Rugby 08 (PS2)

Rugby 08 is the newest installment of the rugby series from ea. This game involves the simulation of rugby union games with the majority of major teams in the world, world and club level. This game is an extremely addictive and fun game although it does suffer in its realism and graphics. The gameplay is great, you can have hours of fun scoring many different types of tries aswell as kicking goals from as far as possible. You can lead your favourite team to glory in a number of competitions including the world cup and league division from most countries. You can also take on a world league in which you take a default team yo glory and you can buy the players you require ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a much bigger rugby fan than football fan. Because of this I have always been on the lookout for a really good rugby game for my PS2. I always got annoyed by the fact that there are so many seemingly good football games (not that I have played many of them) and yet not so many good rugby games. I was not so impressed with this game. I found the controls to be clumsey and hard to get used to. Maybe it is the nature of the game that it does not translate well into an electronic format. Afterall there is nothing to say that just because the game is great on the park that it is going to be great on your PS2. I liked this game, but I ...  Read the complete review

The immaculate timing of the release of this game has given EA an even bigger back pocket, this is because if you're a rugby fan and a gaming fan, you would have been begging for a game like this to come out during rugbys biggest tournament and, well, it did. On saying that, it doesn't seem like a quick rush job to get the game out on time, the gameplay is superb and the attention they have given to things such as set pieces is second to none. As we all know EA know how to make good quality sports game and this is no exception, its an all round fluid 80 minutes as you battle your side against some of the greatest players in rugby history, whether it be league action ...  Read the complete review

There's nothing like a bunch of men in mini-shorts smashing into each other at high velocity to get the heart rate pulsing. As big fans of EA's rugby franchise, EA's best rugby effort since relaunching the franchise in 2000, there was a silent air of anticipation in the IGN offices ahead of the arrival of Rugby 08. When the disk arrived, the silence was filled with the thumping slap of man-flesh on man-flesh... and then we started playing the game. Rugby 08 isn't a total overhaul of the series - instead it's a solid refinement and polish job of 06, with improvements in critical areas, some new features and the inclusion of the exclusive Rugby World Cup 2007 ...  Read the complete review

I'm not going to pretend to be the biggest Rugby fan on the planet by any means but I have always been partial to the odd video game version of it. My liking of Rugby games began with Jonah Lomu Rugby on the Playstation and continues here as I picked up Rugby 08 not long after it came out. There was no Rugby 07 game and no other Rugby games on the market since EA brought out Rugby 06. So with just one game to compare it to. Lets see how it shaped up. Graphics - Can't really be faulted. I liked the stadiums a lot, Murrayfield and Twickenham look excellent and the whole field and players all look very good. The strips are all highly detailed and from a good ...  Read the complete review