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First and foremost, I would
like to say that ICC has been, and still is, in my opinion, the best
cricket management series around. The newer reincarnations have been fun,
what with their updated statistics and new features.
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However, to my mind, the
original is still the best. In the last five years or so, I must have
played on it at least a hundred times! The reason for this site, though,
is to introduce to the public the many different databases I have created
using the ICC Editor. After all, it would be a bit of a waste not to. |
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GAME DETAILS |
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Name: |
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International Cricket
Captain |
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By: |
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Empire Interactive |
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Price: |
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£4.99 on the Xplosiv
budget release, but I bet you could get it from a boot sale for
about £1 |
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Released: |
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1998 |
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The International
Cricket Captain series started way back in 1998, when programmer
Chris Child created a program for a cricket management game. The
first of its kind, the idea took inspiration from the highly
successful Championship Manager series, which puts the player in the
shoes of a football manager. |
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Although there had been
attempts cricket games in the recent past, ranging from
International Cricket on the Super Nes and Brian Lara Cricket
on the PC, Mega Drive and later the Playstation, ICC was
groundbreaking in that it was the first cricket based game to move
away from the traditional arcade format. |
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As regards to the
management format, having played Premier Manager in the past on the
Mega Drive, I knew the potential that management games could have in
getting the games player to become addicted. Later I moved on to
Champ Man 2, before I discovered ICC in about 1999. Being a
massive cricket fan, I got hooked on the game straight away. The
fact that the game was quite tough didn't matter to me - I found it
incredibly addictive. |
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1999 also saw a sequel
to the original ICC. Boasting updated features and statistics, it
looked set to be even better. However, being only 13, I could not
afford another £25! The next edition of ICC I bought was the 2001
Ashes edition for the PSX. Athough largely an improvement on
past editions, I don't necessarily think that the game suits the
console format. This is mainly due to speed - there are quite a few
loading delays, but also memory, as it takes up a whole memory card!
On top of this, the game does not record 50's and 100's. Overall,
though, the addictive nature remains. |
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Since then, I've bought
the same version of game for the PC. Having read poor reviews in
Games Master and Computer and Video Games magazines, I
wanted to see if they were correct. So, I snapped it up for £10 from
Game in Wigan in 2002. I was pleased to see that the mags were
wrong, the game was as brilliant as ever. However, all the while I kept
going back to the original ICC for the PC. The editor had given the
game a new lease of life, and the Internet around that time was
booming with ICC mods. Sites such as
Cricket
Games were, and still veritable goldmines of cool
stuff, and prove that loads of people still love the ICC series. |
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So, this site is a
collection of most of the stuff I have collected, noted and created
for the original ICC which I feel I should share with all you other
ICC enthusiasts out there. Please feel free to take anything from
this site to mess around with on your own copy of ICC. |
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Finally, If you wish to
print any text from this site, I recommend you first copy the
desired text into a word processor, as printing a whole page would
just be a waste of ink in your printer. Alternatively, download the
Ultimate ICC Guide,
which contains most of the text on this site. |
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