Penguin's Quickie WrestleMania x8 Impressions

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I was gonna write this last night, but I um got tied up in something.

*Looks at game evilly*

Anyhow, some quick impressions.

What They Did Right
-For the most part, the entrances are spot on.
-The graphics are pretty nice
-The flow of the match is decent.
-Interaction with weapons and the Cell is fun. You can jump on someone from the top of the Cell (You can do it when they on the floor or climbing), you can punch them off the cell (or any other strong striking move) or you can throw them through the Cell. The ladder is just as cool. So far I've done a suplex off off the ladder and punched the other dude off, but there are two ladders in the match, I'm gonna have to test out if you can use both. The tables can be put in the corner to do moves through, it's pretty cool.
-Nice selection of wrestlers
-Nice selection of match types and arenas

What they Did Wrong
-The background music is horrid, it sounds like someone borrowed an NES soundtrack.
-I only made one character so I can't pass fair judgement but so far it seems pretty bad.
-Some control issues. Moves the require two buttons (Finishers, evda+ grapple, Irish whip) are ok, but then when that button combination doubles for something else (picking up weapons, picking up oppenents into a grapple) it gets annoying.
-Overselling. SmackDown! has an issue with no selling, No Mercy was good with selling, but this game oversells.
-Small assortment of moves, I would say each person got like 35-35 moves.


Well, I think that is about it for my impressions except that I find the game to be barrels of fun, hopefully it stays like that for a long time.