Where A Pro Wrestler Dresses Up As Marcus Fenix

As great of a wrestler as AJ Styles is... they really should sew his mouth shut or teach him to speak without such a thick drawl.

Orian

Actually pretty cool.

I thought resetting games would -destroy- you in a digital format.

Kaizuden

"No reset switch that HILLS my wounds"

I just realized I hate every single American accent other than my own.

But Kevin Nash moves quite similarly to the way the character in the first Alone in the Dark game did.

@VladMalice:

Gotta love TNA. Their research for this kinda stuff is literally "Hey, man, what vider game is popular these days? Oh, Gears of War 2? Alright, grab someone popular and shove him into a costume."

Orian

Well I mean they have some deal with Xbox so yeah, I guess they are just using their contract for what its worth.

smells like lawsuit.

video is kind of WTF. but right now all im wondering is where can i get one of those gears of war armor it looks real badass.

@Cho413: ....

I don't even remember there being a button that makes Marcus jump....

....Oh wait... thats cause theres not.

VladMalice

What did that have to do with wrestling? >.>

he shows the same amount of emotion in his face as they do in the game.. amazing

/sarcasm

styl3s

@Milkzhakes:

That's how TNA works. In TNA it somehow makes sense for four random people to interfere with a match before it ends, or to wrestle on top of a large, shaky scaffold where the loser is the guy who falls 30 feet into the ring below. Of COURSE their marketing is a little crazy, but that's why we love them... aside from the good matches.

Orian

@jamesjohnson01: We don't take too kindly to intolerant folks 'round here...

@Kenny: Me too.

God this is annoying to watch.

It wreaks of steroid-infested, beer-drowned, greasy-fingered, couch-potato, 360-hugging stereotypical redneck fanfodder.

Be glad you don't know much about TNA, it's garbage.

Whatever happened to the WWE? Is it still around?

oh that's because he's not a tool like Fenix...oh wait he is.

@Orian:

Lol, I know right?

Also... You don't need to reset the console to heal. Just find some cover and sit for 5 seconds... ALL HEALED UP!

lol.

VladMalice

I can't really see this guy being a bad ass.

That's probably because I can't take anyone that sounds like they have a mouth full of marbles seriously.

@Kaizuden: Yeah, if you're a pansy.

@Orian: he probably doesnt actually have a drawl. You realize wrestling is fake nd dude's an actor right?

TraMaI

@MasterNinja: And I remember when TNA used to be good.

galactus5000

@NeVeRMoRe666: We have to be tolerant of rednecks too, now? Seriously? Ok this shit has gone too far. TOOO FAR, MAN!

@discoron77: They would have, except the TNA game was so awful that it helped bankrupt Midway.

galactus5000

@jamesjohnson01: I said the same thing when I saw the UFC 09 trailer.

@NeVeRMoRe666: Sure. Check out WWE.com if you wanna see how it is these days. If you're interested, that is.

Surprised they didn't have him dress up as someone from Mortal Kombat, what with Midway developing the TNA games.

discoron77

@Saint Anima: what happened to george the animal steele?? i love that retard

Rey Rodrigues

Whenever that guy says "TNA" I keep thinking "Tits 'n' Ass". This adds a new layer of hilarity to the whole video.

Gundragon

@GreyFox311: That was to golden age or wrestling, now it's well. what was on that video.

K1NG EV1L

It's the 1990's all over again....

GreyFox311

@PaintedMidget: ..........

userking

@Milkzhakes:

the sites called nightmare armor or something like that. They have Halo armor as well.

Am I the only person here who Likes Gears, but can't stand "Pro" wrestling?

All I got reminded of watching that was something my friend said years ago that there was some dude who dressed up like sub-zero.
Also the commercial for the iPhone game really reminded me of SNES/MD gaming adverts.

@TraMaI: but being that he graduated from a school in south carolina I'm guessing he was most likely raised in the south. I think the accent is most likely real. Everything else not so much.

Game_Munkee

In fairness, TNA is still better than WWE when it comes athleticism and risk.

@Orian:

Isn't that how the entirety of mainstream media deals with videogames when they're not using them as a scape goat for all the worlds problems?

ANeM

Um.

Why didn't you cut out all the unnecessary ads? :p

Oh, he was dressed as Dom....DEFINITELY Dom...

Urghhh, wrestling is just a retarded man drama... I have no idea how people watch that kinda stuff.

In usual TNA style they take something that was hip and cool THREE YEARS AGO and incorporate it into their ads. Kinda like how they had the guitar hero guys, not when guitar hero was fresh and new but last year, when lets face it, even grandma had heard about guitar hero.

Of course it doesn't help that pretty much all the tna active roster are wwe has-beens, and aj-styles is so lame that he's a wwe never was.

Wrestling was very entertaining in the late 90's when the content, storylines and character development were actually evolving, but ever since the era of stone cold, and the death of WCW, Vince was left to his own crazy devices due to lack of competition and even really bad ideas got approved. Thus in the last 8 years or so wrestling has went BACKWARDS 20 years, which is NOT a good thing.

A video game related promo? That is LAME... it harkens back to when robocop (yes, I kid you not, frikkin robocop) was involved in a WCW match.

HowardC

they better no get any ideas for voice acting
on the up and coming movie

John DiMaggio voice acting is awesome well for fenix

@Gundragon: Or brutal disappointment.

:(

@Kaizuden: Hey you! No resettin'!

linkthe2nd

@Kenny: You just made me realize that I feel the same way.

@bobafett356: lol. I was pretending to be a redneck, BUT YES BOBAFETT! (Remembering out religion discussion).

@ANeM: Its kinda like that saying about alcohol "the cause, and solution, to all of life's problems"

@dgkz0idberg:

smells like they probably got permission to do it from Microsoft and they did a deal to allow you to watch TNA from Marketplace.

@Orian: He is an amazing athlete and probably the biggest drawcard TNA has - that Gears of War promo was really left field though, don't know what the hell that had to do with anything lol

@WhatTheFrag: Haha I believe that was Glacier in WCW, and people wonder why it died :)

@ltdedloser: You just made me realize that you realize you feel the same way.

@☆Y2Jason☆:

No one knows what anything TNA does has to do with anything. I mean... Mick Foley is the TNA champ for Christ's sake.

Orian

@Kenny: What? Every single one? The sharp Long Island lingo? The Pennsylvania Dutch tone-shifters? The Californian valley-speak? The Louisiana bayou mumble? The Midwest vowel-shifters? The Ebonic wordsmithers? The Texan Old West drawlers? The Idaho farmer chat? The Yooper dialect? The Redmonton 1337speak? The Floridian-Cuban ethnic mashup? The hillbilly slackjaw? The Bostonian jargon?

Language is awesome. Embrace, embrace.

Don't perpetuate the stereotype of Pro wrestling being a redneck only thing. That's ignorant bullshit.

Professional Wrestling is enjoyed all over the WORLD, including the U.S. east & west coasts, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Japan, Europe, and even Australia.

With that said, TNA Wrestling was ironically founded by a redneck named Jeff Jarrett...

The WWE was founded by a Connecticut native named Vince Mcmahon Sr.

@surft: lockdown ppv last sunday was pretty good....motor city machine guns fte

Fuck the anti-wrestling bullshit.

No one likes TNA anyway.

@☆Y2Jason☆:
TNA loves to do shit out of left field.

I haven't watched in a while, but are they still sticking with that Suicide gimmick "straight from the TNA video game"?

@TraMaI:
Every one knows wrestling is fake, but that accent is real.

TrjnRabbit

@undefined: agree...
ms should use this to its ads and say"actual 360 owner"

@Kenny:
In fairness, Styles is one of the hickiest hicks to ever be a hicks.

But he does cool flippy-floppy stuff, so he's entertaining enough to get away with it.

TrjnRabbit

@jamesjohnson01:

You sound like a stereotypical scene(fag) in highschool who after school goes home and pretend to be in a final fantasy game himself, but takes off his cloak before his one friend shows up to watch boys like girls videos.

Jim Wade

"Create your own storylines". There you go, myth busted.

PsycheE

Batista looks more like Marcus Fenix...in my opinion.

Zero-D

@userking: ............

Good thing the host advantage doesn't apply in the ring either.

@[kotaku.com]

@Cho413: I don't really have an opinion on the wrestling itself but the cosplay was very good. The weapon and all.

SsLordMagus

@phinehas: I'll stick with my subtle Canadian accent, thanks. At least noone complains aboot that, eh?

@NeVeRMoRe666: ...I tell you what.

@Cho413:
...............

@Kaizuden:

This reminds me of a bash quote...

Dude1: Hey guys, are IDE drives hot-swappable?

Dude2: Yeah.

Dude3: Of course n00b

Dude1: Ok, cool, thanks guys :)

-Dude has disconnected; reason:(Connection Time-Out)-

Marcus Fenix can't jump at all...

@Acecalibur: I find your display of geography to be a little inconsistent, Europe is not a country or state dammit! :'(

@undefined: wow. bigotry.

@TraMaI:
Define "fake".
Is the outcome predetermined? Yes. So is it a "fake" fight? Yes.
On the other hand, he is really doing a double back flip off the top turnbuckle. That's certainly not "fake".

busboy33

@TheLAG: You're just a stone's throw from the Yooper dialect, yo (or, vice versa).

isn't this a general reflection of the US games industry as a whole??

strangely I find this muscular sweaty half naked testosterone laden manstuff gayer than anything else.

I remember walking into a bar in the UK once, and there were nothing but men staring at a TV wrestling match.. a pub full of men, silently staring at 2 half naked grappling men... *rubs chin* - what was that about "scene fags" and cloaks again?

gique

I thought that Epic has lone rights to authorize anything GoW related, other than video games, which is exclusive distribution through microsoft.

the novel
the comic
the replicas
the statues
the figures
the clothes
the MOVIE deal
... all licensed through Epic. Who also said "our movie will not contain wrestlers". So it seems a little odd that they would then license a wrestling program to go ahead and use their property for some promo, which now assiciates them with something they were trying to prove they are not, such as mindless violence.

hardcache

@Cho413: You have to be spewing hateful bigotry before they can get behind you :)

@jamesjohnson01: Hmmm...a facebook user throwing out a stereotype and then making sure to mention the 360...

Yep, nothing to see here folks. Just another troll.

@gique:

Or if those guys see nothing ''gay'' in it and you do- maybe that says something about you and how you see things, perhaps?

Maybe you are so far trapped in the closet, you are finding christmas presents from 1983.

Honestly, I think it's funny how someone can see wrestling as a ''gay'' thing, and millions don't, and that one guy doesn't realise that it's probably his own feelings and confusion that lead to that perception.

JSPOOLE

@☆Y2Jason☆: Glacier gave us the Cat and Kanyon, so it wasn't all bad.

arstal

bahahahahaha

-Soul-

@gregdoom: AJ Styles doesn't have a badass character that much. He's more of a goofball. He once dedicated one of his awards to the Ninetndo DS.

He's in the wrong fed honestly- he'd be awesome in AAA feuding with Zorro or Electroshock.

arstal

I love me some AJ Styles, but WTF?

Purple Flames

@Orian: they love shoving AJ into costumes. He's the Mikuru Asahina of TNA.

arstal

@Kenny: That's his natural voice.

And yes, the assessment above is accurate. He is pretty countrified and conservative.

arstal

@RhodesNK: There's a wrestler dressed up like Marcus Fenix? Uh, and... uh... some wrestling folks paid for it. I'm sure there's more to it in there, but hell if I can see it.

AJ Styles as Marcus Fenix only works with face. He's clearly not roided enough to do the role.

these guys have a crazy amount of outlets.

asdf4321

@Acecalibur: owned

@Nature_1: he never said that they were countries or states...

@gregdoom: Don't worry, he could still hurt you.

wtf.i dont see anything when i hit the play button.just a black screen. what happened to the video? i would like to see how he looks as marcus lol.

@phinehas: The Pennsylvania Dutch tone-shifters?

I'm Pennsylvania Dutch, and sometimes I use a few words from it, but otherwise, I don't have much of an accent. Maybe someone from a different area can say otherwise but I'm not hearing it. Though, technically I know everyone has an accent. I just have a generic american one.

but then again, I'm one of those people who apparently sounded Australian when I got bored at work from saying the same thing over and over, so I started to add a slight accent to it. It was fun

@Kenny: As somebody who grew up in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, I must admit I don't even hear my own accent.

As far as hating other people's, though... I love me cute girls with thick Boston accents. Something about 'em just makes me giggle and want to listen to 'em for hours.

F everyone else. Jk, haha.

@galactus5000: Oh the good old days when it was on FSN and actually passable. I guess it was good on Spike up until Sting came in. After that they just scooped up everyone with a semi-recognizable name that they could.

ClaudioIphigenia

@jamesjohnson01: Penguins enjoy wrestling. DO YOU HATE PENGUINS TOO?

@jamesjohnson01: Penguins enjoy wrestling. DO YOU HATE PENGUINS TOO?

Eesh... Wrestling is scripted entertainment.

There's nothing "fake" about what they do.

@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: Does the character in Alone in the Dark tear his quad if they start into a jog too?

What I want to know is, wtf is that TNA game that looks like it wants to be Fire Pro?

@Acecalibur: You sir, deserve a cookie.

However, the WWE dates back to Capitol Wrestling which was founded by Jess McMahon and Toots Mondt.

@JSPOOLE: I think it's funny that anyone thinks "gay" is an insult and something to take offense from. Usually it's spouted off by naive foolhardy bigots looking to cause a problem.

As is the case here.

@VladMalice: This just in: giant nerds.

@VladMalice: This just in: giant nerds.

What a douche......

Isn't this the same douche who's in the new GameInformer on the page where they show readers' and developers' fav games? I think so, but am not sure.

Regardless: "Douche-detecting" radar is going haywire. Hopefully, the "Epic is suing your ass" radar will go haywire in short order.

J

Jog? Nash can tear his quad trying to stand up. lol

WalkerCyzicus

@Jazhuis: The Iphone TNA game. It supposedly is RPG-ish.

@TrjnRabbit: I haven't watched in a long time, so I had to check TNA's website to see what's up. Not only are they still going with the Suicide gimmick, but he's currently their X-Division champion.

I wish I was kidding.

TheBaldOneMpls

@icko: Best tag team as far as performances go

@King of Fun UK: Urghhh, stupid commenter is just a retarded drama man

@HowardC: Woah, woah woah, I was agreeing with you up till you said about AJ being lame! Styles is awesome. However everything else I agree with to an extent.

Robocop on WCW, you couldn't make it up!

I sent this in yesterday as a tip :(

@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: You mean that guy in alone in the dark refuses to job to monsters?

@TheBaldOneMpls: Its actually Christopher Daneils under the mask, Kazarian was the original 'Suicide' but got injured, so TNA gave the gimmick to Chris....ugh

@JSPOOLE: Yeah, there's nothing closeted about men who like to get sweaty and close and personal with each other at all.

I should say ''sports-entertainment' as it's not a real sporting contest.

But yes, there are big guys wrestling each other- and if you think that is ''gay'', then I suggest that you are not really mature enough to grasp that not everything has to be sexualised. Gay people watch wrestling, straight people watch wrestling, bisexual people watch wrestling- it's for all people.

It would be like me saying someone who names themself after a character in star wars must be a lonely geek who has never met a female in his life aside from his mother- because we all KNOW that's the star wars fanbase to a T right?

See? Generalisations aren't that great an idea, are they?

JSPOOLE

@bobafett356:

But again- that's how YOU see it. And I wonder why that's how you chose to think of it?

I see it as guys fighting , over titles or feuds (call it ''fake'' or ''not real'' if you like, but I'm betting you enjoy movies and games since you are here) - the way you make it sound never enters my mind. But clearly, for some reason, it does for you. I think Freud would agree with me here, that it's your issues you are foisting onto something here. And like I said, if you are gay, or have those issues, I have no problem with it- being gay isn't a problem with me. But it is how YOU chose to see it, more than anything else.

@Duin:

I didn't say ''gay'' was an insult- I don't know how you got that.

But saying the sport is a ''gay'' sport just because it has guys without shirts on or somesuch nonsense is retarded- how can any sport be ''gay'', or ''straight'' for that matter?

JSPOOLE

@jamesjohnson01:
Wow, SPOT ON,
Anyone attempting to fight this statement just further proves it's validity.

And reading a lot of the above comments I notice that many people don't understand the use or definition of the word "stereotype"

CRRRUNK -AKA RedRing O'Houlihan

I saw that at the end of the Lockdown PPV. Was definitely hard to watch. I don't know why TNA or AJ Styles thought it was a good idea. Oh well. I laughed a little.

Grouchu

@TraMaI: AJ Styles is from North Carolina. His accent is real. Not that I'd expect anyone who confuses "scripted" for "fake" to know.

Rusty Shackleford

@phinehas: Apparently some people prefer the sweet sounds of smug.

Rusty Shackleford

@King of Fun UK: Ugh, interests of King of Fun UK are just retarded man dramas... I have no idea how anyone could like that kinda stuff.

@jamesjohnson01: Once again, proof that the "f" stands for more than just Facebook. 95% of the time, anyway.

@excel_excel: Only if they fingerpoke him first.

@JSPOOLE: Ugh...

I was agreeing with you. Did I state you said gay was an insult? No, I inferred that it was myself according to gique.

You don't need to be so damn defensive over someone friggin' agreeing with you.

Am I the only person who thinks the flipping kick thing he does is the most RIDICULOUS attack in the history of history? When he turned away to start the flip, wouldn't you just kick him in the spine? when he jumps, wouldn't you just take one step to the side, or back, and let him miss and then face-plant? He might as well be thrusting both hands forward, yelling SONIC BOOOOM! and having the other guy suddenly jump backwards from 30' away.

Vrank92

@JSPOOLE:I'm not sure why this is coming down to personal attacks over an observation that there are some pretty strong homoerotic elements in professional wrestling. No need to get defensive over the matter. I agree, the fact that someone watches wrestling has nothing to do with their sexuality, but the homoerotic elements are still there. That's not an attack on anyone nor a statement about anyone who watches it. And actually, Freud would probably say something about the sexuality of it too, he talked about sex a lot. So maybe a bad example there. Anyway, doesn't really matter, you see what you want to when you watch it.
Noticing sexual elements in something doesn't make one immature or a pervert, nor does denouncing those who do make you mature or thoughtful. There is nothing wrong with sexuality.

@TraMaI: woah,woah...Dude I used to get in the squared circle myself and it is NEVER fake.It is scripted,but guys work stiff.Those chops to your chest feel like someone stopped your heart.Do not ever ask a wrestler if it is fake man,as he would belt you.I wrestled right after highschool,but it was just to make a bit of extra money.Your body takes a fucking beating.

TimDJ84

lame

thesergio

href="#c12279308">josh924: I'm so depressed I can't even blink

@jamesjohnson01:
So now 360=redreck
wii=soccer mom
ps3=?

cap-n-crunch

Tits n Ass wrestling?

Um, where's the chicks? lose the dicks...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

@HowardC: for anyone who wants to see the train wreck.
Robocop in WCW

+ Watch video

ShiningDark

I can't believe Kurt Angle is doing flips like that now. He really doesn't care about his neck screwing up any more than it is, I guess.

@TheLAG: yes, we Canadians are elegant. Probably from all those igloo homes. It gets cold here eh?

@Nside: no

@cap-n-crunch: now?
360 has always = redneck?
why the F do you think so many people make fun of it?

CRRRUNK -AKA RedRing O'Houlihan

@Duin:

Oh I kinda thought you meant I was using gay as an insult because I took exception to someone saying the sport is ''gay''....my apologies to you. My fault.

JSPOOLE

@bobafett356:

It wasn't a personal attack..the point I was trying to make is that that's how some people (mostly ignorant) see star wars and the fanbase, and that generalisation is just as wrong as saying that wrestling is a gay sport. You can see homoerotic elements in pretty much anything, if you want to. People saw it in Gears and Army of Two. It seems that even two men being close friends has homoerotic undertones to some people.

I am sorry if you took it as a personal attack but it wasn't meant to be, I don't know you, I was using an example of how generalisations and foisting your own views on something is heavily flawed .

JSPOOLE

Good way to kill the franchise now i don't feel like playing the game anymore =[

Well for one, Fenix cant jump. And two, 360 doesnt have a reset button.

This guy is so out of the loop.

Altima NEO