For personal reference more than anything else.
Played this a fair bit over the last couple of days. Have played it when I was younger and considered it one of my favourites for a long time.
Coming back to it, I don't quite feel the same way about it but I still think its pretty good. The gameplay is actually fun here which is a nice improvement over '12. Its faster and just feels better, there is a slight issue that I have in that unless a heavyweight (or heavier) wrestler is in the match then any moves are basically silent, it makes it feel like there's no impact when using moves which I'm not really a fan of.
30 years of Wrestlemania is a really cool concept and for a while I was quite into it but eventually I got a little tired of it and stopped as it was getting kind of repetitive and losing late into a match meant having to redo the thing again along with the objectives which was just annoying. But I quite liked having the unlockables tied into this mode and acting as rewards for completing the objectives in each match, its probably one of my favourite ways this franchise has handled unlockables. As someone who doesn't watch WWE it was interesting seeing certain things, what and who were popular at various points in time and how weird the whole thing got at times.
Some scattered thoughts:
• The HUD is basically just the '12 one again but there's now a thing that shows how damaged the limbs of an opponent are and its handy to have and I quite like it but I still just wish the game had a normal HUD.
• Create a Superstar seems basically the same as the one in '12 which is good.
• I kind of like the music even if its not my usual kind of thing but its weird to me how songs cut off after a while, I get these are supposed to be the various wrestlers' themes and it makes sense for them to eventually cut out but it doesn't feel right and it sort of ruins it when I've been enjoying the song.
I think this game is good, it was a bit of a shock coming back to it as I didn't realise how similar it is to some of the older ones. I mean both when I was younger and now I've just sort of gone straight from '12 to this and skipped over '13, but I remember it feeling like such an upgrade. I definitely think its better than '12 by a fair bit though and I think its quite enjoyable. I could see me coming back to this one a lot.
Played this a fair bit over the last couple of days. Have played it when I was younger and considered it one of my favourites for a long time.
Coming back to it, I don't quite feel the same way about it but I still think its pretty good. The gameplay is actually fun here which is a nice improvement over '12. Its faster and just feels better, there is a slight issue that I have in that unless a heavyweight (or heavier) wrestler is in the match then any moves are basically silent, it makes it feel like there's no impact when using moves which I'm not really a fan of.
30 years of Wrestlemania is a really cool concept and for a while I was quite into it but eventually I got a little tired of it and stopped as it was getting kind of repetitive and losing late into a match meant having to redo the thing again along with the objectives which was just annoying. But I quite liked having the unlockables tied into this mode and acting as rewards for completing the objectives in each match, its probably one of my favourite ways this franchise has handled unlockables. As someone who doesn't watch WWE it was interesting seeing certain things, what and who were popular at various points in time and how weird the whole thing got at times.
Some scattered thoughts:
• The HUD is basically just the '12 one again but there's now a thing that shows how damaged the limbs of an opponent are and its handy to have and I quite like it but I still just wish the game had a normal HUD.
• Create a Superstar seems basically the same as the one in '12 which is good.
• I kind of like the music even if its not my usual kind of thing but its weird to me how songs cut off after a while, I get these are supposed to be the various wrestlers' themes and it makes sense for them to eventually cut out but it doesn't feel right and it sort of ruins it when I've been enjoying the song.
I think this game is good, it was a bit of a shock coming back to it as I didn't realise how similar it is to some of the older ones. I mean both when I was younger and now I've just sort of gone straight from '12 to this and skipped over '13, but I remember it feeling like such an upgrade. I definitely think its better than '12 by a fair bit though and I think its quite enjoyable. I could see me coming back to this one a lot.