I was excited about buying this game and playing it so got it for 24.99 of Amazon.co.uk. Now my first impressions were after seeing the graphics were this was going to be the best cricket game yet to have been made on any console to play. Do not get me wrong the graphics on this game are simply amazing it has to be said! The players look very realistic mostly Flintoff and the England cricketers who look very like them selves in the game. The pitch looks fantastic in the game so in terms of graphics the game looks perfect. Now with the Nintendo Wii you obviously use your remote controller to play this game. I just feel the shots you take in the game ...  Read the complete review

There was a quite a clamour for a cricket game for the Wii, with there being a site wiiwantcricket.com petitioning for a while for cricket to be given the Wii treatment, given the way that the Wii is controlled compared with other consoles. I'd played EA Sports' offerings on the PC in the past and was semi convinced and had played one of the Brian Lara cricket games. All of which were a far cry from the keyboard pounding of bowling in Graham Gooch's Test Match Cricket - the cricket game I cut my teeth on for the BBC Master in the late 80s (I think the game itself was already past its sell-by date when I bought it!) For the non-Wii owners, Ashes Cricket 2009 is also ...  Read the complete review

Ashes Cricket 2009 promises to let you join in the ecstasy of victory or the agony of defeat of the Ashes test series. With this being the wii version, you'll be swinging your remote around the room, trying to hit Siddle for 6 or takes Ponting's wicket like a madman! The game is simple to play. Firstly batting. You hold the wii-mote like a cricket bat. You swing it to hit the ball & point with the d pad to where you want to hit to. This is all about timing. Get it right & the Aussies will watch as it sails into the crowd for six. Get it wrong & you'll hit it straight up in the air or edge it to the slips. This is very easy to get to grips with ...  Read the complete review

After I watched the T.V advert for this game it looked very good so I decided to buy it, not just for me but also as a family game. In the advert it looked like a very fun game to play together and for a while it was really good but it got a little bit boring. The commentary especially just said the same things over and over, although I must admit after you first get the game it becomes very addictive but it gradually starts to wear away because I think there is a limit on how much you can do on ashes cricket 2009. The controls are quite hard to get the hang of at first but there are very helpful tutorials you can do and after you do this the game becomes a whole lot ...  Read the complete review

I'm a huge cricket fan and we've just bought a Wii, so I was pretty excited about the prospect of this game arriving, despite reading varied reviews about it online. We actually bought it on eBay for £10 plus delivery, and I see it's available, used on Amazon, for about a tenner, too. Much more if you buy it new. Don't buy it. What Can You Do? Well, it promises lots. You can play as an individual, as a team, and you can bat or bowl, you can play in various formats of the game, eg exhibition matches, tutorials, The Ashes itself. So far, so good. And it features voice overs from some old favourites such as Jonathan Agnew and Ian ...  Read the complete review