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Rugby 2004 PlayStation 2
  • Publisher: EA Sports
  • Release Date: Sep 16, 2003
  • Also On: PC
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Metascore
61 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 65 Ratings

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  • Summary: Choose from 20 international, all Super 12, and other domestic teams, then take your team to victory in the World Cup, Tri nations, Super 12 Series, Domestic, Master League and Friendly matches. Strap on your boots, this is World Cup Rugby at its body-ramming, bullet-passing, try-scoring best! More than 60 Teams From Around the World: Featuring every Rugby World Cup qualifying team plus international teams that did not qualify for the tournament, and every Super 12, and European Cup team. Over 1,500 Players Ready to Scrum: All the top players in the world, from Jonah Lomu to Jonny Wilkinson. With the revamped player editor, change every element of your players including height, weight, look, and playing attributes. Make a run for the cup with a wide variety of game and tournament modes including: Training Pitch, World Cup, Tri Nations, Bledisloe Cup, Super 12, European Cup, British Lions Tour, and Master League, the flagship tournament that lets you fully trade and customize your player, team, and tournament, and play through a career-style game mode. [Electronic Arts]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Maxim Online
    80
    After a thorough training mode on the finer points on scrums, tries, and lineouts, one (or two players cooperatively) can take the controls and realistically injure opponents on soggy, mud-rutted pitches. Think "Madden NFL Football" minus the pads, steroids, and senile announcer, mate.
  2. IGN
    73
    Sure, the graphics aren't top-notch, and there are some missing elements, but the bottom line is that fans of rugby will look past the little things and rejoice that the game provides an exciting and mostly realistic representation of the sport.
  3. Eurogamer
    40
    We've also come to take EA's high presentation values and their sports titles' accessibility for granted, and Rugby 2004 has neither. In essence, it feels like a cynical attempt to steal cash from dazzled armchair Wilkinsons, and we're yanking a point off for that alone.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 46
  3. Negative: 17 out of 46
  1. Maximus
    10
    It is such a good game, i could'nt stop playing.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. DanielF.
    6
    A big disappointment from EA. its only the best rugby game on a console because there is only one other that came out a few years ago which was total crap... this has a lot more to it apart from the playabilty being very poor, far too easy to win, its always nice winning but there just is no challenge to the game, after a few weeks you wont bother coming back to this game unless your playing against a mate.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. CraigW.
    4
    This game is terrible! The gameplay is repetitive and the rules are not constantly adjudicated unequally. The players all look the same unlike Madden and NBA Live games by EA Sports who should be embarrassed by this game.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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