Cricket 07 (PC DVD)

I am very pleased with this product and the seller's service.

Disc was broken, but shouldn't be surprised at that price

I love this game and after playing all the recent cricket games on the xbox 360 I am still convinced this is the best cricket game available.

I've been playing this game on the PC for 3 years now and it's one of the worst ports from the consoles in the sporting genre. I've had a love-hate relationship with it for quite some time, and it's time to put the details in ink. The only reason I haven't binned it is; that it is, unfortunately, one of the better games out there. I like playing as domestic teams and as there is no feature on the Brian Lara series I am stuck with this bucket of slop. It was brought into being by someone hoping that the Ashes series would guarantee a fine profit, it was primarily a commercial venture, and as a result as little effort was put in as possible.The engine designers must have been some sort of single cell organisms, as the game is exclusively designed for hack and slash slog-fests. It is basically the same as Cricket 2005 with some tweaks. As a result the unlimited overs form of the game is intolerably biased towards the batting side and left to it's own devices the AI will total 700 before declaring in some cases. EA have also failed to put in a human reaction element into the fielding, so a fielder is sometimes moving into position even before you have completed playing the stroke, this is highly irregular and poorly thought out and makes threading the ball along the floor for four runs almost impossible at most difficulties. The animations are poor and some of the batting engine foibles are unbelievable, and bear no relation to the reality of the game at all. As I said, I've played the game for three years on high diffculty, yet the AI batsman has knicked the ball to slip or keeper twice in that period. The bowling is actually alright but the angle from which you view the pitch is misleading and makes judgement of length ten times as hard as it should be, and then the symbols for the different types of deliveries actually point in the wrong direction. However as mentioned in other reviews you can get almost any team out in limited overs for less than 20 runs, if you know the right deliveries.There are six pitches in the game; "Normal", Dusty, Hard, Green, Damp and Wet. The last one is pointless as the Wet pitch is so awful a game would be abandoned if such conditions were really encountered. The damp pitch is hardly better, and is a soggy surface with little bounce and a slow outfield like the ones you see after a wet week on a village green in April.This game was obviously made by someone who has absolutely no idea about cricket, as they haven't even bothered to research the young players already in the game. As a result, England's talented young bowler, Stuart Broad is one of the worst in the game, if you had asked ANY cricket fan at the time who had seen him play he/she would have told you that Broad was Leicestershire's lead bowler at the time. Because Brian Lara has the exclusive rights to international players, you have daft names for all the Indian, Pakistani and West Indian players. Apparently you can patch this out, but why wasn't it done prior to release?The good things about this game are that it actually bothers to include the domestic cricket teams and competitions from Australia and England, although with the 20 man squad system there is little point in putting fringe squad players into the side due to the low skill attributes. The smaller international sides such as Kenya, Netherlands and Canada (again poor research into players and the silly pseudonyms for players' names means you can spend two full days looking into these players, finding out what their real names are and THEN you find that they are given the wrong attributes and bowling styles) are also included. All the domestic grounds are there and were accurate representations of the grounds at the time. For these reasons I have given two stars to the game; which is all it really deserves.Some day, a well-researched, knowledgable cricket game made by a real cricket fan will come onto the market for a third of what the cretins at EA are asking for their circus-like effort. Until then, stay in the back garden with your bat and tennis ball..... and hope it doesn't rain.

I bought this game a few weeks back and enjoyed it at first. Presentation was decent. Patches are available (roster files) which correct mis-spelt names.However, you soon discover how to get people out, almost without fail. This is when all the fun of the game is taken out. You realise that practically any total you set a team is defendable, even on the harder difficulty modes. Despite bowling normally for the majority of an innings while watching NZ cruise along at above the required run-rate, the opposition is your plaything whose computer-generated hope you can crush in 10 balls, in ODIs (a few more in tests, but for barely any runs).The batting gets harder on higher difficulties, but the bowling is just as easy. So where you won't score 440-6 off 20 overs as you might on "***" difficulty, you can still defend the more modest 129-8 on "*****" because you have discovered the bowling tricks. Only 10 over "*****" games or games where you autoplay the opposition innings and chase their total manually are a challenge.Also, the statistics sections of the game, be it overall profile records or tournament stats are more often than not plain wrong. Eg, "Highest score - Kevin Pietersen: 172" ... and maybe also ... "Quickest century - record not set". Crazy.On the upside, I've never played 2-player. This has the potential to be five-star fun, as a human won't necessarily play daft shots like the CPU.Get this game if you have a mate who'd sit through 40 overs of screen-gazing with you, or if you have the strength of will to bowl "fair" line and length. Oh, and creating players is satisfying.POSTSCRIPT: I played an unofficial "Twenty20 World Cup" with updated rosters on "****" and it offered slightly more of a challenge (Netherlands chasing down 167 to win one match...) and the Aussie State season on "****" is also tricky.

Cricket 07 (PC DVD) is definitely a big improvement in terms of playability compared to previous editions of this game like 2005. Batting is considerably much easier, but still takes to get to grips with the controls. Once you get used to it, it is really fun and additive. Bowling is a relatively easier. The real experience of playing cricket within a virtual screen is created in your home. You can play your repertoire of shots (pulls, square drives, streaky edges), bowl in-swing yorkers, outswingers and do some outstanding catching. You can create players and participate in various tournaments. The graphics are great and the commentary is little repetitive and irritating at times. It is worth the purchase if you are a cricket fan. It is definitely much better, but you still require some degree of patience with this game.

Thank u So Muchhhh....I love this game...

Well this game isn't too bad it is fun I guess.However it is bad how I played against Zimbabwe and all the players names were not right at all as if they made them up.Still not a bad game I guess I am still learning how to play it and I haven't won one game yet.