TNA Impact: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on Xbox 360 - Trailer

Looks good

WBM from Huddersfield , 27/06/2008

This game comes across as being good it has a nice look to it with nice graphics. However, it will need to compete with the smackdown v raw, even though the smackdown v raw games have become repetitive and tedious they are still decent but this games has new match types. Going back to the graphics even though the wrestler’s graphics are nicely done the look of the crowd is very disappointing and could have been done a lot better. Nevertheless, it should still be a good game and I am looking forward to it.

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Simply awful

DeadFrazer from Glasgow [Highly rated reviewer] , 13/10/2008

Where to start. This game is terrible, plain and simple. To say that the create a wrestler is basic is an understatement, the controls are sketchy at worst, and the AI just seems to be able to reverse every move you attempt on them, even on easy!

I played the story for a few hours until it just got so tedious, you are stuck with the same basic moves, unless you spend hours upon hours trying to unlock new ones. The graphics look okay most of the time, but there are times when they look terrible.

All in all I'm glad I rented this title, if I had bought it I would have returned it straight away. Its a shame because I prefer the TNA tv show to WWE and I felt this game could have been so much more.

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TNA - TrulyNotAmused!

TyNiDaz from Derby , 04/10/2008

Having been an avid gamer for over 20 years (Pong & Atari VCS got me started!), I've seen great games, dreadful ones & so many missed opportunities.

TNA is a missed opportunity - with SmackdownVsRaw not having lived up to expectations I thought that maybe this was to be a brand new era in wrestling games - Wrong!

The wrestlers look fine & that's about it. There is nothing in the game that makes me want to play it again. I've forced my way through the story mode in the hope that it got better & it didn't. The character creation is limited at best & the lack of move sets is disappointing.

I could go on, but I hope that by now you get the picture! If you really want those achievement points & don't mind being annoyed & frustrated then rent away!

My advice stay clear!!

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TNA

daaz from Bognor Regis [Highly rated reviewer] , 17/09/2008

Hired this game to see what it was like yeah the graphics are good but if you look at the controls they are all B or Y there's different game modes but the control system is RUBBISH!!!! cut and run trying to do a special it says press B but you have to make them go dizzy press LB+Y and then B. Story line is poor so if i was you i wouldn't rent it if i knew what it was like stick to the smackdown VS raw series even though its a bit of the same thing its always fresh controls

DON'T PRESS RENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dreadful AI

A customer from Dewsbury , 12/02/2009

This game presents decent graphics and career mode, however the gameplay is simply unforgiving. too little moves to use, and the reversals are ridiculous. even on the easiest difficulty, the reversals can lose you a match, and often does.

I don't recommend this one at all.

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Slap in the face to gamers and wrestling fans

A customer from Cardiff , 30/11/2008

Wow, i can almost hear the worst game of the year award coming already

Where do i start?

The Roster

Firstly im giving the game one star because it has a pretty impressive roster with the likes of Kurt Angle, Booker T, Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, AJ and others that im sure we have all created on smackdown vs raw however this is where the good points end.

The controls

They make no sense, even though your character can do 8 moves, you'll find yourself constantly repeating the same two maybe 3 moves, and they game pretty much turns into a button crunching marathon. You have to shake the right analogue stick to unstun yourself which also changes the plaer your facing, so when your wrestler recovers you find your looking at the opponents partner and easy prey for the wrestler in the ring.

The AI

Utter Naff. You can't dodge the computer player as it running towards you it just changes course to face you, even it you have gone round the corner of the ring. In tag team matches your partner is rubbish and never seems to save you. You hit an opponent with a chair and no damage is done, you dive over the rope on to them and you end up massively damaged and the computer player just simply gets up. Reversing the Computer is impossible but they pretty much reverse everything you throw at them even on Easy setting (this has been mentioned in other reviews and is a major flaw in the game, on SvsR you can change the settings to play the game your way, for instance less reversals, more damage by chairs etc)

The Story Line

Starts off very exciting but soon gets very repetative. You can only be a created wrestler to play it. Theres no decision over the choices your character makes, for instance whether you want to be tag team wrestler etc

The CAW system

The CAW is utter pants at not a scratch on SvsR. I mean this is so basic it feels like something you would find on the DS.

The settings

You can't turn off entrances so you have to wait 2 mins before every match for all the characters to come down, in tag matches all 4 wrestlers come down seperatly.

Other reviews

For other reviewers that have said that this is a good first step for the next release, i beg to differ after the amount of money midway has lost on this release TNA impact 2 is nto going to happen.

Game summary

In all im surprised this game was every released and took so long to make. I'm not surprise though that this game can already after under 3 months of being on the shelves be found in the bargain bin in computer shops.

Rent if you want to be frustrated after 15 mins of gameplay, put it back int he box and wonder why you wasted your time, but don't buy it and waste your money, Smackdown vs Raw 2009 has its flaws but is MAssively better than this game (and im a TNA fan)

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