Big Bash Boom (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Big Bash Boom

Perfect for the whole family, Big Bash Boom mixes all the big hitting thrills of T20 cricket with instantly accessible arcade action. Anyone, anywhere, will be able to jump in and be hitting the ball like a…

55 29 November 2018

What Big Bash Boom is

Big Bash Boom is an arcade game developed by Big Ant Studios and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Perfect for the whole family, Big Bash Boom mixes all the big hitting thrills of T20 cricket with instantly accessible arcade action. Anyone, anywhere, will be able to jump in and be hitting the ball like a pro with Big Bash Boom, which is fully licensed and includes all teams and players featured in this year’s KFC Big Bash League (BBL) and rebel Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) – meaning fans can take control of their favourite players.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Big Bash Boom holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Big Bash Boom launched on 29 November 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V and Hitman 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V, Hitman 2.

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