After launching the Smackdown vs. RAW franchise to critical and commercial success, YUKE's and THQ are taking a different approach to the pro-wrestling genre with their upcoming grappler, WWE: Legends of Wrestlemania. Legends of Wrestlemania takes players back to the good old days of Sgt. Slaughter, Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior and so on, allowing players to relive the best moments of Wrestlemanias 1-15. You'll even be able to make your own dream matches, pitting wrestlers like Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant against the likes of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and The Rock. The controls are also casual enough for anyone to be able to get into, making it the perfect wrestling game for those who haven't gotten into the wrestling game genre in several years.
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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.
