ICC Pro Cricket

ICC Pro Cricket is a popular cricket game where players can choose from over 150 teams, leading them in various test matches, international tournaments, and championships. Players can flexibly select their lineups and adjust formations and tactics based on the situation on the field to win matches and earn rewards. The game allows players to create their own leagues and customize the rules, inviting friends to participate and enjoy the game together. Professional commentators provide commentary for the matches, adding to the immersive experience with the cheers of the audience.

Features of ICC Pro Cricket:

Diverse game modes: Enjoy a plethora of modes including the ICC Cricket World Cup Tournament, World Tour Mode where you can craft your dream team, Quick Match for fast-paced action, or the Batting Only Challenge Mode to hone your batting skills. Multiplayer option ensures you can challenge others for superiority on the field. Assemble a formidable team with legend players such as Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, and Steve Smith, and aim to demolish your opponents.

Masterful controls: The game features intuitive batting controls and innovative bowling mechanics, allowing you to master the speed, line, and length. Daily objectives enrich the experience, rewarding you with gold to strengthen your squad. With a focus on realistic cricket simulation and card management, it promises a robust gaming adventure.

Optimal performance: Please note that the optimal performance is on devices equipped with a Quad core ARM 7 processor and 2GB of RAM, running Android 4.2 and above. Make sure to grant the necessary permissions to enhance the interactive experience, which includes access to photos, media, files, contacts, phone status for game pause, and location for targeted ad serving. Your privacy is respected, as your personal information is not stored.

Unparalleled realism: Bringing your gaming experience to greater heights, the game boasts two gameplay cameras and more than 25 in-game camera angles, ensuring unparalleled realism on your device. If you're seeking variety beyond the conventional fantasy leagues, county cricket, or test matches, the T20 format within this title offers explosive gameplay full of big shots and thrilling moments.

Player Comments of ICC Pro Cricket:

Firing the game up for the first time, I noticed that there is no 16:10 or 16:9 resolution support in the game. Again, the 90s. God I miss the 90s. Remember Cricket Ashes 97? Yeah, those were the days. But this is 2015 and this is ICC Pro Cricket 2015, but props to the game for taking me back to a pre-25 years era. The menu buttons and images for the PC version are the same ones used for the mobile version, so on a high resolution screen they look blown up and massively pixelated. Ah, the low-res 90s again.

Excuse my sarcasm but to be honest, all these things don’t really matter, if the game is good and fun to play. That is what I hoped for, since this being the “official” World Cup game and all. You can play with either the keyboard or the mouse as the game suggested, but the keyboard doesn’t work. There are no keyboard shortcuts. Even the “ESC” key doesn’t work, meaning that there is no Escape menu. So there is no way to go to the menu and quit the game. Alt+F4 is the only option.

Modes offered in ICC Pro Cricket 2015 are World Cup, a Quick Play mode and a Career mode called World Tour. Matches in these modes are limited to 5-10 overs. If you want to play a 50 over match, you can only do so in the Quick Play mode. So much for being the official Cricket World Cup game when you can’t even play a proper game of cricket in World Cup mode. That’s understandable, because 50 overs take long, but I know as a fact that there are hardcore gamers who would love a 50 over game.

I played my first match after a brief training walkthrough that introduces the game’s mechanics, or lack there-of. If you’re bowling, you have to draw the desired path of delivery with the mouse, the speed of delivery depends on the speed of drawing the path. Not a bad idea, but sadly, no matter how many permutations of paths you try, the game dumbs it down to just three paths. So turns out, there’s not really much depth in the bowling mechanics, and it gets predictable really, really soon. At times, the bowler’s run up path was right through the umpire’s body. If you bowl a very wide ball which the keeper can’t catch, there is no mechanic for follow through (the ball going behind the keeper) and the game forces you to the next ball. So if the ball could have gone all the way to the boundary, the game doesn’t have any mechanic to accommodate this event. So now I question, is this really cricket because it really doesn’t seem so.

Talking about the batting, which works only with the mouse, is quite interesting, just like how bowling was. Disney claims to have 50 different shots in the game whose animation has been motion captured. You choose the direction where you want to hit the ball, and then whether you want to play a lofted shot or a grounded shot. The game then automatically decides which shot you’re going to play. I don’t mind this mechanic, that’s if it works well because in this case, it doesn’t. The game lacks any form of rag doll and physics. When hitting the ball, there is no physical connection between the bat and the ball, its just animations mashed up together. Running between the wickets is simple, you click to run, but you can’t cancel your run. There is also no inclusion of a mechanic to change the position of the batsman, or to charge down the line.

Summary:

ICC Pro Cricket is a pretty standard cricket game. There's bowling, there's batting, there's not really any fielding. And it's fun, in its own simple way.Batting is a case of picking an angle then tapping at the right time to perform either a lofted shot or one along the ground.Bowling is a little more complex, involving stopping a series of sliders at the right point and drawing out the trajectory of your bowl.