Rugby: Hard Runner

Play once and the delete. This game had a lot of potential

Has all the right ingredients but there’s no save so I have to start over at the beginning every time.

The people who made this game clearly cared little about rugby and all about money. You have a limited number of balls for the whole game and if you fail 5 times, you need to start all the way over, going through the gruellingly slow paced tutorial level(s!!!). That is, unless you pay for unlimited balls. But still if, like me, you ran out at level 17 that doesn't exactly alleviate the pain of going through those first levels. Not even a classic rugby keg stand would ease that burden. The "team" layout is all well and good, unlocking new teams as you go through levels. Though I'll admit which teams they have shows just how little the developers care about rugby, including Germany, Russia, and the USA as playable teams, but not Wales, Ireland, or Scotland. Half of the teams in the biggest sports tournament in the world (in terms of attendance it surpasses the FIFA World Cup) seems short sighted. Of course for real world currency you can pay to play as the powerhouse teams. Though $2 seems a lot for a simple skins pack that frankly defeats the whole purpose of playing the game-- that is to say the only unlockables ARE the skins. At least give the teams some sort of statistical advantage. I get it. It's a free app and Rugby isn't exactly the MOST popular sport in the world. It's a fun enough way to waste a couple minutes. But if you mess up even a handful of times, as is easy to do with the clunky mechanics, you're more likely to end up deleting the app than wading through that dull tutorial again.