Game Reviews

Rugby League live is the latest rugby league game to hit the Xbox console series since Rugby League 2 was release on Original Xbox back in 2006. Tru Blu Games has handed Big Ant Studios the duties to revive the great game of Rugby League on the leading consoles.
The Game is of course set in the current 2010 season for both NRL and SL, with the line ups been taken from the beginning of the 2010 season. When you first start up your Rugby League Live game, you will be pleased to not hear the lame music that was in the previous games, with a more rock n roll guitar introduction, and also a major improvement in the menus, looks and how less laggy it is to navigate.

Now before I start I’m going to get straight to the point, the gameplay doesn't have that much of an improvement from the previous League games, there is still the major flaw in dummy half running, which allows you to break right through the ruck with too much ease. Though in saying this, they have address many other issues which appeared in the other games, there is no longer a free try when you pack the scrum, nor can you simply side step your way through the defence, though I’m not saying you can’t side step, the designers have neatly made the combo very obscure and difficult, making you do it less frequently.

One added improvement to defensive play I admired about the game was the fact you can shift the defence to compress on a certain part of the field, so for example, of the opposition has been tackled on the left wing, you can compress your defence holding the left trigger, shifting your line to the left, though obviously you do this at the risk of long passes.