Most of the game's offical stadia are only playable here too. From the main screen you can alter your team's squad and set your tactics and formations as well as look at your upcoming matches and your pool or tournament bracket. Picking from one of the twenty teams, you can go on a "warm-up" tour and play a few friendly matches against teams from around the world.
This mode is split in two parts: Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere tour you can play as a team from the south and take on northern team. The opposite applies to the Southern Hemisphere tour. The tougher tours Six Nations and Tri Nations are not unlocked until the other two tours are beaten. Here are the six available tours:. Online Multiplayer is available for players over Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which involve single minute test matches.
There are three modes of online play available; player match, ranked match and custom match. There are no tournament modes or leaderboards.
In order to play online, the player must enter an Online Pass which is available on the Rugby World Cup game's official website. International test is the game's exhibition mode. You can choose any of the available teams and play them in an minute friendly match-up. Extra time and penalty kicks come into play if a draw is held at the end of a match. The Penality Kick mode allows the player to contest a penalty kicks shootout between two teams of their choosing.
This may be down to the fact that the free-flowing, tackle-heavy game for hooligans played by gentlemen is tricky for developers to adapt to the medium, and it might be that it isn't as popular as, say, football or golf. Whatever the case, the last prominent rugby title was, prosaically enough, released to tie in with the last Rugby World Cup and was published by EA Sports, the leading buyer of sports licenses in the games industry. We only mention that last point because Games , the publisher behind Rugby World Cup , probably doesn't have the huge funds available to EA Sports.
This may explain why only 10 of the teams in Rugby World Cup are officially licensed — and New Zealand and Australia aren't among them. This isn't exactly a reason not to buy the game — after all, the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise has always lacked the official licenses of EA's Fifa, but this didn't stop it producing some of the best football games available at least, up until recently.
However, it does speak to the sense that Rugby World Cup feels like a largely rushed affair and this is backed up by the fact that there's very little depth on offer here. Team licenses aside, this is a game with no tutorial mode, no teams outside those in the current Rugby World Cup and only a couple of modes of play outside the bog-standard head-to-head. There is no scenario mode — which proved the lifeblood of Fifa World Cup — no challenge mode, and online matches are limited to one-off contests.
The game offers the tournament, international tests, warm-up tours and a place-kicking mini-game — and that's it. Its content isn't so much thin as it is anorexic. It also has to be said that Rugby World Cup isn't exactly the prettiest game on the market. While the graphics are fine at a distance, in close-up for instant replays, penalties or conversions, players tend to look like they've been moulded out of cheap plastic.
In spite of all this, there's a rather fun rugby sim at the heart of the game, which is to be expected; while might not be able to buy all of the official team licenses for its game, it apparently can afford to engage the services of HB Studios, the developer behind the last four rugby sims that EA Sports released. Despite the game's lack of tutorial, the controls are easy enough to master.
The shoulder buttons pass the ball left and right down the line, the face buttons give players an array of kicks and the right trigger activates sprint.
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