Probably one of the funniest cricketting quotations leads me nicely into a short homage to this years Ashes contest.
I’m a football fan, through and through. But over the last 5 years of so I have come to appreciate cricket in a new light; it’s very relaxing to watch, and, on occasion, can be exciting too. I admit that not all cricket is exciting (but then, not all football is either), but this years Ashes have been something else. I’ve never been so rivetted to a game of cricket in my life. And I, for one, am glad to see people getting back into the sport – some of them even north of the Border.
As an aside, I thought that I would take a look at the demos of a couple of cricketting games – EA’s Cricket 2005 and CodeMasters’ Brian Lara thingy. Here’s a quick summary based on the demos:
- Both games look and sound fine. Both have a tendency, however, to spend ages on replays and crap like that, meaning that playing the game takes a while. BL is probably better than EA in that respect.
- EA is far to complicated to bat. Trying to get anything but a defensive stroke is really tricky. The demo doesn’t let you bowl or field, which is a pain too.
- BL is fun to bat. It was a great feeling to hit Glen McGrath for six
You also get to bowl, which I haven’t mastered yet, and some fielding. It just feels more “fun”.
So – buy BL if you really want a cricket game 
7 days until the final test.
mrBen
