Rugby 2004

*NO PADS. NO MERCY.

PURE RUGBY.*

PAIN IN THE RAIN

FIGHT FOR NATIONAL GLORY

ALL THE DRAMA OF RUBGY

PERFECT PASSING

FEATURES - TAKE YOUR TEAM TO GLORY

Customize your players and teams, then pursue your career from local leagues all the way to the World Cup.

• HARD-HITTING GAMEPLAY

Intuitive, simple control of rugby's unique features - tackles scrums, tries, lineouts, kicks and injuries.

• COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING MODE

Hone your skills and practice set plays with the help of experts on the training pitch.

• TOTAL AUTHENTICITY

More than 1,500 licensed players, 67 detailed stadiums, and 62 teams from around the world including the US Eagles World Cup squad.

• A TRUE RUGBY ENVIRONMENT

New in-game audio and motion-captured animation plus varying weather, fog, mud, dynamic lighting of players and stadiums. fog

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Experience the passion and pride of playing in the Rugby World Cup

EA SPORTS’ Rugby 2004 will once again be a rugby fan's dream. 20 international teams, as well as all the Super 12 and other domestic teams, will be featured including the mighty New Zealand All Blacks, the Australian Wallabies, the South African Springboks, England and France. Take your team to victory in the World Cup, Tri nations, Super 12 Series, Domestic, Master League and Friendly matches. A custom league set up facility will also allow players to structure their own tournaments.

All the current teams and many young up and coming star players will be included in the game, with gamers able to choose from squads of up to 30 players. Each player has detailed statistical information, including height weight, speed, tackling, stamina, kicking and many more.

More than 65 stadiums from all over the world will be faithfully modelled, including Twickenham, Murrayfield and Ellis Park in South Africa just to name a few. Using the powerful PlayStation 2 and high end PC's, incredibly realistic weather and pitch effects rain, wind and fog also add to the gaming experience.

The English version of the game will have John Inverdale and Gordon calling the play. This will be greatly improved from the previous version with newly recorded commentary.

The all-new control system will be intuitive, user friendly and in line with our bigger budget titles such as "Madden" and "FIFA". You will be rucking, mauling and kicking for touch like a champion in no time.

New Motion Capture will offer detailed animation greatly improved on the previous rugby game including high grade player to player contact.

FEATURES - Over 1500 players in all.

• Tournaments featured are the World Cup, Tri-Nations, Super 12, Domestic, Master League and Friendly matches. A training simulator is also included to help gamers learn the game controls.

• Custom League play.

• Highly detailed and bone-crunching motion captured animation for tackles, scrums, lineouts, kicking, passing, form and injuries.

• Over 65 highly detailed dynamic stadiums from around the world featuring standup crowds, highly detailed players, referees and varying pitch features and textures.

• Original music sound track and many realistic sound effects including; player calls, grunts, tackles, and crowds noises. All captured from real games.

• Huge variety of camera positions to view the action from, including a fully positional replay camera.

• In game cut scenes that add to the emotion of taking your team to victory.

• Play by play commentary from legendary commentators John Inverdale and Gordon Bray.

• Realistic environment modeling including weather, fogging, and lighting of players and stadiums. Pitch effects such as muddy grounds guarantee that teams will never leave the pitch clean.

• Full licenses from the RFU, ARU, NZRFU, SARFU, FFR and SRU.

• 4 player, with 2 player co-operative play.

• Player editor.

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Electronic Arts UK website - PlayStation 2

EA Sports brings another sporting update to PlayStation 2, but something's different this time around

EA Sports is famed for giving many of its leading brands very regular runouts, each one very similar to the last. Rugby can now be added to that list of titles. As always, the number of teams, players, tournaments and stadia is staggering, so you're never short of options to peruse. Whether you're playing as the mighty All Blacks or the less-than-mighty Russia, you can experience the most authentic interactive egg-chasing available on PlayStation 2. Fling yourself at your opponent's feet to make a last-ditch tackle, heave with all your might in the scrum, leap to nick possession in the line-out and fly between the posts to score the try, all thanks to the wonders of EA's new control system.

Remember also that it's not just your opposite numbers you'll have to be wary of, because a whole range of weather effects put a new spin on the game too. And just for good measure, our friends at Electronic Arts have included a multiplayer mode, allowing four players to enjoy the blood, sweat and tears simultaneously, with any two players playing on the same side, combining their quality rugby moves, hopefully to devastating effect.

• Soak in the atmosphere in one of 65 stadia
• Show off the talents of a vast range of sides
• Commentary is provided by John Inverdale
• Customise your own burly rugby superstar

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uk.playstation.com