#EA SPORTS CRICKET GAME UPDATE#
#EA SPORTS CRICKET GAME SERIES#
#EA SPORTS CRICKET GAME WINDOWS#

With a shrinking market and very few people interested in the sport, the cricket series was condemned to die out soon. Rampant piracy from these regions however seriously marred their profit margins and the series never produced the estimated revenues.ДЄs EA Sports ran into a legal deadlock with the BCCI and lost the licensing rights to the Indian players, their problems only got compounded. The EA Sports cricket series was popular only in England, Australia, and New Zealand but its main market was understandably in South Asia. One of the main reasons why the cricket series was shelved was because cricket seriously lacks the global reach of a sport like football. Compared to that, the Cricket 2007 version now lives on as an unattractive reminder of a bygone past in our gaming history. With the massive upgradation in graphics, controls, gameplay and simulations that have been introduced in sports-based electronic video games, the EA Sports cricket series now lies defunct, played and cherished by very few people.ДЄ quick comparison between FIFA 08 and FIFA 16, developed by EA Sports, gives us a fair idea of how much sports-based games have improved in the last few years in terms of slick controls and accurate simulations of real-life situations in the game. Why the cricket series died a natural death in the endД¬ricket 2007 was the last version of the game to be published by EA Sports. EA Sports also lost the licensing rights for quite a few teams and went with generic player names.

Though some notable additions like new venues, weather conditions and five-day Test matches were introduced, the improvement in the gameplay and the graphics was far from satisfactory. Cricket 2005 had three different region-based covers and was released for the Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox platforms.Д¬ricket 2007 was the last game released in the EA Sports cricket series. Notwithstanding the debate over the quality of the graphics, Cricket 2004 proved to be popular inspiring EA Sports to come out with an improved version the very next year.

However, IGN adjudged that the game had the worst PlayStation 2 graphics.

#EA SPORTS CRICKET GAME WINDOWS#

The game was released simultaneously for Windows and PlayStation 2. By 2004, the EA Sports cricket series had been hugely worked upon to improve the gameplay and the graphics.Дesigned by HB Studios and published by EA Sports, Cricket 2004 included all the international teams and the domestic teams from Australia and England. But there was no great change in the representation of the players and like in the previous versions, the two-dimensional sprites continued to be used.Д¬ricket Ashes Tour was released with the updated statistics and players just after the 1998-99 Ashes tour and it was by then one of the most realistic cricket games on the market.

Cricket 96 was released as Ian Botham's International Cricket 96 in Europe.Д¬ricket 97 was a marked improvement with better graphics, three-dimensional stadiums and commentary by Richie Benaud and Ian Botham.

#EA SPORTS CRICKET GAME UPDATE#

The version was however merely an update on the game Super International Cricket released by Super Nintendo in 1994. Cricket 96 was the first game in the series having been developed by Melbourne House and published by the EA Sports.

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