The issue here is that it's too simple and as a result totally lacking in the depth. Given Swordfish's long and impressive rugby heritage (this is the development team responsible for the legendary Jonah Lomu Rugby on PSone) you'd expect a fun, easy game, and that's what you get. There are a few handy tutorials to get you into the swing of things, but providing you know how to hold a joypad the right way up you'll get a good, flowing game of rugby in no time at all. You pick up the ball, you pass down the wings using the trigger buttons, you dodge the incoming tackles and you cross the line for a try. Not the sort of chap you'd want to meet down the back of a long dark alley. If you're going to give developer Swordfish Studios credit for anything, it's that it's taken the most convoluted ball sport known to man and turned it into a videogame that just about anybody can pick up and play. On the plus side, at least they've made Rugby Challenge 2006 easy to play. So much so that it's now less of a case of 'is Rugby Challenge 2006 any good?' and more a question of 'is it any better than EA's Rugby 06?' And the answer to that is a crushingly emphatic no.

Still, if you ARE a rugby fan - and this particular correspondent is - you've probably gone orgasmic over the current crop of digital egg chasing. After all, the population of rugby fans who also own consoles is going to be marginal at best.

So the fact that we've got not one but two new rugby games to coincide with this year's Six Nations tournament could be seen as something of overkill. The other thing about rugby is that it's clearly nowhere near as popular as football, mostly because it's about a million times more complicated. (And if that doesn't kick off some healthy debate in the forums then we've pretty much proved that porn really is all the internet's good for.) If you don't agree with that then you're a) stupid, b) a hooligan, or c) probably both.

Rugby: it's a lot better than football, isn't it? You can drink in the stands, play doesn't halt every five seconds for a petulant team riot against the referee and England are still World Champions (just about).

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