''Rugby 2005'' is a game in the Rugby series by
EA Sports
EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they imitated real-life sports networks by calling themselves the "EA Sports Network" (EASN) ...
. The game allows players to play as many
Rugby nations, both major and minor, and includes many tournaments, such as the
Rugby World Cup
The Men's Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, the winners of which are recognised as the World championship, world champions of the sport.
The tournament is administer ...
, the
Tri Nations, the
Six Nations, and the
Super 12.
The newer version of this game is ''
Rugby 06'', also by EA Sports. It also includes a fictional "World League" where teams from the
Guinness Premiership,
Celtic League,
Top 14
The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the National Rugby League (France), France National Rugby League, also ...
,
Super 12, and other domestic leagues compete against each other in a three-stage promotion and regulation structure with a knock out cup also contested. Commentary is provided by
Ian Robertson and
Murray Mexted.
''Rugby 2005'' is the first EA Rugby title for Xbox, while the Windows version was canceled in the US.
Reception
The PC and Xbox versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 2 version received "average" reviews, according to the
review aggregation website
Metacritic
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.
References
External links
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2005 video games
EA Sports games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
Rugby union video games
Video games developed in Canada
Windows games
Xbox games
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