EA Sports Cricket 2007 Review

Now, on to the game play. This surprisingly is a lot better than any of the earlier editions. At a time when none of us expected EA Sports to better this area after they failed to do so in all their previous attempts, it certainly came up as a pleasant surprise. It is not to say that the game play is perfect. Far from it but at least it’s a good step forward. In simpler terms, game play in EA Sports Cricket 2007 has improved. The improvement can be seen in all three areas of the game – batting, bowling and fielding.

The batting and bowling control remains almost unchanged from the last edition. What has changed is the way they work. As a batsman, you can select your shot direction, back foot or front foot and the power behind that shot. It’s far easier to play the game with a gamepad where you can use one analog stick to determine the shot direction and power while using the other for controlling the player’s foot movement. This new control system is termed by EA Sports as the ‘Century Stick’. As a bowler, you select the type of ball you want to bowl, the spin, the direction and the pace. You press the keys as shown on your monitor screen for the type of ball to bowl. Special deliveries like Yorker and Bouncer come up from time to time when the batsman is low on confidence. Some bowlers also have their own special balls to bowl like the ‘Doosra’ for Harbhajan Singh.