Calling the game Rugby World Cup 2011 and emblazoning its cover with the official International Rugby Board's crest is also quite misleading - aside from lacking the official licenses for the Australian and Kiwi teams, there's also no real players or strips from Japan, Fiji, Russia and more. What you're left with is just five modes - the World Cup tournament itself, single international tests, a warm-up tour (essentially a handful of international tests played in succession), a place-kick shootout (complete with an appropriately apathetic crowd) and online multiplayer matches (for just two players, as opposed to the four-player limit of offline play). Not+pictured:+any+actual+Australian+players. Which, as a full-priced release, just isn't acceptable. You should now have a pretty good idea of what Rugby World Cup 2011 (the game) is like.ĭeveloper HB Studios has essentially taken its EA Sports-published Rugby 08 title from the PlayStation 2, eliminated the Tri-Nations, Six Nations, Super 14 (or Super 15 as it would be now) and basically every other tournament that isn't the World Cup, applied a minimalistic HD graphical overhaul, added perfunctory online support, and pushed it out the door. Now imagine the World Cup was played using players from four years ago wearing poorly made cardboard masks of current stars (not including the aforementioned Wallabies and All Blacks) in slightly better looking stadiums. As in, the top two teams in the entire world. Imagine the 2011 Rugby World Cup if it was boycotted by both Australia and the host nation, New Zealand.
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