Post by #HEEL Dark Lord on Aug 3, 2008 17:35:12 GMT -5
August 1, 2008 - For a few years now, the wrestling game business has been a one company show, but Midway will change all of that this September when the men and women from TNA elbow drop their way onto your favorite console. However, it's been hard to get a good look at TNA iMPACT!. IGNers have played the game at events, but we've never had the chance to just sit down and tear this game apart.
Thankfully, TNA-Listers is going to fix that and bring you along for the ride. iMPACT! is now in the office, and we're going to show you every wrestler and every finisher while giving you a little tidbit of how the day's brawler played. Look for updates every day this week, and then look for Monday-Wednesday-Friday features with a few surprises.
Ring the damn bell.
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I miss the real ECW.
If you followed last year's coverage of that other wrestling game, you know I adore the ECW of old. Sabu, RVD, Dreamer, Sandman, Paulie, etc. It was awesome, and as that golden age came to a close, a young man called Rhino entered the federation.
It was right around the time he piledrove Sandman's wife off the apron and through a table that the War Machine won me over.
No stranger to the world of professional wrestling videogames, Rhino arrives in iMPACT packing the moves you'd probably expect. There's a German suplex, atomic drop, belly to belly suplex, and kick to the crotch. He's got the power moves we've talked about before, which -- coupled with the fact that there aren't character-specific taunts -- kind of makes him a bit forgettable.
In the end, Rhino tosses his opponent to the ground, lines up, and delivers the gore. The animation doesn't really do the severity of the move justice, but the quality of the finisher is hit or miss even in real life.
Thankfully, TNA-Listers is going to fix that and bring you along for the ride. iMPACT! is now in the office, and we're going to show you every wrestler and every finisher while giving you a little tidbit of how the day's brawler played. Look for updates every day this week, and then look for Monday-Wednesday-Friday features with a few surprises.
Ring the damn bell.
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I miss the real ECW.
If you followed last year's coverage of that other wrestling game, you know I adore the ECW of old. Sabu, RVD, Dreamer, Sandman, Paulie, etc. It was awesome, and as that golden age came to a close, a young man called Rhino entered the federation.
It was right around the time he piledrove Sandman's wife off the apron and through a table that the War Machine won me over.
No stranger to the world of professional wrestling videogames, Rhino arrives in iMPACT packing the moves you'd probably expect. There's a German suplex, atomic drop, belly to belly suplex, and kick to the crotch. He's got the power moves we've talked about before, which -- coupled with the fact that there aren't character-specific taunts -- kind of makes him a bit forgettable.
In the end, Rhino tosses his opponent to the ground, lines up, and delivers the gore. The animation doesn't really do the severity of the move justice, but the quality of the finisher is hit or miss even in real life.
