They wont officially have the player likenesses in the game but i'm sure that Ryan McCrow will coincidentally look a lot like Richie McCaw...
There are no limitations on player likeness, except for the fact that HB wouldn't have had access to the players to take really good shots from multiple angles. But i'm suer you've all heard of a little thing called 'Google Images'
it's all in the public domain so it's all good...
... as long as it's coincidental and not deliberate
You'd like to think so, but player likenesses are part of the licensing agreements nowadays and it's plain from some of the screenshots out that right now that the number 7 for the All Blacks (for example) is a blond player, there is a completely bald Maori/Pacific Island guy and a bald European guy in the backlines for the AB's. Those all correspond to no-one real at all.
So what I'm saying is we have to hope that the reserves outside of the 22 playing, coincidentally have some similar looking players as the starting 15 looks pretty much nothing like the AB's so far and if we can't even change hair colour and eye colour or something minor like that, it's going to be a very hard job convincing people that they are playing the AB's or the Australians.
In that case, those sides will probably be played as a lot less and if people from the NH want to feel like they've earned a hard fought win over the Rugby World Cup hosts or the Wallabies, they'll have to do 90% of it in their imagination. They'll beat a team in Black that they are literally no more New Zealand than if they played the unlicensed Australians relabelled them with All Black names and pretended they were New Zealand.
I don't expect exact likenesses. I'd just like to know that there's a wide enough range of possibilities in the Reserves etc, that we can re-label some players and have a generic player with the same, skin, hair, and eye colour along with maybe head gear and body type of the people we'd like to play as. Facially they could be a little different, I'm not too worried about that, but at least cosmetically I'd like to be able to look past some minor details and say "that's a New Zealand I can deal with".
He has blonde hair far a start..
Right on the button. There's a grey haired (WTF????) number 4 lock too for a start. I'm just asking that there's a wide variety for options in the reserves.
Also, I'm putting rivalry with you Aussies aside too for now Wally mate, lol. I want a decent result for you guys and us kiwis.
