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Brian Lara Cricket, released as Shane Warne Cricket '99 in Australia and New Zealand, is a 1998 PlayStation and PC cricket game, endorsed by West Indian cricketer Brian Lara, produced by Codemasters, and the sequel to Brian Lara Cricket '96.
Brian Lara Cricket is a 1999 action and sports game for Windows, featuring the legendary West Indian batsman Brian Lara and the Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne. The game is now abandonware and can be downloaded from My Abandonware website.
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Brian Lara Cricket, also known as Shane Warne Cricket ’99 in Australia and New Zealand, is a 1998 cricket game by Codemasters. Download the game for Windows or PlayStation and see screenshots.
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- Game features
- Game modes and gameplay
- Reception
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, released in Australia and New Zealand as Shane Warne Cricket'99 is a 1998 PlayStation and PC cricket game, personally endorsed by West Indian cricketer Brian Lara, produced by Codemasters, and a follow-up to the successful Brian Lara Cricket and Brian Lara Cricket '96.
Teams
Players can choose from the nine Test playing cricket nations at the time: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. Six Associate teams are also playable but only in World Cup mode. The Associate teams have a squad of 11 players, as opposed to 22 from the Test nations. Available from the main menu are a list of all the Test nation's players and their real life statistics including bowling and batting averages. The game can also archive the progress of up to 20 players and record the various records for both formats of the game.
Games can be against another player or against the computer. The game has a variety of game modes, of which include:
•Quick match; a quick friendly one-dayer where all options are set up by the computer.
•Friendly; a quick friendly one-dayer that can be played by any two of the nine Test playing nations, with all the options player chosen.
•World Cup; the Cricket World Cup tournament, where players go through a series of stages in order to win the cup.
•World Series; this mode allows a tournament of up to five teams, including Australia, who are always the host nation. After a series of matches, the team with the most victories wins the tournament.
•Knockout tournament; the knockout tournament involves eight teams, and, like other modes in the game, the tournament progresses through a series of knockout stages until a winner is declared.
PlayStation Power gave the game an 88% rating.
1.PlayStation Power #33 (December 1998), p. 118–120
Dec 8, 1998 · Shane Warne Cricket '99. by. Codemasters. Publication date. 1998-12-08. Topics. Cricket, Shane Warne, Brian Lara. Language. English. Shane Warne Cricket '99 for IBM PC. Also known as Brian Lara Cricket outside of AU / NZ. Addeddate. 2021-10-30 23:28:53. Disctitle. SWC99. Identifier. submission-info. Protection. SecuROM. Region.
Feb 4, 2019 · Junkee's Jake Dean reminisces about the 1999 cricket game that featured real graphics, commentary and classic matches. He also reveals some glitches and flaws that made the game more fun and unpredictable.
