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10RANKING: A+
The 4th in a line of 4 wrestling games by AKI. A lot of people say these are the best wrestling games ever made, I'd agree. It's got a very easy to use grappling system. Tap "A" for weak quick grapples, hold "A" for strong grapples. Once you grab ahold of the opponent, then you can press: up+A; A; down+A; up+B; B; down+B to do different wrestling moves. Easy, anyone can pick up and play this, no need to memorize Mortal Kombat style moves.
In this game the AI is hard, even on easy mode. They counter you a lot if your attitude meter (formaly know as spirit meter) is lower than theirs. Like the last game, taunting and gaining attitude just before you fight when the match begins doesn't work as well. The AI does the same and makes the taunting pointless at the start of a match. So taunt when you knock 'em down. To really get a feel for deep mechanics, you have to play on the normal or hard. There is sort of a rock, paper, scisor mechanic here: strikes beat grapples, grapples beat blocks, blocks beat strikes. You have to learn the block and dodge; pressed at the right time you can counter the enemy. Dodge counters grapples, blocks counter strikes. And there is the taunt, it increases your attitude meter (attacking the oppentent does this too), if your attitude is higher, you are more likely to be able to counter him and he will be less likely to counter you. You will also be able to kick out of holds and pins faster the higher it is. But don't keep beating your opponent, if you continue to beat on him while his attitude is in the low blue, it will recharge to half full. So pin 'em in the blue. Once the attitude meter is red and flashing, taunt to get special, it's the best move you have.
To beat the game win one of several belts. Each belt there is about 10 Chapters/Matches. What is special is you can still lose certain chapters and still progress in the story, you just have an alternate storyline going on.
There is a glitch in this game that deletes your save. I heard it's when you use a custom character i nthe main game. They made fixed cartridges if you sent it in and traded to THQ, of course most people didn't do this, and now those fixed [USA-1] carts are now expensive as hell.
I highly recommend it, has the same mechanics as the other 3 games. Has the Custom Character Creator, though this time around you have to win money in matches to unlock more things in Custom Character Creator.
PUBLISHER: THQ
DEVELOPER: AKI Corp.
Release Date: November 17, 2000