Cricket Through The Ages Review

I begin this review with a confession. I don’t know anything about Cricket. I’m talking about the sport, not the wireless company. I don’t know anything about them either, but I digress. When I saw Cricket through the ages Show up in our world of wonders (that’s what I call our Slack channel, Eric), I didn’t know what to expect. I saw two flailing characters trying to hit each other with bats, balls, snakes, rackets, swords and even grenades. What does all this have to do with Cricket? Well, I’m not here to tell you. 24 bit games and free lives is. As someone who has played games like gang beasts and NidhoggCricket Through the Ages fits the bill perfectly. Return Digital It’s all about the weird, but I may have been hit in the face with a cricket bat for this one.

Cricket, according to Encyclopedia Britannica machine, It is a game played with a bat and ball with two teams of 11 players competing. known as a field, which measures 22 yards (20.12 meters) by 10 feet (3.04 meters) wide. Two sets of three sticks, called wickets, are placed on the ground at each end of the field. At the top of each window there are horizontal pieces called bails. The sides take turns batting and bowling (pitching); each turn is called “entries” (always plural). The teams have one or two innings each, depending on the pre-established duration of the match, with the goal of scoring the most runs. The players, throwing the ball with an outstretched arm, try to break (hit) the wicket with the ball so that the balls fall. This is one of several ways in which the batsman is dismissed or dismissed. A bowler bowls six balls on one wicket (thus completing an over), then a different bowler from his side bowls six balls on the opposite wicket. The batting side defends his wicket. You can go read more for yourself. My head just exploded.

The game, built like a Wes Anderson movie, narrates you from the beginning. It tells you that 10,000 years ago, humanity was on the brink of extinction. So you are a green T-rex that has no control over its limbs or head. The game then tells you to touch a button, whatever it is, to run at full speed towards your opponent, a caveman. You crush it. The next screen is you as the caveman, with nothing in your hand, while the aforementioned T-Rex now comes after you. You are trampled. Then the narrator says “Cricket was invented.” You are the caveman again, this time armed with a rock. You have to wind up, with the same button you used to run, and throw the rock at the T-Rex. I was here 5 minutes too long, because it doesn’t let you move forward until you hit the T-Rex with the rock. If you don’t do it right, the game tries to show you in slow motion, but I’m already frustrated, because WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

So, you and your opponent have weapons to throw at each other. These are one-time hits. The first to reach 5 victories. And this is a physics-based game, so if you throw something and it bounces off the screen and hits your opponent in the back of the head, you get a point. If for some strange reason you have a snake, you can let it go and you’ll probably get that point for yourself. But if you get hit first, the snake will fall out of your hand and bite you, giving the point to your opponent. Then it begins to go through the ages. Rocks become stone axes. Then there are the sticks you have to swing and hope to hit someone. There’s a sword and a guy on a horse. So you’re a caveman against a horseback crusader and you have a rock. You can use the stone to knock out the horse, knock down the rider and get the point, which has now risen to the threshold of 10. The narrator says that Cricket was perfected in 1866. But now you are a batsman, swinging at your opponent’s balls. . Are you still going? Because I’m LOST!

The narrator returns again to tell him that Cricket eventually evolved enough to be in space. I just lost to the computer 10-5, but don’t worry, nothing is at stake. There is now a prompt on the screen to tap something to launch a space shuttle into space. Except this doesn’t tell you what to touch, so the space shuttle keeps exploding when it hits the walls of the screen. After about 15 times, I take the ship into space and am now a character not playing any of the Britannica described above. I have lightsabers and red orbs, and now I’m cutting people up. So I go back to a destroyed Earth and I’m a crab? Same situation from first to 10. Who you are and what item you and your opponent have are randomly generated up to this point. Maybe that’s something I should have said earlier. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s the first 15 minutes of the game. And you HAVE to play this to unlock the real game mode. And with the T-rex impaling the crab, we return to the title screen.

Then the game opens up, but not to the full extent yet. The first thing that opens is something called Ash’s World Cup, and this game really wants to be Cricket. I’ll try to explain this. You choose a country to represent and the game randomly chooses a game point. Then, you’re at bat and your opponent can pitch. They get up to 6 throws. If you take it off the screen, you earn points. If you hit the opponent with the ball, you sometimes score points. If the opponent hits the wickets then you are out and the side changes immediately. This also happens if you are hit by the pitch and fall backwards on the wickets. You will use the same rope physics from the previous levels. Sometimes you get them to throw a bowling ball and sometimes they throw the ball to you. You can block this, but you can’t hit it anywhere for any point value. There are also different modes that the game randomly offers you, such as slow motion or “Batsmen”, where you simply throw bats at each other. You can even earn points for committing a flying foul. And I mean a bird. Once you defeat four other teams, no matter what, you’ll be invited to Buckingham Palace to meet and be beheaded by a Queen. I do not know yet.

The game continues to unlock other versions of Cricket. The first is a variant of soccer in which, as you may have guessed, you now throw various things with your feet. Same rules as Ash’s World Cup, except the physics are different. I guess the soccer ball flies off the screen to do more fun things. Playing on the computer in this mode was fast. Again, once you get past those teams, you return to the palace and then return to the title screen. There is a version of badminton, where you can birdie back and forth with a racket. The way to get points here is to hit the ground twice. Again, there are random selections of balls and rackets, but you get the idea. It’s not Cricket anymore. I’m starting to realize that the game really just wants you to play it. Give me a chance. No advantages. Just a bunch of random chaos. And now, since you stood your ground, you can play the World War version.

In the World War level, you choose your country again and then use the one button to advance towards your visually only opponent armed with a bayonet. You can advance towards the opposition and destroy them. Once you or they are eliminated, there will be an automatic respawn. The goal of this game is not about points. It’s about reaching the enemy line at the end of the screen. What the game tells you is that you can throw grenades at your opponent, which probably have the most fun physics in the game. Again, this is an instant kill, but sometimes grenades can be thrown back, Cricket style, and you can get blown up. I may have enjoyed this mode too much, and that’s the charm of the game. Until I am invited back to Buckingham Palace.

Quantum Cricket has no points. They are just randomly generated. The first to reach 10 victories. And this is probably the game with the lowest stakes. This is all luck, no skill. Swing and advance towards your opponent. Beat them. It’s like Street Fighter if the characters were puppets without special moves. The Olympus Games take you through 10 events such as weightlifting, swimming and wall climbing. You try to get a medal for each one, depending on how well you do. Then there is the best game here, called Ultra Cricket. Ultra Cricket tells you to score 42 points, twice, in a series of Cricket Through the Ages games. To see who bats first, there are two best series of three in the jousting version. You will then have up to 6 attempts to score points, unless your wickets are knocked down. Then you have to try again to fight for the batting privilege. It’s the most ridiculous part of the game. I would test my friends only in this mode and not tell them anything.

I think that’s the general idea of ​​the game. It is basic in its essence. It is not here to teach you how to play Cricket. If you take something you learned in this game and bring it to a game of Cricket, you will be mortified. This game is literally for mindless fun with friends in the same room. I think watching people play this would be much more entertaining than playing it alone. My advice: Play alone to unlock the modes, and then take it to your friends’ houses to settle debates or choose who goes first on something else.