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Post by ringsyde on Dec 9, 2004 22:45:44 GMT -5
Just got the February issue of Game Informer, and one of the feature stories is about WWE WRESTLEMANIA 21. Apparently, Studio Gigante, makers of the Xbox game Tao Feng, are trying to make the first wrestling game that will elate the hardcore fan (ie; everyone who thought FIrePro and AKI wrestling was king) while attracting the fighting game and novice fan alike. The screenshots look great and everything about the game sounds wonderful . . . BUT . . . I get real worried when wrestling games look great, and I lose it when wrestling games are designed by / for fighting game fans.
If you don't subscribe to Game Informer, get the new issue (Snoop Dog cover). It's the most loaded gaming mag I've seen in a while, and you can check out the huge article and screenshots of WWE WRESTLEMANIA 21. Perhaps someone else can begin to assure me that I'm overreacting.
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Post by Olde Tyme Gamer on Dec 10, 2004 8:23:58 GMT -5
and I lose it when wrestling games are designed by / for fighting game fans. Yeah, anyone remember that old SNES game In Your House? What a piece of work that was! What did Owen Hart throwing giant playing cards have to do with pro-wrestling? |
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Post by gamtime247 on Dec 10, 2004 13:31:34 GMT -5
Its funny you mention that. Yesterday I just picked up a Sega Genesis for Monday Night Raw, and picked up an old PS1 copy of WCW vs the World just so I could play some old school wrestling games again. The IYH and Wrestlemania arcade games were the worst set of games ever introduced to wrestling video game fans.  |
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Post by Mark 138 on Dec 10, 2004 22:10:02 GMT -5
Yeah, anyone remember that old SNES game In Your House? What a piece of work that was! What did Owen Hart throwing giant playing cards have to do with pro-wrestling? The In Your House game was on Playstation 1. I agree that it was pretty bad in that it was more a fighting game (and a silly one) with wrestlers than a wrestling game. SNES had Wrestlemania and Royal Rumble, both of which where really excellent games for the time. And if gametime247 thinks IYH and Wrestlemania the Arcade game were the worst, he must have forgotten about WCW Backstage Assault! That was true garbage. |
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Post by ringsyde on Dec 11, 2004 1:14:35 GMT -5
OH GOD . . . . not WCW BACKSTAGE ASSAULT!!!!!!! That game was horrible. Just for the record, the aforementioned WWF game, IN YOUR HOUSE was the second "revolutionary" wrestling title from the guys who later brought you WWF WARZONE and the LEGENDS of WRESTLING series. That's right, ACCLAIM. They're such a great wrestling game company. I can't wait for their next . . . what . . . bankrupt, you say? Why?!!!
By the way, I just bought WCW versus the World the other day (for like the fifth time), too! Awesome how all of us have this weird synergy.
I'm hoping WRESTLEMANIA 21 isn't the next Backstage Assault, because it looks freakin' awesome. Some of these games mentioned here looked good, too, and they ended up jokes of the genre.
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Post by thefamoustommyz on Dec 14, 2004 13:36:15 GMT -5
Sadly, I have to diverge from the norm here...
WCW Backstage Assault actually had its upsides. Sure, the graphics were horrible, but the gameplay with that engine was actually better WITHOUT a ring. And the methods of unlocking secret wrestlers were usually really cool and inventive (such as setting a wrestler on fire to get Vampiro)...
I had WAY more fun with it than I did, say, any Ack-Lame! wrestling game.
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Post by CaseyJones on Dec 19, 2004 15:28:02 GMT -5
They actually ripped the Backstage Assault unlocking methods from Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 for the N64.
You would have to win a first blood match to unlock Abdullah the Butcher, play so many matches with Keiji Mutoh to get Great Muta, play so many matches with Muta to get the parts to make him(you have to change all the appearances of non All-Japan guys-Mutoh was in NJPW at the time), and stuff like that. Doing classic matches between guys would allow you to get costumes they wore in the match, stuff like that.
WM21 sure looks nice though-really great graphics. Too bad all of the good wrestling games usually have pretty bad graphics.
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Post by ringsyde on Jan 9, 2005 2:44:16 GMT -5
IGN.com has a pretty decent update on this game. Also, it should be mentioned that John Tobias (he of MORTAL KOMBAT fame) is the lead developer on this game. He assures everyone that WWE WRESTLEMANIA 21 is far from a fighter, but I'm starting to get real suspicious. Also, the roster seems to have already been shaved. When I first heard about this game, there were over sixty guys (including 10 legends). Now, there are 45 totla wrestlers, five of which are legends. Hmmmm. Curioser and curioser.
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Post by ringsyde on Jan 25, 2005 23:35:54 GMT -5
Well, we now have a complete roster (including pictures) for Wrestlemania 21up at IGN.com. The good news is that a lot of key people (including most of the current title holders) made it into the game. The bad news; Garrison Cade, Rene Dupree, four unemployed Divas and Hurricane made the roster while La Resistance and a few other notables didn't make the cut. I'm tracking this bad boy in the hopes that we've got a winner on our hands.
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Post by Tongsoon of Cygnus on Jan 29, 2005 0:45:29 GMT -5
WCW Backstage Assault! YIKES!! That game was so horrid! The only time I played it was when I made girl wrestlers and had them catfight with each other. Other than that, the game was pure trash! It might had been better if they had found a way to link it with WCW Mayhem, a game I found to be FAR superior. I may have to pick up Mayhem again. For a 32-bit wrestling game, it had a lot to offer. To bad it never made its way to PS2...
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