Beyond there you’ll face more frustration with a series of tag team matches, Ultimate X matches before regaining the TNA title. Once you beat the first few jobbers, you end up facing James Storm in a bout to 'earn a try-out with TNA'', which sees you face two more jobbers, then Jay Lethal (at this point still with your basic set of moves). Hopefully (if they make one), the remainder will be in the sequel. Funnily enough, Midway had captured over 2,000 animations (and moves) for this game, only for time restrictions to prevent all but a fraction of these from making the final cut. can you smell the parity? If you want to unlock more moves, you have to score style points throughout matches, but unless you take your time and perform every single move in your arsenal, be prepared to play several matches with your limited manoeuvres. After creating your guy, you face a series of generic jobbers, who also share your moveset. Your 'new and improved Suicide' starts with a default moveset, including Chris Sabin’s Cradle Shock as a finisher. If you’ve been spoiled by the SmackDown series of games, and their expansive range of Create a Wrestler options, you’ll hate the CAW mode in iMPACT! that sees you choose from a limited range of parts. Afterwards, Suicide gets beaten up so badly 'almost every bone in his body' is broken, prompting some all-over plastic surgery, which sees you give Suicide a new look and a new moniker. Suicide chooses to ignore them, and wins the TNA title in the process. So, what is the story mode? Well, on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, you watch a long introductory video that sees a wrestler called Suicide get asked to throw a title match by LAX. Out of the box, only 17 wrestlers are playable, with mostly big names (Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, Christian Cage) available, while the likes of Brother Ray (Devon is available from the start), Tomko, Abyss and Kevin Nash have to be unlocked.
A PUNCH?!īe prepared for several encounters like that in iMPACT! Especially if you wander into the story mode - which, if you want to unlock any wrestlers, you will have to do. then after running outside the ring, I ended up tripping over the ring steps, quickly followed by the CPU (who did the same) before I was beaten by. playing against the CPU, however, is a different story, as you face some AI that can sway from stupidly easy, to stupidly hard, to just plain stupid in the same match! Case in point: in one match, I found myself able to lay out my CPU opponent with any move, punch, dive and chair shot (yes, there are chairs in the game, and every bout in iMPACT! is a no-DQ affair). When you’re playing another human, there’s little problem. The left shoulder button makes any of those moves 'strong' (differentiating between, say hip tosses and suplexes), while all blocks and reversals are performed with the right shoulder button. As you’d expect, the left stick moves your wrestler about, while in conjunction with a direction the X and A buttons perform striking attacks, and Y launches a grapple. Unlike in SmackDown, you can just about get away with playing the game using just the one analogue stick. With wrestlers such as AJ Styles, Jay Lethal and Samoa Joe putting in their two cents into development, the whole aim of iMPACT! was to be 'easy to play, but hard to master'. Or even No Mercy, the game that had supposedly been used as a template to this game.Īnyway, enough of the warnings and preamble: what is iMPACT! like to play? Well, it pretty much succeeds in the whole 'pick up and play' aspect, which was one of the main goals that Midway had wanted to beat. or to play TNA iMPACT! with any mind to comparing it to the SmackDown series. When a game’s taken this long to produce, you’d be forgiven for having high expectations - I warn you now, it is probably best to not come into this with those expectations. but now, gaming wrestling fans now have an option. Okay, that’s probably because TNA was the only alternative. With ECW Anarchy Rulz and WCW Backstage Assault (okay, we’ll be generous - WCW Mayhem) being the last mainstream games to hit video game systems, it’s been almost eight years since wrestling fans have had a chance to sink their teeth into a non-WWE video game that features wrestlers they’ve heard of. When Midway announced over two years ago that they would be producing a game for TNA, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that this would be the game to take on THQ’s titan. Raw’s crown as the 'best wrestling game'.
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