By John Walker on October 13th, 2011 at 12:25 pm.
It seems reports of the delay of the PC version of Jonah Lomu’s Rugby Challenge were somewhat exaggerated. While it’s true that the retail PC version will come out on the 21st, a week later than the consoles on the 14th, this isn’t the case for the Steam version. That’s to be released alongside the cousins tomorrow. Why the delay? Developers Alternative Software explain to us the reason the boxed version comes later is because,
“We are just having to fly in the new PC retail box version from Australia.”
You can see a trailer for the game below.
13/10/2011 at 12:31 WMain00 says:
Got 8/10 on Eurogamer which i’m happy about!
13/10/2011 at 12:49 baby snot says:
I’m glad someone is because after watching the last few world cups I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t ‘get’ rugby
13/10/2011 at 13:17 JuJuCam says:
It’s essentially Blood Bowl with a few more rules and slightly less violence and fantasy.
13/10/2011 at 23:20 Derppy says:
@baby snot
A short video to explain rugby for you, see if you can still remember the rules after watching it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0Fp16XhZo
14/10/2011 at 02:08 baby snot says:
I remember yellow. Lots of yellow. So the rules of rugby are yellow, yellow, yellow, sweaty girls bums, yellow. Did I get that right?
13/10/2011 at 12:48 Ian says:
I bet rugby fans are ovally excited about this.
…..
13/10/2011 at 13:02 Sheng-ji says:
We are!
13/10/2011 at 13:10 Durkonkell says:
I believe Sheng-ji has experienced a 404: Pun not found.
13/10/2011 at 17:16 Janek says:
Bless him, he did try.
13/10/2011 at 12:49 c-Row says:
So, Hand-To-Ball?
13/10/2011 at 12:59 mejoff says:
^s^
(nice tackle)
13/10/2011 at 13:05 ReV_VAdAUL says:
Some less reputable Rugby players do Hand to Ball in a second, less family friendly way.
13/10/2011 at 13:33 MD says:
Or the classic Australian version, hand to prostate.
13/10/2011 at 13:06 CaspianRoach says:
This game looks really weird. Are there really real people playing this?
13/10/2011 at 13:08 Sheng-ji says:
Huh? You’ve never heard of rugby before…. Let me guess, american (Who did rather well in the world cup a few weeks ago)
13/10/2011 at 13:11 Jim Rossignol says:
He’s called CaspianRoach and you guess he’s American?
13/10/2011 at 13:12 GallonOfAlan says:
The .ru visible when you hover over Mr CaspianRoach’s name should provide a clue.
13/10/2011 at 13:15 Sheng-ji says:
Sorry, I’m not up on my russian fish trivia :/
No excuse then, I lived in Russia for the first 8 years of my life and played since I was six, there’s a huge rugby scene in the country.
13/10/2011 at 13:55 CaspianRoach says:
Sheng-ji, there’s a huge scene of -anything- -anywhere-, however most of them aren’t well known or advertised. I’ve heard of a word ‘rugby’ before but never seen an actual game played. Looks like a mix of american football and normal football.
13/10/2011 at 15:52 KilgoreTrout_XL says:
Hey, let’s get this straight. People are supposed to deride us when we say “IMHO NFL FOOTBALL GTFO” when rugby is mentioned.
It’s not like rugby is an unknown quantity over here, by the way. And every single American football fan I have ever met agrees that it’s a pretty bad ass sport, with the hitting and the scrumming and the ow.
That USA v. Ireland game was fun to watch too.
13/10/2011 at 18:37 Sheng-ji says:
To everyone in the whole thread and anyone I’ve offended in the last month: I’m sorry!
I don’t mean anyone any offence and I’m sorry if I furthered negative stereotypes or just came across as a bit stroppy!
By way of explanation, I gave birth a month ago ish and haven’t had a sleep since then which lasted longer than 2 hours. I had a really difficult night with him last night and I tried to be light hearted and clearly completely failed.
Not an excuse, just an explaination.
Give me a year or two, I’ll be back to the Sheng-ji we all love and can have a sensible conversation with.
13/10/2011 at 21:44 LMichet says:
You tend to see rugby at american universities quite a lot these days– the ones on the east coast, anyway. Pretty strong showing with both men and women’s teams.
13/10/2011 at 13:07 GallonOfAlan says:
I bet the Haka is an unskippable cutscene.
13/10/2011 at 13:18 Okami says:
QTE
13/10/2011 at 13:44 atticus says:
The Haka should be the compulsory intro for all teams wanting to succeed in male sports.
Theres no better way of starting a competitive round of athletic activity than to do an aggressive warlike dance while roaring in a strange and hostile language. In sync.
13/10/2011 at 14:45 Electric Dragon says:
Haka minigame! Press “Q” to stick tongue out. Press “E” to slap moobs. Press right mouse button to waggle eyebrows menacingly. Number keys are bound to a variety of Maori imprecations.
13/10/2011 at 16:18 wcaypahwat says:
So that’s why they invented the Kinect.
13/10/2011 at 18:30 phuzz says:
Having seen my boss (who’s brother played for the All Blacks until recently), do the haka from about six feet away, I can confirm that it is scary.
Mind you, most professional rugby players are pretty scary from six feet away, because that’s the point you realise that it’s not a big man up close, it’s an enormous man slightly further away.
13/10/2011 at 13:19 JuJuCam says:
Regardless if you’re interested in the game or not, this is a pretty significant step in the right direction for the No Oceans campaign!
13/10/2011 at 13:23 Sheng-ji says:
Hehe, not really! It was released in August in New Zealand! Still nice to see the tables turned for once though
13/10/2011 at 16:17 wcaypahwat says:
We got Wallabies Challenge about a month back, too…. region locks based on patriotism?
13/10/2011 at 13:25 BreadBitten says:
Why do I find the screenshot so gut wrenchingly funny?
13/10/2011 at 13:39 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
My reaction was similar. I know it is the dreaded hakka but I can’t help interpreting it as an in-match shot with the worst animation fail in history.
13/10/2011 at 13:26 leahcim says:
“Jonah Lomu” Is that Gurkha for Joanna Lumley?
13/10/2011 at 13:54 Jackablade says:
Wow, people actually like a game that I worked on. 13th time lucky I guess.
13/10/2011 at 14:03 Quizboy says:
The screenshot made me believe for a second that Space Channel 5 Part 3 had been announced. All was briefly right with the world.
13/10/2011 at 22:50 weikk says:
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14/10/2011 at 04:42 tulip says:
Is there a boatrace minigame? Shooting the boot? Chances to redeem oneself?
Been so looking forward to this, glad to see from reviews that it does not suck. Been a long time since a good PC rugby game has been released here in NA.
14/10/2011 at 06:47 Wisq says:
Never seen a video game version of rugby (maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough), and that always seemed like a major omission. I’m glad to see this and will probably pick it up.
Now, what about cricket?