While the licensed Aussie and English players are accurately labeled, many of their in-game character models are a bit off the mark.Īshes Cricket 2009 is not a game without issues.
If you’re dedicated (or pedantic) enough to take on the squad and player customization editing tools, then you can rename players, reassign skill points, and adjust visual sliders to set things right for the entire roster. Only the two Ashes teams (Australia and England) are fully licensed, meaning you’ll be given rough look-alikes with amusingly creative player names for the other countries. The game also features official Hawk-Eye visualizations during play. Single-player matches against the CPU’s unpredictable difficulty are at best challenging and at worst frustrating. The Ashes offers five-day, five-match tests between Australia & England using the 2009 real-world player roster Test play features the same five-day matches as Ashes mode but lets you choose from 12 competing nations One Day International (ODI) is a slimmed-down version of Test cricket with 50 overs of play per team and 20 Overs, the most recent addition to the sport, provides fast action-oriented play.Īshes Cricket 2009’s five-day Test matches give dedicated fans of the sport the opportunity to play out entire games in almost real-time and take their team to victory ball-by-ball.
The game is divided into four game types:
