If you’ve played FIFA 18, you’ll know that when Ronaldo takes a free kick in the game, the motion looks exactly like what the player does in real life. Player likenesses are quite well done, although they’re still not at the same level as FIFA. This makes a massive difference to the game by adding a touch of realism. All Australian domestic cricket teams are available in the game, apart from the national teams mentioned earlier. This means that you no longer have to go to the player editor to create or patch in all of your favourite players or teams.
The men’s and women’s national teams for England and Australia are fully licensed. That is how Ashes Cricket was born.Īshes Cricket has one major differentiating feature when compared with Don Bradman Cricket 17 - player licenses. With The Ashes coming up in November 2017, the board decided to partner with Big Ant and create a realistic cricket game ahead of the series. Sometime in 2016, Cricket Australia (which governs professional cricket in the country) started talking to Big Ant Studio about being more involved in making a cricket game. We’ve written at length about Don Bradman Cricket 17, which did very well to capture some of the complexities of cricket but had a lot of room for improvement. Australia-based Big Ant Studio is perhaps the only big studio still working on cricket games for PC and consoles.