Worth a Rent for the Wrestlemania Mode
posted by Solrina (CANDLER, NC) Jul 20, 2010
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I, pretty much like everyone else, rented this game for what was believed to be, and certainly was, an easy platinum. But even though I played the game for barely 10 hours, it did have at least one thing going for it.
The idea of the game was brilliant. Take some of the biggest stars of WWE's history and put all of them in one game. Unfortunately, the game itself seemed very slapped together. The create-a-legend mode was average at best, the graphics nothing special, the commentary annoying, and the gameplay boring after about 20 minutes of button mashing.
The Legend mode was simple enough, beat 10 guys (38 in the largest tier) to become...well a "Legend." It was very easy to beat and not worth playing after you'd beaten all the tiers.
The Exhibition mode was fun for a while with a friend, and there was lots of match types, including the always fun Royal Rumble. But that too gets old quick.
No, the real fun was the Wrestlemania Tour mode, were you are replaying classic matches of WM's past, but with a twist. In Relive, you are copying a match, having to preform the same moves and events that actually happened, the most fun (and challenging) being Stone Cold v. The Rock at WM 15. In Rewrite you get a chance as a loser to gain some level of revenge by changing the outcome. Finally in Redefine you can chose either wrestler and have a stipulation that never happened. These modes are very fun and extremely nostalgic for those of us that remember some of the old days fondly.
Even better is the video entrances used before these matches that give you insight into the feud in case you did not know, and that was crazy fun to watch.
The game is a very, very short trip down memory lane towards your inevitable platinum, and while it's worth a rent, it'll be out of your memory quickly, as you rush to your next game.
At least I got to play as Greg "The Hammer" Valentine for a while, and that made it worth my time.
5/10
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