Human vs human is ok
I bought the game 2 days ago. I returned it to the store yesterday for a refund. The game is just terrible.
I've bought all cricket games in the past and this is by far the worst effort - especially considering we live in the year 2007.
The gameplay sucked. And why are there so many bugs - YET AGAIN. I couldn't care less about the patch Codemasters promise to release. You can't dress up a turd. This game aint worth it.
I've lost almost all hope of there ever being a great cricket game in the future.
Having played with this for several weeks, I have come to the conclusion that even though it is flawed and has many annoying glitches and mistakes, human vs human play is pretty good.
I have improved it, in my opinion, by turing both the bowler's pitch pointer and the batting radar off. This makes it a lot harder to bat.
There is no getting away from the fact that the wicketkeepers are all total wallies, the batsmen run between the wickets like idiots, fielding is pretty damn difficult and it is themed around the CWC, but human vs human, me and my mates are having some pretty good games of cricket.
So try tweaking the graphic options as suggested and see what 'appen'.
Perhaps we need to accept that we will NEVER get a PERFECT game; cricket is far too complex and subtle than that. For every improvement they make, they will mess up something, but this is a decent, playable human vs human game.
Let's see it for what it is.