Ashes Cricket PS3
- Enhanced bowling experience
- Make decisions as the bowler does with an intuitive, interactive bowling control scheme
- Feel more in control of the ball than ever before, with greater coverage and shot choice
- Dynamic and intuitive batting
- Cricket Legends Mode
Product Description
Bringing you closer to the action than ever before with the officially licensed teams, players and stadia of the 2009 npower Ashes Series! The game will grant you with the most authentic Ashes experience possible without having to don your white. Delivering all the exciting, athletic, skilful and technical elements of the sport, the sports meeting wide-ranging Ashes mode will feature all five Tests played out at carefully detailed recreations of each authentic venue. Featuring twelve Test playing nations and eighteen stadia from around the world, Ashes Cricket 2009 is the most wide-ranging cricket video game ever. Experience the whole gamut of the world of cricket from the iconic Ashes series, Test matches, ODIs and 20 over sports meeting. The kits, the pacing, the atmosphere and the players all change depending upon your game mode. Product Description Bringing you closer to the action than ever before with the officially licensed teams, players and stadia of the 2009 npower Ashes Series! Enhanced bowling experience: Make decisions as the bowler does with an intuitive, interactive bowling control scheme. Dynamic and intuitive batting. Feel more in control of the ball than ever before, with greater coverage and shot choice. Official Hawk-Eye Tracking. Official Hawk-Eye visualisations, as seen on TV. Cricket Legends Mode. Learn how to master the disciplines of batting, bowling and fielding with coaching from Sir Ian Botham and Shane Warne. Play in stadiums from around the world. Eighteen of the world’s most recognisable stadia recreate geographic conditions and climates, as well as right-to-life crowd noise and atmosphere. Expect swing in England, bounce in Australia and extra turn in India. Online Play. Full online multiplayer gaming. Release and Multiplayer Modes: Two player Co-op play, with up to four player vs matches.
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They called it the ball of the century. Wrist snapping as the ball tore from the young leg-spinner’s hand, it swerved improbably owing to the air. Twisting away to Mike Gatting’s leg-side, the bemused England experienced person instinctively thrust out his left lag and jabbed the bat against it to make what should have been an impervious shield between man and wicket. But as the ball pitched up from the rough it spun back implausibly, miraculously, wide of man, bat and pad,thundering into off stump. Pandemonium.
It was the first Test of the 1993 Ashes series at Ancient Trafford. And the first ball bowled against England by a cocky 23 year-ancient with look-at-me hair and pie-in-me paunch. Shane Warne had arrived.
Quick forward 12 years. They called it the greatest ever series. Warne, by then the finest spinner the world had ever known, had privately chose this would be his Test swansong: to reclaim the legendary Urn on English soil, conjuring victory owing to an nearly superhuman force of will and talent, capping off a glittering career of personal achievement and ruthless international dominance.
But on the final day of the final Test at the Oval, one man above all others refused to play to the script. And having been clumsily dropped, with savage irony, by Warne himself at slip on 15, Kevin Pietersen produced one of the splendid innings, a knock of breathtaking audacity, defiance, skill and aggression against unbelievable pressure, to guide England on to an unforgettable victory.
For cricket lovers, there’s not anything like a Test match. And on the international stage, there’s not anything quite like the Ashes. Making a cricket game is one thing; making one that captures the unique emotions of this jealousy is quite another. That’s the starting point for Ashes Cricket 2009, the latest cricket game from Codemasters, whose last effort in 2007 featured Brian Lara’s mug on the box.
But last time we checked, Lara wasn’t a bowler hat-wearing lager lout or a kangaroo-riding Neighbours extra, so his services have been dispensed with, Codies has snapped up the official nPower Ashes licence, and Pietersen and Warne have been called to the promotional crease.
Rating: 5 / 5
In terms of game modes there’s everything here most cricket fans will want. The Ashes themselves are the main draw, backed up by the proper licence (although we’re not sure if player likenesses were part of that deal, as most only vaguely match their real life counterparts). Outside of this test series mode you’ve got One Day and 20 over matches, although neither is a licensed tournament, so there’s no properly named Twenty20. There are copious challenges to complete too, set by legends Sir Ian Botham and Shane Warne.
Although the batting and bowling is solid enough, the on-field presentation is lacking slightly. Player models and stadiums are decent, but the animations are clunky and don’t blend into one another well at all. There’s also a weird delay when a wicket is taken, meaning you’ll know you’re out but the fielders won’t react. Then a second later they’ll all leap into the air to celebrate. For a honestly average looking game the frame rate isn’t too hot either, frequently appearing a fraction too slow. Commentary is decent and the voice work by Beefy and Warne is solid, if a small sterile, but on the whole it’s not a game to show off to your mates.
Ashes Cricket 2009 is a solid renaissance of the sport and this summer’s huge sporting event, but it’s lacking spark and feels a small slight in terms of depth. Play with a friend as opposed to the AI and you’ll likely be able to have fun up to and beyond the end of the Ashes series, but as a next-gen sports sim it doesn’t feel as though Codemasters has done enough to push the series forward.
Rating: 5 / 5
Cricket sports meeting have never captured the public imagination like, say, football sports meeting, mainly because a more complex sport is bound to breed a less-easily-grasped video game.
But Codemasters’ Brian Lara-branded sports meeting of yore consistently outshone their rivals, and finally, the Britsoft publisher has bought the plum cricketing licence: the Ashes. It’s a huge bring shame on that Ashes Cricket 2009 didn’t make it to the crease in time for the first Test in Cardiff, but at least it’s a classy and thoroughly playable effort.
Rating: 5 / 5
well THE BIGGEST conundrum, game is not released to us or Canada, so i had to order it from UK. The game-play and graphics are second to none, i have never seen a game quite like The Ashes, graphics are similar to NBA 2K10, with players facial expressions and swatting. you pretty much can play all the shots like in a real game mid-on, off etc….the bowling is also realistic with drift, dusras spin. The one feature, i delight in the most is the ability to change how ancient the pitch is, i.e one game ancient two sports meeting ancient etc. It supports trophies so you will have new trophy every time you complete a challenge in a game.
The game is excellent but needs a patch released for fielding glitches, its very hard to catch a ball, believe me i have played over 50hrs of it. on my excellent day i am able to complete only 80% of all catches. its not fully licensed by all cricket boards, so they have purposely misspelled the names of all the counties players except Australia and England. I would expect product like it, to be fully licensed. sometimes its hard to hit the ball but i have realized once you have passed the learning curve it nearly becomes second nature.
by and large, the game is 9/10. i in person feel its a step in the right management as far as cricket sports meeting are concerned for xbox, and ps3. yes even though this game is PAL, format it play with ps3 in united states, you have to make sure you are using HDMI cables and HDTV
Rating: 5 / 5