The International Cricket Captain Series
The International Cricket Captain (ICC for short) series began in 1998, when programmer Chris Child created a program for a cricket management game. He presented this to Brian Walker, a producer at Empire Interactive. The game was signed up very quickly with Walker taking on the role of producer/co-designer. As he was previously the producer at Eidos of the highly successful Championship Manager it is no surprise that the two games bear a close resemblance.
Although there had been attempts cricket games in the recent past, ranging from International Cricket on the 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.
Subsequent versions of the game are ICC 2, ICC 2000, ICC 2001, ICC 2002, ICC 2005: Ashes Edition, ICC 2006, ICC III, ICC 2008 and most recently ICC 2009: Ashes Edition. Although most of these have mainly been database updates for their subsequent seasons, ICC III is the first cricket management of its time to figure 3D graphics for simulating the gameplay including features such as Hawk-Eye and ICC 2009 saw game modes revamped along with changes to the AI in various aspects.
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