It's disappointing, obviously, but doesn't put me off at all
HB have said there's a player editor so I can just change "Ben Harter" to "Dan Carter" - sorted
"New Zealand" and "Australia" will be in it, in black and gold (yellow) respectively, so that's all I need
who said they wouldnt be in it...
I'm more interested to know if their player likeness will be in it. Names etc can be changed, but I hate generic models.
Anyone remember World Championship Rugby created by Swordfish studios? It was released around about the same time as Rugby 2005 (i think)
Anyway, that game had licences for the 6 nations teams and thats it. However teams like NZ, Aus SA, etc had some what close player liknesses (not extactly), you could make out who was Doug Howlett, Joe Rokocoko, Mills, Mortlock, Elton flatly etc etc
Couple of years later they released a a sequel, Rugby Challenge 2006. However this time round all the player likenesses were random. Don't know why!! Maybe licencing issues, or they just couldnt be stuffed!!
Why can't we just all get along Exclusive Licenses are killing both of these Rugby ***les...
Sucks to be playing RWC2011 with no All Blacks/Wallabies and suck to play RC with no Sth African Super Rugby players...
The sequal to WCR, Rugby Challenge, was similarly without southern hemisphere licenses however this time they opted for generic faces as their lawyer advised them so. The developers told us this when we asked them similar questions to the above.There is very little chance of any facial likeness. Skin, hair and eye colour shouldnt be a problem though.
I agree with what has been said, that if we can only edit names then its useless if they havent given us the correct skin and hair colour at the very least.
I will be buying both games and as a kiwi am a little upset at the licensing issues, but I don't blame the developers. The developers do have the power to make these
problems go away though, with a semi decent editor.