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Ashes Cricket 2009

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7.2 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Codemasters

Developer: Gusto Games

Genre(s): Cricket, Sports

Players: Multi

ESRB Rating: RP (Rating Pending)

Release Date: August 7, 2009

Summary

Providing gamers with the most authentic Ashes experience possible without having to don their whites, Ashes Cricket 2009 is fully licensed by the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club, the world's most famous cricket club and owner of the Ashes urn) and Cricket Australia, providing the game with all the official players, kit, stadia - including Lord's and The Brit Oval - and equipment from this year’s npower Ashes Series. Coming from the home of video game cricket, Ashes Cricket 2009 is set to build on the heritage that Codemasters has enjoyed with its best-selling Brian Lara series and continue to lead the field with great batting, bowling and fielding gameplay and authenticity that made the series a huge hit with cricket fans the world over. Produced by Codemasters, the game is currently being developed by Transmission Games (Brian Lara 2007 Pressure Play (PSP)). Delivering all the exciting, athletic, skilful and technical elements of the sport, the game’s comprehensive ‘Ashes’ mode features all five Tests played out at carefully detailed recreations of each authentic venue. In addition, gamers can play Test matches, One Day Internationals, 20 over games and a series of challenge modes. The high definition current generation versions feature full online multiplayer as well as support for local multiplayer games. [Codemasters]

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What The Critics Said

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Games Master UK

A decent, accessible spot of cricket but lacks the shine and depth of a first class sports sim. [Oct 2009, p.75]

NGamer UK

Lacklustre offering. It's okay, though. [Nov 2009, p.68]

Nintendo Life

Make no bones about it, Ashes Cricket is good fun if you have friends willing to join in with you but flaky controls, a tedious single player experience and the jerky, unrealistic feel to the game stops it being anything other than run of the mill.

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Official Nintendo Magazine UK

If England sent out a side this one-dimensional they'd be demolished. Avoid. [Sept 2009, p.84]

GameSpot

Lousy controls and unpredictable AI means this game is in for a lifetime of twelfth-man duty.

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Cubed3

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much, but I was expecting more than this. The whole package is just lazy and doesn't really owe anything to the game of cricket.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

James B gave it a1:
Very poor game on the wii, took it back the next day. I really hope someone make a good cricket game for the wii. This was terrible!

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