Cricket 2005 - Opinions Please!

[simmy]

Just got the game today on the XBox,

Firstly it is noticeable that the game is 100 times better looking with fairly comical characters. Obviously I was playing an Ashes as my first game and straight away noticed the realism of Flintoff and McGrath especially. Something the last installment lacked.

Bowling is easy it would seem. Not conceding runs is very simple but getting wickets perhaps not so much. If you bowl enough dot balls or get a wicket you get a "special ball". This allows a perfectly pitched yorker to be bowled or reverse swing, a slower ball or a well pitched bouncer. A good addition it must be said.

Batting however is so much harder however. On "normal" the bowlers simply to do not put it wide... ever. So scoring runs is simply working it away on the leg side. Timing is a lot more difficult unless your batsmen is very confident.

Great game though and good to see drastic improvements.. but...

YOU CANNOT SAVE A GAME WHILST PLAYING IT! I was in the middle of a test match and then found out you cant save the bloody thing!

 

[Kweek]

uhm...could someone move this to Games section )

 

[Pedro Delgado]

What, you can't save the game in between overs? Most odd. Okay we want "realism", but having to play for (possibly) five days straight seem a little much.

 

[King_Ponting]

yeh move this to games section

 

[simmy]

Sorry I didnt think there was one! What a newbie I am!

 

[barmyarmy]

It's a really massive error by EA to somehow omit the save feature for Xbox. Try and take it back and swap it for the PC or PS2 version.

 

[Prince EWS]

YOU CANNOT SAVE A GAME WHILST PLAYING IT! I was in the middle of a test match and then found out you cant save the bloody thing!

Only happens on the Xbox version, so youre unluckly Im afraid...

 

[MoxPearl]

how can you say the games great and there are big improvements ??

there are none...

 

[jhnnyby000]

ea should recall all xbox copies and give them new ones where they can save games like the ps2 and pc

 

[Corbin]

abouslty love Cricket 2005 its so sick! the bowling is great and the batting isnt like a 'hit a six every ball' like 2004, I totally recomend this game, i was having doubts about it but im glad i made the right decision!

 

[jhnnyby000]

abouslty love Cricket 2005 its so sick! the bowling is great and the batting isnt like a 'hit a six every ball' like 2004, I totally recomend this game, i was having doubts about it but im glad i made the right decision!

i agree it is a good game if on ps2 and pc like i said in my previous post

 

[marc71178]

Have to agree on the bowling - didn't think I'd enjoy that part, having not enjoyed it before, but I do.

 

[Corbin]

I am very ****ed off though...On PS2 you cant edit current players....So that means India and England are too good....NOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Dasa]

Got the game today, excellent game. It's good how they've made bowling actually enjoyable, when it used to be quite boring.

 

[Prince EWS]

I am very ****ed off though...On PS2 you cant edit current players....So that means India and England are too good....NOOOOOOOOOO!

Remind me to talk to you about this later.

You sort of can, its just very tedious...

You can remove players from the squads...

 

[aussie]

YOU CANNOT SAVE A GAME WHILST PLAYING IT! I was in the middle of a test match and then found out you cant save the bloody thing!

i have it on PC & PS2 & you can save it.

 

[Somerset_Rule]

yeh same, anyway if you want to play it on the offside i just walk aoutside my leg stump and cut it for 4.

 

[Somerset_Rule]

the problem i have is scoring runs on the legside. i can only score with a pull or a leg glance when they bowl a yorker and that only gets one run. anything of half decent lengh they jus step forward and tap it weakly to square leg. does anyone now how to stop this? :

 

[simmy]

http://www.eaplay.com/australia/community/messageboards/game/easports/thread/6465/?pg=1

you cannot save in game on the Xbox

 

[maxpower]

is there no slogging in this game, I mean even in like last over when you need 10-15 runs you still have to chip away to get runs ??? I like the fact that batting is hard but I mean come on, atleast have variety of effective strokes...