Legends of Wrestling, if nothing else, proves that if Acclaim was a television federation competing with the WWF, it would have been crushed and devoured by Vince McMahon's Titan empire before it even got off the ground.
42 of the greatest men ever to walk into a squared circle are present in LOW. We're talking guys like Bret Hart, victim of the infamous 1997 Montreal screwjob. Men like the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Road Warriors, Snuka, Funk, Lawler. Even the "Real American" himself, Hulk Hogan! Looking at the package, it's quite an attractive package, and for fans of sports entertainment's storied history, it's one that seems more than worth the purchase price for the nostalgia factor alone.
That is, until you realize that the game engine consists of an over simplified system of moves that can best be described as button mashing disguised as strategic button presses. And what's up with those meters where you have to time a button press in the green area to execute a reversal? Um…did someone at Acclaim forget to tell the new programmer that the golf game was being worked on down the hall to the LEFT? From picking up chairs to climbing out of the ring, every non-basic grapple/attack move is more complex than it should be. Sure, a lot of these guys don't have much athletic talent anymore, but I'm positive they would be embarrassed to see the way their legacies are represented…if they weren't collecting huge royalty checks.
At this point, you're either turned off by the lack of gameplay, or you're saying "hell, as long as I can bring Hulk Hogan back out to "Real American!" " Well, you can't. Nor did the developers see fit to shell out for RVD's "Walk" by Pantera. As a matter of fact, nobody has the right entrance music. Nobody. They didn't even get Jerry Lawler's "king" music right. The graphics are a damn joke, and remind me more of those god-awful ECW games than anything else. Wrestlers' bodies aren't in proportion with their legs, and they walk out looking like unfinished player models that were slapped together in a matter of minutes. When they do "walk that aisle", they just stand there doing the same animation over and over again for nine or ten seconds straight. This means Hogan just holds his ear out to the crowd 10 times. Lame. Lame. Lame. Amateur Flash animators could have done a better audio/visual job.
Acclaim should have said their prayers and taken their vitamins before they embarked on this little fiasco. Games like this do absolutely nothing for the video game or wrestling industries. It's sad, because now that Hogan is in the WWF again, chances a developer won't get a shot to do a game like this right for a long time. It also means that, God willing, we'll never see a sequel. Either way, these Legends deserve better, Brother.
-George
Company Line
Legends of Wrestling is the first-ever wrestling game to combine all of the greatest superstars from all over the world in one place, and the action takes place both in the ring and in the crowd.
FEATURES
Including for the first-time ever, in-depth match analysis and career guidance by Bobby "The Brain" Heenan and Captain Lou Albano, Legends of Wrestling also features:
Over 30 of the best wrestler's of all time including Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and George "The Animal" Steele;
More than 12 bone-breaking match types: Ladder, Scaffold, Barbed-Wire, Three and Four-Way Dances, Six and Eight-Man Elimination Bouts plus special guest referees;
Link moves together for lethal combinations like never before with the press of a single button;
All-new Singles and Tag-Team career mode that bring you across the United States and all over the world;
Interactive wrestler entrances with introductions, crowd responses and authentic grappler taunts;
Create-A-Wrestler and Create-A-Stable;
TV broadcast presentation with all-new camera angles and cut scenes.
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