The game has its ups and its downs, just like the careers of all these Legends. Bringing back old school wrestling and the classic footage definitely brings that nostalgic factor which will make a lot of fans happy. The roster is big and can blow up with the Create-A-Legend mode and importing the current superstars from SVR 2009.
However, the loading times, the absences of some major historical legends, the dumbed down four button control system, the lack of variety moves for each grappler, and the repetitiveness of the gameplay really holds Legends of Wrestlemania from being an all out face. It's not a heel however; it's just stuck in the middle because of its simplicity.
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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.
Was still better than TNA Impact but still not good enough. ALthough I did get 1000 GS on it without too much hassle.