Gears of War doesn’t require you to know how to fix a suit of power armour. Sure, the game of cricket can get pretty complicated, and obviously I’m an idiot for not knowing this stuff, but would it have been so difficult to include a tutorial covering the basics of the game for those who might be interested in finding out how to play it? Tiger Woods doesn’t require you to know a sand wedge from a five iron, and it’s a better game because of it.
What does ‘off stump’ even mean, and what’s a slip? And this looks like bowling. Which actually isn’t that helpful if your experience of cricket is confined to a position on your primary school’s cricket team (as scorer) and owning one of Graham Gooch’s old bats (located under your stairs). Instead, there are, still, some practice nets, where they say helpful things like ‘the ideal line for a fast bowler is on or just outside the off stump’, or something about slips.
Well, people who enjoy programming air traffic control systems using bagpipes anyway - it is slightly different.ĭifferent, but still baffling when you fire the game up for the first time, because there’s still no tutorial. The company's evolutionary approach to making sequels means that the game is still probably only of interest to people who enjoy programming satellite navigation systems using a harpsichord. See, Cricket 07 is pretty much business as usual for EA's sequel-making machinery. This looks like some sort of defensive stroke. Which means it's especially forbidding for people like me, whose dalliances with cricket are confined to a position on my primary school's cricket team (as scorer) and owning one of Graham Gooch's old bats (located under my stairs). Yep, cricket, the nation's favourite sport last summer (and maybe still, what with the terrible rugby results over the weekend and Steve McClaren's uninspiring performance as coach of the England football team).īut while cricket is still just about hanging on to the wave of popularity that engulfed it after England won the Ashes in 2005, EA's Cricket is still just about hanging on to the Byzantine inaccessibility that stopped most people from enjoying the last one. And Freddie Flintoff going to the Prime Minister's house while shitfaced live on telly, and Girls Aloud playing at the Twenty20 final (which is easily the best thing that ever happened to the sport). Ah, the comforting sound of leather on willow, long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist'.
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