It’s not looking promising for the Netherlands.Īt least in 2007, I didn’t. In a rare display of rationality and common sense in this particular area, I followed my head rather than my heart and didn’t buy a copy. Cricket veterans usually know within the first half-hour whether a game is going to be any good, and as those who bought the game on release day started sharing their initial impressions, it soon became apparent that BLIC 2007 wasn’t going to be the game we were all hoping for. Because if they did, then we really would have a game on our hands – a decent cricket game, at last.Īs the release date for Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 approached, feedback from gameplay videos and demos wasn’t promising, although they came with all of the usual assurances that things would be fixed in the final version. Of course, the main thing that I and most of my fellow forum-lurkers really wanted to know was whether they’d fix some, if not all, of the fairly significant problems that (for all its good qualities) undermined enjoyment in BLIC 2005. Such was my own enthusiasm, upon hearing that Codemasters were planning a follow-up, I broke the habit of a lifetime and started lurking in the game’s official forums, desperate for any tidbits of information about the forthcoming update.

The man on the box faces up to the pace and cunning of Sajid Mahmood.īrian Lara International Cricket 2005 wasn’t perfect but, in deviating from the well-trodden and frankly depressing path taken by most cricket games, it stood out as a beacon of hope and optimism for the long-suffering cricket game fan.

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