IPL Cricket Fever 2013
by Indiagames Ltd

IPL Cricket Fever 2013, the official video game of the IPL, offers all the teams and players of the 2013 line-up. A lot of time and effort has clearly been poured into the creation of this game as the developers attempt to replicate the sounds, actions and yes even the cheerleaders of the world’s greatest T20 tournament.

The graphics and visuals are ok. The game does indeed capture all the colours and images we associate with the IPL. The team uniforms are recreated faithfully and the pitch and stadiums are designed to a decent degree of accuracy. However, the players don’t really look a lot like whom they’re meant to, and the movement of the fielders (and cheerleaders) can at times feel a bit blocky.

The controls, on the other hand, are quality. Unlike many other cricket games I've played, the direction you swipe the screen is the direction you actually bat the ball. Its so precise you can cultivate a good level of accuracy and therefore develop a game plan- you know, actually playing the ball where there are no fielders and lofting the ball for six (as opposed to just hitting the ball and hoping for the best as you do with most cricket games). The bowling too is pretty tight. Once you get the hang of the super accurate swing-metre, the ball pretty much places where you intended it to each time.   
If you put the practice in you can actually develop the skills needed to play this game to its full potential- playing (and scoring high in) a full forty overs match -though I wouldn’t advise doing it on a phone – it hurts yours eyes after like the fourteenth over.

Overall, IPL Cricket Fever 2013 is an awesome cricket game. Yeah there are a few graphics issues that hopefully will get resolved for IPL 2014 but as gameplay goes it cant be matched. If you fancy a full game or just smacking a few sixes beyond the boundary like Chris Gale, then this is the game for you.

4/5