"There are a lot of fans of Street Fighter IV in the office, it was highly influential in developing our product."Īnd as with SFIV, the real fun is in the highly adaptive combat mechanism. "We've combined our favourite elements from wrestling games and other fighting games," says producer Mike McTyre. It turns out Capcom's rejuvenated fighting game has been an inspiration.
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The highly stylised visuals, which have the same slightly accentuated physicality and subtle cell-shading as Street Fighter IV, exaggerate the visual differences between the types – so put Big Show in the ring with the acrobatic Rey Mysterio and the later is comically dwarfed. Brawlers are brutes with lots of juggle moves and a devastating charged strike attack grapplers are more technical acrobats are fast, wiry and tend to rely on aerial strikes from the turnbuckles and big men are, well, lumbering beasts. The roster is split into four types, all with their own characteristics and moves. There's a huge roster of wrestlers in All Stars, matching modern day giants such as Sheamus, Big Show and Kofi Kingston against old-school legends like Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Andre the Giant. Like EA's NBA Jam and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit it's all about getting to the core of the 'brand'. WWE All Stars looks to be an admirable reverse of that process, taking the genre back to its 16-bit heyday by referencing intuitive, twitch-based titles like WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Raw. Gradually, though, they began to lose their crossover comedy appeal in favour of connecting with hardcore fans.
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Once upon a time, wrestling games were funny, easy to play, and appealed to those of us who wouldn't know Randy Savage from Randy Newman.