Review NaN of 10
, from Atlanta, GA USA
Price Paid:
$60.00
from WalMart Summary:
Overall, I liked this game. It was the first wrestling game I have purchased for the X-Box system, and therefore I never had a chance to play LOW part one. Therefore, I can't really focus on improvements, but rather on how the game itself performed. The game is loaded with different match types, such as ladder, cage, and a much-needed 8-man tag event. Gameplay stays the same speed no matter how many wrestlers are in the ring or on the screen. Some of the biggest negativities I have toward this game are the entrances, which seem to be lacking in just about every area other than music. I've seen better entrances on PS1 games. The audience is a major drawback, having 2D characters which sometimes ruin the effect this game could have. The in-game fighting music is horrible. Thank God for custom-soundtracks.
Luckily, the roster is superb, give or take a few and the entrance music is great (however, it would have been nice if Roddy Piper had "Tyrol Moral" as an entrance song). The gameplay is respectable, as well as graphics and such. The referees sometimes are a bit slow in calling an action, such as "rope break" (sometimes the rope break breaks up four seconds before the ref even calls it).
But aside from these things, the best feature of the game is the interview theater section. Such greats as Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart, Jerry Lawler, the Road Warriors, George Steele, Bob Backlund, Ted DiBiase, and others share their memories of times past and also give a bit of a mock in-character interview. It was very interesting seeing Sid Vicious being rational.
However, it's hard to believe that someone who isn't a fan of oldschool wrestling would enjoy this game. I'm thinking that RAW 2 will have a better game engine, but LOW 2 definitely has the better roster. Of course, if you're not a fan of oldschool, why would you even consider buying the game?
The career mode is average in my opinion. I can think of ten million things that would have made it better, and even though the twist is often different it still gets repetitive after your third region switch. The gambling feature, where you gamble for coins to purchase wrestlers seems a bit overdone, and often times can just get annoying. Either they should do away with this item or make the acquiring of coins a bit easier. It really sucks when you find out you wasted thirty or more such coins only to get absolutely nothing in return.
But still, overall this game is good. It has that oldschool feeling to it. I even turned the color off of my television set after a while just to get an even more nostalgic essence from it. Acclaim should be applauded for developing such a game, but still encouraged to improve it greatly if the idea behind an LOW 3 ever should arise. Report this review >>
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