Wait! That’s WWE ’13‘s music! THQ will probably be showing off the teaser for their next sports entertainment extravaganza at E3 in two weeks.
WWE wrestler Sheamus was in Sydney late last week to promote the upcoming August WWE Raw tour and the even more imminent Wrestlemania 28 pay-per-view. I sat down with him to discuss WWE’s approach (and his own) to social media, but somehow the topic turned to gaming.
WWE ’12 is a game that theoretically should have been awesome. Between throwing someone through a table or a totally sweet cage match, this should be a great party/fighting game. Unfortunately, the controls keep amateurs out of the ring and given the way WWE ’12 is designed, you will be explaining what every button does each time you play with someone new.
The latest playable version of THQ’s grapple-happy sports entertainment franchise packs in more legends, ladders and leg drops than ever before. Not happy with the storylines on Monday Night Raw? Wish the some up-and-comer was getting a bigger push? You can make it happen for yourself when the game hits stores next week.
Randy “Macho Man” Savage died in a car wreck in May, two months after ending an estrangement with the WWE/F by appearing in THQ’s WWE Superstars. Savage, one of the greatest superstars in professional wrestling history, will also appear in the series’ flagship video game WWE 12 when it releases its Legends stable of wrestlers in January.
The video website Vimeo is a good place to find video game trailers, clips of people flying Wii Remote-powered drones and people having Kinect mishaps. It’s a place where folks upload their create-a-wrestler for WWE video games. That brings us today’s random finding: the work of one Tommy Else, who used WWE Raw 2 a 2003 Xbox game that had Bill Goldberg on the cover, to create some celebrity wrestlers.
Back in May, one rasslin’ fan from Spokane brought a 3DS to the WWE. In November, THQ will bring the WWE to the 3DS.
