{"id":3873,"date":"2009-11-05T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T03:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2009-11-05T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T03:24:37","slug":"%e2%80%98cricket%e2%80%99-for-wii-bringing-you-closer-to-the-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=3873","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cricket\u2019 for Wii bringing you closer to the action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8211; Thursday, 5<sup>th<\/sup> November 2009 \u2013 <\/strong>Gamers from today will be able to use their Wii Remote<sup>\u2122<\/sup> to bat and bowl their country to success as \u2018<strong><em>Cricket\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>launches across Australia and New Zealand for the Nintendo<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Wii.<sup> <\/sup>The integration of the Wii is set to take players closer to the action than ever before. Published by Codemasters<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, the home of video game cricket, <strong><em>\u2018<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Cricket\u2019<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>features fully licensed players, kit and stadia from the npower Ashes Series 2009 between England and Australia offering a completely authentic experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018<em>Cricket\u2019<\/em><\/strong> features a Scenario mode that pits players against more than 50 match defining moments, such as scoring vital match-winning runs, taking dramatic last-gasp wickets and seeing off the oppositions\u2019 danger men to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>As well as featuring the fully licensed teams from England and Australia, <strong><em>\u2018Cricket\u2019<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0features six other Test playing nations as well as ten of the world\u2019s most recognisable stadia, including the five featured in the npower Ashes Series 2009 as well as the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The authenticity of the experience extends to the game\u2019s commentary, which is provided by cricketing favourites Jonathan Agnew, Shane Warne, Ian Botham, Ian Bishop and Tony Greig.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Codemasters and developed by Gusto Games,<em> <strong>\u2018Cricket\u2019<\/strong><\/em> is available now for Wii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Thursday, 5th November 2009 \u2013 Gamers from today will be able to use their Wii Remote\u2122 to bat and bowl their country to success as \u2018Cricket\u2019 launches across Australia and New Zealand for the Nintendo\u00ae Wii. The integration of the Wii is set to take players closer to the action than ever before. Published<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=3873\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}