‘Cricket 22’ game review: A bowling diamond in the rough
The Hindu
‘Official Game of The Ashes: Cricket 22’ brings the sport into a much-awaited big-budget video game; but this one has a long way to go to get close to the real thing
Considering over a quarter of the globe is crazy over cricket, it is weird all that the gaming tech that goes into sports simulators like 2K Games’ NBA 2K22 and EA Sports’ Madden NFL and FIFA has not made a foray into ‘the gentleman’s sport.’There was Cricket 19, but after that the market was taken over by mobile titles such as Stick Sports’ Stick Cricket and Nautilus Mobile’s Real Cricket, proving that there is a market out there and eager folks who may want a cricket game to play on a big screen.
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