THQ and WWE have announced that a demo for the forthcoming Xbox 360 and PS3 brawler, WWE Legends of WrestleMania, will be released on March 5. The demo will let players take to the ring with Hulk Hogan and Andre, plus Bobby "the Brain" Heenan as Andre's manager. You'll be able to fight inside the WrestleMania III arena.
The HITC Tech team write about what they're playing this weekend, including XCOM: Enemy Unknow, Banished, and L.A. Noire.
Christopher Buffa (Prima Games): News of Ultimate Warrior Jim Hellwig’s death left millions of wrestling fans, including myself, in shock. I never knew the man, but I loved the character. His electric entrance, running to the ring full blast and shaking the ropes, was adrenaline personified, while the outfit (multicolored face paint, neon tassels, different colored straps for his title belts) embodied the 90s. Critics often remark that his promos were illogical, but to kids, they made perfect sense. Fill the spaceship with rocket fuel? Trampled by elephants? Might as well be Shakespeare to a nine-year-old.
Despite what Wee Jimmy Krankie and the agony aunt section of men’s magazines might say to the contrary, size matters loads. Just ask any of these hulking goliaths. While some giants in popular culture are more concerned with shilling you canned sweetcorn than grinding your bones to make a wholemeal loaf, PlayStation’s gargantuan folk just want to trample, scoff or suplex you. Regardless of whether it’s a fallen god scrapping with his football field-sized granddad or a Skyrim beanpole who can mess you up more than any lag, none of these brutes exactly scream BFG.
As much as I am ready to play this game I may hold out on downloading the demo as I want HBK to be the first person I use in the game.
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My dude was always Hogan. And I do the same thing I always use him first, at least with the older wrestling games. I'll definitely get this. I just don't like the models. I know they are sposed to look like action figures but still, why do the past generation always have to look cartoony? Why can't they look like they did back when they were in their prime.