Legends of Wrestling II
Platform: PS2, Xbox, GameCube
Genre: Wrestling
Publisher / Developer: Acclaim / Studios Salt Lake City
Only short bursts of fireworks can drown out a wild roar of the crowd surrounding the ring. So the audience greeted the brawny soldier who had just appeared in the hall. Squeezed through the ropes, he lifts over his head clenched fists and shouts something unintelligible in the direction of the stands. And then again flash: to the ring confident gait approaching the second participant of the emerging fights. The first wrestler shows surprise, then makes a terrible eyes and accepted pacing from corner to corner like a hunted animal. Procured somewhere microphone, opponents begin to exchange barbs before until one of them decides to apply a proven argument - heel kick in the nose. And go in and go: jumps, grabs sophisticated and acrobatic stunts. And let the majority of attacks do not reach their goal, and a random blood culprit would tearfully apologize for the scenes, most importantly, the audience happy, and sponsors pay.
This is the modern wrestling, and almost as he was ten, twenty and thirty years ago. Pioneers of spectacular battles were once considered heroes, but now they only remember the names of loyal fans. Draft Legends of Wrestling, to some extent has restored justice by returning to the ring's most prominent wrestlers of the past years. But even this did not save the first part of the game, which debuted on the PS2 in the year 2001, from the nasty reviews. The desire to rehabilitate the amusing concept embodied in the sequel, which, like many other creations of Acclaim, was released underdeveloped. We begin with a pleasant: the number of soldiers increased to 65. The only one who just needs no introduction - it's Hulk Hogan (Hulk Hogan). Mighty old man with the red usischami, incidentally, is still engaged in battle, but here he looks a bit rejuvenated. The traditional edit mode allows you to create your own characters, debugging their appearance in the form and picking techniques. The game has an extensive collection dubbed names and words, so that you can call home-made wrestlers in every one. For more details and costumes, as well as other bonuses that can be opened during the game.
In addition to the standard tournaments, there are several unusual modes. A good example - a fight inside a steel cage close, from which, however, can break if break down the door. Another option calls for the battle to capture suspended above the ground are the winner. In the beginning he was untouchable, but gradually the trophy falls lower and lower until someone climbed the stairs, do not assign it. Career mode is mainly for two reasons: firstly, there is some semblance of plot, and secondly, the rules of the fight close to real wrestling. Map of the United States is divided into five regions that you will consistently win. For this purpose does not necessarily put in a knockout all the local bullies, just need to become the most popular wrestler. Easier said than done ...During a battle on-screen indicator displays the spectator enthusiasm, which can grow and shrink depending on your actions. Primitive methods will tire quickly of fans, but if you use a variety of techniques, your rating as a result of creep upward. From normal attacks can not build a combo, but you can use the combined grabs and parrying attacks. Unfortunately, the number of tricks is not too large, and control is not perfect. Although the pace of the game increased in comparison with the original, controlled character responds to commands with some delay.
These men wrestling, as we know, have their own styles and techniques of the crown, but the authors of the game, apparently, does not care. Participants LoW vengeance using other people's tricks, which came into use only recently. This fact is unlikely to upset the ordinary gamer, but connoisseurs massacre can easily consider it a sacrilege.
In terms of graphics LoW2 mixed feelings. Muscular body half-naked men as somehow unnatural gloss, which is why it seems as if they are made of plastic. Needless to say, that the polished faces bruised and bruising look strange. Oh, and scant drops of blood are sometimes bryzzhut and sprinkle the floor.
Becoming a fight moves outside the ring, and then reveals a terrible secret: the audience in the form of shabby two-dimensional sprites! Frivolous camera does not try to hide it, and eagerly approaching the stands, and sometimes even gets stuck there. And, imagine, frame-rate version of the game for the PS2 even dare to slow down when at the same time fighting four wrestler.
I will not prevaricate, LoW2 - not the best representative of the genre. The authors have put into your project a lot of interesting ideas, but none of them are not able to really develop. Even more offensive that the shortcomings of the first part of "Legends of Wrestling" were inherited by the continuation, although the developers had a year to fix them. As a result, we face fighting with poor management, long downloads and questionable graphics. If you're willing to put up with it for the sake recorded on the disc of exclusive video interviews with the fighters, I can say one thing: you - a true fan of wrestling.
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