Frills are essentially non-existent. All screens are drawn in a crisp, yet undistinguished, 16-color 800x600. Visuals are attractive and fairly colorful, nicely disguising the chores of raw number crunching. Match highlights are depicted with pedestrian graphics and rough animations that wouldn't have been too out of place when VGA first debuted in the early 90s. It does the job nicely, though.
Audio effects are almost non-existent, though the crack of the bat is pretty dramatic.
Commentary is again by the BBC's Jonathan Agnew. His dry voice still adds august respectability to matches, although his authority would have had a greater effect on me if he hadn't been repeating last year's observations. Internet play holds a lot of promise, and if implemented well could turn ICC 2000 from a summer repeat into a must-have. That's still up in the air at present, however, since Empire has yet to go live with their dedicated cricket server. Attempts to log on gained only a patch and a brief note explaining that the server software was still in the beta stage of development.