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Rugby World Cup Game
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26-08-2011 9:04am#1
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I got this yesterday played one game against the computer and 4 or 5 against my brother
The game against the computer was on easy and it did seem like the AI was pretty dumb, hopefully knocking up the difficulty will solve this.
I really enjoyed the two player games.
Just a quick note on gameplay mechanics (I guess these would be apparent in the demo though)
Rucks: Personally i think this is done really well, better than any game I've seen before (anyone remember taking poeple out and putting them back into the ruck in quick succesion in Lomu?! Terrible!). You tap A (X on PS i guess) to increase the intensity of your effort to get the ball, if you over do it you will give away a penalty.
Scrums: A bit dumbed down imo, but it works ok. Certainly not a gamebreaker. you press A to feed and X to hook. You only use the Analog for pushing. I really think they could have taken the same mechanism from the rucks.
Lineouts: Like the scrums, they are simplified to the last. You have three options : long medium and short and they are each assigned a button... that's it! Its impossible to see many turn overs in the lineout, its just too simple for the team with the ball. I would have liked to see a power bar for the hooker.
Kicks at goal: Eh seemed like a typical golf game style approach to this (press A to let the start, press A to set the power, press A to set accuracy) .. speaking of which would have pretty cool if they nicked the swing mechanism from the newer tiger woods (swing with the analog). It works fine, but I reckon it will be too easy once you get a bit of practise. I had almost a 100% record of the games i played which included very hard kicks... and I only played the game for the first time last night!
Kicking. Seemed decent, usual range of kicks (normal/garryowen/grubber/drop). Its touch to pick out space with kicks though as iirc correctly there is no mini map so you cant tell where the space is once its the off screen, which is well past where any half decent kicker can kick to. Drop kicks are pretty simple if you line it up right, If you are in the right position you cant miss!
Set pieces: its a nice inclusion, I didnt really get the hang of it last night, but it seemed decent enough.
I thought it was decent. Graphics are pretty crap, sometimes the camera is too far out to see whats going on, also iirc the guy with the ball doesnt have a marker on his head (at one stage me and brother went for a 50/50, both of us thought we got the ball and started going hell for leather for each others lines!, he got it
). Will be intersting to see how the other rugby game is. 0 -
witnessmenow wrote: »I got this yesterday played one game against the computer and 4 or 5 against my brother
The game against the computer was on easy and it did seem like the AI was pretty dumb, hopefully knocking up the difficulty will solve this.
I really enjoyed the two player games.
Just a quick note on gameplay mechanics (I guess these would be apparent in the demo though)
Rucks: Personally i think this is done really well, better than any game I've seen before (anyone remember taking poeple out and putting them back into the ruck in quick succesion in Lomu?! Terrible!). You tap A (X on PS i guess) to increase the intensity of your effort to get the ball, if you over do it you will give away a penalty.
Scrums: A bit dumbed down imo, but it works ok. Certainly not a gamebreaker. you press A to feed and X to hook. You only use the Analog for pushing. I really think they could have taken the same mechanism from the rucks.
Lineouts: Like the scrums, they are simplified to the last. You have three options : long medium and short and they are each assigned a button... that's it! Its impossible to see many turn overs in the lineout, its just too simple for the team with the ball. I would have liked to see a power bar for the hooker.
Kicks at goal: Eh seemed like a typical golf game style approach to this (press A to let the start, press A to set the power, press A to set accuracy) .. speaking of which would have pretty cool if they nicked the swing mechanism from the newer tiger woods (swing with the analog). It works fine, but I reckon it will be too easy once you get a bit of practise. I had almost a 100% record of the games i played which included very hard kicks... and I only played the game for the first time last night!
Kicking. Seemed decent, usual range of kicks (normal/garryowen/grubber/drop). Its touch to pick out space with kicks though as iirc correctly there is no mini map so you cant tell where the space is once its the off screen, which is well past where any half decent kicker can kick to. Drop kicks are pretty simple if you line it up right, If you are in the right position you cant miss!
Set pieces: its a nice inclusion, I didnt really get the hang of it last night, but it seemed decent enough.
I thought it was decent. Graphics are pretty crap, sometimes the camera is too far out to see whats going on, also iirc the guy with the ball doesnt have a marker on his head (at one stage me and brother went for a 50/50, both of us thought we got the ball and started going hell for leather for each others lines!, he got it ). Will be intersting to see how the other rugby game is.
Agree with all your points there man.
Myself and the brother started the tournament as Ireland last night. First game against USA was on easy, and we demolished them something like 83-3
jumped it up to medium then - much much better. Made it through the semis just closing out England by 23-20 (best match so far, really had to take it to them on the last 10 mins). It's an Ireland vs France final now for tonight
Overall the gameplay is pretty good, better than what I was expecting. Graphics are piss poor though and nobody really looks like they do in real life (johnny sexton in particular looking like a guy who hangs around dark alleys waitin to flash people). Best way to play and a good challenge is to set 10 min halves at either medium or hard. 0 -
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