Does anyone remember the days of No Mercy for N64? That was my favorite wrestling game ever to come out. I still hook up the 64 and play No Mercy once in a blue moon. But its now 2008. We are on Smackdown Vs Raw 2008 and soon SVR 2009 in November and for the first time there in new competition that actually has a shot. When SVR actually had competition it was with the other systems like with Day of Reckoning for Gamecube and RAW for Xbox. Now with SVR by itself it had no competition and swept the wrestling game franchises. But with the release of Midway's own TNA Impact there is a new horizon and a change I haven't seen since I play the old wrestling game series.
TNA Impact is actually wrestling. Yeah its weird. You actually fight by doing wrestling moves that are actually awsome. Now there aren't as many moves as the SVR series but this is the first TNA game. But they had some moves that were really cool and the reversal system was actually hard. Smackdown vs Raw you could just tap the reverse buttons repeatedly until you countered someones moves. Also TNA Impact had a good storyline. No lie is has been better than some of the Smackdown stories but with the limited content it bothered me. You would win every belt and never see your wrestler with a belt. You had no choice but just to win to go farther. The create a wrestler mode is limited and the matches were a select few.
But there was a lot of good like the amazing graphics and 3D models. Plus some good wrestlers who I always wanted to play on a next-gen system like Sting and Jeff Jarrett. Plus the X Division wrestlers who are so much fun to play as. This game is good but I can't say its worthy of comparing to No Mercy or Smackdown Here Comes The Pain. But even those games slowly got better and better. So out of a scale of 0 - 5 Xtreme points. I give TNA Impact 3 Xtreme points out of 5 because of the limited content and the amount of addition it needs to be compete with the Smackdown series.
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