You won't get away with trying a front-foot straight drive against a short delivery.įielding in Don Bradman Cricket 17 is terrible. You'll have to alter your shots based on the length of the delivery and footwork is as important as shot selection. ( Also see: Don Bradman Cricket 17 Release Date for PC Announced) We did enjoy batting more than bowling but we were forced to return to the tutorial repeatedly because the game is one of the most complex cricket games we've experienced. You will be able to rotate the strike and take singles easily but scoring big shots is tough even on easy difficulty. Spin bowling is a little easier than pace, so if you're a new player looking to stem the flow of runs, you might want to try that.īatting is comparatively easy but you can't get away with trying to hit the same shot every ball. You could find yourself hitting around six to eight buttons to bowl just one ball, thanks to the number of things you can control. The controls are a part of the reason why bowling is so hard. Experienced players might be able to consistently bowl tight overs and wicket-taking deliveries, but new players may just find themselves using the game's Simulate option, to avoid bowling. For every perfect out-swinger that landed on good length and drew an edge, we found ourselves bowling a delivery so wide that even fourth slip couldn't reach it. We weren't able to pull it off during our test period. ( Also see: Games Releasing in December 2016: Our Top Picks)Īll of this means that bowling is genuinely hard to master. Pace bowlers can control length, pace, pitch, and swing, while spinners can choose from turn, bounce, flight, and whether they want to put in more effort into a particular delivery. You can bowl everything from an in-swinging yorker to a flighted doosra. Don Bradman Cricket 17 has complex controls that give you full control over the batsman or bowler, and we spent around 45 minutes just playing through the tutorials for both.ĭon Bradman Cricket 17 is an absolute treat for those who love the art of bowling. Those hoping for a game where you can hit every ball out of the park need to brace for a proper challenge. Hopefully the feature will start working once more players have the game. With earlier versions of the game, this always fixes the problems, but it caused the game to freeze when we tried. The game shows a pop-up and asks you if you want to replace player data with user-created data.
( Also see: Don Bradman Cricket 17 - What to Know Before You Buy) This means that Virat Kohli's name in the game is Vagisa Kallis and someone called S. First up, Don Bradman Cricket 17 doesn't have licences for players or kits. If you're expecting FIFA-like production quality for this game, you need to lower some of those expectations.
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