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THQ was readying a 'Brawl' clone featuring WWE wrestlers.
- Thread starter Bukana
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outunderthestars
Banned
and nothing of value was lost.
disappeared
Banned
This would have been awesome in like 2001.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
de Blob and de Blob 2 were quite excellent. The latter was criminally ignored, especially by a market (360/PS3) lacking in quality 3D platformers.
Oni Link 666
Member
What do you mean by "Brawl Clone"? Was there another WWE game called Brawl? 'Cause that looks nothing like Super Smash Bros Brawl.
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Deleted member 74300
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News of the game is old. Like back from last July
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/07/10/wwe-brawl-debut.aspx
http://www.destructoid.com/wwe-brawl-steps-out-of-the-ring-and-into-the-streets-205760.phtml
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/07/10/wwe-brawl-debut.aspx
http://www.destructoid.com/wwe-brawl-steps-out-of-the-ring-and-into-the-streets-205760.phtml
Leon S. Kennedy
Member
First post nails it. Looks monotonous at best.
TaroYamada
Member
What I was thinking, looked like a Powerstone spiritual successor.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Because most people really hate wrestling.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Whatever happened to All Stars? It's the only wrestling game I've bought since the N64 days.
Given how often wrestling trends on twitter weekly, no.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
How often it actually trends or how often WWE SAYS it trends?
It trends constantly. They have no reason to make that up. Even TNA's Eric Young has trended before. Even on PPVs, they trend.
Mushroomer25
Member
Aw, this was Blue Tongue's work?
Damn. I always forget that they bit the dust, and reminders like this don't help to heal the wound.
Damn. I always forget that they bit the dust, and reminders like this don't help to heal the wound.
you are oblivious to the world if you didnt think the WWE Universe twitter trends.
Exhibit A in why they don't let the public into E3.
TwilightPrincess
Member
Keyser Soze
Member
Expand on WWE All Stars.
Drop all other WWE games.
Profit?
Drop all other WWE games.
Profit?
The Abominable Snowman
Member
It trends constantly. They have no reason to make that up. Even TNA's Eric Young has trended before. Even on PPVs, they trend.
It's not hard to trend any show that's currently on.
Honey 2, a 45 minute long direct-to-video sequel to a direct-to-video quality movie.
A 2 year old rerun of American Dad on Adult Swim.
A skit on a old comedy sketch show.
Rodney McKay
Member
It's not hard to trend any show that's currently on.
Honey 2, a 45 minute long direct-to-video sequel to a direct-to-video quality movie.
A 2 year old rerun of American Dad on Adult Swim.
A skit on a old comedy sketch show.
Trending once versus trending a wrestler, and a wrestler's specific move?
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Family guy, American Dad, and pretty much every Adult Swim show trend nightly. I know that much.
And any time BET shows a movie it trends often.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Sounds like a horrible idea and probably should be canned. Though with only 30-40 people, I think they could have taken a chance with it.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Yeah, no offence but the gameplay video for this leaked out last Summer.
There's no news here at all, just slow "journalists".
There's no news here at all, just slow "journalists".
Did You Know that John Cena has more followers than all of facebook combined?
Trending in the States or trending Worldwide?
This is just by SoulPlaya's alley.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
WW tends to change much faster (Partially due to spam accts) but its largely the same unless there is a big WW scandal. Honey 2 is still trending top 5 WW, while American Dad is in the top 20 but not the top 10. They're largely the same.
Wasn't WWE 12 THQ's most successful wrestling game yet? I can see why they think they are in the right when they do the things they do with the license.
Triple Da G.O.D!
Member
I thought the game looked pretty cool the first time I saw it. The footage proved that it was a great concept and with a bit more polish could've been something cool like All-Stars was. Shame that'll never come to be.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Bummer but I'll settle for John Cena as the final boss in Sony Smash.
Only a terrific studio full of talented people.
The problem I have with current offerings is the lack of any substantial improvements. The roster might be updated, but the problems riddling the games have been antiquated back to the PS2 generation. The list of issues include:
- Clipping
- Poor Animation System
- Draconian Physics system
- No Damage system to speak of (Wrestlers should favor limbs, show bruises, and collapse as the matches drag on)
- Simple things that for some reason look stupid or take too long to implement (Triple H spitting water, facial animations that look like dog turd)
- Graphics that seem to favour a half dozen wrestlers and leave the rest of the roster in PS2 purgatory
- Audiences, chants, and atmosphere that for some reason still sounds and looks like shit.
- Features that are added and removed at random (blood is in, than removed)
I could keep going, but THQ will never take the time to truly reinvent the franchise. If the monkeys keep buying it, they will keep shitting it out. The time it will take to remake the game from the ground up is something that requires investment (which THQ doesn't have), new blood, and a serious look at what made wrestling games successful in the past.
- Clipping
- Poor Animation System
- Draconian Physics system
- No Damage system to speak of (Wrestlers should favor limbs, show bruises, and collapse as the matches drag on)
- Simple things that for some reason look stupid or take too long to implement (Triple H spitting water, facial animations that look like dog turd)
- Graphics that seem to favour a half dozen wrestlers and leave the rest of the roster in PS2 purgatory
- Audiences, chants, and atmosphere that for some reason still sounds and looks like shit.
- Features that are added and removed at random (blood is in, than removed)
I could keep going, but THQ will never take the time to truly reinvent the franchise. If the monkeys keep buying it, they will keep shitting it out. The time it will take to remake the game from the ground up is something that requires investment (which THQ doesn't have), new blood, and a serious look at what made wrestling games successful in the past.
SkyMasterson
Member
I knowwwww. I wanted more ALl Stars but with more depth and options. Would have been perfect!
or just release an updated No Mercy game with the current roster like they were supposed to years ago...
TaroYamada
Member
@Folks saying most people hate wrestling, I agree with you, most do and even I hate wrestling, but I probably would have played this if it came to Steam. It looks like a modern take on the PowerStone formula and I like the art direction. Though honestly I'd prefer THQ do it with another license, it's be pretty sick with Warhammer, but that would have likely sold worse than this would have. I could have seen this game doing pretty well on the Wii a couple years ago when it was still alive & kicking.
Oh well, shame it was canned. Wish THQ wasn't in their current position, hands down my favorite of the major western publishers but they just keep losing their studios it seems.
Oh well, shame it was canned. Wish THQ wasn't in their current position, hands down my favorite of the major western publishers but they just keep losing their studios it seems.