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Everyone, do yourselves a favour. Go buy Wrestlemania 19. It's a mix between Raw and Smackdown and it works very well. It's the closest thing to No Mercy, to date IMO. The best way to describe W19 is "standard graphics, awesome gameplay".
Where to start ......
The create-a-wrestler is the most advanced character creation system seen in any game, any format, any everything. You can choose the colour, the logo's, where the logo's placed and the size of the logo's on you're clothes. Theres many more moves to choose from and plenty of room to use them. You can have upto 8 specials. On No Mercy, left and right covered the same move, however W19 left and right are each a different move. You can also have a move that chucks people off stuff. I have mine set to chokeslam them and chokeslamming people of the Hell in the Cell is very fun indeed. Creating an Intro is just amazing. You can choose the camera angles, the fireworks, the lighting and the way your wrestler acts.
Random points ......
- If you go upto someone with a weapon in your hand and press A it'll do a special move. You drop a chair then DDT them onto it. You strangle them with poles and you slam them onto the ladders. And with a table, you set it up, slam their head into the table and place them ontop which saves an awful lot of hastle.
- The revenge mode is rather fun. Eliminating people by chucking them from tops of construction sites is very amusing. Although it has to be said, the storyline is very dodgy to say the least.
- Tables explode for some reason, but looks good all the same.
- The speed is just right and the wrestlers often stay down making it realistic, unlike Smackdown.
- The AI is rather crappy as the characters get stuck alot. That's why theres this thing known as mate's.
- The shopzone is back. At last theres a reason to do the single player mode again.
Your comments and questions.....
Where to start ......
The create-a-wrestler is the most advanced character creation system seen in any game, any format, any everything. You can choose the colour, the logo's, where the logo's placed and the size of the logo's on you're clothes. Theres many more moves to choose from and plenty of room to use them. You can have upto 8 specials. On No Mercy, left and right covered the same move, however W19 left and right are each a different move. You can also have a move that chucks people off stuff. I have mine set to chokeslam them and chokeslamming people of the Hell in the Cell is very fun indeed. Creating an Intro is just amazing. You can choose the camera angles, the fireworks, the lighting and the way your wrestler acts.
Random points ......
- If you go upto someone with a weapon in your hand and press A it'll do a special move. You drop a chair then DDT them onto it. You strangle them with poles and you slam them onto the ladders. And with a table, you set it up, slam their head into the table and place them ontop which saves an awful lot of hastle.
- The revenge mode is rather fun. Eliminating people by chucking them from tops of construction sites is very amusing. Although it has to be said, the storyline is very dodgy to say the least.
- Tables explode for some reason, but looks good all the same.
- The speed is just right and the wrestlers often stay down making it realistic, unlike Smackdown.
- The AI is rather crappy as the characters get stuck alot. That's why theres this thing known as mate's.
- The shopzone is back. At last theres a reason to do the single player mode again.
Your comments and questions.....
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It plays exactly like No Mercy with all the grappling etc, but with a better speed.
Cool and there's a standard career mode aswell as the revenge mode? Gamespot's review didn't make it very clear.
Is the career mode 1 player only?
Is the career mode 1 player only?
Yeah, it's only one player but taking it in turns is fairly good aswell. Me and a mate were playing, fail or complete a mission and it's the next persons go. The storyline is that you want to take revenge back at Vince, so steph offers you a contract in which you have to complete five tasks. And each task has 7 or so objectives. Theres the Construction site, Smackdown Mall, Car park and Docks and I presume that once you've completed them you unlock the Wrestlemania task itself. On completion of an objective you earn money which you spend in shopzone (similar to NM). You can also redo one of the completed objectives with any character to get more cash.
In the one player you basically have to kick s**t into security guards and stuff which sounds strange but is very amusing. The more guards you knockout or throw off the edge gives you a better score and more cash. The mission I'm stuck on, is that I have to climb to the top of the consruction site and eliminate HHH whilst trying to keep the guards knock down at the same time. On my last go, I got so far until a security officer decided to belly-to-belly me into HHH and eliminate us both. Grrr
In the one player you basically have to kick s**t into security guards and stuff which sounds strange but is very amusing. The more guards you knockout or throw off the edge gives you a better score and more cash. The mission I'm stuck on, is that I have to climb to the top of the consruction site and eliminate HHH whilst trying to keep the guards knock down at the same time. On my last go, I got so far until a security officer decided to belly-to-belly me into HHH and eliminate us both. Grrr
But there is a career mode aswell as the revenge mode?
Hedfix wrote:
> But there is a career mode aswell as the revenge mode?
All signs point to no. I'm not really bothered about the career mode anyway, and you shouldn't be. The only decent career modes so far are that of No Mercy and Def Jam. The others just pit you in random matches. I can remember on Smackdown 3 where I had just defended my World Championship and the next match I had was against Trish.
> But there is a career mode aswell as the revenge mode?
All signs point to no. I'm not really bothered about the career mode anyway, and you shouldn't be. The only decent career modes so far are that of No Mercy and Def Jam. The others just pit you in random matches. I can remember on Smackdown 3 where I had just defended my World Championship and the next match I had was against Trish.
I like RAW 2's season mode. I've just spent two nights in a row playing it overnight and I've only had it since tueday!
I think I will be getting Wrestlemania 19 very soon though, as it does sound nearer to No Mercy and it has plenty of matches types in multiplayer.
Strange idea for a story mode though. :S
I think I will be getting Wrestlemania 19 very soon though, as it does sound nearer to No Mercy and it has plenty of matches types in multiplayer.
Strange idea for a story mode though. :S
Hedfix wrote:
> Strange idea for a story mode though. :S
Yeah, but if it was multiplayer it be all the better.
> Strange idea for a story mode though. :S
Yeah, but if it was multiplayer it be all the better.
People still buy these crappy wrestling games?
Wrestling games peaked with the original WWF Wrestling on the NES.
Wrestling games peaked with the original WWF Wrestling on the NES.
lnsane Bartender wrote:
> People still buy these crappy wrestling games?
Do you play the likes of DOA, Tekken, Soul Calibur and Mortal Kombat?
> People still buy these crappy wrestling games?
Do you play the likes of DOA, Tekken, Soul Calibur and Mortal Kombat?
If you say that Soul Calibur 2 peaked with Street Fighter 2 I will laugh in your face
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