Ashes Cricket 2009 (Xbox 360)

Sports games sell. That much is undeniable. No matter how much we enjoy watching sports and playing sports, there will seemingly always be a market for sport games on consoles. This is especially true for football. Just look at the facts. Year on year millions of people scramble to buy the latest edition of Fifa or Pro Evolution Soccer. For many it is an automatic purchase. Yet for other less popular sports timing is often required in order for sales to be properly boosted, and this is evident in plenty of releases. For example Virtua Tennis 2009 was released a month before Wimbledon. And so it is with Ashes Cricket 2009, a game that makes no secret of the cricket ...  Read the complete review

Ashes Cricket 2009 - Xbox 360 First of all this game has an amazing amount of fun multiplayer sometimes possibly more fun than the single player games. Ashes Cricket 2009 in my opinion is the best cricket game in about a decade. That said, it's also disappointing as the only licensed names are the Australian and English teams and the graphics are admittedly not up to scratch against other sports games. The learning curve will definitely scare off a few but once you learn the game pretty well balanced, it's a must have for any fan of Cricket games. Ashes Cricket 2009 has pretty dated looking graphics, but the gameplay honest is amazing. Sometimes it ...  Read the complete review

If you've had the ashes fever this is the game for you! If you've had past experience of cricket games such as cricket 09 and brian lara series then i'd say this was perfectly balanced between the two. The graphics are great, the pitch and players look very life like. The crowd however are still 2D and ruin the games look. The stadiums featured on the game look very close to real life with important features of each stadium picked out and shown on the game. The gameplay is smooth and flows fairly well. It imporves on the brian lara series by not being so mechanical, as with many next gen games now, the players are freely moving and certain shots etc don't ...  Read the complete review

This is the latest and best cricket console game available by a mile, but then again, the competition isn't exactly fierce. If you've ever played any of the Brian Lara cricket games then you will know what to expect, but this game adds a few little tweaks and improvements. For beginners the game can be quite hard to pick up and master, particularly if you skip the lessons which are offered at the start of the game, which are talked through by the game commentators Warney and Aggers. But with enough practice on these lesson modes, you can soon begin to learn how to play and move up the difficulty levels. There are the standard match options - 20/20, 50 ...  Read the complete review

If you like cricket you are going to like this game, 2 weeks ago I got the game when it came out. Ashes Cricket is a new spice in the cricket gaming world and boasts a number of features. The main addition in the game has been more players, more teams and the quality of the graphics along with the game play. At first I found the game play to be a little tricky to adjust to but it has got much better recently. Taking shots in the game is much easier now once you play a while. I think the difficulty level of the computer in the game is too hard at the easiest level. Bowling your best bowls will see the computer hit them for fours and sixes in the easiest level ...  Read the complete review