Tru Blu Games has officially announced that Rugby League Live 2 is indeed in development and the game should be out later this year.
The game will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It will be developed by Australian Game Studios Big Ant and it promises to be the best Rugby League game of all time. The cover photo suggests that Benji Marshall may be on the cover for the game.
“The demand for a new Rugby League game on Playstation®3 and Xbox 360® has been staggering. We have listened to our fans and we are delighted to make this announcement”, said Managing Director, Sebastian Giompaolo.
“Rugby League Live 2 delivers an innovative new gameplay experience, accurately capturing the speed, creativity and strategy of today’s Rugby league” said Paul Kind, General Manager, NRL, Marketing and Commercial “It’s an incredibly realistic NRL experience and a must-have game for anyone who loves their rugby league”.
Check out the features below:
• A Multitude of Licensed Leagues & Teams: NRL, Super League, Cooperative Championships, NSW & QLD cups, Toyota Cup, Rep teams, Australian, English and New Zealander Internationals.
• 34 high detail stadia from Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
• Dynamic Field Wear & Tear: Grass wears away in areas of action.
• Unique Mud & Sweat: Players accumulate mud on their bodies specifically where they hit the field. Players sweat based on their exertion level.
• Dynamic Tackling System: Fend and break tackle your way past multiple defenders.
• Tactical Passing: Perform defensive or attacking passes to best exploit your opponents.
• Strategic Defense: Set up to increase the likelihood of one, two or three-man, tackles!
• Spectacular High Ball Catching: Soar high to catch the ball or tap it to team mates.
• Create Custom Teams and Players in the fully featured Footy Factory and share them online.
• Competitive or co-operative multiplayer matches with up to eight players (four a side) online.
• Massive 10-Year Career Mode: sign sponsors, hire top flight coaching staff, negotiate player contracts and set player training programs & intensity to build the ultimate team.
• Experience System: Earn badges and experience both online and off to rise to the top of the leaderboards.
• Double-barreled expert commentary from Andrew Voss and Phil ‘Gus’ Gould.
Check out the screenshots below:
Steve
June 28, 2012 at 1:44 AMSet plays people, set plays! One of the most important parts of rugby league, yet iteration after iteration they continue to be ignored.
How hard would it be to implement a system using the directional pad to call one of 4 (or 8) set plays. These games suck, because the AI is dumb, and doesn’t know where it should be running. Being able to tell them via the use of calling plays would make these games so much better!
Moey
June 28, 2012 at 2:26 AMEh, True blue have lost all respect from me, after failing everysingle rugby league game theyve made and ive wasted hundreds of $’s in hope that they will someday grow a brain and actually make a fun game to play but instead they come out with the same over-rated graphics and crappy robotic gameplay.
my predictions will that it will suck just as much as every other game theyve made.
Ben
June 28, 2012 at 2:44 AMThis game sounds awesome. I hope they do it right. But I will get it anyways.
Ben22
June 28, 2012 at 4:55 AMWill it have NRL Allstars and them
Monners
June 28, 2012 at 5:25 AMPLEASE make a better custom player option.
The last one on Wii just max everything out and slot them into a team like a god, it was BS.
Should def have a Career mode where you start in a NYC club with a certain amount of points to allocate across the different skill sets and determine the position you play ie – Prop/2rd Row etc and as you get more experience (by only controlling that player in the game and/or mini games and/ or training schedule) you add stats aiming to get picked in first grade, then rep sides etc.
Been in NFL and Soccer games for ages.
Pikelet
June 28, 2012 at 5:30 AMIt would wanna be better than the last one! Rugby League Live (first iteration) is still the worst sports game on the market. The graphics and gameplay were terrible. I’m not sure how much money the NRL has thrown at it, but if the budget is the same as the first RL Live, you can bet this game is gonna suck. I’ll be hiring before I buy this one that’s for sure. I too have little faith in Tru Blu as legitimate sports games developers. They’ll need to show me something with this game.
Skillzkillzem
June 28, 2012 at 8:48 AMIf this game becomes terrible Out of Both Rugby League Live, I muchy say Hand it back to Sidhe. They dominated in Rugby Challenge, Since Big Ant has took over, it’s clearly much about their AFL Live more then they careless about RLL.
This game looks too good to be true with the Graphics, but all turns down to the gameplay. “Listenning to the Fans” said We would love to see the Best Rugby League Commentator Ray Warren we may know he still be contracted under EA Games. Definetly try sign him aboard. I hope they have Sin Bins, and the New rules added in. Should be added PC version to the announcement.
Alvaro Makin
June 28, 2012 at 9:21 AMAs long as it is nothing like rugby league lice 1 then i might buy it. Excited for it nonetheless just the first game was an absolutely massive disappointment
zac
June 28, 2012 at 7:15 PMin RLL 1 the forwards were faster then the backs! so i hope thats fixed and its a more realistic game and that players like paul gallen have the ratings and such they deserve.
Brason Toad
June 29, 2012 at 4:19 AMI loved Rugby League Live and play it on my kids X Box all the time. Go Tru Blue keep up the good work.
wire flyer
October 18, 2012 at 6:58 PMAs much as it pains me to say it, being a league fan. Why don’t they consider creating a game which include the top union and league leagues. You get fans who love either sport and some like both. If they joined forces and made a game which gave you the option to be London Irish in the aviva premiership or Sydney roosters in the NRL for example. Have the option of player’s transferring codes or leagues (I’m sure most NRL or union sides would like to buy Sam Tomkins from wigan for example). I’ve spoke to union fans who think there games ain’t much better. I reckon it would work because two massive fan bases together would make a bigger demand. Maybe then they would invest more money in the game. Might one day have a rugby game to a high standard like FIFA then