To clarify the OFFTOPIC part of my earlier post, every cricket game I've played (have owned every console version since SNES, then PS1, PS2, PS3) has had flaws, and easy ways to exploit the computer AI (whether batting or bowling).
Maybe this game has a few new ones (excessive runouts), and other specifics... but every game has been soft in the offline department and had it's own faults and I have found it easy to 'beat' the AI.
Another area of comparison is with the spinner glitch, this is in in every cricket game I've played for most part, the only difference being the way the wicket falls. It used to be more LBW than the extreme one you get in AC09 (playing cover shot to get bowled around the legs), and the area you used to have to pitch the ball varied alot more depending n conditions... but once you found it, it was game over.
With the runout issue, again I've noticed a similar thing in almost every cricket game, especially ones that have allowed the use of manual fielding... I used to simply press left or right on the joystick depending on where shot was played relative to the fielder in that area and which side I thought the ball was going, and computer AI still ran as if ball went by the fielder so I got easy run outs. So to me, it's just another version of that... bowl in right spot for where a player has been playing shots, have fielder with good arm nearby = runout... just automatic now instead of me doing it. The trade off for losing manual fielding in this game is the mini-catching game (which I love).
So anyway I stand by my comment... and also willing to agree with people who say it has problems, but not so far as that it's broken and should never have seen light of day (to the effect).
The biggest issue I see is maybe expectation that with advances in hardware (eg. next generation console) we expect similar advances in the games produced. My analogy (man I hate analogies though) would be just because they build a machine to build a car faster, does it mean that automatically it's going to make better cars :/
So in summary, I will respect you if you found the bugs/easy wickets a problem and won't play the game anymore.... but to make blanket statements that the game is unplayable and is broken and should not have been released is just as silly as me claiming the game is perfect and anyone complaining about it should be shot!
PS: I quoted you cooks1st100 just to make my point (and reflective of another post further down).... none of this is talking about you personally, more about the theme of some of the posts I have been reading recently (and in the past lol) - you just happened to be first to quote me
