USA Today writes: "A lot has changed in professional wrestling, particularly in the realm of video games.
Twenty years ago, wrestling games employed simple, two-button controls, such as Nintendo Entertainment System titles Pro Wrestling and Tecmo World Wrestling as well as arcade game WWF Superstars.
Today's franchises, WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw and TNA Impact, boast more elaborate schemes involving a myriad of button combinations. This is partly why WWE Legends of Wrestlemania (PS3, Xbox 360) from THQ is so refreshing, at least after spending a few hours in the ring."
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.
