There are community modders for RC2 that have made content ten times better.The focus for Rugby Challenge 4 has been to build on and improve the gameplay of our previous rugby games while retaining its essence with the use of the original signature animations, now spectacularly enhanced by the Unreal Engine. Its the exact same game as RC2 with a couple of extra features tacked on. They have tweaked maybe some aspects of the breakdown but those changes are minimal. They have thrown in an additional kicking meter but it adds nothing really to the game. At one point there were two fonts in the menu overlaid over each other. The user interface for the game is bugged.
You cant download new strips or balls or shoes or more importantly, stadiums. You can only download blind and hope for the best. You can only download players and teams with no way to preview them to know if they are correct. The team rosters are horribly out of date. They have possibly added some post processing to some cut scenes but thats it. In fact the stuff we produced was better than this. They might have tweaked some player models but that is something myself and the RC2 modding community did years ago. The music file used is at such a low bit rate that it sounds just horrible. The music and commentary audio is now implemented so badly that the audio breaks up. The trouble is, they did it badly this time around. They didnt do anything to it graphically, its the same game, same commentary, same everything.
I'd like to post something more constructive now so here goes. Apologies for the tone of my earlier review. Frustrating that there is a limit to how many teams you can download from the FanHub, as they are more accurate than the teams provided on disc. The item will ship within the timeframe shown below.
The item is brand new and in-stock in the Mighty Ape warehouse.