New Brian Lara International Cricket Press Release and Screens

[barmyarmy]

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International Cricket Council backs Brian Lara International Cricket ? bat, bowl and field through official tournaments with the real professionals!

Designed as the ultimate hit and run experience, Brian Lara International Cricket will come packed with official content thanks to a licence from the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body for international cricket, Codemasters announced today.

As an iconic sports gaming brand, Brian Lara International Cricket returns to this summer for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC and the ICC endorsement brings the organisation?s world famous tournaments to the title.

You?ll be able to step up to the crease and compete with the professionals in cricket?s most challenging tournaments including the ICC Cricket World Cup and the ICC Champions Trophy.

Featuring all the official ICC One-Day International teams, with 16 players per squad, and stadia from around the world, including The Oval, Newlands, and Edgbaston, Brian Lara International Cricket will be a truly authentic experience.

The ICC deal also brings authentic strips and real name players with detailed facial likenesses to the game. So, in addition to Brian Lara himself, you?ll be facing world-class bouncers from the world?s greatest bowlers, including Wasim Akram, GD McGrath or Andrew Flintoff or trying to send the bails flying from cricket?s best batsmen such as SR Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, or Andrew Strauss!

Brian Lara International Cricket will capture all the exciting, athletic, skilful and technical elements of the sport in the only cricket game designed to make batting, bowling and fielding equally enthralling to play. Brian Lara International Cricket will hit you for six this summer when it?s published by Codemasters for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. Prepare to don your cricket whites online at www.codemasters.com/brianlara

Here are the 20 new screenshots of BLIC released by Codemasters with the news about the ICC license. These are Xbox screens again, click on each screenshot to enlarge it.

 

[squiz]

Those screens look awesome. I'm liking the TV Style looking screens

 

[cricket_tiger]

Wow ! wat a game

 

[gamerkid22]

TV graphics looks great.
In the Ricky Ponting screenshot the crowd is shown it looks awesome.
Umpires wearing players caps looks real.
Throwing meter is shown.
Brian Lara is using MRF bat looks realistic.
Kits are real but south africa's kits isn't.

GOOD NEWS : The game video is coming soon.

 

[Sureshot]

wow, this looks amazing/

 

[msamina]

The graphics seems to have certainly improved a lot from previous screenshots. But, my only concern is that the scores shown seem very un-realistic 29/7. Was the CPU batting or bowling ?? If it was bowling, at least it is ok. If it was batting, then pathetic.

 

[andrew_nixon]

it could be a double wicket game....

 

[Nithish Victor]

The crowd in the ricky ponting screenshot looks awesome ! The graphics has improved.
Can anybody guess who is the player in the 6th screenshot in the left side ?

 

[barmyarmy]

RG has posted on the Codies forum wrt the score. He said that gameplay and pacing are the last things to be tweaked and they haven't been done yet.

 

[angryangy]

HEY! Ponting uses a Kahuna; that's a Diablo

 

[squiz]

TV graphics looks great.
In the Ricky Ponting screenshot the crowd is shown it looks awesome.
Umpires wearing players caps looks real.
Throwing meter is shown.
Brian Lara is using MRF bat looks realistic.
Kits are real but south africa's kits isn't.

GOOD NEWS : The game video is coming soon.

2003 World Cup Kit:

 

[barmyarmy]

HEY! Ponting uses a Kahuna; that's a Diablo

It's a Kahuna in one of the other screens.

 

[angryangy]

Maybe he just borrowed it off Martyn.

 

[Scots_Windies]

The crowd in the ricky ponting screenshot looks awesome ! The graphics has improved.
Can anybody guess who is the player in the 6th screenshot in the left side ?

Bravo or Collins maybe? either way looks fantastic

 

[Hero]

Screen are looking a visible improvement from previous ones.I hope in last build they will fruther streamline it.I am really awaiting this gamae in anticipation.But still 3 months to go.