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"Brain Lara International Cricket"

I'm torn between getting this and Cricket 2005 on the PS2.

Does anyone have either, if so what one do you suggest?

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Codemasters > EA
>
> EA Sports > All
>
> EA might suck at a lot of things, but they really know what they're
> doing when it comes to all sports...except football.

I don't think EA are that bad anymore. They make average-to-good games all-round, and now actually try to make decent updates instead of banging out the same title in a different font and a different colour scheme each year. Think about the games they had out in 2004 - Burnout 3, NFSU:2, all the sports ranges. None of them were too bad, were they? And if they were, you didn't have to go out and buy them, did you?

EA may be trying to monopolise the industry, and they may shift average titles by the bucketload, but you can't blame them for having good advertising.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> EA might suck at a lot of things, but they really know what they're doing when it comes to all sports...except football

Agreed (sort of)! Fifa may not be as widely appreciated as Pro Evo..but it dumps on Codemasters' Club Football from a great height!

I heard ESPN is better.

Not a fan of Madden, at all.

NHL and Madden.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Codemasters EA
>
> EA Sports All
>
> EA might suck at a lot of things, but they really know what they're
> doing when it comes to all sports...except football.

and cricket.

and rugby.

and tennis.

I've glanced over 2 reviews so I know what I'm talking about. ;)

Tiger woods, Fight Night and the basket-ball one might be good but there's not much else.

Hedfix wrote:
> Game wrote:
> I used to work for Codemasters
>
> What did you do for them?

Ah, just QA Stuff..

Dead boring. Anyone thinking of doing QA for a games company - DON'T! You're in front of 1,000's of screens, most of the people are complete geeks and it's boring.

Still, if you can design games or something, or be on a music team, i'd do it... sounds fun.

Hedfix wrote:
> Codemasters EA

EA Sports > All

EA might suck at a lot of things, but they really know what they're doing when it comes to all sports...except football.

I think i'll go with Brain Lara, after all it's free :P

Game wrote:
> I used to work for Codemasters

What did you do for them?

I used to work for Codemasters - Brian Lara will be in the sale in less than 2 months...

Played a PC Demo, seemed okay.. Much better on XBOX with a pad, I imagine.

I've played a demo of both and BL seemed better than 2005. You can always exchange it at SR.