Customer Reviews

WWE Wrestlemania X8

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4 star:		(35)
3 star:		(12)
2 star:		(14)
1 star:		(26)

 

 

Wow, I thought that Legends of Wrestling would be the only game where you could have Hulk Hogan and RVD battle it out.

WRESTLERS

*The Rock
*Stone Cold Steve Austin
*The Undertaker
*Triple H
*Kurt Angle
*Chris Jericho
*Kane
*Rikishi
*Kevin Nash
*Scott Hall
*Hulk Hogan
*RVD
*Booker T.
*Edge
*Christian
*Jeff Hardy
*Matt Hardy
*Lita
*Bubba Ray Dudley
*D-von Dudley
*Test
*William Regal
*Big Show
*Tajiri
*Bradshaw
*Faarooq
*Jacqueline
*Hurricane Helms
*Mighty Molly
*Scotty2Hotty
*Albert
*Tazz
*Lance Storm
*Trish Stratus
*Shane Mcmahon
*Stephanie Mcmahon

HIDDEN WRESTLERS

*X-pac
*Ric Flair
*Vince Mcmahon
*Chris Benoit
*?
*?

That is 42 wrestlers in all.

ARENAS

*Raw
*Smackdown!
*Royal Rumble
*Wrestlemania
*Summer Slam
*Survivor Series
*?
*?

The two ways to win Championships work like this. One is the Championship road where you take the wrestler of your choice and work your way up a ladder of superstars to the Championship you want. The other way is that you can win or defend six recognized belts(WWF Title, WWF intercontinental, etc.)or 50 new, original belts in exhibition mode. A cool new feature is The Trophy Slam. You take your championship(of any belt)and save it to a memory card. Take it to your freinds house and defend it there. If he wins the belt than he keeps it on his memory card until you or someone else wins it back.It can keep going back and forth and you can start your own fueds.There will be over forty match types and a FULL SIZE HELL IN THE CELL! Graphics are comparable to WWF Raw for X-box and way better than Smackdowns. It is going to be released on June 11.....Whatcha gonna do when Wrestlemania X8 runs wild on you!?

The greatest spectacle in sports-entertainment is back! No other event in the history of wrestling has seen more legendary match-ups and classic championship battles that have forever changed the face of wrestling. No other event has revolutionized the world of wrestling with gripping drama and brutal intensity. No other event has epitomized Vince McMahon's vision of sports-entertainment. It can only mean one event: the infamous WrestleMania.
WWF WrestleMania X8's original gameplay engine recreates all the action, excitement and tradition WWF fans have come to love. Experience the intensity and exhilaration of professional wrestling as you step onto the mat to fight the most brutal band of brawlers around. Master each Superstar's unique wrestling style and turn the tide of the match through a combination of counters, reversals and bone-shattering finishing moves. Play as top WWF Superstars including newcomers Rob Van Dam, Booker T, DDP,Hurricane, and now thq has said that Kevin Nash and Scott Hall and Hollywood Hulk Hogan that's right the NWO will be in the game now. Compete in six different venues including SmackDown!, Raw and the ultimate extravaganza, WrestleMania. Finally, relive the rich history surrounding WrestleMania and compete for championship glory through a host of match types including death-defying TLC matches or legendary Hell in a Cell match-ups. ...

AMAZING graphics! I was blown away, and the videos of the WWE were so clear. Everything about this game was awesome. The controls for how to attack were easy and realistic.
The finishing moves all look awesome. The entrances by the stars! They are awesome. The graphics and everything! They walk like people! Not robots or anything! Humans! Wow!
The controls were a little hard to learn, but after 1/2 hour I was using them easily. The finishing moves are easy enough and hard enough to pull off that it feels real! Even my sister, whom hates fighting games, loved this one. The ref made her get outta the ring in tag mode, so I used a Pedigree on the ref, lol.
One thing I don't like, is that it is hard to face other wrestlers, but I am getting the hang of it now. One more thing, and the last bad thing, is that you can't creat your own move in CAW(Creat a Wrestler), other than that, CAW is perfect.
If you are "iffy" at all about buying it, then rent it, cause this game is either you LOVE IT, or HATE IT. I LOVE IT! But you may not agree, so if you have doubts, rent it.
This is definitely the best Wrestling game ever!

Let me start off by saying that this game looks like one of the best WWE games ever! This game has the complete NWO roster including Big Show, Booker T, X-Pac & Kevin Nash. One of the biggest stars on the game is Hollywood Hulk Hogan. Other wrestlers include Rob Van Dam, Lance Storm, Scott Hall, Mighty Molly, The Huricane, Tajiri, and The Undertaker. This game also has TLC, Cage, Tag Team, Table, Single & Hell In A Cell matches. Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler are always at ringside for color commentary. This game looks like it going to be great!

Wrestlemania X8 was developed by Yukes, who made the Smackdown series, instead of AKI who made every other wrestling game on the Nintendo 64. Yuke's did manage to improve the graphics, some. If this was an N64 game the graphics would be GREAT, but this is the Gamecube. The six different arenas (including Raw, Smackdown, Wrestlemania X8, Summer Slam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble) look impressive but the wrestlers look more blocky or cartoonish like in past wrestling sims on a Nintendo platform. Some look better then others and its eay to see that more time was spent on say the Undertaker then Will Regal. The gameplay is different but not bad at all. Its easy to grasp but you don't have a great deal of moves at your disposal, so it can wear a little thin especially in a long match. There are 40 match types (more than any other Nintendo wrestling game but 30 less the the PS2'S Smackdown: Just Bring It!). The cell is by far the most impressive and fun. The matches it does have are all fun except triple threat. The computer AI has a tendacy to not play fair and to gang up on you a lot in a triple threat. To me the AI is the biggest problem but in some ways adds more of challenge to winning a belt. There are four modes (five if you want ot count Options menu). Exibition where you can have any of those 40 match types with up to three other players. Next you have Path of the Champion, which is like story mode without the story. So far I have unlocked Ric Flair by winning the Europeon title and with every title you get you unlock another wreslter. (Rhyno if you win the Hardcore title, Vince McMahon win you win the Intercontinental, Chris Benoit when you win the heavyweight title, Stacey Kiebler when you win the light heavywieght, and Raven when you win the tag titles I belive but I could be wrong). However once you have unlocked the six wrestlers Path of the Champion gets old unless you want to change you title holders as they change in the WWE. There is no Women's championship because there's only about half a dozen women on the game so they must compete for the light heavyweight title. The third and maybe the best mode reliezes the idea introduced in WWF Warzone, being a virtual Vince McMahon. The Battle for the Belts has 51 different title belts each on one of the game's four different difficulty levels (easy, normal, hard, and painful,which is plenty painful). You can win these titles then change the strap color in one player but this mode shines in multiplayer since you can have unifaction matches, defend your belt against a friend, or just see who has the best create-a-wrestler. It like running your own promotion. The Create-Wrestler is the fourth mode and is no where near as detailed as it could and should of been, but it is user friendly, which is good. The game doesn't include Billy and Chuck (but who cares), Maven, Steven Richards, and the recently returned Heart Break Kid but you will find it very easy to create these missing competitors (if you really want Billy and Chuck on your game). The first thing I did on the game was to create HBK which can be done quickly and easily if you wanted to create him. The game also allows you to load off both memory cards (if you have two) like in other Nintendo wrestling games which means you can create a total of 32 wrestlers to add on to the 42 other wrestlers to get a total of 74 wrestlers. This is by far the best wrestling game on the Gamecube but it is not the best wrestling game period. It does some things better the the Smackdown series and No Mercy but not everything which is why this game may dissapoint some people. But the bottomline is that if you want a fun wrestling game to add to your Gamecube collection then you might want to check out WWE Wrestlemania X8.

If you have a Gamecube or going to buy one , this game is
a must have .All wrestling fans will appriciate this game .
With excellent entrances to a new controling feature ,this
game will satifiy you .
Wrestlemania X-8 contains many different type of matches
such as a ,cage match ,hell in the cell ,TLC ,table ,
hardcore ,and more .This game contains almost all of
the WWE superstars like ,Hulk Hogan ,The Whole NWO ,Rob
Van Dam ,Booker T ,and all of the rest .
The wrestlers are very detailed and look very real ,and
the crowd is also deatiled ,were almost everyone in the crowd
taking pictures and having signs .The game is truly the best
wrestling game every created ,so this game is worth the money .This game has a t.v. type presentation with many different camerear angles after a great move . this game is great .

First let me say that if you are wanting a game just like No Mercy or WrestleMania 2000, then do not buy this game...Rent It First! This Isn't the N64!! To me this game is fun and is a blast with multiplayer. The game matches include a full sized hell in a cell, a tlc match in which you can have a ladder and three tables in at one,ladder,table,ironman,hardcore,royal rumbles,4 way matches, and more. The game includes an updated roster which is good...but Brock Lesnar is not in it though,no matter you can just create him. The create a superstar mode does not let you have a lot of options though. This game also includes a road to championship in which you climb your way up the ladder and to get a belt. And this game also includes a feature in which you can create YOUR OWN BELT!
The gameplay could be better but the graphics are awsome for the gamecube.
All and all I do recommend this game for any wrestling fan. Also this will be the last game Stone Cold Steve Austin will be in!!! :)

The showcase of the Immortals is coming to the Nintedo Gamecube! Wrestlemania X8 is looking to be the best wrestling game ever made. With an all new gameplay, more than 60 match types, an extencive create a superstar, and much much more, it will be a great game. The graphics look fantastic. A couple things I am very happy THQ put into this game is a full size Hell in a Cell. There will also be TLC, with this being the first game to have multiple ladders. Putting the nWo in at the last minute topped this game off. It was the cherry on the already great looking ice cream sunday.

I have played alot of great wrestling games, and alot of horrible ones (cough...Raw...cough cough). This is looking to be a great game and I can't wait until it comes out.

Have you played Raw or Smackdown(Know your Role)? If you have I know you were as disappointed as I was. I wonder if the wrestlers all received melvin's or not in Raw is War. Wrestlmania is exactly what you want from a wrestling game.The graphics are on the level with Raw, while the gameplay however new, still has a WCW/NWO Revenge-No Mercy feel to it. Tons of options I know that the hell in the cell will be included as will most of the new roster. I highly recommend Wrestlmania X8, A sidenote if you are thinking of buying Smackdown or Raw do yourself a favor and rent it first. I bought both and man I got jipped. I bought my gamecube just for Wrestlmania X8!!!

The old Fed might have changed its name, but nothing is new in WWE WrestleMania X8. While X8 is the first and only GameCube wrestling game to date, it amounts to a disappointing game that will have GameCube owners going to their PS2-owning friends' houses to play SmackDown. WrestleMania X8 is the first wrestling game since WWE took over WCW and got sued by wildlife conservationists, and sadly, that's about all that's new. THQ claimed that X8 would be "back to basics," but the biggest difference between the Xbox's WWF Raw and X8 seems to be the games' rosters. There's no real "season" mode, and what there is lacks the flair of even a Street Fighter game's pre-match flair. Grappling and striking still work in the simplistic, puddle-deep way of every game since the classic Yuke's N64 grapplers (many of Yuke's members came from Aki), and while wrestling fans who just want to be The Rock will be pleased with this, people looking for more control and strategy (à la Crave's UFC games) will be sorely disappointed. It's time for wrestling games to grow beyond the "Our superstars will sell this" era and add some actual depth to the wrestling. WrestleMania certainly looks great with accurate wrestler models and excellent arenas, but all that beauty is wasted on the slack animation system that lacks the fluidity and realism of motion-captured animations in other games. While X8 is good with scaling characters to their actual relative size (Big Show is much larger than Scotty Too Hotty), the animation system doesn't respect the larger characters, so you get people's arms disappearing inside others' bodies during holds and other mutant effects. Also, for some reason, the female wrestlers look awful. Why the male wrestlers look great and the females look like bipedal goats is a mystery. Yuke's has been making wrestling games for years, but for some reason the company can't seem to settle on a successful control scheme. While the moves are simple and easy to perform, other actions-like picking up tables, climbing the corner ropes, and escaping a steel cage-are unintuitive and annoying. You'll get friction burns trying to escape the cage as you have to jiggle the analog stick and bang the A button to make your character sloooooowlyyyy lifffft hiiis armmmm overrrr the caaage. On the other hand, your opponent only has to run toward the cage wall to knock you down. It's silly and annoying, and it easily deflates the fun of a cage match. Last but not least, X8's sound is purely awful. The wrestlers' entrance tunes sound like they're muted through a blanket over the speaker, and the in-match elevator muzak tears away the WWE attitude the game tries so hard to invoke. It's as if Yuke's thought it was still working with the sound-unfriendly N64. Wrestling fans deserve a great wrestling game, but unfortunately, this isn't it. It had promise, but in the end it's just another WWE game hurt by lack of attention to the game in favor of the license.