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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3194
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Midway Entertainment
Studio: Midway Entertainment
Brand: Midway
Label: Midway Entertainment
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 26990
Model: 26990
UPC: 031719269907
EAN: 0031719269907
ASIN: B0012RWQ52
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | FEATURING 25 OF YOUR FAVORITE TNA SUPERSTARS - Take control of top TNA superstars such as Kurt Angle, Booker T, Sting, Jeff Jarrett, Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Rhino, Christopher Daniels and more! Perform all the wrestlers signature moves! | | • | INNOVATIVE PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING - TNAs signature six-sided ring brings unprecedented action and high-flying wrestling moves to players. With TNAs incredible Ultimate X match. | | • | BECOME A LEGEND - Build a lifetime of fame through the games innovative story mode. Create your very own TNA wrestler with customized costumes, ring entrance, move sets, music and more as you unfold the back-story of a champion wrestler. | | • | COMPETE AGAINST TNA FANS ONLINE! - Online play allows you to create new tournaments, customize match rules and invite friends or foes to compete head to head. Online game modes include Tag Team, Ultimate X, King of the Mountain, Fatal Four-Way and more! |
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Product Description
Enter the ring with TNA Impact. TNA Wrestling is the exclusive Total Nonstop Action Wrestling game based on the top-rated weekly television show, TNA Impact! Get into the signature six-sided ring and prepare for all of the high-flying slams and takedowns with more than 20 TNA stars like Kurt Angle, AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. Or, build the ultimate wrestler with custom appearance, moves and style to deliver the hard-hitting, adrenaline-pumping action seen only in TNA Wrestling.
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Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at your fingertips TNA Wrestlinga is the exclusive Total Nonstop Action Wrestling game based on the top-rated weekly television show, TNA Impact! Enter the signature six-sided ring and prepare for all of the high-flying slams and takedowns with more than 20 TNA stars like Kurt Angle, AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. Or, build the ultimate wrestler with custom appearance, moves and style to deliver the hard-hitting, adrenaline pumping action seen only in TNA Wrestling! | Key Features
- FEATURING 25 OF YOUR FAVORITE TNA SUPERSTARS - Take control of top TNA superstars such as Kurt Angle, Booker T, Sting, Jeff Jarrett, Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Rhino, Christopher Daniels and more! Perform all the wrestlers' signature moves!
- INNOVATIVE PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING - TNA's signature six-sided ring brings unprecedented action and high-flying wrestling moves to players. With TNAAs incredible Ultimate X match.
- BECOME A LEGEND - Build a lifetime of fame through the game's innovative story mode. Create your very own TNA wrestler with customized costumes, ring entrance, move sets, music and more as you unfold the back-story of a champion wrestler.
- COMPETE AGAINST TNA FANS ONLINE! - Online play allows you to create new tournaments, customize match rules and invite friends or foes to compete head to head. Online game modes include Tag Team, Ultimate X, King of the Mountain, Fatal Four-Way and more!
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 "Easy to play, difficult to master" - Really? September 26, 2008
TNA and Midway have ramped up the hype machine for "TNA Impact" for months. SpikeTV, in fact, devoted an entire episode of its "Game Trailers" show to the game. As a big TNA fan, I was already excited for my first shot at controlling Samoa Joe and AJ Styles and all on my PS3, and the Spike special put my excitement over the top. The graphics looked unbelievable, and I was encouraged by quotes from some of TNA's younger talent on the game's playability -- the title of this review is an AJ Styles quote from the special.
Unfortunately, I have yet to figure out what AJ was talking about. I see that other reviewers like the gameplay here, but I cannot stand it. Kicking out of pins is absurdly difficult, there is no apparent rhyme or reason to how much damage is inflicted by different moves, and the number of moves available is extremely limited.
Because the game developers had AJ, Christopher Daniels, and Joe as the models for designing the gameplay, everybody in the game moves like them. Even giant sacks of worthless sludge like Scott Steiner can flip out of a fireman's carry for a counter, climb the Ultimate X cables with ease, and leap over the top rope to the arena floor. Where is the realism in that? Similarly, why does a punch from Steiner dole out the same amount of punishment as a punch from Alex Shelley and why is Sonjay Dutt as tough as Kurt Angle? Every character in this game is the same. There are no character ratings for traits like endurance, strength, speed, etc. It's all very bland.
Finally, the story mode is full of holes. You spend most of your early career wrestling jobbers created with the game's horrendous "create a wrestler" mode, and they get introductions such as "a man who lays his body on the line for you" and "a man who has left a trail of destruction in his wake." Give me a break. While some of the skits in the story mode are entertaining (Eric Young trying to hit on Christy Hemme is hilarious,) the whole Suicide story is awful. "I don't remember who I am, though I just told you the story of how I used to be TNA Champion before I got beat up by LAX. I guess I'm supposed to be a wrestler."
Oy.
Finally, Ultimate X is the only gimmick match in the entire game. There is a falls-count-anywhere mode, but since every single match in the game is no DQ and no countout, and since you can't go beyond the immediate ringside area, that barely counts as a different mode. You will find no "six sides of steel", no ladder (or King of the Mountain) matches, no hardcore or "Monsters' Ball" matches, nadda. That gets pretty boring afte ra while.
The game gets an A for graphics, a C+ for gameplay, a B- for fun, and a D- for features. Unfortunately, Midway only hit a single with this one, leaving TNA fans waiting for that home run.
 The forum frenzy was nonsense! September 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
TNA IMPACT! plays like what wrestling games fans have been begging for: that awesome AKI gameplay. TNA is so fluid, the controls so good, it will make you smile right away. (Hernandez' Border Toss over the top rope is a thing of beauty) Wrestlers DO NOT have all the same moves. AJ Styles has the Styles Clash, the Pele, his moonsault ddt and more. The only problem the game has is that it is short on moves but not to any ridiculous extent. If there was a DLC package that doubled the moves this would be a 10/10 game.
Its graphics, game play and fun factor soars above the SvR series to an absurd extent. TNA IMPACT! 2 will definitely be the best wrestling game ever made. Oh and I am in no way a TNA fan boy. If you're missing your old N64 AKI WCW/WWF games, the Gamecube's WWE Day of Reckoning games, or Japanese PS2 games like Wrestle Kingdom 1& 2, then this is what you want.
I cancelled my pre-order as well amidst the uproar about that IGN Midway Q&A on all the game site forums. It was all hysteria as this game rules despite being light on moves and not having blood. Short entrances? No Knockouts? Poor CAW? No video screens playing the action in the background of the arena? WHO THE HELL CARES? SvR is a broken game with massive amounts of features to cover up that fact, TNA IMPACT! is sparse but with highly refined game play, controls and graphics.
p.s. It's mind boggling to me that the same company (Yukes) made both the abysmal SvR games, and the wonderful DoR and Wrestle Kingdom games.
absolutely amazing September 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just had to sign onto my mother's amazon account to review this game. I didn't expect much from TNA Impact! considering it didn't have the backing of past generation systems like WWE does with their products. Well I went over to a friends house and he told me he had just picked up the new TNA videogame. So we popped it into his PS3 and within about 10 minutes of gameplay, I was abosolutely amazed at how awesome this game is and I had to log on amazon.com and buy a copy for myself to own.
Graphics: The graphics are everything you'd expect and more out of a next-gen game. From the facial expressions down to the beads of sweat pouring down the wrestlers faces... it's just amazingly realistic. 10/10
Controls: The controls are very simple which I enjoyed. I got pretty frustrated with the controls of the SVR series, where the controls would change completely every game and as someone else stated in an earlier review, TNA Impact! is not about trying to create a wrestling simulation. It's about having fun and not taking 30 minutes to learn the controls. A very simple control scheme indeed. 10/10
Story: Now the story in any wrestling game can tend to be somewhat cliche and silly at times, but you do need to understand that if the story was at a stature of a game like Metal Gear Solid 4, then it would just blow. You have your story mode of course, such as any wrestling game should have, but this story is more complex then the SVR games story modes, which made it a major plus. 9.5/10
All in all, I'm basically saying that this game is definitly worth renting, if not buying. A definite buy in my eyes even for fans of wrestling who aren't familiar with TNA wrestling. Some people have brought up places where this game might lack, which I disagree with. But if it does lack in certain spots, it makes up for it in others such as graphics and controls.
So go rent it. Guaranteed you won't be dissapointed.
Wrongly Criticised September 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Now I bought this game simply out of curiosity and thought that being a wrestling fan I at least owe it to myself. I didn't expect much and to be honest I was damned if I was going to enjoy it, and you know what? I love this game. What a lot of people are wrongly doing is comparing it to the Smackdown franchise, it's not even the same company so why would they do such a thing? Sure, Smackdown has been going for something like 10 years and has a big fan base behind it, but that doesn't make it the greatest wrestling series ever. The Smackdown games in my book are aiming to be too much of a wrestling simulation, rather than a computer game that you can just pick up and play.
Midway and TNA give us just that. A game that you can pick up and play at any time, it doesn't have over complicated controls, nor does it endeavour to give you a thousand hours of playability with one playthrough, which is what some gamers seem to be after these days. I will admit it does lack some features which we would come to expect from a wrestling game or sports game in general. A season mode and create modes are completely absent. Some rules that you find in wrestling aren't there, such as rope break or disqualification. The roster is relatively small, but what it lacks in size it makes up in perfection, which in my eyes what really makes this a winner.
I'm sure a lot of people would gladly have a go and say "graphics aren't everything" and you're right, they're not. But what they are is still important, if you're looking to give us a realistic looking game then graphics are imperative. Apart from the beauty, the playability is simple and effective. Although it does lack a lot of diversity when it comes to move groups ie. back grapples. I have to give Midway and TNA credit and say for a first shot, this game really works and is very enjoyable as a whole.
The Story mode is pretty cool and it tells the story of you, previously known as Suicide. He/You were the most unstoppable wrestler in TNA and off the cusp of winning the TNA Heavyweight title He/You are attacked by LAX. Beaten to a pulp and missing some vital parts of your memory like who you are and that you were once the biggest wrestler in TNA. You enter into the create a superstar phase and you effectively give Him/You plastic surgery. After surgery He/You rediscover the urge to wrestle and find out you're pretty damn good at it, so you must now fight through the ranks to become the big name you once were.
I would advise that most people decide to form their own opinions on this one. One piece of advice I would offer you above everything else, however, is that you shouldn't compare it in any way to Smackdown as it's a completely different experience.
First game need some polish to it September 13, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was really excited for this game. I reserved my copy at gamestop and got a free exclusive dvd. Which if they still have it in stock I would recommend it. Every match is top notch. Here is the pro and cons of the game
Pros- the game is alot more fluid than Raw vs smackdown. it is also easier to get a handle on the controls. storyline mode works perfectly with the wrestlers and works them in where you would expect on a impact tv show. I will not say anything about the story mode to give the plot away. the best looking game as far as arenas and the way they made the wrestlers look realistic. play moves alot faster and better than raw vs smackdown. extras are cool too, five full matches from all points of tna's history are on it. they dropped alot of goodies on the extras side
cons- well, the game can be frusterating at times. i tried to punch a guy and it went to the left. so i righted myself and i mysteriously missed him again. also if you push the circle button near the ropes by a corner. it could climb up the turnbuckles or go outside or pin you opponent if he is nearby. sometimes if you try and lock up from behind it will not let you also. I also punched a guy and it went right through his torso. also i was swinging a chair at a guy and missed five times even though it should have been a direct hit. also in tag team mode, i was pinned next to my partner and he did not even come in and help me. the AI for your partner might as well be the dumbest i have seen. he does the opposite you would expect him to. like if you are outside the ring by your partner, he will stand on the ring apron and let you take a double team beating.
besides ultimate x, do not expect any other of tna signature matches.
I would recommend the game when it drops in price a little. It is not worth sixty dollars, but it is not as bad as some wrestling game in the past that I have played.
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