"So no match starts in the WWE and so if you use the grappling button at the beginning of a fight at WWE 2K15, it only triggers the new chain wrestling system. Wrestling fans know what it is about: Both wrestlers go directly to an upright grappling position and fight for a better position. It starts as rock-scissors-paper: Each player presses one of three buttons and the winner of the round brings in a more advantageous position."
So it's the return of SVR06's start-of-the-match minigame, where we used to shove the opponent, knock them on their ass, or enter a test of strength. Only now it's going to look retarded, as wrestlers will probably enter into a collor and elbow tie-up like in the old SEGA MegaDrive games, and hold each other for a few seconds, before one of them transitions into a sideheadlock or go-behind-armbar. How freaking anti-climactic is that? It's like in 2006 where Sting was built-up with a blood feud against Jeff Jarrett in TNA. Sting goes through a metamorphasis and all this stuff... and the match starts off with a damn sideheadlock rest hold by Sting as the TNA mutants chant 'this is awesome', before Sting does the spot where he backs Jarrett into the ropes and is fired-off accross the ring. Every match will start off this way, we don't even have what we had in the past with the option for a punch or test of strength. Most henoius is there is the removal of freedom. I'm sorry, but somebody like Brock Lesnar is likely to start a heated match by charging in with a closeline etc.
"From here both fighters then basically playing a game that recalls the snap of a lock. Both analog sticks are long rotates until you find the sticking point and hold in order to improve their own situation. In the meantime, the player an advantage can land the first hit or take the next best part of the body of his opponent in the pliers. It is more reminiscent of the way, like a real battle begins, in which you just do not attack with a spinebuster as soon as the match starts."
Oh for *Censored*'s sake. This is some UFC game crap, look for it to have ugly user interface stuff which pops up, taking you completely out of the action and reminding you it's a game. It better be hide-able in the options display menu (but the BREAKING POINT submission meter isn't in 1P vs CPU matches). It better not show-up when simming a CPU vs CPU match.
"There is another important change in Grappling: The four Grappling Poses no longer exists. Once you no longer find yourself in open battle, you just need to keep the grappling button and when you move the analog stick in a certain direction, it starts the next move. From a simple headlock out, can you still execute more moves, but the most important grappling maneuvers take place from the state. But that makes sense. How often fixed to an opponent in a position to determine, before one sets a suplex? Not at all. You just do it."
So.. we will grab a headlock as our starting postion all the time by holding the grapple button, or we don't have a starting position and we go into a suplex move by holding the grapple button and pressing a direction on the analouge stick? It can't be both.
Am I reading this correctly, only 4 grapple moves? (Up, Down, Left, Right) on analouge stick? 6 if we count Diagonally Up and Diagonally Down? 10 if we say that Diagonally Up/Down Left is a different move to Diagonally Up/Down Right etc. This seems even more limited then the old analouge stick control scheme from SVR07-SVR2011, since there are not grapple tie-ups anymore which used to contain a choice of four moves each. It certainly sounds like we're getting less move slots overall.
How are we supposed to pull off a big move like a Powerbomb instead of a crappy quick grapple? Will we have to hold R1 again to signify we want to perform a "Hard Grapple", or will our moveset magically change once the opponent is damaged enough, but then we can't use the early match "quick grapple moves" anymore?
