If you're considering picking up Rugby World Cup , you probably have at least a passing interest in the sport. Non-sport followers will have a tougher time, since there's no explanation of some of the more esoteric rules, and video replays of penalties are seldom available.
When to hook in scrums is never demystified, field goals become an exercise in trial and error, and line-outs are a guessing game as you roll the dice on intercepting either a short-, mid-, or long-range throw.
Basic tutorials would have made the experience much simpler to get to grips with--but are alas, missing. A decent range of Rugby world arenas are available to play in. Last year's FIFA World Cup South Africa proved that offering a game built around a single event doesn't need to come at the sacrifice of innovation. This could be forgiven if its narrow appeal had managed to represent the bulk of the national sides faithfully alongside compelling gameplay in a range of modes, but this is not the case.
Many of the 20 teams included are comprised of fictitious players, and once you've exhausted the short Full Tournament mode and taken your chosen team to victory, triumphantly raising the cup for a few poorly animated moments, there's only one-off and a series of friendly matches to take on.
The International Tournament and Warm-Up Tour modes allow you to pick a side and take part in one-off matches, or two-, four-, or six-game competitions sewn together.
The International Tournament mode allows you to simulate matches, but fans hoping for some form of team management game will be sorely disappointed. Player details like height and preferred position can be altered sparingly, and characters can be manually renamed for those with the time and inclination to correct the details that have been omitted due to licensing.
There's no option to adjust player appearance or attribute points. Character models show some realistic-looking muscle definition, but faces appear rubbery. Fortunately, camera angles frequently focus on the back of players' heads rather than on their bizarre mugs, even when the game reels off commentary lines such as "look at the disappointment on his face!
A small amount of audio commentary is available from real sports commentators, but it isn't always in sync with happenings on the field, and begins to feel recycled after only a few games. Crowd support hovers at a polite but disinterested sound bite, but jumps to its feet anytime you break through the line, only to return to a murmuring lull when you're brought down in a tackle. Rugby is a game of ground gain as much as possession, and Rugby World Cup does a good job of emulating the ebb and flow of the pace of the sport; slowing down the feed to regroup, kicking for touch, or selecting a play using the right stick.
However, the tactical elements at your disposal are limited. Four set plays can be mapped to the up, down, left, and right directions on the right analog stick, from a total of eight, and include the Cross Kick, Dummy Switch, Loop, Miss, Pivot, and Pocket, but even veterans will struggle with which one to use, and the correct situation to do so, since the only explanation is a series of complicated animated diagrams buried deep inside the menus.
While single-player is an exercise in frustration at the hands of inept or jacked-up AI, multiplayer is the most enjoyable way to play.
The game supports four players locally, and two players on the same console online. Online play is as functional and lacklustre as the single-player component of the game. It's still early days for the game's community, but it was a struggle to find matches online. Games, when found, ran well with minimal lag. The barebones theme carries over to internet play, with Quick Match pairing you with an anonymous online player.
There's no voice chat, text communication, or settings selection beyond choosing your team. Rematch options aren't present once the game ends, forcing you back to the search screen. Custom matches are supported, and allow you to invite and play against a buddy on your friends list. It's easy to look like a hero when the pressure is off. Rugby World Cup feels like a game rushed out the door to cash in on the popularity of its real-world namesake event.
Broken AI and a limited number of single-player modes make this an irritating and short-lived affair with little replay value. While some fun can be had in local and online multiplayer, there are concerns about its long-term community support and the potential for finding competition. This is poor game that is hard to justify to even the most ardent of football fans who are willing to overlook its numerous flaws.
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The opposite applies to the Southern Hemisphere tour. The tougher tours Six Nations and Tri Nations are not unlocked until the other two tours are beaten. Here are the six available tours:. Online Multiplayer is available for players over Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which involve single minute test matches. There are three modes of online play available; player match, ranked match and custom match.
There are no tournament modes or leaderboards. In order to play online, the player must enter an Online Pass which is available on the Rugby World Cup game's official website. International test is the game's exhibition mode. You can choose any of the available teams and play them in an minute friendly match-up. Extra time and penalty kicks come into play if a draw is held at the end of a match.
The Penality Kick mode allows the player to contest a penalty kicks shootout between two teams of their choosing. The game features all twenty national teams of the Rugby World Cup. Not all of the teams are fully licensed featured are fully licensed.
Names of players from countries like Australia and New Zealand are not real and have been altered due to the lack of a official license. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Warm-Up Tours Picking from one of the twenty teams, you can go on a "warm-up" tour and play a few friendly matches against teams from around the world.
Teams The game features all twenty national teams of the Rugby World Cup. Stadiums There are thirteen stadia to choose from in the game, of which three are licensed. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text?
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