Allan Border's Cricket download

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Will not turn you on to the game: too iffy and complicated

Cricket is not such a hard sport to understand or to get to like, but like many gentlemanly sports it has that level of rules and regulations that makes it quirky naturally. Imagine then a simulator that lacks polish lacks a good vision when it comes to the controls and also, lacks a proper tutorial. This could only spell disaster. Now, the game might look a lot like baseball but the rules are a little different. Certainly, a more in depth explanation on how to approach each step of the game would have been great, but it's just absent. Otherwise the game looks nice graphically; the animations of the players are good enough. However, you won't really concentrate on these when you play, you will most of the time lock your eyes on the minimap which is so small and so hard to read that is almost useless. Frankly, I don't see why anyone would want to try this game. It may have been an OK title for his day and age but today it offers nothing that a more recent Cricket sim can't, and with a much simpler and straightforward control scheme and interface.
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