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It is to be used only by game faqs. this document can only be used with consent from me (Sam Good) or i will have to pull out some legal drool on you! If you steal this Faq it is an illegal act and is punnishable by law!! This document is copyrighted © 2004 by Sam Good who is the auther But all in all dont be a prick and steal my work. 2) Abut this F.A.Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well first of this isnt a faq its a walkthrough, faq is just slang. But this is a faq (or whatever you want to call it) is about the EA Sports game Rugby 2004 for the Sony Playstation 2. It is a sport game (smart one) and the author is Sam Good Version: 0.01 (17 dec 2004) - Ive started with the first bit of it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version: 0.75 (18 dec 2004) - v. 0.01 to 0.75? thats right, i did 75% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ of this walkthrough in one day! its all I did Version: 0.97 (21 dec 2004) - Full Copy done, needs checking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3) Personal Drool ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey everyone! My name is Sam Good. I hail form Auckland New Zealand. Heres some quick facts about me! Name:Sam Good DOB:26/Feb/1988 Location:Auckland Contact: sambad7 @ hotmail . com - I dont want people sending me crap. If its a decent request I will respond to you and put it on here. But if its crap ill just block you for further refrence (ooh im bad, but ive cant really do anything else can I?) 4) Game controlls and options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General: Move = d-pad & left analog stick sprint = hold R2 Without the ball: Pick up ball = move over the ball Tackle = move into the player with the ball Diving tackle = X near the player Change player = L2 With the ball: Short pass left = tap L1 Short pass right = tap R1 Long pass left = hold L1 Long pass right = hold R1 Try = X & [] & /\ & O (when in range) Sidestep = L2 Dummy pass = tap R1 then tap L1 before the ball has been passed (or vv) Punt or Drop goal = X (if your in range you do a drop kick) Up and Under = [] Grubber/Soccer kick = /\ Fend/Hand off = O Kicking: *Kick off/Drop out/punt from penatly Kick = X Distance = left d-pad & left analog Up/Down Direction = left d-pad & left analog Left/Right Hight = Right analog *Set kick (penalty/conversion) Hight = d-pad & left analog Up/Down Direction = D-pad & left analog Left/Right Curl = R1/L1 Kick = press X and when the power button hits the "sweetspot" bar X again Rucks: *Defending Kill ball = R3 (Can cause a penalty) Withdraw players = /\ Draw in players = [] (can either trap ball forcing a scrum to the attackers or turn over the ball to the defending team *Offence Pass to backs left = L1 Pass to forwards left = L2 Pass to backs right = R1 Pass to forwards right = R2 Scrum half run left = [] Scrum half run right = O Scrum half kick = /\ Scrums: Feed Ball = X Angle Feed = R3 (Can cause a penalty) Hook - [] (Too early and it can cause a penalty) Push = d-pad & left analog Left/Right Drive = O Wheel/Twist = L1/R1 (If the scrum is wheeled 90 degrees the defending team gets the feed to a new scrum Collapse Scrum = R3 (Can cause a penalty) Flankers peel off = L2/R2 (depending on which one you want off and also it weakens your scrum) Mauls: *Defending Push = d-pad & left analog left/right Collapse maul = R3 (Can cause penalty) *Offence Push = d-pad & left analog left/right Drive = O Pass to backs left = L1 Pass to forwards left = L2 Pass to backs right = R1 Pass to forwards right = R2 Second Row run left = [] Second Row run right = O Scrum half kick = /\ Collapse = R3 Line outs: Make Front/middle/back jumper jump = down/left/up throw to Front/middle/back jumper = X/O/ /\ Angle Throw = R3 (Can cause penalty) Options ~~~~~~~ Difficulty: Easy = Mabie too easy, CPU helps with line outs and scrums and opposition is easy and simple Normal = You get control of all aspects of game opposition players and teams are better Hard = Opposition plays as a team, if your new to hard mode get use to turn overs. Offsides: Offsides are when you are either A)in front of the ruck or B) ahead of the kicker and interferes with play (ie tackling) Vibration: When you get tackled etc it shakes AutoSave: ive found it only saves rosters and profile options Injuries: If you want injuries to occur in the game Measurements ~~~~~~~~~~~~ here ill draw a rugby field for you \/Tryline________\/ 1/2way_____\/5m ||-:----|------:-|-:------|----:-||<5m || : | : | : | : || || : | : | : | : || |H : | : | : | : H| || : | : | : | : || || : | : | : | : || ||-:----|------:-|-:------|----:-||<5m ||_:____|______:_|_:______|____:_|| /\22m /\5m Scoring: Try - Placing the ball in the try line area. 5 points Conversion - Kick the ball from a place kick after a try. 2 points Penalty - A place kick resulted from a penalty. 3 points Drop Goal - Kick the ball between the posts. 3 points Positions: 1) Prop (PR) 2) Hooker (HK) 3) Prop (PR) 4) Lock or Second rower (LK) 5) Lock or Second rower (LK) 6) Blind side flanker (FL) 7) Open side flanker (FL) 8) No.8 (N8) 9) Scrum half or half back (SH) 10) First Five Eight or Fly half (FH) 11) Left Wing (WG) 12) Second Five Eight or Centre OR Inside Centre (CT) 13) Centre (CT) 14) Right Wing (WG) 15) Full Back (FB) 5) Game modes ~~~~~~~~~~~~ In Rugby 2004 there are 8 game modes. Play now, Training, World Cup, Tri Nations, Six Nations, Tour, Super 12, European Trophy and World league each one I will break down for you Play now - This is just a test match, or friendly. You choose one team, take on another, pick a stadium and conditions and the most points wins Training - this is a good way of getting use to rugby 2004. You practice lineouts, scrums, place kicks, running etc. World Cup - International teams beat it out to win the Rugby World Cup. You start in pool play and you need to finish first or second. Bonus points count so if you can lose by less than 7pts or score 5 tries you will receive a bonus point. Tri Nations - The battle of the southern hemispheres heavy weights. New Zealand vs Australia vs South Africa. Six Nations - Europeans International competition. Ireland vs England vs France vs Wales vs Scotland vs Italy. Tour - You Are the British lions (or isles as they call it) and you choose weither you take on South Africa, Australia or New Zealand. You have a talent pool of all of the UK teams Super 12 - A competition between New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. New Zealand has 5 teams - Auckland Blues, Waikato Cheifs, Wellington Hurricanes, Canterbury Crusaders And Otago Highlanders, Australia has 3 teams, Queensland Reds, New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies. South Africa has 4 teams (Sorry I dont know were there from) Bulls, Sharks, Cats and stormers. Bonus points count European trophy - The Norths take on the super 12. Teams from the six nations countries are split up into 6 groups of 4 teams. I cant write all of them out because there are too many. World league - One of the best things about the game. You are one of the Super 12 teams or European trophy teams and you have a generic team and you trade players to improve your team. (See Below For more) 6) Challenge tracking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heres a list of the challenges you need to complete, you must do them on easy, normal and hard. * Beat New Zealand * Run 50m with the ball * Score a try after 7 passes * Win by 80 points * Win a scrum againced the head * Score a drop goal * Win an offensice scrum * Win a offensive lineout * Score a try with a foward * Score a try under the post * Convert a penalty kick form 20-30m * Two players score a try each in a match * Have a perfect kicking ratio * Score the first try * Score a try from a penalty * Win 3 scrums * Score 2 tries with 1 player * Score 3 tries with 1 player * Win by 14 points * Keep opposition scoreless * Score 4 tries with 1 player * Convert a penalty kick from 30-45m * Win a defensive lineout * Score a try after running 50m * Beat England * Score a try off the kickoff * Convert a penalty kick from over 45m * Kick a drop goal from over 35m * Score 5 tries with 1 player * Win by 20 points * Best the Crusaders with Viadana * Beat Australia with Namibia * Win the world cup with Canada * Score a hat trick with 2 players (3 tries each) * Beat the British Isles by 14 On completion of this you will unlock the historic matches? (some one email me if this isnt right.) 7) World league ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ World league is where you choose a team, Super 12 or European trophy team. This competition is 22 rounds with 3 divisions. You have a Generic team and build it up by wining games and score trys to get trade points. Six points for a win, one point for every try. This part of the FAQ is to help people who cant get past the start of world league mode, which even I find hard for the first couple of rounds. Starting: You start with a bad team with not alot of talent. You also start with 12 trade points, which wont get you far. You need to do whatever you need to to win the first 3-4 games. This is to get a player that is reliable. I recomend that you either get J.Barker the Canadian fly half or a wing (I chose R. CauCauinbukia.) Barker because he has a goal kick of 95% and he is alot better than Heffler and he is worth his trade points. The up side of Barker is that he has a reliable boot so he can get you out of trouble and get conversions or penalties which can edge you into the lead, after all, 6 trade points for a 1,2 or 3 point lead is better than nothing at all. But Also a wing because you do win games on tries, and you also get the single point for each try. But this means that you will risk the game on poor kicking Here is the order of who I chose in my world league campaigne: 1st: R. CauCauinbicca. (FIJI) [WG] reason, to score trys 2nd: A.Mertins. (NZL) [FH] reason, VERY good kicker, 97% kick, 95% goal kick, I saved up for about 4-5 games for him, as i won some games with 10 trys 3rd: K.Wood. (IRE) [HK] Now you can have better Scrums and a more reliable plus hes a captain line out. 4th: C.Jack (NZL) [SR] Now you can rely on your lineouts. Put him in the No.5 Jersy as then he will be at the frount of the lineout making it easier on you. 5th: R.McCaw (NZL) (FL) One of the best, if not the best flankers out there, put him on the openside (7) he will be a good way of turning the ball over From here on in, you should be picking positions Remember that i am only recomending the positons. you can chose who plays there youself. So here are the next positions that I filled, just find the player that you want in because im not telling you how to play the game just a recomendation 6th: Prop 7th: Flanker 8th: Center (12) 9th: Wing 10th: Prop 11th: Fullback 12th: Second rower 13th: Center (13) 14th: No.8 15th: Scrum half 8) Game tips ~~~~~~~~~~~ * Ive found that the Fend or "hand off" is not very effective * The best way of scoring trys are to "draw and pass" for example, I pass the ball to a foward on the open side, he runs through the open side and draws in one, two or sometimes three, then passes it. Then that player does the same, this leads to a over lap. * Also ive found that gaps can appear for the first five eight or second to run through. throw a dummy pass to fool the opposition * Alot of the good wingers can "bump off" a player. It helps if you sidestep into them * Most wingers defence is often not good (unless they can also play fullback or other positions) One example of this is the legend himself Jonah Lomu. * If you are trapped in your 22 kick it out quick. If the opposition turns the ball over your in trouble. Gliches: * Knock-on Glich: This is when you have a advantage for a penalty and the attacking team knocks the ball on, they take a penalty kick, and no matter what, the defending team will get a 22 drop out * Hold left glich: This must be due to game fatuge because ive hired this game before i bought it and it did it then, and also just recently after ive owned it for a year and its started again. But what happens is that the selected player runs to the left. This is easy to fix though. Just pull out the controller out of the hole thing and put it back in. * No Ball: This happens to me near the opponents try line. I get tackled and the ball is stoped as in a ruck but all the players run like normal. WHAT EVER YOU DO DONT SCORE A TRY. press /\ to grubber it, at least you will get the ball back from the drop out... 9) My World Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These are my personal world team. They are based on current form and game stats. Also Being a kiwi, i am biased towards NZ but that is only due to exposue. If we had More north hemisphere rugby it wouldent be so one sided. But this is... 1) P.Devilliers [FRA] 2) K.Wood (c) [IRE] 3) J.Crenca [FRA] 4) C.Jack [NZL] 5) M.Okelly [IRE] 6) S.Belson [FRA] 7) R.McCaw [IRE] 8) L.Dallalio [ENG] 9) P.Stringer [IRE] 10) D.Humphrees (k) [IRE] 11) R.Caucauinbuca [FIJI] 12) T.Umaga (NZL) 13) B.ODriscall [IRE] 14) B.Pulse [RSA] 15) C.Cullen [NZL] 16) F.Mendez [ARG] 17) K.Robertson [NZL] 18) T.Randle [NZL] 19) A.Pichot [ARG] 20) A.Mertens [NZL] 21) J.Robertson [ENG] 22) M.Rogers [AUS] 10) Rugby Rant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ok here we go NPC team: Auckland Super 12 team: Auckland Blues International: New Zealand Underdog team: Argentena - they show flair and hey they beat France and only lost to Ireland by a last min dropgoal from 40m back Favorite Fowards: Aucklands K.Mealamu [HK], K.Mews [PR] and Wellingtons R.Soalialo [N8] Favortie Backs: I would love to see Mertz [FH] back (Even though hes from Canterbery) D.Howlett [WG], B.Reihana [WG] Upcoming players: LUKE MCALLISTER! He was the most underrated player of the NPC season, hes one to watch out for. O.Ai'i. Have you seen him in the sevens? hes listed to play FH, CT and FB in the game but he can also play SH. But since hes in the blues hes stuck on the bench by Spencer, S.Devine/D.Gibson, M.Muilina and the other quallity backs. Back at the end of the 2004 Super 12, the South African rugby union said that the southern hemisphere rugby style did not suit them and that they would pull out of the Super12 and Tri nations. Also halfway through the year the Pacific Island team played for the first time. People said that it was one of the best thing to happen to P.I. rugby for a long time because it brought in money for them. People were saying that the P.I. team should join the tri nations. I was thinking, why shouldent South Africa join the european nations and there can be a competition with New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji (or the PI team) and Argentena. Of coarse NZ or OZ will always win but it will drasticly improve the other teams, by experiance and revenue. Positives about Rugby 2004: * Super 12 and European trophy - Now we have a lot more depth when creating a team or using a international * World League - Develop a dream team. * Create a player - sure this aspect is a bit weak but its still good fun making yourself or a unlisted player Negatives about rugby 2004 * No NPC! NPC is the best rugby competition there is. Now that it is becoming 2 divisions it will be viable too. New Zealand it the only country who has something similar to the NPC so no other countrys could complain too much. * Create a Team - including a uniform, were you can get hoops aswell. * Better graphics - im not one to complain about graphics since I think that Jonah Lomu rugby was the best game ever!, but this game was shocking, this even made the physics poorer aswell as side steps, fends and dummy passes. * more money invested - is depressing when games like Madden NFL are getting billions and zillions of dollars put into, and is aimed mostly at one market (The Americans) Were a game played by the rest of the world only gets a fraction of this money. I mean if I owend a Multi zillion dollar company, which looked like they has no was of going down any time soon, I would make games properly, like Madden was, or atleast made it more closer than this. 11) Faqs ~~~~~~~~ Q:Why isnt [so and so] in the game? A:Yes I have found that some players arnt in the game, eg. B.Reihana. I guess that he wasnt covered in a certain contract or something, although if you look in the create a player his name is under one of the sounds so... Q.What are you talking about Reihana is in the game! A. E-mail me Q.Whos the best player? A.Well... it depends on what position you are talking about and what aspect you think are important. But here are some of the top players that I have found: * and ,the two French props are good. *K.wood from Ireland is a excellent player, but look at Italys A.Moscardi *Second rowers I have found to be hard to find. C.Jack is one of the best but you will have a hard time looking for a locking partner for him *As I said before, R.McCaw is one of the best flankers out there. *Irelands Scrum half is a awesome passer, so is Argentenas *Dont yell at me but im picking A.Mertins form NZ or Irelands D.Humphees this is because of kicking, and J.Wilkinson is a left footer which I am not use to. *Center can be fulled by T.Umaga in either slot also B.O'Driscal is good *I was thinking to myself, geezz theres not to many wings out there but then I looked agian and saw a aray of quality wingers. D.Howlett (NZL), B.Paulse (RSA), R.Caucauinbuca (FIJI), J.Robertson (ENG) just to name a few *All of the wingers above , bar the Fijian can play full back, but also look at C.Cullen (NZL) and M.Rogers (AUS) Q.No Way! [so and so] are crap! A.Well why do you feel the need to look at my opionion? Q. Did people really ask these questions or are you just making yourself look popular? A. Hey buddie, I dont tell you how to do your job.