Should you find your team in the opposition half it is perfect to set up a classic or skip pass pre-planned move. Are you in your own 22 and can’t run your way out from a scrum? Send it back to your Flyhalf and let him gain ground by kicking it out. You can feel the impact in your hands as your controller vibrates a bit stronger than normal. There’s nothing like crunching a flying tackle using Butch James to nail Dan Carter. Staying behind the offside line to crash tackle the opposition is an enormous amount of fun. You always feel as if you have absolute control of what you’re doing. Veteran rugby game players get to enjoy a game of rugby to its fullest thanks to how in-depth you can get with your attacks. It’s a lot for someone to take in who does not understand the game of rugby, and the tutorial is superb in aiding new players. Then players also have to contend with defense and offense details. General play, versus scrum, line-outs, rucks and mauls are all different. Each facet of the game has a different button layout. I mean, let’s be honest here for a second, the rules in rugby are complicated as it stands and a game complicates matters further with numerous options available for each set move. In 2007, as it is now still, the guys in charge of Rugby wanted to bring this beautiful game to Americans and with that Rugby 08 included one of the best tutorials in a game of rugby yet. Just what was it about this game that makes it such a classic? It’s the attention to detail. Yes, Rugby 08 even includes a trophy cabinet for you to brag about your achievements before ‘achievements’ were a thing. There were also two unlicensed tournaments namely European Trophy and World League (become a coach), which were fun additional tournaments to play for those that wanted that additional trophy in the cabinet. There are officially licensed tournaments aplenty – Rugby World Cup 2007, RBS 6 Nations, arguably the best format of Super Rugby ever with the Super 14 and the Guinness Premiership (before we saw all our local talent leaving for greener pastures up north). There is so much content squeezed into one package that you barely know where to get going. So special that it’s still a joy to behold today. Everything from the presentation, to the licensing, through to the graphics and overall gameplay made it something very, very special. After numerous attempts, EA hit the nail on the head and we ended up with a near to perfect game of Rugby. Not only did the Springboks win the Webb Ellis trophy at the Rugby World Cup in France but alongside it, we also received the best Rugby game that has ever appeared on any game video game format on earth – Rugby 08. The beautiful gameĢ007 was a great year if you were South African. It’s probably because the benchmark got set so high in Rugby 08 that there has not been a Rugby game in over a decade that’s been able to top it. Rugby Challenge 3 came close to being something worthwhile, but it just doesn’t have the legs older Rugby games once did. Rugby games have received a raw deal in recent times.
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