Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
So I decided to download this game a long time ago, I can't remember exactly how long ago it was, but at least a few months. The first time I played this game I thought it was really great, but then after hours and hours of playing it, I didn't think so anymore. The graphics weren't that great and it was slow on my computer. It may have been just my computer, but I didn't like that. When my sister first saw me playing it she said, "I want to play that too!" But I didn't let her initially and she got mad at me and downloaded it for herself on another computer and then complained to me that it was an incredibly boring game so I guess it really all depends on your opinion of the game play that you enjoy.
After she played it for hours, however she began to enjoy it enough to recommend it to her many friends of different cultural backgrounds who had never even heard of cricket before, let alone a computer game named after a bug. Although she knew that cricket was a sport, a few of her friends did believe it to be a game about an insect. So she and her friends enjoyed hour after hour of playing cricket and it began to annoy me some because she would invite her friends over and use my computer to play, so she must have really liked it a lot.
Although I tried to get my friends to play cricket 97 on many an occasion, none of them seemed truly interested in it until they saw a cricket match on the tally and realized that it could be very exciting and truly invigorating. So many times I had my friends over to play cricket on the computer and in real life as well, although not as often, unfortunately. So even though some people might think that cricket is a name reserved only for a bug or insect, the few of us that know the truth, that cricket is an amazing sport that should be as wide-spread as football, we that do know that this could very well be one of the best games ever invented for a personal computer.
Cricket 97 made me believe at first that it would be 97 cricket matches, so when I discovered that it wasn't, I was crushed but then I realized that I shouldn't have been too upset because it was still a pretty good game and did involve cricket so I was half right anyway.
Reviewer: Steve10806
In 1995 I played cricket for the first time for my school team and I really loved everything about the game. I got our first ever home PC that my mum brought home from work, once they had upgraded. I instantly wished that the computer had a cricket game. Then in 1996 for my birthday my dad bought me cricket ’96. It was OK, but I think cricket was a bit too complicated for those early microprocessors which could only handle a limited number of variables. However just a year later cricket 97 came out and I wanted it.
The gameplay was much better than in 96 and I found it much more enjoyable to play. It remember it had the voice of Ian Botham doing some of the commentary and like all early sporting games he used to say the same things over and over again, but I you soon get used to it, me and my brother used to see how many times we could make him say the same things. Although gameplay has clearly improved in the games that were developed from cricket 97 (basically all EA cricket games) I still find it a very playable and very enjoyable game with 3D stadiums and other cool features.
So if you want a simple, fun, playable cricket simulator with plenty of nostalgia value, then cricket 97 is good place to.
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