International Cricket 2010 announced

PALGN News | The follow up to Ashes Cricket this winter.

Codemasters has today announced that they will be releasing a new cricketing title this winter – International Cricket 2010, The publishers of the successful Ashes Cricket 2009 title said the new leather-and-willow game would be available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and that the game would again be produced by Australian studio Trickster Games.

As well as an expanded roster of 16 teams, the game will be updated with new features such as an "action cam" that will add a couple of new camera angles, giving players a "first-person perspective" of batting and bowling. Batting has also been tweaked with a feature called the “power stick” that will allow players to better control the power and direction of shots, including the ability to push singles into gaps. The game will also feature online and local multiplayer.

No solid information on a release date for International Cricket 2010 is available yet, except that it is scheduled for release this winter (the English summer).

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19 Comments

Karai Pantsu

1 year ago

If there's any justice in the world, this game will tank terribly. **** Trickster...

sobriquet835

1 year ago

Karai Pantsu wrote

If there's any justice in the world, this game will tank terribly. **** Trickster...

We should encourage the Australian games market. Even if Trickster is terrible, if they do well it will (hopefully) encourage other companies to start up here, potentially giving us more good, solid Australian made games.

That being said, I won't buy any game that's fundamentally broken, or otherwise terrible, which is nearly every Australian made sports game ever.

Fetidchimp

1 year ago

karai has a vested interest, he was an umpire in the last one.

XtremeXfactor

1 year ago

Ashes '09 wasn't bad, if you were primarily into batting.

Neigh on impossible to bowl someone out effectively, most other cricket games over the years had various ways you could bowl that ALWAYS snared a wicket (from AB's Cricket, Brian Lara '95, Shane Warne/Brian Lara '96, Shane Warne/Brian Lara '99, EA Cricket 2000 (and 04 + 05), International Cricket on the NES etc).

It's boring when you engaged in a boundry marathon each innings.

JP2daMC

1 year ago

Yeah it was a decent game and bowling was a tad average, but cricket is such a complex game. The more of them they make, the better it will get.

Karai Pantsu

1 year ago

sobriquet835 wrote

Karai Pantsu wrote

If there's any justice in the world, this game will tank terribly. **** Trickster...

Yeah, do you know how Trickster supported the industry? Let their last iteration as a company crumble and left nearly all involved floating in the wind, while they grabbed their IP and kits to create a new company with a skeleton staff. You can bet they're outsourcing all their QA, and christ knows what else.

You want to support the local industry? Put your backing behind a dev that doesn't **** it's employees (and myriad other creditors...) over.

Fetidchimp

1 year ago

ahhhh, i see even further now, dodgy

JP2daMC

1 year ago

Australian game development is a tricky and risky business without government support (unlike Aussie film and TV) that other countries have. Anyone working in the Aussie games industry knows that they may not have a long-term job when they are employed.

You can't hate on a company for finding a way to survive in the unstable global economic environment when other Aussie development companies and even US companies went under. Well you can, but that's business and it's no different here in Australia than anywhere else. It's no different for any other gaming company you could name that lays off and screws around their staff to survive.

I'll support Australia games development over the likes of EA any day of the week.

Karai Pantsu

1 year ago

Personally I don't see how you can hate on EA for stomping on people callously for profit, and then stick up for these guys for doing the same thing on a lesser scale.

But hey, maybe I'm the one being irrational here - after all, being told that there's no money to continue employing me, and then being told that there's no money period so buh-buy all that money we owe you, and then seeing them start a new business and keep **** going may have biased my views a teensy amount.

**** I get sick of that tired 'you can't get angry about X, it's business' excuse.

JP2daMC

1 year ago

Sorry to hear that, I wasn't aware of your personal involvement with them.

I guess my point was (before knowing you'd been personally burnt) was that I'd rather support Aussie bastards who don't get Governemnt support over US bastards who are much more protected and yet still screw their people over.

Hope everything turned out okay for you.

el_rezzo

1 year ago

Yeah this will turn out like the piles of crap that were Ricky Ponting 2007 and Ashes 2009. Need to hand the licence over to a developer who will put some effort into making it a great, profitable franchise. I'm all for supporting local business but when local business continually pushes out poor quality products it's hard to see why I should bother.

Phreakuency

1 year ago

Ashes cricket sucked.

The best cricket game is still Super International Cricket on SNES. Not best for it's time, but still the best and most fun now.

el_rezzo

1 year ago

Phreakuency wrote

The best cricket game is still Super International Cricket on SNES. Not best for it's time, but still the best and most fun now.

It was one of the first games I tracked down for my emulator. Also still love Shane Warne Cricket on the PSX, they really haven't improved that engine at all since 1998

Karai Pantsu

1 year ago

In all fairness, the guys and girls who worked on AC2009 really did put a lot of work and effort into it trying to make the best cricket title around. You can't even begin to understand the amount of passion and work put into it. Unfortunately, you also couldn't know just how much of a train wreck the whole project was and the external issues that made it so.

Sin Ogaris

1 year ago

As an aside, is Jason not a writer any more?

Well... obviously he's not but yeah, other commitments or what?

will851

1 year ago

sweet another cricket game ashes wasnt to bad its better then nothing

Fly

1 year ago

I'd prefer a player manager with playable T20's.

Batting seems to be the only thing which can be translated properly as bowling is far to variable outside of the individual and T20 is primarily a batting game, by player managing you would effectively encompass the what if scenarios of Ponting's men v the Invincibles or seeing Bradman, Richards, Lara, Warne, Tendulkar all in the same team.

I just don't get the whole translation that I ended up skipping most of Warne '99 and just generating the results more often than not.

juxta

1 year ago

Wow Karai Pantsu, you bitch and moan about how badly you have been done over, but isn't it true you have been paid out what was owing to you? Sure you lost your job, as did 1000's of others in the global games industry over the last 12 months, but did they all get paid out? Very few did, and most will never see their money even from government supported initiatives.

Time to move on mate and stop living in the past. Put your effort into promoting the industry and its talent, not bringing it down.

daBigOne

1 year ago

Hey Karai, all Transmission ex employees got paid out through GEARS, yourself included.

A new investor believed in the core team of people that worked at Transmission and decided to start Trickstar up in order to save some of them, as well as continue the cricket license.

All the assets including IP and the cricket licensed were legally and above the table bought by the new CEO of Trickstar. The kits that were 'grabbed' were owned by Codemasters so that they wouldn't be confused as company property when the administrators came in. Anything that was owned by Transmission was declared to the administrators.

Get your facts straight if you're going to slander a new company based purely on bitterness that you weren't hired by them.

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