fanirama said:
brad352 -- you're very ignorant. How does it prove graphics are terrible in Cricket 2004 ?
Low poly models, low res textures, poor animation- all to ensure that the large part of the casual gaming consumers with poor PC's can play it and be happy
I think you have a personal bias against Cricket 2004 and are not seeing the product for what it is.
The product is a half-arsed attempt by EA to cash in on the lack of cricket games on the market
I'd suggest you put aside your views and give it a non-biased review.
Reviews are by nature based on your personal thoughts, how can that possibly be non biased?
I'm sure you'll like the game.
You're sure? You don't know me, or anything about me. And no, I don't like the game- terrible gameplay, terrible graphics, terrible bugs, great features (domestic teams, tournaments etc)
Anti-aliasing is a must to remove jaggies. I'm sure you know people enable AA. Making blind statements without backing them up is not wise.
It was a question, not a statement- surely you know the difference? And you didn't respond about AF (Anisotropic Filtering if you don't know?)
What I'm waiting for is half-life2 like graphics in Cricket games.
If you've seen the BLIC screenshots, you'll know that won't be for a long time
Besides you haven't seen it on my computer so you cannot tell anyways.
What statement implied that I had? I've seen it on my computer with everything on full and it looks like crap, why would I need to see yours?
Graphics are nowadays mostly handled by the video cards.
Well that is implied by the fact that they're called video or graphics cards, no?
Have a powerful video card and you'll be fine if you meet the minimum specs of the game.
So by your logic, playing Doom 3 with an Athlon XP 1500+ and 384MB of RAM coupled with a 6800 Ultra will run very well? The video card will be horribly bottlenecked
Granted Cricket 2004 is not perfect,
Nothing is perfect, but most things look like at least some effort has been made
but neither is BLC99 or the upcoming BLIC.
Did I say they were?
( what only 3 official stadia you say ? )
I don't think clicking on "Melbourne" instead of the MCG is a major issue
Most sports games don't require fancy hardware anyway.
Because a large part of the people that play them are casual gamers without good PC's
I play MaddenNFL 2005 and it looks superb even with all the action on the screen.
Superb by your definition