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Category: Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

November 2, 2009 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Howzat free online cricket game preview

2 minute readWe’ve had a quick look at the new free online cricket game Howzat, which is due to be unveiled shortly. We’re giving it the royal seal of approval. Gameplay It’s a player v player action game, as opposed to a management sort of affair. Batting is largely as you’d imagine:

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August 31, 2009 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Ashes Cricket 2009 on the PC

2 minute readWe’re reviewing Ashes Cricket 2009 at the moment. It’s actually pretty good, although we’re going to play it a bit more to check there’s no massive flaws that ruin the illusion. There was a slower ball bouncer in the original Brian Lara Cricket which would clean bowl cowering batsmen every

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July 22, 2009 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 2009 review

3 minute readHow’s it work then? You captain/coach either a county side, an international side or both. You train your players, select your team, make your bowling changes, tell them where to bowl, position your field, gauge how much to attack with the bat, decide when to take the new ball –

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July 21, 2009 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 2009 free download

< 1 minute readYou can download the latest version of International Cricket Captain for free here. It’s a two day trial version, but you can get a code after that and play the full version. Or you can buy it from Amazon for just £9.50. Initial impressions are that changes are minimal, but

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January 27, 2009 Australia / Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Ricky Ponting’s match-fixing shame

< 1 minute read“So one thing I always do is I gotta run myself out early on – it’s much more fun being an Andrew Symonds or someone.” Don’t fear, people. Ponting is talking about playing Ricky Ponting Pressure Play on the PSP, which is known as Brian Lara Pressure Play in the

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September 10, 2008 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Cricket Life 1 update

< 1 minute readThose of you with elephantine memories may be wondering whether Cricket Life‘s out yet. It’s not. However, their website has been updated with a fantastic picture of Mike Hussey. “Okay, Mike. If you could just try and look a bit more like a retarded cow then that’d be great. “Okay,

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January 23, 2008 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Cricket Revolution screenshots

< 1 minute readNew cricket game! It’s not out yet though, so we’ve no idea how good it is. It doesn’t matter really. If our short-lived, poorly-paid career as a videogame ‘journalist’ taught us anything, it’s that previews of games only need pictures. Mervyn Athrapatta’s going along nicely. We’ve rather unhelpfully shrunk this

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September 26, 2007 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 3 review

2 minute readRubbish. Okay, that’s a bit extreme. How about ‘worse than its predecessor’? The graphics are better, but still bad. The whole point of this update is the presentation (nothing else has changed) so it’s hard to ignore. Before, they hadn’t made any effort, so you overlooked the rough appearance. It’s

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