The PlayStation 2 has been home to many different wrestling games throughout its lifespan. From the hardcore (Fire Pro Wrestling Returns) to the nostalgic (Legends of Wrestling) to the oddball (Rumble Roses and Ultimate Muscle), the system has seen it all. One of the more well-known franchises when it comes to wrestling games is the WWE SmackDown series, which started on the original PlayStation and has seen itself improve and flourish in the PS2 era. For most wrestling fans, this series is the pinnacle of how wrestling games should be, and, in their eyes, no one has come close to that standard. Like the real life wrestling organization, however, SmackDown begs for competition from other wrestling games.
Enter Midway Games. With their new partnership with Total Nonstop Action (TNA), they're throwing their hat into the wrestling ring with TNA iMPACT! for the PS2. The game does not immediately steal the wrestling crown away from SmackDown, but it would have provided itself with a good basis on which to build future games if it weren't for the fact that it's appearing this late in the console's life cycle.
There are 25 TNA wrestlers featured in iMPACT!, including old TNA favorites like Jeff Jarret, Jay Lethal and A.J. Styles, as well as new faces to the company like Booker T. and Kurt Angle. Like a standard fighting game, other wrestlers must be unlocked through a combination of story mode and acquisition of style points. Style points are acquired by winning matches in any mode as well as pulling off different moves with your wrestler. In a way, this makes the fight more interesting, since you not only want to win a match but also pull off as many moves as possible to gain the style points needed to unlock a wrestler.
James writes: "The wrestling portion of the video game market has been dominated by WWE (formerly WWF) for years now, fighting off their biggest rivals WCW in the process. There was another who tried to dethrone the leading brand in the late 2000s though, when Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) took their popularity to the next level with the release of a wrestling game. Ten years after the release of TNA Impact!, it’s time to look back at whether it was a success. Did TNA Impact! whip up a storm in the world of gaming like a hurricane coming through to leave a lasting legacy, or was it more of a failed attempt at cashing in on the rapidly growing promotion?"
TNA Wrestling President Dixie Carter has revealed the company is still interested in making another video game.
Apparently the last one didn't suck quite enough; they KNOW they can do a crappier one than that.
I'd love to see someone bring back the N64 Aki Engine. TNA or even a generic wrestling game to make the WWE games step up their game. It's been basically the same for this generation.
Those game are the best wrestling games ever!!!
My favorite are NoMercy and WCW vs nWo revenge
indeed, is that picture really from wwe 13? also i thought the physics in the tna game were pretty good, the characters moved and reacted to things alot better than any smackdown game, hopefully they can just fix the wrestling mechanics and make a good one next time round.
Lol, WWE 13 no where near looks that bad! That is either not WWE 13 or a shoddy created wrestler.
Not saying WWE 13 looks good, just not that bad > http://d1vr6n66ssr06c.cloud...
Reminds me of Madden 13. All the players look...wrong. Then you look at a supposed Jerry Rice after a superbowl win and it's just some guy that could have just as easily been Arsenio Hall.
APF 2k8 made in 2007: Jerry Rice
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Madden 13: Jerry Rice
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It's laughable but sad because Football and wrestling games have been stale since 2007.
A new TNA game would be fantastic, the in ring action in TNA is much faster and fluid than anything I've seen in WWE. Especially the X Division stuff!
Recently on a TNA post show Jeremy Borash stated that TNA was working on a new Ipad video game while Kurt Angle also stated the same on his twitter account so WrestlingGamer.com decided to discuss on why TNA should come out with preferably a console game and ways they could improve on their previous console release.
Why make another TNA gay game the first one sucks that the Spongebob game was way better
