Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2836 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2006-11-23
• Platform: PlayStation2

Manufacturer's Description
With its fully licensed squads, groundbreaking Century Stick control system and more natural camera perspective, Cricket 07 will bring players the most immersive gameplay experience to date. Thanks to the groundbreaking EA SPORTS Century Stick control system, batting has become more intuitive, responsive and rewarding than ever. For the first time in a cricket game, players can enjoy full control over foot choice, shot, direction, power and timing, all governed through the use of both analogue sticks. A back or front foot stroke is selected with the left stick, and then shot timing and direction are judged with the right stick. Power is determined by how far the stick is moved a slight tap can nudge the ball for a quick single or a firm push can send the ball fizzing away to the boundary. Allied to new cameras that deliver a more natural behind-the-stumps batting perspective and a wider view of the field, cricket has never been so easily accessible. With embellished gameplay, a wealth of tournaments, genuine equipment and authoritative new commentary from Mark Nicholas and Richie Benaud, you won't experience cricket this authentic without donning whites and walking down the pavilion steps yourself.

Groundbreaking Control: Use the intuitive dual analogue Century Stick batting system to select foot choice, shot direction, power and timing. With button controls to loft shots and advance down the track, you're free to crack a full array of shots all around the wicket. Success with the bat also relies upon your batsman's individual skills, allied with his confidence level. A confident batsman maximises his potential to time his shots sweetly maintaining high confidence can make or break his ability to build a big innings.

New Cameras: Innovative views from behind the batsman offer a realistic batting perspective, and a reworked Broadcast camera gives you a wider view of the play for more authentic coverage.

Quickplay Cricket: Play cricket your way by setting your own pace. Crank up the game speed, ease back the difficulty setting and revel in the razzmatazz of Limited Overs or fully-licensed Twenty20 extravaganzas by playing a fast-blast match of hard-hitting sixes or slow the pace down, slide the difficulty up and steel yourself for a five day Test.

Greater Depth: A new picture-in-picture display with a shot timing gauge coupled with a running assistance indicator and radar help you make those snap decisions out there in the middle. On-the-fly Dynamic Field Positioning and Quickswitch bowling give you the ability to ratchet up the pressure on the batsmen by changing the field and the bowler's line of attack without a break in play.

Tournament Options: Lead this year's eagerly anticipated 3 mobile Ashes campaign Down Under, replay the legendary 2005 npower Test Series or unlock a stack of rewards by accomplishing Ashes challenges. Take part in the frenzy of the fully-loaded, fully-licensed English and Australian One Day blitz of extreme Twenty20 cricket, dive into a complete schedule of Australian State and English County tournaments, tour the world, win the World championship or compete for glory in Test matches and One Day Series games with all the top cricketing nations of the world.

Authentic Content: For the first time in an EA SPORTSTM Cricket title, renowned bat manufacturers Gray-Nicolls, Puma, Slazenger, Kookaburra and Gunn & Moore bring their weight of authenticity to the day's play. Relish the big game atmosphere with new broadcast visuals, wicket textures and astute new commentary from the masterly broadcast team of Mark Nicholas and Richie Benaud as you play out a nail-biter against the faithfully realised backdrop of a legendary international venue or a cherished domestic ground.

Customer Reviews

Pretty Good but a bit easy and unrealistic
Cricket 07 another one of those alright cricket games. I WANT TO SEE SOMETHING AMAZING. but for now i have to do with this.the gameplay is good but still to easy.On cricket 2002 it was difficult and it was a challenge to even get to 100. But on this i can get 500 easily on 5 star. You can just slog when the fielders are in and look for twos when they are out.i like the fact they have sponsors but i want to see more of them.The bowling is a good factor but for most people it is a bit boring.

FlAWS
there are no proper names for other teams apart from New zealand Australia England and South africa.

commentators a dull and say the same thing again and again.

batsmen run far to quickly

Bowlers are actually decent batsmen like Panesar

there are no domestic leagues from india new zealand or south africa

two people who look different look the same (lara and jayasuria0

when you have just hit one straight up into the air and the fielder is about to catch it. you can press pause just before it reaches into his hands then unpause it and you will be not out

fielders can float to the ball and pick it up!!!

umpires give crazy decisions

fielders never drop catches

you can score far too quicjly like 400 of 40 overs

you can finish a test in 2 days

but you can grind an innings very well

so this game has some major flaws but because i love cricket i will play it till a decent cricket game comes out.

also watch out for cricket lfe 08 which is said to come out in 2009 this will make every cricket lover happy

Good but room for improvement
Cricket games have not really got the attention that other EA Sports games such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour or FIFA. And now with Codemasters' Brian Lara series out EA needed to make big improvements or they will not sell.

Batting is now massively improved since 05 with the new so called 'Century Stick' where you move the analog stick in the direction where you want to hit it. Sometimes it is a bit unresponsive so you may end up blocking a shot rather than hooking it for six. Also new is a timing gauge which means you need to play your shot on ideal timing or you will edge it or not hit it far. A good batsman such as Sachin Tendulkar has a large ideal timing bar and a bad one such as Glen McGrath has a small one so you can usually edge it behind. There is a difficulty setting from 1 to 5 stars. 1 star means you can get ideal timing and smash it for six every ball and the opponents get loads of edges. 5 star means you can rarely get ideal timing and you have to leave wide ones and block straight ones.

Bowling on a high difficulty setting is quite boring, especially in Test matches. Choosing a delivery is the only good bit and is hasn't changed since 05. Fielding is automated unless you make it manual but dodgy camreas mean it is quite hard.

The game focuses' mainly on The Ashes with the whole 2006/07 series and 2005. What a shame bowling in test matches is so boring. Another thing is 2005 Ashes Scenarios where you do things like score 50 with Pietersen in the First Test or win the Second test with Australia with two wickets left.

The game also has fully licensed domestic leagues from England and Australia and this year's World Cup. However many of the International teams are not licensed so you playing as Tendehar instead of Tendulkar.

The commentary is done by Richie Beaunad and Mark Nicholas and despite being repetetive it is quite funny. Sometimes the commentator says that's 3 sixes in this over and you haven't even started it yet.
The music is really your opinion and you either love it or hate it. However I haven't heard of any of the songs.

Graphics 7.5
Sound 7.0
Gameplay 7.5
Lasting Appeal 8.5
Overall
Cricket fans should definitely get this but others shouldn't.

7.8/10

Needs Improvements
the game is not that good in my standerds. The commentators keep on saying the same thing over and over again. they could of had the woodworm
BAT also the bats are not very good at all.
JWD