Excitement was widespread among rugby fans because finally we had a game on a 'next-gen' system like the PS3, but absolutely no innovations were made and the game mechanics were all too familiar. Rugby World Cup 2011īasically a re-skinned Rugby 08 with the most marginal of graphical upgrades for PS3, Rugby World Cup 2011 was a let down. There was no real depth to it, so if you paid full whack, well, you should have waited for the price to drop, but it was fun.
The scrum and line-out mechanics were fun, you could edit the Ireland players to have their real names, and the graphics meant you never took the game too seriously. Instead, with it's comically oversized graphics, fast gameplay, and fake names for certain teams, WRC was actually a bit of a laugh. Released in 2003 for Xbox and Playstation 2, World Championship Rugby was never meant to be 'the answer' in terms of rugby games, which perhaps is why it wasn't absolutely torn apart by critics. So here is our countdown of the best ever Rugby video games.
Since EA Sports gave up hope, there's been very little to hold attention spans for more than a few exhibition matches, but that just serves to make us more nostalgic about what we once had. Now, there hasn't been many in the genre, in fact we would argue that there have been criminally few Rugby games in the recent history of video gaming, but never the less there have been some good ones.
