A great sense of achievement followed by a shoulder shrug.
Anyway in the run up to this game when the announcement was first made I think nearly all wrestling fans young and old were excited. Even with the somewhat small roster for me personaly all the guys in there are good. People got hung up on oh so and so never did anything at a wrestlemania. Well who cares its a legends game and Wrestlemania is just its main selling point.
I will start with the most important thing the controls. LOWM's basic control scheeme is fine its fast simple and most improtatntly its fun. Against the cpu its very easy but in multi player sitting next to one of you buds the quick time chain grapples add a elelmet of excitem,ent to the matches. My main and biggest problem with the controls is what many people had problems with and that is the kicking out of a pin. i think most peoples problems with this were because it was so different from anyotehr wrestling game and god forbid they had to read the instructions or the tutorial to figure out how to do it. Now I have some what mastered kicking out of a pin problem here is it went from me getting pinned every single time to me now being able to kick out with relative ease,
Game mode wise the relive re wriet and redefine was so much fun especially the relive. Some of the challenges were very hard which was fun. It took me forever to get the gold medal against The Rock and once I did I had such a great sense of acheivment somthign taht is all torare in wrestling games. Howver once I had done this I was like great now I guesse I will play exhibition matches. the otehr 2 modes rewrite and re define were not as good while still fun the objectives were nearly all the same. Once I had gotten all my gold medals I cam to the realisation that, that was pretty much it I mean I am not interested in CAW's as mine suck so until theres decent formulas I am not intereste din Legend Killer mode sonow all I have is exhibition matches. There should have been far more matches in teh wrestlemania tour mode or perhaps even let you create your own relive moments where you can assign different obnjectives and how many is required to get a medal.
LOWM's lack of moves somewhat hurts the game as well, the fact the macthes are over quick does somewhat disguise it but it can be very annoyin to have to do the same piledriver 4 or 5 times in a row.
Presentation wise the little video packages are just great and the whole game has a great look. However some of the characters are just odd I am not talking about the over exagerated style I kind of dig that, some characters are just wrong.
HBK for example from the play by play its clear they wanted leader of the new generation HBK. yet they give him his heel attire but his face new generation era entrance. Not to mention he seems to change his boots after the entrance how the hell did they miss that. His alt attire has the exact same entrance which makes no sens as rocker HBK would just have to had ran to the ring and that could have been it.
In closing I have enjoyed LOWM but I feel kind of cheated a game based on nostalgia should get all the little details right. Thats why we play it so remind us of things we saw and things we loved. They did not do this like I said the game is fun but it just has this rushed feel to it. Heres hoping we see some DLC or a new LOWM game but with THQ's potentialy loosing the WWE license this year who know this gme could be a one off.
7.0/10