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If you're looking for a wrestling game, then this is not the game for you. (I wonder how many times people have said that.)
This is a pretty fun game something to play for a little bit, but until you get aggravated with the blocking system, or just the fact that the moves that are performed, look so devastating, and all of a sudden bam your opponent is on his feet, kicking you around like nothing happened.
Gameplay: If you just want to have a big beat down fest (which looks brutal but like I said no one really gets hurt like they should) this is OK for that, but for wrestling, not at all. This is a fighting game if anything, with a decent grappling system. There is glitches, but so far I've only encountered it once, and that is if you get in a grapple, sometimes you'll end up on the other side of the arena.(And why can't there be a wrestling ring? They're all over the videos they give as extras.)
The customzing feature this time, is a excellent improvement over the last one, but still nothing to get excited over. You have to complete story mode with a custom character, and buy more custom items. The single player mode seems to go on forever, and everytime you want to clear a new objective you have to quit and wait through a long waiting screen. If you complete one level it dosen't say you have, until you actually pick the stage and look to see if there is anymore tasks for you to complete. (Which you can't play any other tasks until you beat each stage in order. So it may get a little confusing for some, but it hasn't been a problem for me.)
The weapons, or awesome, some weapons you may question, "why is it here?" (like the kendo stick in a hamburber restraunt.)
The enviro-mental throws, are one of the better features of this. The fact you can throw your opponent in to a deep fryer and on a large kitchen grill just screams pain. (But the opponent never does.)
Controlling: The grappling system is pretty decent and pretty well thought out, if you lock up with your opponent you can press either L2 or R2 and switch positions then perform your desired move. (Attack, submission, Irish whip, or an enviro-mental throw.)
You can knock your opponent out fairly easy, but if you wanted to grapple them it may take some practice and even then you may not be able to grab your drowsy opponent.
Sound: The voice acting could have been a lot better and sometimes it might be, from the way your character looks, but if its a custom character, that is just horrible. Sometimes funny. I really can't say I was impressed with the sound effects, some sounds distorted, but things like the drill, or chainsaw are pretty good, for they are sound effects.
If you're going into this game because ICP or other psychopathic artists are on it, and even Andrew w.k. is a wrestler in it (so his music is in this), themes not very many songs from either. The rest is very different bands, (hoobastank, saliva, mudvayne, graw) there's only 2 songs from Andrew w.k. and maybe 6 songs from artists on psychopathic records. But if theres a song playing you don't like, you can change it by pressing select at anytime once the load screen has stopped (even during the movie sence of the current stage, and the pause menu.)
The extra movies they give you of various fighters in the game is a great extra, but there's no sound to them, and it plays the music from the start menu through it all. Unless it's one of the music videos.
Graphics: If they sacrificed graphics for game play, I could understand why the game looks rather plain, and the character models are not that detailed. But it doesn't appear that the gameplay took much away, so the graphics are low quality.
Overall: The game is OK, it's a fighting game, not a wrestling game. Not a buy, but maybe a rent if the game store has nothing better. This might be a great game for you, if you want to get anything and everything, ICP or Andrew w.k. or just a juggalo wanting to play the game (that would be a fan of ICP and other psychopathic artists) then this is a game to check out.
© 2004 Eidos Interactive
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