Playing Styles
One thing just came to my mind when i was going through some post which talked about motion-capture technique which are implemented for player animation.
I'd like to know how the playing styles are being implemented for batters and bowlers.
i.e. how diff a right-hander's shot looks from a left-handers shot or how diff a left-arm bowler's action is from that of right-arm bowler's action.
In previous games, be it EA series or Codemasters, we've seen both look like mirror images i.e. left/right arm bowlers have same action, similarly
left/right batters play same shot in identical way. This robs us of a critical gameplay component, IMO.
Just to illustrate what i'm tying to suggest with a few examples,
1. How diff "a dab shot to third-man" looks when played by say Kallis as compared to Gambhir
2. How diff "an aerial square-cut over third-man" looks when played by Jayasuriya as compared to Sehwag
3. How diff "a cover drive" looks when played by Dravid, Amla as compared to those played by Lara, Ganguly
4. How diff is the action of left-arm fast bowler like Mitchell Starc, Dirk Nannes from right-arm fast bowler like Dale Steyn or Shane Bond.
5. How diff is a classic right-arm off-spinner's action from classic left-arm spinner's action
The point I'm trying to make is that the style of play differs with change of batting/bowling hand.
While there are a few things which are common to batters/bowlers of the same hand, there are also a no. of subtleties
which make style of play different in between right/left hand batters/bowlers.
Not sure if implementing such a thing is programmatically critical or not,
but if done, can add a new dimension to the new-age cricket game the makers have so far promised us.