It could have been a great, but isn't!! (WWF Royal Rumble (DC))

Member Name: theunknown

Product:	WWF Royal Rumble (DC)
Date:	17/05/01 (23 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice graphics, Multiplayer fun

Disadvantages: Two modes, Only 20 characters

THQ have produced without out a shadow of a doubt created the greatest wrestling games of all time from WCW Revenge to the WWF Smack down series, so when I heard that they where to produce yet another grappling I jumped for, especially since it was for the Dreamcast. With the WWF license and offering up to 9 players on the screen at once WWF Royal Rumble, had me watering at the mouth, with the its smooth 128bit graphics not even with a hint graphical slow down or even pop up. So how could this game fail to deliver… well let me tell you.

Royal Rumble has lushes graphics, some of the best the Dreamcast has ever seen and a great pick up and play sense about it, as there is not many menus or options to fiddle with before you start playing, this is unfortunate because of the lack of time and effort put into this game. There is only two modes of play challenge and the Royal Rumble itself.

Challenge has you battling against ten computer characters with difficulty rising as you progress, before you start grappling you must choose your character and a ringside partner. You are then giving a choice of three move sets to choose from, these are either double team moves for you and your partner to pull off or just a single move for your partner to do by himself, these are activated by pressing a button combination, which will take time to get used to at first to be able to quickly press A+B while beating your opponent into the ground.

The Royal Rumble option has you grappling against one hundred wrestlers in succession, which isn’t an easy task, especially since this time you have no one to watch your back as its all for one as nine beefy men attempt to chuck each other out of the ring. Aldo at first this is a great laugh and a great way to save money on barber bills as many a times you find yourself almost beating your record but then tragedy strikes and your hit from behind with a flying clothesline and knock out of the ring, ver
y dramatic. But this sort of mayhem has limited lifetime and will get tiresome.

WWF Royal Rumble features eighteen of the WWF’s finest, with two secret characters to be unlocked. This can be done in a matter of hours let alone days, so this game doesn’t have you continually bashing the buttons to receive dos ever so important rewards of hours of play.

The control system is much like the one used in Smackdown, which makes for fast and furious grappling fun. The all-important finishers are easy to pull off, with a touch of the L button; so that there is none of the stupid Street Fighter seventeen button combination to be learned.

WWF Royal Rumble could have been great but it just doesn’t make the mark for it’s sheer limited lifetime, but because a lot of people will miss out on the great fun to be had even if it is for a week or two, so buy it if you have got money to burn, but you could do a lot worse with your money.

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