WWE Legends of Wrestlemania -- Initial Impression.

There was a time in my youth when I watched wrestling religiously. I haven't followed wrestling for the last fifteen years or so. WWE Legends of Wrestlemania is aimed exactly at me. Lapsed wrestling fans who happen to be gamers and remember wrestling's glory days of the mid to late eighties. When it was all about the show and terms like face, heel, and shoot weren't common knowledge. The premise of Legends of Wrestlemania is to allow fans to play with an extensive roster of wrestling superstars from that particular era. Although there are a few from the later attitude era that followed and the current era. Riddel and I started messing around with the game last night and we spent about two and a half hours creating our characters. The character creation aspect is extremely impressive. It's on the level of Saints Row 2 in how much control you have over creating your legend. It goes further than that. Once you've created your wrestler you then take on the role of television director and set up your specific intro sequences. How you come out of the back stage area, how you walk to the ring, how you enter the ring, and what you do while in the ring. You have control over the camera, the music, the pyrotechnics and other special effects. Down to when exactly they trigger within the sequence. The depth here is awesome. We then spent a little time messing around in player matches over Xbox Live. I haven't played enough of it to judge how well it plays as I need to learn the moves. We pretty much just slapped the shit out of each other until someone got a pin. I can say that the game looks great. The wrestlers look like their real life counterparts with a little dramatic license. They're clearly going for a how you remember them as a kid and how superhero like they seemed aspect over the reality. Andre the Giant was never muscular or that fit. And that's fine. I like the approach they've taken visually. So hopefully it turns out to play well as I'm liking what I've seen thus far.