Hi Everybody
Ok! this is my first thread quoting the feature i like and dislike in BLIC07.
First of all, i would like to congrate the Codies for certainly imroving the game from his predecesors. But yet again they fail to put the longlasting impression on hardcore cricketers lovers like me!.
So, lets get straight, below is the list of things that really annoys the real cricket lover.
1. When Running between the wicket, batsmen donot cross over the crease
as they do in Ea cricket. Sometime even though batsmen reaches the near
to crease but they donot slide the bat to the crease, what they do is
slowly put the bat in the crease and thus gets runout (the biggest flaw
in the game).
2. Annoying wicketkepper and slip fielder. WK rarely takes the ball with both hands and to my surprise when Wk dives to catch the ball (wide ball) to fast bowlers, the animation sequence is so long that batsmen can easily steals the run. Same is case for slip fielder when they drop catch. Yet a another big
: flaw. This thing really freak me out.
3. Whenever ball goes to gully, batsmen can easily take a run. moreover it easy to take run within 30 yard cirlcle(thats not a good gamplay). From my viewpoint batsmen should able to steal run but the probabilty should only be 60%.
4. Catching or thorwing meter really make hard to judge the catch or throw the ball
. This makes the game really beautifull coz you cant master the catch or throw over the time and it your jugment that make the catch.
So only things needed is to change the colour of catching meter as it is similiar to the ground which make harder to jugde, when the meter starts.
5. Overthrow needs to be improve, how can batsmen steal the run if there is an overthrow and ball goes nears to pitch or near to the player . moreover the throwing meter should restart to again throw the ball (thus should not be computer controlled).
6. Stadiums are Excellant but the colour of the ground i.e grass is much of yelowish than green. This irritates the eyes. gamma is to high even though i change my moniter screen setting
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7. Animation sequence like picking and throwing the ball within 30 yards, drop catch and then throwing the ball, slip and Wk drop catches n throwing ball sequence are so long that gameplay look rubbish. this long animation make batsmen to steal the run
8. Stumpout to the fastbolwer or spin bolwer make game really rubbish. if batsmen steps out of crease and misses the ball, there is few chance to get back to crease for fastbowlers and no chance against spin bowlers. This is because of long animation sequence of completing the shot of batsmen. Moreover stumping should be User controlled as in EA cricket. I give 1/10 point to codies and 8/10 to EA cricket.
9. Running chasing algorithm are certainly improved from Blic05 but still need to improve more. Under huge score, CPU although goes for big shots but crumble and easily loose wicket like INDIA (maybe Codies have used Indian Run Chasing strategy)
Thus, i want to say is that Codies are trying to Compete with EA in terms of Graphics but are forgetting their strength (gameplay). At the end of day Gameplay that matter rather than graphics although graphics should be good but if Codies or even Ea wants to keep thier cricket series alive they all gonna do is to improve gameplay(although EA won't listen freaks!, hope Codies will)
Post your comment wheather you like or not!
Bye
