Codies unveils Ashes Cricket 2009

By Tom Bramwell Published 11 May, 2009

PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this June.

Codemasters has announced Ashes Cricket 2009 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, due for release this June.

Developed by Transmission Games, AC2009 features licensed English and Australian cricket teams and all the Ashes venues, according to GameSpot.

You will also be able to choose from unlicensed teams from other countries, hopefully including all the test-playing nations. If anyone's missing, there are player and team editors.

Game modes will include the Ashes, test matches, one-day internationals and Twenty20, along with the ability to replay historical scenarios with current players and Hawkeye.

Gameplay wise, bowling allows you to select a style, and then uses a gauge with four coloured zones for timing. Catches are quick-time events, although less is said about batting.

There's also multiplayer, with four players supported offline and two players online, using all the different modes and teams.

Codies also said to expect commentary from Tony Greig, Ian Bishop, Shane Warne, Ian Botham and Jonathan Agnew.

Check out our Ashes Cricket 2009 screenshot gallery to see how it's all shaping up.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • BBIAJ #1 3 years ago

    I thought that Transmission Games (Heroes over the Pacific/Europe), were close to going under the last I heard?

  • Bremenacht #2 3 years ago

    Peter Moore will be pleased.

  • chrisno21 #3 3 years ago

    Want. Lets just hope it's not as shit as the last Lara.

  • mcmonkeyplc #4 3 years ago

    Why the flying googly's is there no wii version?! It's perfect for cricket. You tards!

  • Stoatboy #5 3 years ago

    Again they pay good money to get a bunch of pro commentators on board - I bet they got them to talk about the cricket again too. Hello, realism? They should get them to waffle on at great length about cake, and buses, and pigeons, and the loony in the crowd wearing a hollowed-out watermelon for a hat first and foremost, with only the vaguest acknowledgement that there's some kind of sporting event occurring on the pitch.

  • thenastypasty #6 3 years ago

    It will be interesting to see what EA do now,i hope they have got a cricket game in development,as for the controls i was hoping they would map the spin bowling to the right stick.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #7 3 years ago

    mcmonkeyplc - Why the flying googly's is there no wii version?! It's perfect for cricket. You tards!

    Ditto.
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/09 @ 09:58

  • sport #8 3 years ago

    Can't wait for this. Just hope they make the controls a bit more interesting - spin suggestion would be fun.

    Pasty, you keen for some test matches when it comes out? (Assuming Live support is there)

  • ComradePete #9 3 years ago

    Kotaku seem to think that a Wii version will be out, albeit a few months after the other versions.

  • Goffee #10 3 years ago

    Cricket can be done on any format, I expect a Spectrum release too dammit! But at least a PSP/DSi edition

  • thenastypasty #11 3 years ago

    Sport i would be more than happy to play a few test with you,after the xbox cricket is my biggest interest,im hoping for a close ashes summer like 2005,iv even got tickets for the test at soffia gardens and the 20/20 at old trafford,its going to be good summer

  • jonsaan #12 3 years ago

    Taken from my thoughts on the forums but I'll stick it in here just in case someone from codies reads comments:

    Please let them move away from the decades old wobbly circle for bowling. Play some stick cricket and build on that. In real cricket you don't know where the ball is going to pitch when you bat!!

    Please Codies, please.

  • jonsaan #13 3 years ago

    Oh and those screenshots set the alarm bells ringing. They do this every time. No actual shots of a bowling or batting view means decades old wobbly circle ahoy. :*(

  • Vanmunt #14 3 years ago

    Love cricket games, but they must make it nearly impossible to bowl full and straight as it ruins it online!!

    oh and stoatboy, very funny.

  • Fatnick #15 3 years ago

    "Love cricket games, but they must make it nearly impossible to bowl full and straight as it ruins it online!!"

    It does? I used to enjoy BL2007 because you could smack people all over the place when they bowled full tosses. If anything its the batting that needs fixing: It was ridiculous that the only way you could stop the ball being played into the leg side was by bowling an off-side wide. I wouldn't dispute the fact that there are batsmen with the reach to smack offside balls to leg, but it shouldn't be a standard shot.

  • man.the.king #16 3 years ago

    Hey, I'm Indian and live in the US.

    Anybody know if this game is coming out in the US as well?