![]() It’s almost as if EA has run out of ideas of what to with the licenses it owns and has put the series on gardening leave for the foreseeable future. Much like English cricket in general 2006 was passed over altogether, before another version came out in 2007. The series has been a haphazard affair thus far, with versions appearing in 20. In truth we could have chosen any EA Sports cricket game to review, since they’re all pretty much alike, aesthetics aside, but we chose this one because it has Brett Lee on the cover and we just can’t say no to a pretty face. Take a guess which group the EA Sports cricket games best fit into. These includes their boxing games, NASCAR titles and anything they have ever bothered to release on a Nintendo console. Usually sharing the slick presentation of their better known counterparts, these games are typically lacking in anything like the same polish, often being highly derivative and more arcade like than true simulation. This encompasses EA Sports’ lesser known franchises, or ports of their main games onto less popular consoles. The jury is out as to whether these games actually represent the very best in terms of gameplay in their respective genres, but in terms of popularity and (importantly as far as EA are concerned) sales numbers, they are typically far and away ahead of their competitors. Big budget productions that understandably dominate their genres owing to their stellar production values, exhaustive licenses and the household names promoting them. ![]() The first, and most well-known, encompasses their big name franchises: FIFA, Madden, NHL etc. The EA Sports juggernaut comes in two distinct forms. ![]()
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