''Brian Lara Cricket'' is a

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video game, the first in the ''

Brian Lara Cricket ''Brian Lara Cricket'' is a cricket video game, the first in the '' Brian Lara Cricket'' series. It is endorsed by Brian Lara. ''Brian Lara Cricket'' was released on the PC in 1994 for DOS and Sega Mega Drive and Amiga in 1995 by Codemasters ...

'' series. It is endorsed by

Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing reco ...

. ''Brian Lara Cricket'' was released on the PC in 1994 for DOS and

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and

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in 1995 by

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. The game was also rereleased in 1999 under the Codemaster Classics brand for Windows. It was developed by

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. The Mega Drive version spent 10 weeks at number 1 in the UK games charts during the summer of 1995. The game is a rebranded version of ''

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''.

Gameplay

The game supports one to four players and has three modes of difficulty. It also features real player names such as

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and

(Brian Lara is the only player that endorses the game). The player can choose to play either a one-day game or a

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and choose from all the major cricketing nations to play as or against. There are three main types of bowling in the game fast,

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and swing. Fielding can be manual or automatic.

Development

Brian Lara Cricket has

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graphics which appears to make the perspective change when playing the game. The sound effects in the game are digitised. The game included the NVR save feature which allowed games to be stored using a battery to supply power to the memory inside the

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. It also claims to have hundreds of frames of animation for each sprite.

External links

Codemasters official website
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