As well as these detailed controls for batting and bowling, you can also select your team and tactics. Despite the fact the you're dealing with national teams, the fielders can still get themselves in a horrible tangle. Fielding is fairly straight forward but can be a bit frustrating. A good knowledge of cricket will be required to fully understand how to successfully bowl, but you can always go for the 'getting lucky' method that you may have already experienced with the batsman. You then have to position a cursor to decide where the ball will bounce. You don't need to remember all the different methods, you simple select how you're going to bowl before you start. It's still a bit annoying though.īowling is more straight forward than batting. You can avoid this problem with a bit of practice and keen reflexes. This is a bit stupid if you play a rubbish shot.

The one glaring flaw with the system is that if you perform a shot which requires you to use the down button, your batsmen tend to start running straight away. However, if you know your cricket then you'll love the attention to detail and will spend hours refining your bating skills. To be honest, there seems to be a lot of luck involved. The trick is to position your batsman in the right place and use the right shot for the method of bowling which the batsman is using. There's a wide range of shots and some of them are pretty impressive. I found a joy-pad most convenient but you could probably get away with keys. Pressing various directions performs different shots. Batting is handled by the use of the directional keys and two fire button. Ian and Richie do a fine job and Cricket 97 is up to EA's usual high standard of presentation.Īs is the nature of cricket, you'll either be batting or bowling. The nice thing about EA Sport's games is that they always get some stars in to do the commentary. Richie may pop up again and give a quick word or two. Once you've done that, Ian Botham appears and tells you all about the match conditions.

You can of course have a 2 player game with one machine, so I presume the network game is for Internet users.īefore the action begins you have to select the weather conditions. Once you've chosen your options, you can go for a quick match, a one day match, a full test match or a network game. You can even opt for Ozy rules for scoring as opposed to English ones. Everything you could possibly imagine can be changed. ' Cricket 97 has a whole stack load of options. Since the only exposure to cricket I have ever had was listening to a UK friend's description of a supposedly exciting world cup match, I'll leave it up to the guru at Games Domain to convince you of the game's merits: Cricket 97 is a good-looking cricket game designed by Melbourne House of Australia and published worldwide by EA Sports.

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