Biff Hardbody
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evil ways said:The game's character models somewhat remind me of the old WWF Hasbro action figure commercials that played right before every PPV on home video.
Me too.
evil ways said:The game's character models somewhat remind me of the old WWF Hasbro action figure commercials that played right before every PPV on home video.
Kabuki Waq said:Playboy gave it Game of the month.
Now its a must buy for sure
evil ways said:"A Triumph!"
- Playboy
Disco Stu said:The question is, did the person who wrote those words actually play the game?
Hmmm.
Also, I think that Acclaim should have classic moves for classic wrestlers (eg. headlocks, slams and suplexes) instead of giving them all contemporary moves from the paper-thin contemporary movelist from LOW II. I still see classic wrestlers in the SHOWDOWN videos performing less-used moves they would never do (various wrestlers performing the Stunner, Andre The Giant doing the Stinkface, some other wrestler doing the Pedigree), instead of ones they would do. The moves from LOW II they have should be brought over to SHOWDOWN, but many of the moves should be relegated to the CAL and never put into the in-game wrestlers' movelists (like if I wanted to create The Rock, Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin, or Kurt Angle). Acclaim never looked at the movelist from LOW II and realized that it was totally inadequate for trying to portray some kind of authenticity of classic wrestlers and classic wrestling. I hope that Acclaim did add many new moves, including lots of classic and contemporary moves, to SHOWDOWN. If they did not, a big dilemma arises: when I go to edit the in-game wrestlers' moves, will I be giving them all the same moves (vertical suplexes, scoop slams, atomic drops and backdrops)? One thing that the SmackDown! series has done better is offer several different animations for the same move (20+ clotheslines, 20+ DDTs, 20+ powerbombs, 8 Scoop Slams). Did the Acclaim team REALLY study old tapes of wrestlers when they were making SHOWDOWN, and if so, did they apply what they learned by creating classic move animations? So far, I've seen the Airplane Spin, the Giant Shove, Hogan's Finger Wag, Block And Punch and a reanimated Sharpshooter. Another thing I saw is that the in-game wrestlers seem not to have the taunts they should have. Many of the in-game wrestlers just seem to have random or inappropriate taunts applied to them. How come Jake "The Snake" Roberts doesn't have a finger twirl for a taunt and in his DDT animation (unless he has two DDT animations, as every wrestler has two finishers)?
I will be getting SHOWDOWN: Legends Of Wrestling on June 22, and I hope that it is not just an overglorified, overhyped LOW 2.5.
Kingpen said:I have gotten aboard the hype wagon for this game as well. I was looking at my stacks of games last night and realized that I couldn't find anything to play that I wanted to. I really wanted to play a good wrestling game, but something that is fresh. But by fresh, I mean something that can re-kindle the spirit of old-school WWF. I have never played any of the LOW games before, but have played most of the other released WWE, WCW, Def Jam type of games. Even Fire Pro. None of those games catch my interest other then FirePro (but it is so old and dated), like S:LOW seems to be doing. I can't even hardly watch wrestling on the TV anymore cause it is such crap compared to what I saw when I was 7 years old in the mid 80's through the mid 90's. I am highly anticipating Def Jam: Fight for NY just as much as Halo 2 or any of the other top notch releases coming out. But Sep/Oct is such a long time away, that I am leaning on giving S:LOW a shot. I too trust Bish's word on wrestling games. I sure hope this one is at least fun. If it had a decent control scheme (I have heard a slowish Smackdown comparision, and also have heard it may be like Aki's) and just a 'defend titles in exhibition, that would be more then enough for me. This roster more then gets me hyped. I will most likely be buying it for Xbox next week. I need a different take on the wrestling genre. WWE games have gotten old and stale to me.
So by just starting to do my research on this game, what are the current gripes that seem to be surfacing? Are the submissions decent? Is there good interference? Do wrestlers sell moves good? Weapons? Weight detection? I surely hope that by the looks of the last 2 efforts that the 3rd time is better then the latter.
People who have played the E3 build of this game, can you kinda rank it among what is currenly out on the market?
Kingpen said:So by just starting to do my research on this game, what are the current gripes that seem to be surfacing? Are the submissions decent? Is there good interference? Do wrestlers sell moves good? Weapons? Weight detection? I surely hope that by the looks of the last 2 efforts that the 3rd time is better then the latter.
I thought it was fairly clear that there are two movesets for wrestlers.. classic and modern. That is why you see Andre doing moonsaults and whatnot, just set it on classic mode and go.
StoOgE said:I thought it was fairly clear that there are two movesets for wrestlers.. classic and modern. That is why you see Andre doing moonsaults and whatnot, just set it on classic mode and go.
I am actually impressed with it. Its much better then previous LOW games. I am impressed with the different arenas they managed to put in the game. The mid south arena, the pontiac Silverdome, Madison Square Garden there all captured very well.
evil ways said:That's not really what they said about the game, it's an inside joke that has to do with The Crow movie.
Biff Hardbody said:Holy Macaronni fellahs, the stuff on gamering has me wanting this game. One of the reviewers is taking early Q and A and posting screens. He posted two screen of the CAL which had Mankind and Kane masks. Really cool. Also, some shots of the career mode which looks neato.
Like Bish he says it isn't the greatest wrestler ever, but its better then the previous LOW/RAW. Its going to be decent! rawk!
evil ways said:Any word on editing existing wrestler's appearances and moves? I can't find my Gamingring password cause I haven't posted there since before Here Comes the Pain came out.
evil ways said:I went out a few minutes ago to buy some milk, juice and bread, and look what I just found at Walmart:
When I got home and stared at it I felt the urge to hum his WWF theme.
Anybody know if characters carry belts to the ring?