If you're still at a loss, a practice pitch will help settle newcomers. With a few touches, you'll be scoring tries. A painless tutorial preps you for jumping into the action with simple, arcade-like control. If you don't know what this means, don't fret. For ruggers seeking depth, EA included a light playbook, wheeling scrums and mauls, and an arsenal of grubbers and up and unders. Its controls allow for both variety in skill and familiarity with the sport. They have a knack for impossibly scoring with drop kicks, quickly adapting to the touted on-the-fly defensive formations, and forming solid walls on the goal line that force you to perform some creative maneuvers (or to simply bully your way to a try).

Men+in+blackwill+always+destroy+men+in+yellow. Although it is the only option for rugby fans looking to psych themselves up for the tournament or to play as licensed teams, Rugby 08 is solid, fun, and easy. In preparation for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, EA Sports put forth a good effort with Rugby 08. For the few wise enough to wear scrum caps, rugby games often gloss over nuances with clunky controls. American audiences - for the most part unfamiliar with the sport - are often thrown straight into solidly built ruggers without any means of achieving a base level of enjoyment. Console-based encounters tend to suffer in translation and accessibility. You never quite know if you'll get cleated in the face. It takes a wee bit of courage to throw yourself into a ruck.

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