Most are caused by terrible AI positioning and the use of canned animations. Sadly these flaws are exposed in continued play, especially as you attempt to ramp up the difficulty settings. Just about every compliment for Rugby Challenge 3 has to be qualified but for many hours I enjoyed playing through a Super Rugby season and rarely encountered controller throwing frustration which is an achievement for modern games of either rugby code. While there are some unfortunate bugs in passing it feels great when you do get a backline movement flowing and despite relying on canned animations stepping, fending or dummying past defenders is satisfying. Rugby Challenge 3 is hardly a prize heifer but the milk is far from sour, the basics of rugby union are fun enough here. Most effort clearly went into the new coat of paint but putting a cow into a rugby jersey does not a Jonah Lomu make. Unlike Rugby Challenge 2, it runs silky smooth and isn’t ugly by any stretch. Not that Rugby Challenge 3 looks great to compare it to Madden or FIFA is embarrassing, particularly in details like stadiums, weather effects and clothing. Rugby Challenge 3 brings menus, fonts, controls, modes and gameplay over wholesale from Rugby Challenge 2, adding only token extras and spicing up the graphics to fit a current generation release. Now Wicked Witch Software has been called in to bring the game to this generation of consoles, delivering Rugby Challenge 3 a full (and I mean full - it sells for $102.45 AUD on the Xbox One marketplace) priced game that bears striking similarities to its predecessor. Rugby Challenge 2 was released in 2013 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC and was a decent game that suffered serious performance issues on console and the superior PC version was sadly removed from sale only one year after release. The Rugby Challenge series started in the hands of Sidhe, best known for the Rugby League series, Gripshift and Shatter. While you won’t be playing for said World Cup trophy thanks to the messy licensing issues that pervade rugby union games in 2016, you will get to honour the act of mythmaking in Rugby Challenge 3 by pretending it is a new, modern video game. Facts should never get in the way of a good story, and a small matter such as truth hasn’t stopped the man being heralded as father of the sport and having its premiere trophy named in his honour.

It is sadly myth that William Webb Ellis invented the sport of rugby by picking up a football and running with it.

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