Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3600 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters
• Released on: 2007-03-23
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description:
Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 expands the series’ trademark fluid, dynamic gameplay mechanics to deliver a thoroughly entertaining and competitive game that captures all the tension, skill and intensity of world-class international cricket. Thanks to the official ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 content, Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 features licensed players, including world cricket stars Andrew Flintoff, Ricky Ponting, Mahendra Dhoni, Muttiah Muralitharan and of course, Brian Lara himself.

In addition to players, the game leads with a dedicated ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 mode featuring all the official teams, stadia, kits and equipment of the tournament. Further modes include a fully licensed ICC Champions’ Trophy competition and exhibition matches including One Day Games, Test Matches and exciting 20-over run fests. When you want to get competitive for real, Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 delivers online competitive play on PC (LAN and online) and Xbox Live.

Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 adds extra depth to the series’ complete batting, bowling and fielding experience whilst retaining its trademark accessible playability. The acclaimed batting play sees the introduction of subtle edges, sweepshots and the ability to use your feet to dance down wicket and smash the ball over the boundary for six.

Bowling sees a much-improved set of delivery types, thanks to changes in the way the ball swings in the air and reacts off the pitch, showcasing Shane Warne’s huge variation of spinning deliveries and Steve Harmison’s raw pace and even reverse swing as the ball degrades. In Fielding, there’s a new reflex-testing slip catch system and players can now be run out at both ends and be stumped by alert wicket keepers.

A striking advancement is the photo-realistic visuals; with hundreds of real player likenesses being modelled in high detail, complete with animated facial expressions to capture the intensity and emotion of international cricket. Stadia, including all eight official World Cup venues, have also been created with a new level of textured detail and they make use of proprietary shader technology for realistic, subtle and changing lighting effects, such as time of day and weather.

Customer Reviews

Joypad
This is a good game, my mate has it on his xbox, so i thought hey, ill get this for a tenner. Now it runs alright on my system, although nothing special, and i manage to run COD4 on it very well. However my biggest gripe is with the control method...codemasters or whoever have obviously put alot of effort in getting this to work with a mouse/keypad. But i want to play with my joypad!!! i have an xbox 360 joypad, and a ps2 joypad convertor, but there is no way to remap the controls - to sweep i have to hit the start button. Another poor port - why do they bother

So Disappointing
What a God-awful game. Stick with 2005 fellas. This has to be the most un-playable game I've ever played. I bought this game on the day of release, and was so excited to get home and play it. Unless you find the keyboard and mouse an inspirational combo for playing games, please forget this game.

This is the computer equivalent of Steve Harmison's first delivery in the last Ashes. Promised so much, but was WAY wide.

Promising start
I received my Amazon copy of Brain Lara Cricket 2007 yesteday, and installed it immeadiately. The first challenge is to bypass the software problems on installation, such as experienced by another reviewer of this game. It appears that those of us with DELL computers have to download a patch in order to make the game work before we even start. Fortunately the Codemasters website was easy to find and use.

I have not played cricket on a pc before, so this was all new. The first stop then was the training school, and I quickly made it through the bowling and batting lessons (about an hour). I decided to play a 20-20 game after this rather than progress with fielding lessons, and I already knew enough to enjoy the game. Playing on the easiest of easy levels I was anialated by the A1 in just 11 overs for about 60 runs. Not to be dispirated I tried again, and this time comfortably beat the A1 with room to spare - without even knowing how to catch.

The game is very playable for anyone who understands cricket, and I enjoyed the challenge. Performance wise I am operating a new pc with 2 GB RAM and a fancy graphics card so everything worked well. The menus are not very intuative, but with trail and error, you find your way eventually.

I am looking forward to spending more time with the game, and may even try some on-line games later on. I only hope that the A1 is a more challenging opponent when the difficultly level increases, although reading over reviews I was worried that I may already have the whole thing cracked. That would be seriously dissappointing.