| World Cricket Championship | |
| Developer: | Nextwave Multimedia |
| Publisher: | Nextwave Multimedia |
| Released: | 2011 |
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| Platforms: | iOS, Android, Windows |
World Cricket Championship (WCC) is a series of 3D cricket mobile games developed by Nextwave Multimedia. There have been four WCC games released so far. WCC, the first game of the WCC franchise, was launched and released in 2011, with WCC 2 released in 2015, WCC Rivals in 2019, and WCC 3 in 2020. It is one of the most downloaded cricket game franchises in the world.
The first game in the World Cricket Championship franchise, WCC, was officially released in 2011.
WCC 2 was officially released in 2015 and is a sequel to WCC.
This game has two commentary options, Hindi and English. WCC 2 had player customization whereby users could customize player names, jersey numbers, and faces, as well as change the squads of both the teams in a match. The game features 18 international teams, 42 cricket stadiums, and all three formats of cricket (Test, ODI and T20). The game features 11 different tournaments which include: National Premier League (based on the Indian Premier League), ODI bilateral series, and the Asian Cup. WCC 2 also consists of live cricket features such as Hot events (which feature ongoing bilateral cricket series) and social modules such as Gangs of Cricket and Challenge a Friend. WCC 2 also features two multiplayer formats (online multiplayer and batting multiplayer).[1]
In 2015, WCC 2 was released on the Microsoft Store for Windows Phone.[2]
WCC Rivals was launched in 2019 as the third game in the WCC franchise after WCC and WCC 2. It was the first fully featured real-time multiplayer cricket game on mobile. On 6 February 2020, WCC Rivals introduced 2v2 multiplayer, which eventually became the first ever mobile game to feature 2v2 real-time cricket multiplayer.
WCC 3 is the fourth installment of the World Cricket Championship franchise. The game was announced in November 2019 and the beta version was made available in May 2020. The game was officially launched in September 2020.[3] [4] It includes professional commentary from various former cricketers in seven languages: Matthew Hayden and Isa Guha for English, Aakash Chopra and Anjum Chopra for Hindi, Venkatapathy Raju for Telugu, Deep Dasgupta for Bengali, Vijay Bharadwaj for Kannada, Abhinav Mukund for Tamil, and Tariq Saeed for Urdu.[5] [6] [7] This game also included a new 'player's health' feature, which decreases 5% after every match.
WCC 3 introduced a new career mode which allowed for the creation of custom squads.[8] [9] This feature was also added later to WCC 2.