In other games, you move a cursor on screen with your controller, and use the buttons to determine what type of delivery it will be. What Don Bradman Cricket does is hide the controls, and make the game feel more organic. In most cricket games, the controls are made explicit, and this reduces the game to just a few options, and a kind of rock-paper-scissors battle between the batsmen and bowlers as you try and pick the correct counter to trump the opposition. But here, they're camouflaged thanks to the game's controls. That is not to say Don Bradman lacks a set of rules. These games get predictable all too quickly, and because of this, they get boring quickly too. Bowlers and batsmen both have a limited selection of strokes to choose from - the system is more fluid than menu based combat in Japanese role-playing games, but it still boils down to a scientific game of picking moves and counter-moves. Most cricket games that have followed Codemasters' excellent Brian Lara Cricket '96 have used the same basic control scheme. How does it manage all this? By being unpredictable. (Also see: How to Watch 2015 Cricket World Cup Live on Your PC, Smartphone, or Tablet ) It expertly traps you into this cycle, tempting you into just a little more, until you sacrifice any semblance of a life outside it. ![]() In spite of its many follies, it's the rare sports game that lures you into the zone of thinking "just one more over" and then you find yourself in front of your TV half awake at six in the morning. It is the anti-thesis of cricket video games, but it still delivers both for gamers and cricket fans. The game to play is Don Bradman Cricket, released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. However, the one cricket game you should play this season is surprisingly the one which has no flashy licenses, no real player names (out of the box at least), and none of that almost TV-like polish that typifies many of Electronic Arts' forays into sports games such as FIFA. The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 is underway, and there are now more cricket video games than you can keep track of.
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