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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 542
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: rugby-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930057619
ASIN: B000RE80Y2
Release Date: July 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 The newer the machine the less chance this works. June 20, 2008
I. A. Campbell (Scotland)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like another reviewer that can't get this to run on their quad core machine, I cannot get this to run on a Nvidia SLI based machine.
I have spent hours going through the EA helpdesks suggestions to get this to work, but basically it hasn't been tested on SLI and just crashes on start-up.
Bottom line, if you have a high spec machine that Rugby 08 should look wonderful on, you won't even see the splash screen.
 HMPH April 18, 2008
M. Meggy (Great Britain)
If, like me your favourite part of the EA Rugby series is World league mode DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!
The main reason for this is you can only have a maximum of 5 impact players in your squad! I KNOW!
There has been virtually no effort to improve the rosters except for making a few more impact players.
There is no try scoring bonus so making money is much harder.
I would not recomend this game if you have rugby 06 already(though the graphics and camera angles are better). If you dont have rugby 06, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!?!
fun to play but seems unfinished April 11, 2008
Affleck Vehicle (Oxford UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the game to be enjoyable to play and I haven't got tired of playing it. There are several small things which I think let the game down:
-One can ONLY play the 2007 world cup (i.e. starting from 2007 world cups). This is especially frustrating as one can have random a Six Nations. Why not have a custom tournament?
-The process of substitution is really clunky. One has to ever so slowly select down to the person who one wants to substitute and then, slowly, scroll down through the rest of the team and however many substitutions before getting to the right player. The epitome of this mess is manual squad selection for tournaments wherein to get to, say, the scrum halfs one has to scroll through every single forward of that nationality first!
-No British Lions?
-It's kind of a shame that the classic games teams are actually composed of contemporary players!
-Minimal statistics. You only ever know how many points a player has scored, their points kicking in the game, and whether they were cautioned or not. No Man Of The Match award.
-Poor AI? With a pretty good team like England it becomes quite straightforward to even beat better teams. The computer can't resist
giving away offside penalties.
-Strange business of a player played even slightly out of position becoming a complete wreck.
-Lame, irritating menu music. Who listens to this stuff on purpose?!
Poor, really poor. April 11, 2008
Boxkick (Herts)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1.Practically no better that Rugby 06 - cashing in on the 07 RWC.
2.Still infuriating that turnovers are decided at random, and therefore the impact of a tight forward units in turning over possession or retaining momentum is lost.
3. In fact on this basis, why bother having forwards with their own "physical characteristics" at all? since they have exactly the same chance of giving posession away as a fey winger? As a player, your best bet is to avoid taking the ball into a tackle, and keep kicking into touch. Pathetic.
4.As a sarries fan, it irks me that De Kock isn't on the roster, I can't play Ratuvou on the wing (or Leonelli for that matter),Farrell is still listed as a No.7, that the commentary name for Adam Powell is "Randell" (as in Taine), and generally, there are massess and massess of misspelt player names and positions in all the national and club sides.
5. Squads are out of date - and it appears that player ratings have been decided based on the informed opinion of the Leigh-on-Sea knitting circle.
6. Set pieces are poorly executed and very slow, there is no ability to play on the gain line (as passes are always deep).
7. Drop goals are impossible.
8. Lions tour is now out (shame)
WASTE OF MONEY.
 The best Rugby game... Still not perfect March 2, 2008
S. Dogliani (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rugby 08 is a good PS2 game and is the best Rugby game there is (in my opinion).
Pros:
Improved Kicking
Fluid Gameplay
Good Set Plays which include Pocket, Cross Kick, Miss and Dummy Switch
Challenge Mode which allows you to play in Historic Matches and complete objectives to earn rewards.
World Cup 2007 Mode - Play in the 2007 Rugby World Cup
Good Soundtrack
Cons:
Line-outs - although line-outs being called not straight at random times is realistic, it can be infuriating as it seems to happen at crucial times in matches (eg. when you have a line-out in the opponents 22 in the closing moments)
Slow Menus - selecting and changing players can be such a bore because of how long it takes to go down through a list of players
Lack of Realism in certain teams - Some teams such as Fiji, Samoa and Tonga aren't licensed (N.Little for example is called N.Large in the game). Also, even teams such as Italy and Argentina have players who have too low ratings and there is a bias in ratings towards British teams and Ireland. Argentina and Italy have one star player between them while Wales and Ireland have 4 or 5.
Overall, despite it's flaws, Rugby 08 is well worth buying although maybe now it's worth waiting until the next EA Sports Rugby game comes out.
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