I played all the Rugby league games ever made and kicked a goal on them. Thought some people here might find it interesting !
I assumed rugby league live went bust after the first one. Are the new ones playable? Rugby League 2 WC is so life like. Absolutely nailed the ANZ crowd.
I think RLL3 (and probably 4, I haven't played it though) are more playable than any other 3D one, but are still far (FAR) from great.
RLL4 was better than 2. I didn’t play 3 . Although I only played 1 career season and never played again. Still preferred Rugby League 2 (2005) the most due to being more arcadey.
I think NRL games will always be shit until they can properly implement some kind of mass/momentum system, something to make the forwards more useful. From what I remember, you were better off having the fastest backs as your forwards. Also I seem to remember the defensive line retreating insanely quickly, you never ever got a quick ptb. So every tackle was against a set defensive lime and you just threw it around waiting for the AI to shit itself.
RLL 2 was also notorious for the AI front rowers being able to outrun you 100 metres if you throw them an intercept.
They over corrected with the last game. Backs were useless, forwards doing shoulder charges was 1000 times more effective than anything your backline could do