Ashes 09

It is rubbish mate.

I played it on PS3. It was decent, the graphics are overall very good, but lacks detail with regard to player faces. The stadiums aren't overly accurate and the bowling actions are generic, unlike in RC 2007. The commentary is the same as Shane Warne Cricket 99 with the addition of a few other commentators, but is poor as usual with cricket games. The gameplay is quite easy, batting is fairly straightforward and bowling is quite boring. It's the kind of game you need to play with a few mates and have a bit of competition against. I bought it on PC for AU$20 (but played it on PS3), was going to get it on Wii to play with the young ones , but decided I'd just get a cheap PC one to kill time with when I'm bored with reading cases.

Edited by milkman - 25 August 2009 at 4:34am

Yer I played both, owned EA SPORTS Cricket 2007. EA has much better graphics, much better. But the game play was poor. Batting was too hard when playing with a batsman early in his innings and the bowling was very bland and most people autoplay it. Commentary is also poor and there's no licensing for some teams. However , it had more teams, more stadia, more tournaments, more patches available as well to improve the game.
Codemasters RC/BC 2007 has easier batting, but it's quite fun and if you put it on hard then batting is really good, the shots are more fluent. I like how they've done the batting on the Ashes 09 game as well... a lot of shots and options (front foot, back foot, charge, lofted, attack, defend) and many directions to hit the ball - and in hard mode would be anice challenge. The bowling is also more imaginative in the RC/BC/Ashes games.

RC/BC and Ashes are both made by Codemasters. Ashes is basically the new version of RC/BC. Codemasters makes a better game for pure entertainment, you shouldn't be too disappointed with Ashes... you'll get some hours out of it.

Oh man, I've played it and I now realise why Zuhair said what he had to.  When bowling, the team don't play test Cricket, they attack and attack in that format.  I like the shot placings, it is better than EA Cricket but turn seems non-existant for spinners and they simply hit you wherever the ball is bowled and there are way too many run outs, I dismissed a team, 7 run outs being the main contributor. 

Well, news is that a new game, Cricket Revolution will be released sometime in the middle of September so I'm hoping it's better than the previous games.  I like the batting of Ashes 2009 (the variety of shot placings) but the game bats in T20 mode all the time.  Too many run outs as well!

Yeah, the fielding especially got me annoyed, I used India once and they dropped every aerial catch that came their way, and I got 7 run outs in one innings, it was unbelieveable.  Maybe they're spending too much time working on making the game look to real in terms of graphics.  I'm yet to try out the Lara 07 but I will soon when I finish downloading 3 stooges.

Haha, I hear you about too many buttons.  I know the keyboard keys inside out, so that's no worry for me.  Being able to type at 60+ WPM has it's advantages.

Yeah, I know what you mean, it's a challenge of speed of the brain if anything.  All in all, I'm disappointed with it, not sure if Lara 07 is any better but surely, it can't be worse than Cricket 07 and this one.

The Ashes 09 you talking about playing online?  If so, I'm sure we could try it out, but that's for when I get home as I surely can't have it on the computer at work.  Time difference is another factor.  If you're on around 2300-0300 GMT then we could easily have a go at it.

Ok.  Might have to be a weekend indeed cause when I'm at home in the night on the computer, it's morning for you and I don't know if you work away from home or what.  Just for the record, I'm 14 hours behind you at the moment.

Ok, well, you've got a date mate (I know it sounds wrong but for humour sake enjoy it)!

You've got to be kidding me fang, I've already uninstalled it from my pc - the guys were dropping too many catches and the game kept on hammering me into submission.

Have you tried Cricket Revolution as yet Milkman?

Yeah, the stroke play is quite good, just that the opposition moves around to the pitch when batting, but I do it back to he he.