Ashes Cricket 2009 (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ashes Cricket 2009

Ashes Cricket 2009, is a cricket video game developed by Transmission Games and published by Codemasters in the UK and by Atari in Australia. It has been released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft…

78 6 August 2009

What Ashes Cricket 2009 is

Ashes Cricket 2009 is a sport game developed by Gusto Games and released in 2009. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ashes Cricket 2009, is a cricket video game developed by Transmission Games and published by Codemasters in the UK and by Atari in Australia. It has been released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. A Wii version, developed by Gusto Games, has also been released. The Wii version was released simply as Cricket in Australia. A sequel, International Cricket 2010 was released on 18 June 2010. The game is licensed by the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), Cricket Australia and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), owners of the Ashes Urn. It includes all the official players of the Australian cricket team and the England cricket team, however the other teams are not licensed.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Ashes Cricket 2009 holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ashes Cricket 2009 launched on 6 August 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Wii Sports Resort, Wolfenstein and Metroid Prime: Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Wii Sports Resort, Wolfenstein, Metroid Prime: Trilogy.

Cheats and codes

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