. I feel conned.
Apart from all this I actually do like the game, but this is because I love cricket. I still played Cricket 2002 which I liked even with it?s bugs. I just feel that all the false promises that have been made have left me disappointed.
I would be interested in letting Andrew Wilson answer all these points in this thread. So if someone can give me his e-mail address or send him this I would greatly appreciate it.
Let me start with the wicket keeper. He can be standing up for a spinner and you can defend one down to your toes. Call for a run and the wicket keeper will leave it to a fielder who?s 20 yards away, rather than get it himself when it?s 2 yards from him. And then on the odd occasion that he does go for it he goes into a wearing-concrete-boots-while-wading-through-treacle mode. Really really slow motion.
And when a fielder does come in to get it the keeper stands facing the wrong way until the fielder (who?s now 2 yards from him) hurls it into his gloves like he was making a return from the boundary.
(Here?s what was said in his interview:
In Cricket 2002 the wicketkeeper would never run up and pick up the ball even if he was the only player close to the ball. We had to wait for one of the other fielders to throw it to the wicketkeeper. That?s not too realistic. Have you sorted out this wicket keeper problem?
I am pleased to say that we certainly have) Well I am sorry to say you certainly haven?t.
And another thing. I was playing a game when the bowler bowled one down leg side. I tried to hook it and it hit me. The keeper had dived and was on the ground. I took a single and the bowler made a direct hit, but I was in my ground, so I took another cos the bails were off at the keeper?s end and there was no-one at the bowler?s end. So in comes the fine leg?s throw, the keeper get it at his bail-less stumps, flicks the stumps as if the bails were on and I?m run out. This showed me a complete lack of knowledge of the game on the developer?s part.
The commentary is just as bad as it was in C2002. You can hit one which is caught by a man who?s stepped over the line, and Benaud prattles on about how good a catch it was at the same time as the umpire?s signalling six.
And the overthrows thing. You can run two, a wayward throw comes in, you run the overthrows, but it cuts to Benaud saying that?s a four but you only get your two runs and it all stops like as if it was a boundary.
I have now played two 20 over World Cups and I am yet to see a catch by the keeper or slips ? same as Cricket 2002 here again. And I thought fast bowlers could swing the ball? Not in any of my games anyway.
And you can consistently bowl Yorkers with no problem at all. No sign of the system AW mentions where the cursor gets sprayed all over the place.
What about this World League that Andrew Wilson goes on about in his interview???!!!! I?ve searched everywhere but can?t see it anywhere. Buying and selling players? How and where in the game is this. I feel conned.
Apart from all this I actually do like the game, but this is because I love cricket. I still played Cricket 2002 which I liked even with it?s bugs. I just feel that all the false promises that have been made have left me disappointed.
I would be interested in letting Andrew Wilson answer all these points in this thread. So if someone can give me his e-mail address or send him this I would greatly appreciate it.