Rugby League Live 2 - Announced!

And EA don't fucking make games. Why would the series better off if they were involved?

 

Yeah it had replay value. Making a game with replay value, which essentially means making a 'fun' game is a different bag of balls to making a game like ARL '96.

<3 rabs, <3 life.

 

I guess that's why the EA Cricket & Rugby series have been such an overwhelming success!

 

You are a genius rego. What are you doing still at school?

 

Righteo pal. Now I know you cop a bit from the fella's, and some say you're a bit of a downy cunt... but I like to judge a book by what's on the inside. You and me Rego, we're good. I don't personally have beef with you, I think you're a good bloke.

...at least that's what I would be saying if you didn't just post that absolute steaming pile of dogshit!



Cricket 07 is terrible. Fucking. Terrible. Maybe for a first release, it would have been acceptable. However, it features the same Stadium models, engine, commentary and playing modes as Cricket 02. You know why that is buddy? it's because EA published the game. They produce games for this market with as little inital outlay as possible, then recuperate the costs by rehashing the same titles year in, year out.

Then you look at the Rugby series. Rugby 2001 - it was the only 3D Rugby/League title released on PC at the time. There's not too much you can say about it, it was a first release and the only one of it's kind.

The next installment was Rugby 04. It is deadset the worst game I've ever played. Ever. It was more than buggy, it was unplayable. Sometimes you would throw a dummy, the animation would cut out and the opposition would somehow have the ball at the other end of the field, scoring a try. Not only that, but the commentators would still be craping on about what a fantastic dummy it was! For the next 5 minutes! Top stuff.

After that we had Rugby 06, which had Wendell Sailor as a white guy playing for the NZ Maori, and the inability to punt a ball more than 15 metres.

Rugby '08 was next, now in fairness it actually had a gameplay overhaul. It had set passes and a franchise mode which was pretty cool.You still couldn't punt a ball more than 15 metres from behind cam, and some might say kicking the ball is a pretty important feature of rugby but whatever. You could attack the head and cheat in the ruck.

Now, the latest version was greatly anticipated. Rugby world cup 2011. Four years after the development of 08', for $79.95 you would expect a few changes right?

Wrong.

It is exactly the same game, with the omission of franchise mode, tournament play bar the world cup, licensed teams and venues, and somehow equally as shit graphics with the exact same animations.

Oh and you still can't kick a ball properly.

Then you have the hide, to come out and say that 'EA Rugby have a shitload of licenses, something we won't see in another game'. Which is completely retarded because A), the only license EA have is for the World Cup tournament, B) We're not talking about Rugby, we're talking about league, and C) EA have no licenses for Rugby League at all.

You should hang your head in shame and seriously consider killing yourself.