Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2953 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Midway Games Ltd
• Released on: 2008-09-12
• Platform: PlayStation2

Customer Reviews

Midway are lazy, TNA shouldn't pay em for this '2 year' product
Bad points:
Not a full roster for the time the game was made, let alone an up to date one.
Minimal entrances, no ramp walk etc.
Scatty commentry, loose and irritating.
Very poor collision detection.
No create a wrestler option.
Career mode can only be played with some generic chap in a suit, that looks a bit like Spawn.
No blood, only weapon is a chair, no tables.. no hardcore matches, first blood etc.
No cage match.
No signiture taunts for any wrestler.
No female wrestlers.
Tag team partners enter seperate from one another.
Cheap a.i. and difficulty, you get hurt way more then your opponent does from your attacks.
Career mode is full of generic, useless fake wrestlers that your required to defeat.. they don't even have ring entrances.
No referee.
Yes there is a reversal system, but there is no skill.. just button bash the reversal button and you'll be successful.. no skill required.
You can't win belts and defend them, so far I've won the tag titles and not even seen them on screen.
Pretty much identical move sets for each wrestler, that's just Midway disrespecting A.J and Samoa for getting in those motion capture suits, what a waste..
No excuse Midway, you suck.

Good points:
Fight as some of your favourite TNA stars.. obviously.
Submission moves require 3-button sequence inputs to continue/get out from the move, fun in multiplayer.
Pretty decent animation for PS2 and wrestlers look like they should.
The story mode cut-scenes are half-decent, sometimes funny with Kevin Nash as your manager.

The game is fun enough but is shockingly lacking. I don't care if it's TNA's first game, that's a banal point of argument.. Midway were lazy and getting paid for mediocre at best end product. I love TNA wrestling and much prefer it to WWE. This game reaks of rushed movie to game merchandise quality..
I'm glad I own the game, it is still fun to fight TNA stars. Certainly not worth the asking price on the next-gen consoles.

not as good as expected
overall good game, good gameplay, nice grapics and all that.
But many disappointments:
lack of match types
no tna knockouts
cant create wrestlers
no title matches
awkward camera views in tag team matches
too easy to complete total gameplay so far about 4 hours and early 60% complete
no blood!

depends on what you look for in a game i suppose, if all your interested in is wrestling with good graphics then great but its over too soon for me.
once ive completed it i dont think ill ever play it again whereas with smackdown ive never got bored of it because there are so many things you can do with it.

Having played the game at a Midway press conference
Having played the game at a Midway press conference, all I can say is I was very impressed.

The gameplay is fluid, and light years ahead of the Smack down vs. Raw series. This game is going to be the best wrestling game since No Mercy on the N64.

The new options are fantastic especially the Ultimate X match, this is by far the best type of match I have ever played on a wrestling game. Lots of the TNA roster put a lot of effort into building this game, both through motion capture (which is obvious from how good the game looks) to the drawing board stage. These young guys like the champion Joe, and AJ Styles are hardcore gamer so know what gamers want, and their influence is clear and certainly paid off.

I would highly recommend this title, even based on the early version I played. I would recommend it no only to TNA fans, and not just WWE fans either (even though there is a lot for you as well with familiar faces such as Kurt Angle, Christian, Booker T, Rhino, Scott Steiner, The Dudley boys (Team 3D), Jeff Jarret, Sting, Christy Hemme and Tomko in the game) But to any fans of fighting games in general. You could even go as far to recommend it to all gamers, even if the fighting genre is not your think you may wish to check out this title because it really is a breath of fresh air, and an all round good game.

You can be confident it will be money ell spent, happy grappling.