Being a wrestling fan, I behooves me to say something about the TNA game. Now the
IRL show is a hilarious train wreck. But it use to be good, until about 2007 I really liked
it. It was innovative and different, but now it's become a sad WWE-lite. So with this
game I was hopeful it would be the former and not the latter. At least it's somewhere in
the middle.

On the plus side, It's freaking beautiful. Midway really put a lot in the graphics, and it's
flat out the best looking sports game this generation. The animations are smooth,
thanks to most of the wrestlers mo-cap their maneuvers. The storyline is in a so bad it's
good vein, at least in my opinion. But that's all for the good.

The decent stuff is that the grappling system is the tried and true Aki style system with
just small tweaks, solid but I wish someone would make a better system, but no
complaints on it. And it was the only respectable thing about Smackdown v. Raw, the
right stick stuff was a decent if failed attempt. And this brings me to it's downfalls.

Here's the crap. First, it just doesn't have enough stuff in it. Not a lot of moves, you can
only do about 5 or 6 same moves from everyone besides their finisher. There wasn't a
lot of gimmick matches, this is TNA's whole thing, as begrudgingly as want to say that,
considering it's part of the reason I started to hate them. But they only have the
Ultimate X. No King of the Mountain, no Lethal Lockdown, that's all they really needed
to add considering their TNA's signature matches. The AI is either dumb or cheap, and
the commentary is garbage.

All in all, it's a decent start, they got two really important things really right. I wouldn't
buy this game, but I would consider buying the next version, hopefully when they
improve on the crap. Rent only