Rugby 2004
The official game of the 2003 Rugby Wold Cup in Australia, Rugby 2004 is the sequel to Rugby 2001 with HB Studios replacing The Creative Assembly as the developers. Fully licensed by the IRB, Rugby 2004…
Rugby 2004 is a simulator developed by HB Studios, released 16 September 2003 on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Rugby 2004 is
Rugby 2004 is a simulator game developed by HB Studios and released in 2003. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The official game of the 2003 Rugby Wold Cup in Australia, Rugby 2004 is the sequel to Rugby 2001 with HB Studios replacing The Creative Assembly as the developers. Fully licensed by the IRB, Rugby 2004 features 75 stadiums from around the world, including all the World Cup venues, 95 teams including the British Lions and world champion Australian Wallabies and more than 2000 players each with individual names called by the BBC's John Inverdale and Channel 7's Gordon Bray. Major additions to the game include Super 12 and European Cup provincial tournaments, a player editor, custom teams, skill challenges like those found in other EA Sports games and an exclusive soundtrack by INXS.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Rugby 2004 holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 29 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Rugby 2004 launched on 16 September 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Age of Mythology: The Titans. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Age of Mythology: The Titans.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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