Brian Lara International Cricket (Xbox)

Due to the lack of cricket titles available on consoles these days Brian Lara is definitely the best one out there but its by no means perfect. Batting is very enjoyable and the controls couldn't be easier, direction plus A and voila runs are to be had. Scoring of 25+ an over is about par on the easier levels of difficulty but this only drops to 15 or so at the highest difficulties. All this run scoring makes it a very enjoyable game and losing wickets aren't too uncommon either, going for that big 6 out the ground and being caught on the boundary can happen. Bowling is slightly harder but only just. The system with choosing delivery type and power is easy to get to ...  Read the complete review

The best cricket game available to date. Batting is fairly straight forward once you work out how to use the controls and you get the hang of timing your shots. You can score pretty easily, 20 runs an over is not unusual. Bowling is a bit more tricky though. Against the lower ranked side like Bangladesh and Zimbabwe you can usually wittle them out easily enough but as soon as you try playing anyone decent it gets much harder. You bowl at the stumps and you get hit through the on side. You bowl outside off stump, you get thrashed through the off side. It's very difficult to bowl in a way that keeps batsmen quiet. Mostly the game's got things right but there are a ...  Read the complete review