Rugby Computer Games

hit_it_strong

Anyone know if there are any Rugby games on the way or are all the franchises dead?

Last one was probably EA Rugby 08 and I thought it was pretty good.

Noopti

The last EA one was decent. Not great, but certainly better than the older ones.

TBH, after having a go with Blackout Rugby, I would love a rugby managment sim in the vein of LMA or Championship Manager. That would be awesome.

velocirafter

Ya a Mangament game would be great, it needs to be considerably better than blackout though. Unless you completely emerse yourself in the game and remember every stat for every player and game it's impossible.

There needs to a different layers of info to allow the casual player to succeed, the same way you can with Football Manager, you can graudally ease yourself into the stats.

Noopti

velocirafter wrote: »

Ya a Mangament game would be great, it needs to be considerably better than blackout though. Unless you completely emerse yourself in the game and remember every stat for every player and game it's impossible.

There needs to a different layers of info to allow the casual player to succeed, the same way you can with Football Manager, you can graudally ease yourself into the stats.

I agree completely, the learning curve for such a game couldn't be too steep.

velocirafter

Surely the people at Sega could tweak Football Mangager a bit to turn it into a rugby game, change the stats and stuff......It's probably more complicated than that.:P

zAbbo

There's Pro Rugby Manager 2, good but dated.

keane2097

If you can get your hands on the original EA Rugby somewhere it's great craic - still fire it up regularly with my mates...

MEHRTENS!

Timothy Bryce

Jona Lomu on the PS

Nothing has ever bettered this IMO

crisco10

Timothy Bryce wrote: »

Jona Lomu on the PS

Nothing has ever bettered this IMO

Amazing a game with no "knock ons" could be so good. I still have been known to play it. Almost 15 years after it first appeared!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Timothy Bryce wrote: »

Jona Lomu on the PS

Nothing has ever bettered this IMO

+100000000000000000000000000 Totally agree :D:D

anonymous_joe

Noopti wrote: »

The last EA one was decent. Not great, but certainly better than the older ones.

TBH, after having a go with Blackout Rugby, I would love a rugby managment sim in the vein of LMA or Championship Manager. That would be awesome.

SI (guys who make FM (once upon a time CM) said that a few of their staff had always wanted to make a rugby game, but there wasn't enough interest to justify the costs.

zAbbo wrote: »

There's Pro Rugby Manager 2, good but dated.

Didn;t do much for me.

Bryn wrote: »

+100000000000000000000000000 Totally agree :D:D

Mine's lost. Damn vista pc wouldn't run it anyway.

Stev_o

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Mine's lost. Damn vista pc wouldn't run it anyway.

Emulator not work for it?

tughfc

what about the commentary what a legend bill mclaren is!!!

thats uncanny he's kicking like a machine!
that was like cattle trunks in a shunting yard, hope not bill thats a maternity ward!
here he goes again!

feel free to add!!!!!

anonymous_joe

Stev_o wrote: »

Emulator not work for it?

Tis a pc version. Rather than PS, and I'm not arsed setting up a DOS emulator. Once exams are over that might change.

flyswatter

zAbbo wrote: »

There's Pro Rugby Manager 2, good but dated.

I have Pro Rugby Manager 2. It wasn't bad but it gets worse after playing a couple of seasons. I seem to remember loads of top players being released from clubs and teams like Toulouse being diminished. Now if Sports Interactive would just make a rugby management game. That would be awesome.

Stev_o

flyswatter wrote: »

I have Pro Rugby Manager 2. It wasn't bad but it gets worse after playing a couple of seasons. I seem to remember loads of top players being released from clubs and teams like Toulouse being diminished. Now if Sports Interactive would just make a rugby management game. That would be awesome.

I have "acquired" PRM 1 and its all over the place, there's actually sweet f*ck all to do. You pick your team and either auto resolve or go to the game yourself where all you end up doing is telling whoever has the ball to pass to X and that's it. Now skill required. What's worse is certain teams.......well okay just Bath are unstoppable. You could have the best league team and you'd still never beat them for no apparent reason!

buccsboyo

Anyone ever been able to download Jonah Lomu Rugby off the net in like a bittorent or even a site that you can play it on. I know you can dowload a lot of the old sega mega drive games to your pc.