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Well i'm a New Zealander and love rugby so I had to get my hands on this game as soon as possible, and rugby 2008 doesn't disapoint.
I fired it up and when into the menu and changed offloads from arcade to simulation hoping it would fix the impossible offloads that 2006 has and I changed lineouts from basic to advanced.
I went and started a play now and played All Blacks(me) vs France as they are the top teams wind medium and difficulty elite.
The first thing I noticed in this game was lagg, the reason could be the very far away camera but I didn''t seem to notice it after the first 10mins wether it had gone or... :blink:
I was using the side camera angle which zoomed around at incredible speed and really helped with kicking and planning attacks aswell as being able to see what was going on at set pieces and rucks.
Kicking was pretty good from what I played with Carter being able to dominate the game for me, a helpful thing with kicking are the little markers which appear where the ball is going to bounce I began to rely on this to see if the ball was going out probably made kicking too easy... Goal kicking was nice with Carter but I couldn't kick 60m to 10km/hr wind behind me
Setpieces have been tweaked in rugby 2008 and you can tell as lineouts are fun pulling back the analog stick pulls the hookers hands back then pushing it foward to throw really is ingenious I was able to throw to all people in the lineout easily at the end of the game, it's also a good platform for a drive on the other teams 5m line . Scrums seem easier to win and I was just getting them to screw when the game ended, it seems you can't push the other team back at a 100km/hr like 2006 but you can still push them back a bit as I got a drive over try.
Rucks, well I didn't get any turnovers but France got a couple when I got isolated as you would expect but it didn't seem as bad as 2006 which is nice, I might post more about them after i've played more.
Ai, well in the game I played I pushed the ball wide almost every move at the start and France seemed to adapt and I ran into a brick wall numerous times and they got a few turnover because of this. The AI on attack seems better as they had fowards shoulder charging through Carter as much as they could and they made more breaks than they would on 2006, the best thing I saw was that the Ai had support most of the time and I was scrambed to defend.
Animations aren't really different from 2006 but the lineouts and scrums look more smooth and there are new tackles for close to the line where the smash you back. the lack of new animations is probably my biggest disapointment with this game because besides when in the 5m of the opponent the tackles are the same and try animations... yuck!
I won the game 30-20 the Ai came back at the end and scored two tries in the last 5mins with was nice, I scored tries in a variety of ways which was also nice.
Overall EA Rugby 2008 is a good game, improved from 2006 are the camera angles, scrums, lineouts, turnovers, defense within the oppositions 5m and generally it is just a better rugby game although not without flaws. The flaws in the game that I saw were Old animations, lineouts way too easy like 2006 it was my first game and I won 5 out of their 8 lineouts :angry: , Ai tends not to number up too well alot allowing 2 on 1 overlaps and with good wingers is very easy to exploit and a bit of lag that I saw whether it was my ps2 or the game I don't know..
My rating: 8 / 10
I fired it up and when into the menu and changed offloads from arcade to simulation hoping it would fix the impossible offloads that 2006 has and I changed lineouts from basic to advanced.
I went and started a play now and played All Blacks(me) vs France as they are the top teams wind medium and difficulty elite.
The first thing I noticed in this game was lagg, the reason could be the very far away camera but I didn''t seem to notice it after the first 10mins wether it had gone or... :blink:
I was using the side camera angle which zoomed around at incredible speed and really helped with kicking and planning attacks aswell as being able to see what was going on at set pieces and rucks.
Kicking was pretty good from what I played with Carter being able to dominate the game for me, a helpful thing with kicking are the little markers which appear where the ball is going to bounce I began to rely on this to see if the ball was going out probably made kicking too easy... Goal kicking was nice with Carter but I couldn't kick 60m to 10km/hr wind behind me
Setpieces have been tweaked in rugby 2008 and you can tell as lineouts are fun pulling back the analog stick pulls the hookers hands back then pushing it foward to throw really is ingenious I was able to throw to all people in the lineout easily at the end of the game, it's also a good platform for a drive on the other teams 5m line
. Scrums seem easier to win and I was just getting them to screw when the game ended, it seems you can't push the other team back at a 100km/hr like 2006 but you can still push them back a bit as I got a drive over try.Rucks, well I didn't get any turnovers but France got a couple when I got isolated as you would expect but it didn't seem as bad as 2006 which is nice, I might post more about them after i've played more.
Ai, well in the game I played I pushed the ball wide almost every move at the start and France seemed to adapt and I ran into a brick wall numerous times and they got a few turnover because of this. The AI on attack seems better as they had fowards shoulder charging through Carter as much as they could and they made more breaks than they would on 2006, the best thing I saw was that the Ai had support most of the time and I was scrambed to defend.
Animations aren't really different from 2006 but the lineouts and scrums look more smooth and there are new tackles for close to the line where the smash you back. the lack of new animations is probably my biggest disapointment with this game because besides when in the 5m of the opponent the tackles are the same and try animations... yuck!
I won the game 30-20 the Ai came back at the end and scored two tries in the last 5mins with was nice, I scored tries in a variety of ways which was also nice.
Overall EA Rugby 2008 is a good game, improved from 2006 are the camera angles, scrums, lineouts, turnovers, defense within the oppositions 5m and generally it is just a better rugby game although not without flaws. The flaws in the game that I saw were Old animations, lineouts way too easy like 2006 it was my first game and I won 5 out of their 8 lineouts :angry: , Ai tends not to number up too well alot allowing 2 on 1 overlaps and with good wingers is very easy to exploit and a bit of lag that I saw whether it was my ps2 or the game I don't know..
My rating: 8 / 10
