Fuck, this game looks fun. Biff's one liners from the latest videos.
+I love the look of the game. The cartoony, action figure look and sets look so cool. They remind me of why I love that era of wrestling. I really love seeing the Sid and Martel vid...they both look so cool.
-Selling is nearly non existant. Guys only hold their backs when hurt. No arms, legs, head holding. Worse, they bounce back up in seconds.
-Life bars suck for wrestling games.
-Submission holds aren't held on long enough.
+Many moves seem to lack impact.
+Some of the animations, while akward are just great. I like that allot of it looks fake, like some of the terrible matches way back when. If this is intentional, I don't know. I really like it though. The duck unders, the way the wrestlers pick themselves up when they are about to be slammed...it looks really real.
+CAW looks pretty good. Huge step up over the first game.
+Camera is pretty good. Especially over the shitty tag team camera of old. Looks just like the AKI camera.
+Lots of cool old school moves like the heart punch, wind up elbow drop...
+good height and weight differences.
-Not sure how much match pacing there is.
+/- Movesets are way off. Valentine doing the stunner, Martel with the flying head scissors...thankfully, the movesets can be edited.
Biff's bottom line: Problems aside and shitty reviews not withstanding, I'm buying this the day it hits. There's nothing else coming out till NCAA that I want, and this game looks like it plays semi decent. That, with the look and roster make it a must buy for me. If it sucks, it sucks. If it's good, well hell...I have a decent wrestling game with the roster of my childhood. Not to shabby.
