A Google user
5 years ago
The game is fun, I haven't gotten far enough to see if you have to pay for more energy or if it regens quick. Before I can get there, I've had to uninstall because there's a notification about 3rd party data usage and if you try to opt out, the game crashes.
A Google user
5 years ago
There is an issue with gameplay. When you spin, it sometimes throws the ball so I recommend an option in settings to be able to have a button to press to throw after you spin to avoid that. It would also be cool to be able to do missions to win more energy drinks.
A Google user
5 years ago
Good...... But could be alot better. first of all the overall gameplay is fine I can't complain there, but this game only has england division 4 which after one season is boring knowing you can't transfer and work towards division 1 so it puts you off doing another season. Second you need to sort the energy drink system out, you have to choose skill or lifestyle they is no perfect balance you can't improve your skill and buy items because energy drinks and ridiculously overpriced. Very Pay to win
A Google user
5 years ago
Prices of energy drinks are too high. Especially when you often only regain 25 or 50 stamina after a match. Means you need to buy an energy drink after every game just to be ready for the next match. Energy drinks that cost more than the salary you earn. Then as a further kick in the teeth, if you don't train your skills then they decrease. This is easily the worst New Star game I've had the displeasure of playing. Major changes needed.
A Google user
5 years ago
Enjoyed it for a little while but then you realise that to get anywhere, you need to spend a lot of cash. There are too many annoying bugs to justify me parting with the regular amounts of cash require to progress. The batting and throwing sections of the game are genuinely awful (a slight miss hit? caught by the bowler), bowling is a lottery and the catching is too easy. I couldn't find enough here to sustain me longer than a season. feels like an unfinished product
Shreyas Joshi
4 years ago
While bowling the game lags just before hitting the stumps and the ball ends up being hit. Sometimes just before you catch the ball, the game lags and you end up missing the catch. And these days as you're batting, the game lags and then crashes every single time. It's a cool game and I really like it. But it randomly started developing faults.
A Google user
5 years ago
This has potential but for now it is flawed. Price of the energy drinks is too high. Game ratings are not calculated well. I got a five for and a hundred and got a rating 7.7. I get that it depends on each interlude but it just makes me want to put the game down. Bowling is the best feature I think.
A Google user
5 years ago
Fundamentals are decent, but the game isn't very responsive and often lags on input, which are often crucial times. Micro transactions, while never really shoved in your face, are often necessary as energy is a scarce thing. Especially at the low levels, you feel very clunky, like a tractor playing cricket, which can cost you your match rating or even wicket when running. The bowling is also ridiculous, as you end up being forced to spin balls outside of the wicket that somehow smash middle stump
Kendal Bond
4 years ago
I. Love. This. Game. Best blend of playing-oriented and player-dev-oriented I've encountered. Mechanics are intuitive to learn and develop; challenge level as well varies in a very realistic manner. A terrific sports game. I also *very much enough to withhold a star* would love to have a casual (non-career) mode to just play because you already have the (excellent) code, cricket is fun, and *I love this game.*
Flynn Carter
3 years ago
Have downloaded and played NSC and New Star Soccer. Both have great potential and the concept is brilliant, however both have their fair share of problems. In this game you are rewarded no runs for a clear 4 or even 6 if the boundary isn't visible on screen, and the commentary remarks on how much of a wasted opportunity it is when you fail to run someone out because your character moves at a snails pace for the ball to throw it to the bowler at the stumps, making it impossible to get them out.
A Google user
6 years ago
It's a very frustrating game. For one thing, my team mates are always dropping catches after I bowl a great ball. But the opposition never drop it. I feel that it should be one rule for both, not one rule for one and another rule for something else. Secondly my stats are maximum and yet the game just seems to get harder and harder. Surely if my player is at the top of his game, it would be easier to hit sixes, not harder. Needless to say, I'll probably delete this game...
A Google user
5 years ago
the controls are a bit too much, and there's too much going on. Throwing/running is imprecise, bowling is too unresponsive, batting is poor. You cant see the boundary? then boohoo, zero for you. you want to put spin on the ball? tough, youre bowling the ball poorly and their team is getting a six. Then add in the cost of bits and pieces, and the reaction that if you dont score 200 and take 5 wickets, then you've had a bad game? it's an okay game, but severely let down by some of the mechanics.
Eric Strydom
1 year ago
Its a great game , the only problem i have with it is the energy concept. Sometimes you'll have 100% energy but after playing a match you'll be left with 20% then you get 40-50% back from rest days. Which will leave you with about 70% to play your next game unless you take a energy drink ( which the price for increases every now and again) . Point is you can't keep up because you only make 40 coins per match but you are paying 80 coins per match for energy drinks.
Charles Raife
1 year ago
Fun game but needs improvements. Maybe a Test Cricket mode, it wouldn't take much to implement and its absence is glaring. On top of this as others have said there are some glaringly frustrating things during the gameplay. The fact that you don't score a boundary because it is out of the camera screen is really annoying. The other majorly annoying part is the fielding concept, you aren't given any idea which way the ball is moving before you run and the game punishes you harshly.
Alastair Ferguson
5 years ago
The game uses the same forms of gameplay as other New Star games, but does not come across as being anywhere near as mature. There are some extremely frustrating aspects of the game, including hitting a great shot and getting no runs for it because the boundary isn't on screen. Even worse, you never know when attempting a run-out which direction the ball is travelling as you can't see it before you start running, meaning that you will often go in the wrong direction. A ridiculous oversight.
N00b 101
2 years ago
An overall mobile masterpiece just a few errors, bowling is bad because you need to bowl the ball in sometimes unrealistic areas, Fielding's good, batting is good just I feel there could more shot detail and there should be more customisation for what your role is eg. You can chose if your an all rounder or a bowler and where you bat even a keeper mode and more realistic commentary, anyway the game is good and only a few things they could add.
A Google user
5 years ago
Great game! Really fun to play with great replay ability. My only complaints are: occasionally the game gives you a fielding moment (bowling, catching, running you name it) which is literally impossible to get the wicket from so it counts against you. Also BE WARNED the top stuff (agents and bat's) are all PAY TO WIN with actual money. There is no other way to get the top items than to pay real money for them. But otherwise its a good game, keeps you playing and changes everytime
A Google user
5 years ago
Absurd design decisions ruin what should be a good game. If you can't see the boundary rope (if it's off screen due to the camera angle), your shot aimed towards it will automatically score 0 runs even if hit well enough to score a 4 or 6. This is just... well, stupid. Cricket has a boundary around the entire pitch, not only one corner of it. Also, the running controls are very poor and imprecise, making running needlessly difficult. A shame, because most of the other controls are good.
A Google user
5 years ago
I like this game. And its good but it has a few serious problems the devs need to fix. Firstly, throwing. Firstly the bowling. I seem to bowl, its going to just clip the stumps but before it does, the game lags, for just a millisecond then continues saying i have missed. This is unacceptable. Secondly, it needs a big finger mode. My fingers are larger than the ball on the screen when I'm batting making it hard to be accurate and it's prone to just decide I touched it in a different place.
Mitul Patel
2 years ago
I really liked the game but there were just to many issues. Your cost to refill energy is worse than inflation, the higher your star rating, the higher the cost for NRG but your pay doesn't keep up at the same rate. It gets annoying really fast. I don't mind paying some money but not for temporary bonuses. I uninstalled the game. Mini games need some tweaks and maybe look at retro bowl and retro soccer for better game play and more fun.