Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty (HES) has today announced that Rugby Challenge 2: The Lions Tour Edition for the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be released on June 13, 2013.

Rugby Challenge 2 will feature a myriad of features and content. Content includes: the British and Irish Lions 2013 Tour of Australia, 110+ official teams from the Aviva Premiership Rugby and other major competitions, revamped sound and commentary, and more.

The features and content of Rugby Challenge 2: The Lions Tour Edition includes:

• Play in Single Match Mode, multi-team Competition Mode, a vastly expanded multi-year Career Mode, Tutorial Mode, or compete in online multiplayer with support up to 4v4 via PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE, or Steam
• Refined and expanded gameplay with the addition of quick taps, quick lineouts, mauls from lineouts, interceptions, contesting ball at the breakdown, removing players from the ruck, number 8 scrum pickups, and dynamic in game team strategies on both attack and defence
• 110+ teams and 50+ stadia from around the world featured including official team, competition, and special match licenses for the All Blacks, the Qantas Wallabies, the USA Eagles, Bledisloe Cup, British and Irish Lions 2013 Tour of Australia, Barbarians FC, Combined Country, Super Rugby teams, Aviva Premiership Rugby, TOP 14 Orange, Pro D2, RaboDirect PRO12, ITM Cup, and Ranfurly Shield
• More options to create or customise players, teams, and competitions, and change game rules and behaviour to shape the game to play how you want and keep the game fresh year after year
• Revamped sound and commentary systems, with real-time commentary from seasoned rugby commentators Grant Nisbett and former All Black turned commentator Justin Marshall, and French language commentary from Eric Bayle and Thomas Lombard.

Rugby Challenge 2: The Lions Tour Edition will be released under three different names. In France and South Africa the game will be called: Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge 2, in New Zealand the game will be called: All Blacks Rugby Challenge 2, and in the rest of the world it will be called: Rugby Challenge 2: The Lions Tour Edition.

For more information on Rugby Challenge 2: The Lions Tour Edition, please visit http://rugbychallengegame.com/.