Ok, here's what i think on Cricket 07
(Some of this stuff is taken from the EA Forums)
1) Stadiums:
There MUST be a stadium for every international team. Playing as Ireland at 'home' in Cardiff is a complete joke. All the minnow teams should have a stadium in the misc. section. Plus, much more stadiums should be added in other areas. West Indies, South Africa ect.
2) Online mode:
That would be great. Playing with your country against another. It should have an option where you can save online matches and continue them (So you could play online modes) Plus it would be amazing to see a diary from an online game with two different perspectives. A speak system should be included so you can chat to others while playing, and rascist or cheats should bge barred from the system.
3) Commentary:
The commentary in Cricket 07 is a joke, and a number of changes should be made. There should be much much more than 2 commentators. There should be 6 or 7, I know it's a lot to ask but they should change around, thus improving the presentation aspect of the game.
Certain commentators should be used for cetain teams e.g Mark Nicholson should take the majority of the sessions in Australian games. Ian Bishop for the West Indies ect
They should ramble on about things and ask each other questions to fill the gap (like BLIC05) example
Michael Atherton: So Michael (Holding), do you think the overhead no ball rule has taken away the agressive nature of the bowlers
Muchael Holding: No Athers, I think that it hasn't taken away the agression, but I think the bowler must be able to control his agression much better now than in my time
Also what about a studio, at lunch breaks. Have analysis and models of pundits and all the things sky sports do in breaks (maybe even special reports)
4) Gameplay. I won't elaborate too much here because a good number of people have already touched on it.
a) Varius bowling and batting actions: So you can choose for your custom player what one you want. Plus, certain batsmen and bowlers should have unique style e.g Malinga the slinger action ect.
b) More lbw's: Enough said
5) Career Mode
This would tie in nicely with what I've said, you start off small, with only a certain amount of attribute points and cash, you have to buy a cheap bat and cheap pads as you start you career in a district team from England (NOT A COUNTY TEAM) or Pakitan or Australia ect. you play a season and if you're good enough, you make the county 2nd XI, if not, it's stay at the district team for more practice. You try and play you're way onto the county team, and with that more cash and better equipment. If you're really good you might go to another team, maybe one in your own country, maybe one abroad.
Then it's a shot at playing for your country, in my case it would be Ireland, I would try to win them test status, win the world cup and the intercontinental cup and go top of the one day and test rankings.
When you finish the game you get a bonus movie, maybe 5-10 mins long, with cricket highlights, when you win all of them (it should be on 5 levels for 5 stars) you get an extra bonus film of 30 mins long, profiling the cricket greats (and your player should be one of them) With videos of you character hitting sixes/taking wickets/taking catches (whatever the player is) you then unlock a bonus difficulty (like FIFA 08)
6) More tournaments: I think the IPL, ICL, Pakistani League, District Tournaments, Intercontinental Cup, and Stanford 20/20 should be put in
7) Team liscencing: I don't want to play against Gilfrist or whatever his name is in a normal test series that I create, liscence international teams, even small ones like Ireland and Holland
8) More liscencing of cricket gear: Bats was a great start but having leg guards, gloves, helmet , so on
9) Customization: I think that the create-a-player option has a lot to be desired for, generic bodies should be wiped out and you should be able to choose your height, weight ect. as i said about the career player, use could use a custom player in it. Also a create a team option would be great
10) Custom bowling actions - Be able to create you own players bowling action (like create a swing in TW) customize length of run up, how high he jumps in run up, weather his arm is fully extended or collapsed a little ect. ect - Then you can put in the attributes, plus a grip editor while in game so you actually change the grip on the ball instead of just selecting a stock delivery.
11) Custon Bat: I think this would be a cool, if small feature, being able to put your own graphics on it (On pc you should be able to import a picture from my pictures), be able to change the weight (it's not that hard) and create a couple, so you could use a slogger bat or a light bat in different situations.
12) Graphics: As with the gameplay this has been said a lot. So I'm not going to go into a rant
Better Faces and custom bodies really, plus better crowds. I could say more but it's been said already
13) Import your face: You could have an import a face feature on the game, so you could use a digital pic on the pc, or the eyetoy cameo maker on the ps2, xbox amera on xbox ect.
14) Referral: In the FP trophy EA should should put in a referral option
15) Appeal Button: An idea I saw on the EA forums. An appeal button so you can appeal when you think there's lbw, if you appeal for really stupid things the umpire won't give 50/50's to you, there should be a bar signaling the umpire's faith in your calls.
That's just about it
