Cricket 2000 game online play

TV style gameplay including TV overlays and a detailed replay feature allowing the player to view the action from any number of camera views including of course stump cam and helmet cam or with the free roving camera. Player Editor allows players to change the features of current team members to your own local team. Flexible play allows the player to be fully involved in the selection of batsmen and bowlers, placing of fielders, manual fielding, or simply let the intelligent AI make these choices for you.

Game Modes Play Now: Jump right into a one day match! Exhibition: Set up a one day match in any country with any teams. World Championship: A limited overs challenge of all 12 teams playing off for the title of World Champion. Test Series: 2 teams play in the ultimate cricket challenge — The Test Match. You do get more control than in Brian Lara. If you're batting you can move your man while the ball is being bowled and this gives you the freedom to move off the wicket to play a stroke.

Bowling is a bit more tedious. A target moves around drunkenly and you get to place it as accurately as possible - it's not as hard as it sounds - and add spin. It's far too easy to move the ball and it's too easy to send accurate delivery after accurate delivery. On the default settings we managed to bowl Australia out for 27 and then struggled to win the game admittedly, we were playing as England.

But if you persevere with the controls and ramp up the difficulty settings, there's a game for cricket boffs and toffs the world over. British cricket fans, how many summers have you gone without the gentle sound of leather upon willow?

How many bright sunny days have you wasted wondering what it would be like to have a Sky Sports subscription and actually see a cricket game? How many times have you thought: "Wouldn't it be great if they made a computer game of cricket? I could live out my Darren Gough fantasies and beat the Sri Lankans to within an inch of their lives. Of course, cricket fans are rarely catered for by the computer industry.

Sometimes you'd think developers should stop making rubbish racing and football games to allow some of the niche market sports see the light of day. EA Sports is the only one to provide any action on the crease at the moment, though publisher Empire does a nice range of cricket management games which includes the unparalleled International Cricket Captain 2. But how does this game compare to the real thing?

The graphics engine provides a great view of the match from any angle. Rather than county cricket, EA Sports has gone for the international side of things. It's nice to see a wide range of cricketing nations from the poor Scotland to the rather excellent South Africa make an appearance in the game. Each have their own strengths, such as Kenya's ability to slog a ball for six almost every time, but the teams seem to balance out quite nicely. You can go for a World Cup, the big-time consuming game.

If you fancy another long game you can opt for the Six Round, where eight teams are split into two leagues and the ones that get to the top of their table play each other to become champions. On the shorter side of things is the ball-slogging fest that is the One Day International.

If you just fancy facing, or delivering, endless ball after ball you can book some time in the training nets and practice your talents. Graphically, Cricket does as many good things as it does bad. The game supports resolutions beyond the call of duty. I played in a resolution of x at 32bit and it moved along quite nicely despite a few problems.

Problem number one is that as soon as I upped the resolution, the text slipped out of its moorings and shifted around, due to the image being stretched but the text not being re-aligned. Problem number two is Games Domain 's favourite phrase: "glitchy graphics.

This can be quite annoying when you're ready to slam a ball and a fielder appears out of nowhere at supersonic speed to stop it and your progression in run-rate. In the game, you concentrate on all the arcade elements of cricket. Meaning all your time is spent bowling and batting. You might think that this is great, but when a fielder doesn't cut across the field at the right angle or lets a ball slip by him to go for a four without diving, you'll be sorely disappointed.