Hi everyone
I had some extra credit on Takealot, so I went ahead and bought the game, here is what I experienced.
The main menu and accompanied music is well designed and implemented, a lot of tournaments, but half of which I will probably never play, the Bangladesh League, really? What about the Rugby World Cup, The Rugby Championship, NPC, Currie Cup, EPCR, Challenge Cup? Perhaps adding a trophy cabinet would motivate a player to play those tournaments I have never even heard of? I can create a tournament, but only in league form with knockouts at the end, but no group stages, so trying to create the world cup in the correct format is not possible.
The cutscenes of the players running onto the field are nice, but then you get greeted by the commentators who sound like they were just woken up from a deep sleep and forced into a chair to say a few words, and they stay like this throughout the whole match. Why is it so hard to get the commentary right in a friggin rugby game? Even the few words they’re forced to say, they get wrong, as mentioned numerous times, you get roasted for successfully kicking the ball out after a penalty. Where are the national anthems and the traditional pacific island challenges?
For me, the speed by which a prop can cover half of the field is so unrealistic, even a winger cannot possibly run 50 meters in 3 seconds, it looks like they’re flying, and all the motions of the players look unnatural, there is no flow to their movements. The lineouts are stupid, I cannot get a kick away because I have no time before I get charged down, sidestepping is useless, scrums are useless as there will always be a penalty given to the opposing team because I won the scrum.
What on earth am I supposed to do at a ruck? There is no structure, nothing to indicate whether I will be stealing, or keeping the ball.
Passing is unresponsive I have to press pass twice to make sure I get the ball away.
The crowd is boring when it comes to cheering for a line break or a try. The chants and colours in the crowd are well done.
I have never seen a referee hold a whistle like that.
If my player gets tackled over the try line it’s automatically “Help Up”, what the hell?
So many players not yet in the game with only there number shown where their name should be.
That’s all I can think of for now.
Thank you