Originally posted by Gay-Guy@May 11 2005, 12:49 PM
I have had enough.
Whats his name said we were going to be on this forum in a few months saying how crap the game was....................I have to admit I feel it is crap now. Compared to what JLR offered.Â
With R2005 you have the vision and you want to do something, in fact you can see it forming. But you can rarely pull it off as the control of your players are not responsive enough to follow your commands, or are very limited in what they offer.
With JLR........if you could see it happening and gave it a go, more often than not it worked accordingly.
IT IS THE BLOODY ANIMATIONS!!!!! Too much time carrying them out both on attack and defence.
Well I have to agree with you in parts there Gay Guy. You are right that the animations do slow the fluidity of the gameplay, and therefore your ability to 'pull off' moves. However, on multiplayer its not nearly so bad, because the player tends to provide the space you need through human error.
Having said that I wouldn't say I have any regrets - I really enjoyed playing rugby 2005 for the first month, and even now I enjoy a game, especially multiplayer. I think like anything if you look too deeply at something and analyse it you will find weaknesses and problems, but if you step back and look at it as a whole, its still a good game. Even single player is good fun as long as you don't over play it! I left the game for a week or so then recently started playing a ten nations competiton. Now I'm really enjoying it again. Having said this single player has a long way to go before it holds our attention longer than a month. Its painfully predictable at the moment and not a great challenge, even on hard.
Sort out the slow animations and improve the AI a few notches and things all of a sudden look much rosier