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EA Rugby 2004

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed EA's last rugby game despite its limitations, particularly the lack of teams and competitions. Consequently, I was really looking forward to this one. What a joke. This game is truly unplayable. I thought I was missing something because I could never get going in this game despite being very proficient in the last one. Then I read the reviews and realized that I wasn't alone in my dismay. I just wish I would have seen them before I purchased it. What a waste of money. I would have thought that a next generation game would be superior to its predecessor but this seems like a version made in the Pong era.

Don't buy.

Offendingly awful and despicable game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is trash. I am a huge fan of rugby, an ex-player, and a current coach. This game is so terrible I gave mine away as a joke to a friend of mine and he thanked me over and over because he had considered buying this electronic heap of poor intentions.

I don't know what other people are talking about who say the gameplay is fantastic--it's utterly awful. If you have ever played a game like "Winning Eleven 6," you know how smoothly games can flow that are supposed to. Sports like football and golf do not apply because they are supposed to have constant stoppages anyway. This game is embarrassingly piss-poor.

Who cares how many teams there are or what players it includes? The game is so boring to play that it could have aliens with frogs hopping out of their backsides and it would be more interesting to play. The rucks are slow, the lineout and scrum calls take forever, and there is no opportunity to call plays in the loose, which is the way the game should be played. Everything about this game is nauseatingly pathetic, especially given that EA Sports was behind it. They should hang their heads in shame.

Save your money and buy yourself anything else. I'm trying to think of a game that was a greater disappointment or waste of money, but I cannot. If you own this game, send it to anyone who is thinking about buying it--they will thank you.

Bitter disappointment...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Despite looking forward to this game's release for a long time (like many rugby fans), this is, with the best will in the world, a total waste of time.

My primary reaction is that this is unlike any other EA Sports game I can think of. The basic hallmarks of an EA game are not there - graphics, animation, gameplay.

It's a pity because the game had promised so much - and in terms of having the licenses, teams, players etc it is a fantastic update of the first rugby game. Unfortunately it is unbearable to play. The players look wrong and move unnaturally. The control system is frustrating. It is hard to co-ordinate your team. I could go on.

I'm sure with some more time, this could have been an excellent rugby game. My view is that it has probably been rushed through to be in the shops in time for the world cup.

Here's hoping that EA will be back with a decent stab at a rugby game in the not too distant future. My advice would be to wait, and not waste your cash on this.

The worst sports game ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Lets face it - the game of rugby is quick and intuative - not so this neolithic piece of software. Jonah Lomu rugby from Codemasters was a much more playable game if a little unrealistic - this is just tedious, tedious etc. The joy of quick passes is impossible and it just is so unlike the real game as to offend. I can handle the graphics being as poor as they are if there was a tiny bit of gameplay there - but no. I will be taking my copy back as they have forgotten to put a game of any form in it. Stick to the football and golf games, theres more fun to be had watching Bristol play than play this.

Quite possibly the worst game I have ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What the hell was EA's budget for this game?,by the quality of the game id say about five bucks.
I dont even know where to start about how bad this game is, so I wont......

AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!

awful piece of coasterware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Shame on EA sports for rushing this awful game out when they had a perfectly good rugby game in Rugby 2000 and all they needed was to tweak that. Instead they went with an all-new engine, which is riddled with flaws, such as the inability to pick up the ball in open play without starting a ruck, the near impossibility of kicking while running, and the all-too-easy conversion kicks. There's a whole laundry list of errors that make the game unplayable. Get Rugby, the first PS2 game instead. It is MUCH,MUCH better than this piece of trash.

Gameplay rivaling super techmobowl

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I tried to listen to the good reviews, paid $20 for this game.
What a waste. I enjoyed rugby 2002, and thought this had to be better. How wrong I was. I just hope whoever sees me selling this nearly new item on half.com doesn't read this

Poor Show

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In this day and age you'd expect a game within this costing bracket to have a better interface and functionality. Probably rushed through to coincide with the end of the World Cup.

Don't bother

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I went to the store to get Tiger Wood's 2004 but I saw this game and decided to get it seeing as how much I like rugby. This game isn't playable. It bites. And the worst part is, I can't return it. Do not waste your time on this cheap looking cheap playing piece of worthless crap.

What a total dissapointment - EA should be ashamed!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I like countless other rugby fans, have been counting down the days to the release of this game, and was shocked when I turned it on to find that all it is, is an updated version of the old Jonah Lomu Rugby game that came out in the mid 90's. This game is far from what EA Sports tried to make it out to be. The pre-release videos, are not even close to the actual game, it is a joke! The graphics are SNES like, and the game play is horrible. This game has no pickup and play ability, and after 5 hours of playing, I still was more than lost. I love rugby, and despite its many flaws, I actually enjoyed the first release of EA Rugby, I even bought a copy of the PC version from Australia. This game in my opinion is worse than the first. I give it 2 stars because at least the Super 12 teams are there, but not being able to play with them does little good!?!? The most fundamental of things like passing, in this game is rudimentary and unintelligible --- passes never go to the intended player, and creating a back line movement is next to impossible. Boy, what a disappointment! EA Sports should be ashamed and embarrassed!!! I know for a fact that gamers in actual rugby playing nations are not going to stand for this substandard rubbish...

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