Showdown: Legends of Wrestling
released on Jun 22, 2004
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling features more than 70 of the greatest wrestlers throughout history. Send your favorite wrestlers to the squared circle for bone-breaking matches, including Table, First Blood, Ladder, Cage, and Battle Royal. Create dream matches, unlock classic feuds, and customize your own wrestler. You'll travel down the path of pain in the new era-based career mode. If you can master the new Ready-To-Brawl controls, you'll be prepared to take on the icons of professional wrestling.
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The presentation of this was superb for the time. Full commentary that sounded natural and unintrusive, arenas and lighting that aimed for realism and authenticity. Wrestlers also looked enhanced from the previous cartoony asthetic of LOW1-2 yet not quite to the point of realism. The roster is staggering in size and star power but comes with the drawback of inaccurate movepool and limited animations. The biggest flaw here is the lack of polish to gameplay and the various bugs and occasional glitches. If you can overlook that you'll find an enjoyable wrestling game that's easy to pick up but sadly also isn't very deep.