Don Bradman Cricket (PS4)

I can only reiterate other reviews here. This is one great game. Tru Blu have just ripped up the text book on cricket games. Once this drops through your letterbox you can throw any others you have in the bin. You can do so much more with the ball whilst bowling than other games. Batting is about as good as it gets.You've got a 20 year(!) career mode, a 16 year old just starting his career to hopefully get to test cricket. You can create players and attach them to teams, county and international. You can then enter competitions or tours. You've got every form of cricket covered.I think the 20 year career mode is a bit OTT. I'll be playing tournaments or tours.You don't notice it when you're playing but you could hardly call these next gen graphics.

This is a fantastic effort from Tru Blu. The game is as close to real cricket as I've ever experienced, with a variety of options for bowling and batting which makes each ball an almost unique challenge. As there are several facets to each speciality, and it requires practice to bring each together to form the ideal approach, it's extremely challenging to begin with.With bowling - line and length are determined by good timing, and this feeds into the effect the spin/seam/swing you apply has. Batting requires you to select front or back foot as well as timing your shot to ensure it has the desired effect (as well as giving you the option to play aggressively or defensively). As it all happens quite quickly (batting in particular requires you make some decisions almost instantly), this is understandably difficult to master, but once you have done so it feels incredibly rewarding. Rather than mindlessly pressing X to drive ball after ball, you are required to think and plan each shot. However, this is where I also think the game has a really significant flaw which will put a lot of players off.The practice mode in this game gives very little feedback, and offers beginners next-to-no advice on how to approach the game. While some might argue this isn't a problem at all, and that they prefer not to held by the hand, I think with sports games particularly this is really fundamental. The practice mode of any sports game out currently or even in the last 5 years gives players step-by-step guides to not just the basics of the game, but also to the idiosyncrasies. For instance, in football sims, FIFA or Pro Evo both have practice exercises for dribbling and performing specific tricks. With cricket being a game of fine details, and the finer points of bowling and batting not necessarily being known by all, it would've been really beneficial for this game had Tru Blu set-up a practice section with (e.g.) a batting and bowling coach, talking you through specific deliveries and shots, when best to use them, how to play them, etc. etc. I wouldn't call myself a cricketing expert, but I would say I've a probably above-average grasp of what is required from bowlers and batsman. I was therefore delighted to see the detail Tru Blu had put into this game, but I found it extremely frustrating to begin, particularly with batting when I had almost no idea what I was doing wrong or how to fix it. For players who have less knowledge, I can imagine it being extremely overwhelming, and might even cause them to give up on the game altogether. This would be a shame, and could have been avoided had the same amount of thought that went into the rest of the game gone into constructing a proper training and practice section to ease newcomers in. Because once you are 'in' it's a cracking game and an engrossing experience!

Super fast delievery

Absolutely rubbish game. Nothing like the other cricket games. Such a waste of mine. It's not officially licensed so none of the players or stadiums names are real. Game play is rubbish as well as they graphics and the controls don't make sense.

I find it a bit difficult to play I can't bat on the game

Instructions not all that good but cracking game once into it

This is only the second cricket game i have ever tried and i must say it is extremely good in most respects and very accurate to the real game with pretty much everything you could want included, it is comfortably the best cricket game around according to many people and i would believe that to be correct. The game is difficult to master and certainly requires a lot of practice and patience but thats cricket for you and it is very rewarding when you do start to improve. The Don Bradman Academy feature which will download loads of proper teams, players and even umpires is a pure genius way of getting around the lack of official licencing and although graphics and audio are only average the gameplay is both absorbing and relaxing which is exactly what i wanted when i bought it. Anyone who likes cricket will love this, just be patient and practice lots and beware of the superhuman computer controlled fielders who WILL run you out many times with incredible throws and stumpings! There is still room for some improvements hence four stars but overall if you fancy a bash at cricket game you should try this, recommended.

Brilliant!!

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