WWE’12: Review

Nov 22, 2011 by     No Comments    Posted under: Gaming, Reviews

Good afternoon friends of Sweet Free-for-all and welcome again. Okay it may not be the afternoon when you read this but it was at time of the review release.

So what have I got for you today? I have the latest installment of the WWE franchise games, WWE’12 for the PS3. Now first things first when I got this through the post I did have to think to myself when was the last time I actually played a wrestling game from the WWE (WWF if you’re old school like me). Now believe it or not the last time I played a wrestling was Smackdown! (PS1) and then Smackdown!2 (PS1), yes that’s right I’ve not owned a game of this type for such a long time. So what was I expecting? I was expecting the same old game with updated graphics, new characters (including the classic create your own), the “new” moves for these characters and last bit not least a fun experience. Today I’m going to discuss wether WWE’12 lives up to my expectations, as I cannot really comment on the previous titles between 2 and now. Many be one of you could comment on that.

Well I’m quite frankly shocked, games have come a long way in the past 10 years but this franchise seems to have gone nowhere. On one had the graphics are great and much better than the old days and the wrestlers actually look like people and the crowd is more than just flat textures shoved on a background, but on the otherhand the motion and controls in this game are rubbish.

So I’ll expand on the controls and motion a bit more because after an hours play time I got bored of it. You have got your standard press a direction on the sticks and hit one of the buttons does some damage or throws your opponent or grapples your oppenent into stuff. Yes we knew how to do that in the first few WWE games. The Issue I have is they go to hit you and the counter button is R2, it seems to work about 2% of the time. bash X to not be groggy anymore, oh I can’t my opponent has already bashed my head in. The overall feel is the game doesn’t work you try and grapple and miss 90% of the time, counter moves don’t work and the speed of the wrestlers is slow, I’ve seen more speed from the old guy down the road walking up a hill.

I’m not going to bash the controls or motion all day although bashing the controls was what I was doing by the end to even try and win a match (Normal Difficulty), I’m going to go onto the storyline and the rest of the game. Again I’m afraid it just doesn’t work… There is a Road to Wrestlemania where you don’t seem to be able to pick your character which seems bloody odd. Then the WWE Universe game mode just doesn’t seem right either, it has a list of scheduled matches for that week which I presume advances and you can play them all and pick which wrestler you want to be in that particular fight or interupt with another wrestler.  There just doesn’t seem to be an option like in the good old days to do a Career or Superstar mode.

Muliplayer, I can’t say much about this all I can say is there is one but not a single soul was online during the time I was reviewing.

I’m sorry if you played last years WWE title and found it good but either I’ve been away from the game too long or I’m getting too picky about games.

WWE’12 gets a 4/10 from me. Graphics are great but apart from that they have made the game over complicated and don’t give enough “options” in game modes. The atmosphere of the game is authentic but the motion and control system make it feel slow and dated.

4/10

 

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