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Finally got through the Sheamus section of RTWM. The mode has started to grow on me although it still has it's issues. Some of the cutscenes are ok but personally I'm not a fan of just pressing Y after you beat your opponent up enough and then something completely random happens in the cut scene that usually makes no sense considering how the rest of the match went when I was in control. The Elimination chamber was frustrating but the rest of the matches have been pretty straight forward and I haven't needed to retry many of them once I finally got through the first PPV.

I think after a little while my biggest problem was just the characters you use. Sheamus is the main guy but you team with the United Kingdom which means a lot of Steven Reagal and Drew Mcintyre who aren't very interesting characters and I got tired of using them pretty quick. Sheamus and Barrett are solid but there's still to much of the other two for my liking. Hopefully the Triple H section has some better secondary characters.

[goh]

UK story was alright. Thought they were going for something amazing there but no. I hated the EC too. Cena kept breaking up my moves for some inexplicable reason. I thought Regal was really great to use.

HHH story is terrible. I want it over with 10 matches ago. Just finished MITB in case anyone was wondering how long ago 10 matches was.

Brawls are bad,brawls with more than one person are a downright clustercluck. Cage match messed up too. Orton got stuck and Kane stood there doing wake up taunts on him until I hit him.

Had a quick look around in CAW. Females appear to have 1 new hair and 1 new top. I think males and females both had 1 new set of gloves. Not much new there.

Anyone get the black ring glitch here?

Oh btw when selecting a logo for a show the King of the Ring logo is called King of the RingS.

[Tomba]

Took me 10 matches before i won my first.

The sheer amount of moves is staggering BUT its not laid out for the user to learn very well. No video tutorial etc(that I could see)

Graphically (and this is big) and even more importantly. The camera and it's angle are almost arguably the best in ANY sports game Ive played.
IT LOOKS LIKE ITS ON TV!!!!
Almost identical to what you see in a real life broadcast. it adds so much to the matches.

Physics wise i see very little bad. Aside from maybe 1 or 2 bad rope interactions its near perfect for a first time tech...

AI is a bit too fast and tough out the gate but i think thats due to player attributes not being done correctly.

This ONE heck of a pleasant surprise. Even though wrestling is FAKE this game does a fantastic job at making it seem real.

Ultimate fun to be had here.

9.5/10

[goh]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomba

Took me 10 matches before i won my first. The sheer amount of moves is staggering BUT its not laid out for the user to learn very well. No video tutorial etc(that I could see)

Tutorial is in the pause menu,no videos though.

CAW RTWM is only getting better. For a while there Orton vs. HHH was the best match I had. (Oh the irony.) A suprise match in this one was the best I've had. That one actually almost played out like a real match...finally. There's been a few sequences but not a full match besides that one,HHH/Orton had the most sequences in one match. Due to the circumstances Cole & Lawler didn't even say much. I won't spoil it for anyone though.

[CoupleOfFew1]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

I beat up Cena for like 10 mins on RTWM, and cant get the "prompt" to finish him.....he then FUs me out of nowhere to end the match. eh. Im probably not going to get into this game....I have a online axxess code handy....first come, first serve....

What system? Ill take it if its for ps3

[goh]

Last RTWM match,now that's a boss battle! It takes a very,very long time so make sure you've got enough time before you play it.

Spoiler

I'm not sure exactly but it was anywhere between 30 and 50 minutes. This is in a spoiler now because there's a fake ending at Wrestlemania and the time would give it away. Even though it's in a spoiler the actual match is too awesome to give away.

[Qb]

We had five guys ready to grapple last night and the results were mostly positive. There are some quirks when it comes to starting a custom/private match. Perhaps we all missed something, but we could only see the option to invite your Xbox Live party, not individual friends, from within the match setup screen. (Note: I believe you can invite a single friend from the Xbox guide) More importantly, for some reason game invites often lead to a server error and kick to the main menu. However, if you go to the Xbox Live menu option, it almost always puts you directly into that invite match on the next try (very odd). But enough menu nitpicking, on to the meat & potatoes...

Mill & I did two standard one-on-one matches with practically zero lag. A triple threat ladder match also ran fairly smooth, although it is a bear to win one of those. Once we had everyone in the party, we went for a 5-man championship scramble. Started to see some lag, but it wasn't too bad and there were several kickouts, even late in the match, so it didn't affect things too much.

The real fun started when we did some Royal Rumbles. We were surprised to see that you can have up to 12 users in the match, meaning you'll have to wait to get back in the ring after an elimination. Also, a late elimination does not mean a fresh guy to finish the fight. Unfortunately, we weren't able to finish the one 12-user rumble we tried, as it mysteriously hung after about 20 guys with no new entrants coming in. It's worth mentioning that most of the "randoms" in the match with us quit (including the host we believe) after we decided to gang up on them with 4 or 5 on 1, so perhaps that had something to do with it.

Overall, it was like going through a time warp to the year 2000 and playing No Mercy in the dorm. Frantic action all over the ring, with the added twists of not knowing when someone has a finisher, which can lead to some great moments.

One of my favorites came in the final three after I got Big Show as a late entrant and absolutely cleaned house. It was down to myself, Yoshi Tatsu, and Tyson Kidd. Sensing an impending double team, I went right at both guys, laying waste to twerps. Kidd backed off to let me finish off Yoshi, but quickly moved in as I completed the elimination. He jumped me before I could counter and used a finisher elimination to take me out. Yes, Tyson Kidd will main event Wrestlemania.

I don't think any of us were disappointed with the night. We were worried at first with the menu issues, but once we knew what do, it worked. We had a blast, and Christian would be proud of our "one more match" requests. I highly recommend grabbing some friends and hitting the ring.

[Redacted01]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Yup plenty of wrestler themes messed up,out of date or missing too. Didn't even remember that one,good catch! Also there's no soundtrack again this year,just generic menu music. While I'm at it...nope no Nexus theme,lame. Legacy,Show-Miz and Corre are there though.

Yea... Dolph Ziggler who just changed his theme. CM Punk is missing static, not a death blow there. Daniel Bryan changes his theme every few weeks now it seems. Change Mason Ryan's theme to Husky Harris. Cody Rhodes just got a new theme. The point is, the music they have is accurate to when it was entered.