Gaming Nexus: "THQ had their preview event for WWE Legends of Wrestlemania last week and while the event itself had plenty of surprises the biggest of them all is that the game itself doesn't do much in pushing the envelope of gameplay. The control scheme for Legends is mapped to one analog stick/directional pad and the four face buttons on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers. While the gameplay is overly simplified to make the experience of reliving past matches more enjoyable the content of the game goes a long way in documenting the main events for Wrestlemanias 1-15. I sat down with Paul Edwards, Senior Game Designer, and asked him how exactly WWE Legends of Wrestlemania is different than SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 which THQ released 6 months ago."
The HITC Tech team write about what they're playing this weekend, including XCOM: Enemy Unknow, Banished, and L.A. Noire.
Christopher Buffa (Prima Games): News of Ultimate Warrior Jim Hellwig’s death left millions of wrestling fans, including myself, in shock. I never knew the man, but I loved the character. His electric entrance, running to the ring full blast and shaking the ropes, was adrenaline personified, while the outfit (multicolored face paint, neon tassels, different colored straps for his title belts) embodied the 90s. Critics often remark that his promos were illogical, but to kids, they made perfect sense. Fill the spaceship with rocket fuel? Trampled by elephants? Might as well be Shakespeare to a nine-year-old.
Despite what Wee Jimmy Krankie and the agony aunt section of men’s magazines might say to the contrary, size matters loads. Just ask any of these hulking goliaths. While some giants in popular culture are more concerned with shilling you canned sweetcorn than grinding your bones to make a wholemeal loaf, PlayStation’s gargantuan folk just want to trample, scoff or suplex you. Regardless of whether it’s a fallen god scrapping with his football field-sized granddad or a Skyrim beanpole who can mess you up more than any lag, none of these brutes exactly scream BFG.
