International Cricket Captain 2009 - News & Screenshots

[James]

Here's a heap of screenshots guys:

Cricket Web - Cricket Games International Cricket Captain 2009 - More Screenshots

[Golaxi]

i will try the demo.

am annoyed that they lie and say that there features include sitting back and letting the match play and watching on autoplay yet the reveiwer with a copy clearly states that every time a highlight comes up it stops you from doing this! liars!

how am i meant to believe any of their features now? Sometimes i would rather not have to change settings constantly and just let the match play out with the limited instructions and selections i have picked.

the match tactical features get way too boring to be doing every single match for years. and your team still performs worse if you skip. major suckage.

and when you tell your number 10 or so tailender batsmen to be the most defensively setting known to man he still gets out trying an audacious attacking shot just cause the match engine simulates a wicket. maybe 1 in 4 billion instances with proffesional cricketers would that ever happen against instructions. they should have learnt to tone that down by now!

would much prefer a good ICC game over cricket coach spreadsheet manager type though. shame they still have the same mistakes with icc.

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by Noble One

IGN: International Cricket Captain 2009 Ashes Edition Review

First reviews starting to emerge.

One day we will get the International Cricket Captain we have been dreaming of since the 1998 original release.

Looks like I'll stick to 2002.

[NZTailender]

Originally Posted by Golaxi

i will try the demo.

am annoyed that they lie and say that there features include sitting back and letting the match play and watching on autoplay yet the reveiwer with a copy clearly states that every time a highlight comes up it stops you from doing this! liars!

how am i meant to believe any of their features now? Sometimes i would rather not have to change settings constantly and just let the match play out with the limited instructions and selections i have picked.

the match tactical features get way too boring to be doing every single match for years. and your team still performs worse if you skip. major suckage.

and when you tell your number 10 or so tailender batsmen to be the most defensively setting known to man he still gets out trying an audacious attacking shot just cause the match engine simulates a wicket. maybe 1 in 4 billion instances with proffesional cricketers would that ever happen against instructions. they should have learnt to tone that down by now!

would much prefer a good ICC game over cricket coach spreadsheet manager type though. shame they still have the same mistakes with icc.

If this ICC is like any of the others you can select which highlights you want to view and which ones you want to skip, so theoretically you could be able to sit back and and let it run if you change the options first.

[Golaxi]

not really tailender. autoplay gets cut out EVERY single time theres a highlight or wicket! grrrrr.

the game is exactly the same as previous years. just more slower and clunky. the match physics often don't connect up either (like bat not connecting ball etc.). it's really annoying for me cause you have to spend every over changing EVERY little detail constantly just for 1 match. it takes years to just complete one match. a working autoplay might've helped this.

in my opinion it is much worse than cricket coach, i was expecting the opposite.

[James]

It's out guys:

Cricket Web - Cricket Games International Cricket Captain 2009 - Released

[Agent TBY]

Downloads proving slow everywere. Can't someone just stick it on Megaupload or something?

[NZTailender]

Originally Posted by Golaxi

not really tailender. autoplay gets cut out EVERY single time theres a highlight or wicket! grrrrr.

the game is exactly the same as previous years. just more slower and clunky. the match physics often don't connect up either (like bat not connecting ball etc.). it's really annoying for me cause you have to spend every over changing EVERY little detail constantly just for 1 match. it takes years to just complete one match. a working autoplay might've helped this.

in my opinion it is much worse than cricket coach, i was expecting the opposite.

Just been playing it. If you click 'highlights level' and click 'None', and then autoplay, the only thing that interrupts the match are wickets and bowler changes when tired/overs used up.

Runs quite smoothly for me on my laptop that is **** for games usually. I like the new layouts they have for team selection (seeing the squad next to the player pool is a great move) and the in game commentary card + scoreboard.

[Agent TBY]

Originally Posted by NZTailender

Just been playing it. If you click 'highlights level' and click 'None', and then autoplay, the only thing that interrupts the match are wickets and bowler changes when tired/overs used up..

Lol, what's the point, though? Why can't I watch the highlights and still be on "auto" mode?

That said, I've really been enjoying this version. High-res Widescreen interface? **** yes. Limited Over matches are a lot more interesting too, now, you can tell there's been marked improvement in the CPU batting aggression algorithm.

[NZTailender]

Originally Posted by Agent TBY

Lol, what's the point, though? Why can't I watch the highlights and still be on "auto" mode?

I don't know, I was just answering that poster as he wants to be able let it play automatically and not be interrupted by highlights. You can still let it play automatically and have highlights.

Would be easier to 'skip match' after selecting the XI and doing the toin coss if you don't want any fuss.

[Agent TBY]

Originally Posted by NZTailender

I don't know, I was just answering that poster as he wants to be able let it play automatically and not be interrupted by highlights. You can still let it play automatically and have highlights.

Would be easier to 'skip match' after selecting the XI and doing the toin coss if you don't want any fuss.

That's not his gripe, though.

I understand his point is that the auto mode is quite useless if it stops functioning after every highlight. It seems a bit funny to me, too.

[NZTailender]

Originally Posted by Agent TBY

That's not his gripe, though.

I understand his point is that the auto mode is quite useless if it stops functioning after every highlight. It seems a bit funny to me, too.

And my point is you can turn the highlights off so they don't interrupt.

[chris.hinton]

Played it and its a bit pants to be honest........ things the is too much on the match screen

And if you want to play as Aussie Teams play cricket coach

[Jamee999]

Epic innings from Prior, a six to tie the game and bring up his ton, then the single to win it with 15 minutes spare. Note also how close he got to a century first time, and Strauss' captain's innings. How 1st Tests are supposed to be.

[Jack88]

Well glitchey......Pietersen in the space of ONE TEST went from very aggressive to very defensive for no reason whatsoever, his strike rate in my first year was 66. in the second year it's down to 31. That's crazy, even worse when the ODI team is built on him.

Some weird players are way too good as well, like Broad, who averages under 25 bowling and over 35 batting, but that's nothing new to be fair since he was the bomb on 2008 as well. Panesar is another guy they seemed to have made BETTER rather than worse.

I do wish they could do some sort of international retirement thing though, because as much I love to play him, I feel I'm cheating when selecting Banger.