"How does the X8 fighting engine work, exactly? As we noted, the grappling is very arcadey in the vein of Yuke's other wrestling title Smackdown! Just Bring It! Using the A-button on the GCN controller you have five front grapples, five rear grapples, and a few miscellaneous ones like the evade and grapple, performed by pressing the X and A-button simultaneously. In the evade and grapple, your wrestler will dodge from the front of your opponent to back, whereupon he/she will perform a hold or throw. There is no pre-grapple as seen in the previous N64 versions and Xbox's WWF Raw. This doesn't leave as much room for moves and, equally, control over what you're doing. Like Smackdown! it feels very twitch and arcadey. WrestleMania X8 is definitely slightly slower than Smackdown!, so it doesn't feel like a button-mashing fest, but it's a huge departure from games like No Mercy. "
Arghhhhhhh......this is really dissapointing to me.....I am a big fan of the grapple hold in No Mercy.....this is just messed up ...why couldn't they keep the same control system?? Man this sucks.
