Overview- Critic & User
Reviews - Videos &
Screenshots
News- Codes
& FAQs - Gameplay
Controls - Similar
Games
Answers
Bundles
Critic & User Reviews
Felt similar to playing TNA
posted by Droppo (HOUSTON, TX) Mar 30, 2009
Member since Dec 2006
9 out of 14 gamers (64%) found this review helpful
I got the same impression from playing LoW as playing TNA's recent game: there is potential here, but it aint right yet.
This makes no sense to me though after having played the last three years' worth of WWE games. Each game has been refined and gotten better. They have been working on a control scheme that works well for wrestling for years now. This game throws all that out the window. The new controls are in some ways simpler but in many ways much less intuitive. There seems to much less variety in the moves you can make on your opponent. Also, there are so few types of game modes compared to the regular WWE games. Why gut out all the work and improvement made in the previous games? You have to realize that many of the gamers who will buy this wrestling game were already very familiar with the Smackdown vs. Raw games. This isn't a whole new demographic for this game just because it covers people from the 80's and early 90's.
This game is the only place where you will find some of these characters in a game. So it is worth trying out. Just don't get your hopes up too high. Standards were dropped for this game that was released as a tie in for this year's Wrestlemania 25. Hoping for a wider audience, they tried to dumb down their gameplay. They succeeded. It is quite a bit dumber. Not hopeless, but a step back for sure.
This makes no sense to me though after having played the last three years' worth of WWE games. Each game has been refined and gotten better. They have been working on a control scheme that works well for wrestling for years now. This game throws all that out the window. The new controls are in some ways simpler but in many ways much less intuitive. There seems to much less variety in the moves you can make on your opponent. Also, there are so few types of game modes compared to the regular WWE games. Why gut out all the work and improvement made in the previous games? You have to realize that many of the gamers who will buy this wrestling game were already very familiar with the Smackdown vs. Raw games. This isn't a whole new demographic for this game just because it covers people from the 80's and early 90's.
This game is the only place where you will find some of these characters in a game. So it is worth trying out. Just don't get your hopes up too high. Standards were dropped for this game that was released as a tie in for this year's Wrestlemania 25. Hoping for a wider audience, they tried to dumb down their gameplay. They succeeded. It is quite a bit dumber. Not hopeless, but a step back for sure.