Rugby 18 Review

in #gaming7 years ago


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Rugby 15 , was the first fatigue in the world of the oval ball for Bigben Interactive, came in three years ago in the grand pump in the unbelievable club of the worst titles for last generation consoles. Technically embarrassing and completely incapable of returning only partially the atmosphere and dynamics of a real rugby game, the game also decreed the rejection of its own developers, those HB Studios that at the time of the partnership with EA Sports were able to realize All-in-all titles, at least until Rugby 06. After the disaster, confirmed by the spin-off dedicated to the 2015 World Cup, the arrival in the French cabin of EKO Software did not leave any good news, given the brand's past, at least in the sports field: the Handball series , unconvinced handball version of the handball, had in fact been distant light years from the average achievement of similar titles of the last and penultimate generation. Rugby 15 was, however, so bad that EKO Software would hardly be able to do worse. Let's face it straight away: Although the end result is slightly higher than the predecessor, Rubgy 18 remains a mediocre product that can not satisfy the needs of the lovers of the noble sport in any way. But let's go with order.

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Dive Inn

Rugby 18 puts in place a discreet club firing, covering the main competitions dedicated to the oval ball, from Premiership to Top 14, from Pro12 (no Pro14, at least this year) to Pro D2, with teams and real players .
All Blacks and all major national representations are missing, but they can only be used in single matches. Charging is definitely the mode of play, reduced to a handful of options, including the classic fast match, championships and Career.

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In particular, it is the Career to astonish for a really bad achievement: at the beginning, a bit at the Ultimate Team, we will have to create from the team's 23 men's roster, scrambling from the players database. However, it is enough to go in the balance with the balance to see how our adventure is ultimately closed. The only way to regroup your career? Restart from head ..

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Content

Of course, if Rugby 18 , when it came to the field, turned out to be a game that could best recreate the experience of the 15 matches against 15, these weaknesses would go in the background. But instead ... It should be said that the handover between developers has led to a general improvement of gameplay, starting with commands, immediate and rapid enough.

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The controllable steps through the L1 and R1 backbones slip off naturally, as well as creating mizzies and releasing the ball. Same talk for kicks, controllable with analog levers. A bit more fleshy than toy management, which uses a special shot at slow motion, not immediate digestibility. Choosing to propose a single view, from top to back of players, while losing the game any kind of television thriller, on the other hand, facilitates not so much the dynamics of a sport that develops mostly for horizontal ways. Here, however, the jolly notes end. Rugby 18 is unbalanced by the game on ruck situations, which will see us committed to assembling players for most of the time, to the detriment of a variety of actions that in reality are fortunately quite different. The AI ​​does not help to create realistic situations and often behaves in a scrupulous manner. As for realism, the scores, above all because of the weaknesses mentioned above, are almost always very low, which is what does not hurt the player in the championship mode, where matches between teams managed by AI are simulated on 80 minutes, creating strong inequalities in the overall marking of the markings.

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Conclusion

The graphics are bare, obsolete, mined by woody animations and players' patterns in some cases even laughable in their disproportion. The outline is no less, with stages (no real, among other things ...) and grassy cuts taken by two generations of consoles. The English comment is among the worst ever heard in a sporting title, with phrases that are often disconnected from the action and an almost amateur recording quality.

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Rugby is a complex sport that has never boasted high-quality video games conversions, even though the old EA Sports series was not so bad. Rugby 18 continues the unpredictable course of the predecessor, despite the change of developer. This results in a weak play from all points of view, little variation, from shaping gameplay and from technical achievement from hands to hair. The atmosphere of the matches is not captured in any way and the extreme repetition of the gestures will undermine interest in minutes, even among the most overwhelmed fans of the oval ball. It is sorry to have to point out, but such a product can not be marketed at the same price as a FIFA or an NBA 2K. The public deserves a very different treatment.

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