Fight Night Round 3, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1, Oblivion, Hitman: Blood Money, Prey, Godfather: The Game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Gears of War, Crackdown.
What's this a list of? Xbox 360 games that cost as much or less than TNA Impact, all of these games came out 2 years before TNA Impact, and all sell better, look better, and play better than TNA Impact. There is no reason for a game like TNA Impact to exist, here's why!!.....
Look, I'm a wrestling fan, a big one, have been for years. There's no way TNA will buy out WWE, I just can't see that happening.
Yes, this game is old. But first of all, let's blame Gamefly, since they seem to be out of everything nowadays. And frankly, there aren't many wrasslin' video games out anymore, cept for Smackdown, so to find something like TNA Impact is a nice change of pace
or so I thought.....
Where do I begin? The TNA roster that is half missing, the other half you have to, HAVE to play through the story mode to get them. What about arenas? Same deal, if you play exhibition you get to choose from a single arena, until you suffer through the story mode. Create-a-character? Same deal, you have nothing other than a default setting, until you play through the story mode.
Alright, fine. I'll go through the story mode. Let me give you a rundown...
you're a somewhat famous TNA wrestler called Suicide (which hilariously after this game came out, they did in fact get a character named Suicide to join actual TNA ranks, since they liked the idea so much). So you are famous, and you win matches, when some mexican fellows tell you to take a dive in your next match, you don't and they beat you up later, somehow you end up in Mexico, and you have to fight your way through the ranks of amateur wrestling to finally get a chance to be on TNA.
Now, if you missed the contradiction, you were a TNA superstar, some guys beat you up, and now the storyline is you crawling up the ladder to become.... a TNA superstar?
Ok.... so I get through like 5 matches, and I finally get to fight my difficult opponent, but this guy is tough, really tough, confusingly tough. So me wanting to simply get through the story mode to get the achievements and be able to review this, check the difficulty setting. I was going to lower it to have a easier time suffering through the game.
I am given the options of Indie, Pro, and Backyard. The default is Indie.... So I assume Indie is medium, so I switch it to Pro, nope, that ain't it. I check online and find multiple forums where people aren't sure which is which. In case you ever find yourself needing to know, Backyard is easy and it goes Backyard, Indie, Pro.
Why am I explaining all of this? It's a perfect example of whats wrong with this game, generally speaking. They could do things easy, but instead they just make it more difficult.
The sound is horrible, the announcers are perfect, circa 1998 N64 wrestling games. The controls are confusing (i.e. run is a trigger button, grabble is left bumper and Y?), the story mode basically consumes the entire game. The arena is aged (as of now), half the people on the roster don't exist anymore (I know it's an older game, but still). Just a poor excuse for a wrestling game.
Here's the deal, back in the day of N64 and PS1, the reason you played the wrestling games were either the giant roster of characters (WCW vs NWO revenge had like 100+ people) or you played for the features (WWF Raw and Attitude had decent announcers and customizable ring entrances), but this game? Nowadays? Around the time WWE Smackdown 2k7 was out? No good.
There really isn't a reason to play this game. Even if you're a hardcore TNA fan you'll know enough people from Smackdown to play it. Yeah, I'm going to compare it to Smackdown because basically, it's their direct competition in this wrestling gaming world (I'll leave out Rumble Roses X).
They basically took a average PS2 wrestling game, and ported it to the other systems, because it would sell, and sell it did, only.....eh, not so good.
Don't play, don't rent, don't gamefly, even if you like wrestling. If you HAVE to have a wrestling game, buy WWE Smackdown 2k7, and make the TNA wrestlers, chances are they'll even look better.
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