WWF Royal Rumble

"Old school wrestling. Good? Bad? Meh."

Introduction

It was back around the old era, like 1995 when I was walking around in the flea market. I happened to be standing around the stand where the sell used SNES games and the corpulent dude was staring at me as I picked up the game WWF Royal Rumble and paid for it.

I thought, cool, pro-wrestling games in the era where there wasn't any good wresting games for the PSX console or N64. And I have never played any wrestling game so, hey, lets give it a try.

I was up for some disappointed.

The game features some of your favorite wrestlers, but what it didn't provide me is the entertainment needs for something fun to play with. Instead I found something that was quite boring and was uninteresting for my adolescent mind (back then, anyways) I was thinking, boy, I was really to rumble with men in tights ... but no, just no. The game didn't developers as it promise.

Game Play

The game, well, basically you're in a ring with other guys and the objective of the game is like, hitting the other dudes with the chair over the head or doing body slams. What I like about this is that the fact you get to select you old time wrestlers who had retired, or some of them anyways. Guys like Owen Heart and Bret Heart and Dunk the Clown.

You have a few basic moves such as punching and kicking your opponents down to the ground and stomp their faces. When you clich up, there is this bar in which you use to press - read: smash - the buttons, the one that ''smashes'' the fast get to execute the body slam or pile driver or whatever. I don't like that concept of the bar even ought it was a good attempt by the game developers back in the 90s. It was a good attempt on a good pro wrestling team

Meh, there is the usual one player vs AI and one player vs two player. Then I believe there is a royal rumble in which you can get battle endless wrestlers in the game and you try to prevent yourself from being thrown out.

Basically this is old school wrestling.

Graphics

The graphics for this game is ok. The wrestlers are recognizable because of the character designs and the actually resemble in the real ones in the TV shows. And the pixel for this game is not bad, its in between - not so horrible pixel like and not so super smooth. The texture in this game varies. Mesh, nothing much else, really.

Conclusion

This is an interesting ''old school'' wrestling game which I played many years ago - thought I would review it. I say I didn't really enjoyed it because I just played it befor ethe boredom kicks in so I went outside and watched the paint dry.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 01/09/04