They wouldn't dare call it Inzamam-ul-Haq Pressure Play here.

User Rating: 4 | Ricky Ponting 2007 Pressure Play PSP
Have you ever wondered why people like you are so fat and flabby? Why you can't walk more than a few yards without having to draw breath? Why you're always lounging around on your broad-beamed backside reading the reviews this polite reviewer writes? It's because you'd rather play video games of the king sport, cricket, than cricket itself.
... Ahem. Sorry.

Brian Lara 2007 Pressure Play is a predictably watered-down-for-PSP version of Brian Lara 2007 International Cricket. Also known as Ricky Ponting 2007 Pressure Play in Australia, but the way it's not called Inzamam-ul-Haq 2007 Pressure Play in Pakistan is a telling one. It would be an insult to said legend. The game doesn't even feel like it was made by a respectable company with a CEO in a dark suit. The presentation is plain, the load times are awfully long and plain and extremely frequent, there's no commentary, stumpings do not exist in this version and the players do not look remotely like their real-life counterparts. There are countless things to complain about. We'll start with the presentation first.

The title loading screen is a disc spinning around in the bottom right corner. Would it have killed them to make it feel more ... cricket-ish? Second, in the title menu after every option you select there is a loading screen. There is also a loading screen after every over in a match. The game doesn't even have a tutorial - you have to figure everything out yourself. There is no commentary, and the graphics are just bad. The characters barely resemble their real-life selves, have super-deformed heads, and often the colour of the skin of their arms is in stark contrast with the skin colour of their face. Most of the crowd are present without stands to sit in. There are texture seams, slow-downs, lags after every ball and matches feel sluggish overall. It feels like the players are playing in slow-motion. There are no stumpings in this game either. Poor wicket-keeper.

Still, once you figure out the controls, you can have tiny amounts of fun - ocassionally. Mostly you're just frustrated and waiting for the awful loading screens to go by. Either way, you can find solace in once again having the retired greats of your national cricket team play. Cricket '97 was more fun than this. So all in all, it's not even a fraction as exciting as a live match.