Why can't EA just use some of the best features of their older games in the new one ?

[tutsipoppy2]

hi....

i just wanted to raise a topic that why can't EA just use some of the best features of their older cricket games in the ir latest version games.

Cricket 97 :

1. Auto-Appeal - I just loved this feature. I gave the game realistic look and feel.

2. Wind : After '97 ea hasn't included wind in the weather department. It was great as it affected the amount of swing.

Cricket 99/2000 :

1. Replay : The replay mode in '99/2000 was simple awsom. Their were unlimited camera angles. The view was much easier to move as it moved with mouse unlike 2004 in which the keyboard just p***es me off.

2. Ball Animation : the ball animation was also simple awsom. We could acctually see the ball rorating as it does in real cricket.

If EA had included these in thier latest editions of cricket games then cricket 2002/2004 wouldn't have been a rip-off.

 

[barmyarmy]

Remember that C97 was made by Melbourne House not HBS. That said, c99 and c2k were nothing to write home about in terms of anything else. Plus the replay angles in c2k4 are fine and unlimited if a bit fiddly sometimes.

 

[tutsipoppy2]

well if HBS had included WIND and AUTO-APPEAL.......i don't think that a COPYWRITE problem could have occured.

And yea....Cricket '99/00 didn't had anything else.....but the replay mode and the ball animation was the best ever.

 

[Ste]

Melbourne House are still around with there latest game being for the PS2 - "Transformers" (based on the TV cartoon series of the same name) which from looking at the website (http://www.atari.com/transformers/uk/flash/flash-UK.htm) has received good..8/10, 9/10..88% reviews. Maybe EA could have let them have a crack at making Cricket 2006, if they had'nt recently been bought out by Atari.

Who did Cricket 96? Was it Melbourne house as well? is Ian Bothams Cricket the same as Cricket 96, anyone else remember that game?

 

[duffarama]

Auto appeal was funny at times. Even when it was nowhere near out, sometimes the umpire actually gave it out because you kept appealing.
From Duffarama.

 

[Prakash]

Auto-Appeal - I just loved this feature. I gave the game realistic look and feel

do you mean by manual appeal :confused:

 

[rockyj123]

well theres nt been a single crick game tats been accurate. rt frm brian lara crick on SEGA to this ****ty crick 2004....
one feature everyone forgets to mention is tat bowlers shud b able to use the bowling crease to bowl....no wot im sayin...like shaun pollock bowls frm near the stumps while ntini bowl wide of the crease......... this will realy add another dimension to game while bowling yorkers or bouncers....
and 1 more thing.... bowlers action shud vary frm bowler to bowler.... i mean 2 fast bowlers shud nt have the same action .... this becomes so static.. even for batsmen, they all have the same stance n stroke play....
well , ne news on ne nu crick game comin up for pc

 

[brad352]

well , ne news on ne nu crick game comin up for pc

Cricket 2006

And shouldn't this be in Wishlist?

 

[tutsipoppy2]

yea....i would really love to see different bowling actions and differnt stance and playing style of batsmans.

 

[duffarama]

Re: Re: Why can't EA just use some of the best features of their older games in the new one ?

Originally posted by Prakash
do you mean by manual appeal :confused:

Same thing. ...I think.