new icc details released
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RabbleRouser
Club Cricketer
Hmm. Sounds Ok. All the usual things are there but I like the sound of the new motion captured animations. Hopefully they will release a trial version so we can see if it's any good.
Mermaidman
County Cricketer
yeah I think it would be excellent if they can animate individual bowling styles and have the ball actually deviate off the pitch that would give it an excellent feel 
Allrounder18
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well not a new news ,being on internet for a while now. but I m really appreciating that release date is confirmed(looking at the article)
iloveireland
Panel of Selectors
So can you play international teams on internet in it?
thesweepmaster
County Cricketer
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13th of June the ICC game should come out by
thesweepmaster
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First of all, why would you want the world cup edition for it hasn't got the new county teams. Secondly, International Cricket Captain 2007, with the real county teams comes out on the 13th of June.
hassan
International Coach
OMg i thought we were gona get full version on Apr 26th with all teams in it.. not much of a point of buying it then... and i doubt we are gonna see an improvement in highlights
The Mongrel
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Why would it matter if we get improved highlights? They aren't the thing that make the gameplay good or bad, the fact that the game hasn't been updated since 2002 is the thing that should be changed.
uncle_adolph
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The Mongrel said:
Absolutely right. If the gameplay is poor no amount of tinkering around like this is going to make the slightest bit of difference.
I had never played any of this series of games until I bought the Ashes 2006 edition which, to tell you the truth, I got more for the DVD than the game. Still, a fiver on eBay wasn't too bad. But, even on the harder setting, the game is just way, way too easy. I've played about 16 first class and one dayers and have lost just one and that was when I shoved all my kids in and rested the first teamers. Some of my one day and four day wins have been absolute routs; Worcester beaten by an innings and 200 plus, Derbyshire beaten before lunch on the third day and in one dayers I've had two eight wicket wins and a ten wicket. When I first played the game I tried to bowl to the opposite of batsmen's strengths; now I don't bother. I just stick it on middle and leg, bowl a good length and change bowlers about every six overs or so and it works every time.
As a challenge the game is non existent. I don't want a game which is just an exercise in creating new records but that, really, is all this game is.
I'd hoped that you might also get a sense that what you do has a real impact on the result of the game. If I'm bowling in real life I don't just plonk it down in one of three spots; I try and think (not very successfully, true) about what I'm doing. Bowl one a bit quicker or a bit slower, change the flight, change the angle in the crease; really think about getting the batsman out. Here it's just click and hope....not that you have to hope much.
And part of a captain's armoury, surely, is studying a batman's weak points. Would it really be impossible to bring in something like an analysis of where a batsman's been out in, say, his last ten innings? Then change the field to play to that weakness....it's all just part of making the game seem more like what it should be, a real battle of wits.
But the trouble is that punters will still buy it irrespective of whether it's an improvement on the last one or not. Until you start keeping your hands in your pockets you will get precisely the sort of game you deserve.
