QUICK TIME EVENTS ROOOOAAAARRRR

THE GAME'S ASS DUDE WHY'D THEY DO THAT. Just the most restrictive, clunky mechanics, it feels on rails half the time with how little freedom you have. And that's when you're not just pressing the on screen button prompts ROOOOAAAARRRR

Some actions require pressing like three buttons in a row with very specific timing, I just wanna hit a scoop slam fam why I gotta remember button combos longer than Pi

You can import the roster from SmackDown vs. Raw 2009... THE WORST SVR GAME LMAOOO FUCK THIS GAME AND YOU READING THIS

This is the first wrestling game I've played since I was a kid. The last one would have been on N64 or PS1. Needless to say, I'm not a wrestling fan. I was simply intrigued by this game because it's an easy platinum. Even though I'm not a wrestling fan now, there was a brief period when I was as a kid. This did give me a bit of nostalgia which was nice. However the gameplay is just so boring and repetitive and slow.

The control scheme was uninspired. None of the trigger buttons are used at all which leaves O, X, triangle, and square for everything. Some buttons end up being 3 completely separate commands or moves which is frustrating because your character will often times do the wrong one. The buttons could have been mapped better to make the gameplay more precise.

Also I don't know how other modern wrestling games play compared to this one, but it played so slow especially in comparison to other fighting games like Mortal Kombat. I felt like the AI was really dumb and slow and you often just waited for it to get into position so you could perform a certain move on it (which inevitably would end up initiating the wrong move because of the whack control scheme). Between that and legend killer mode basically just being 80 straight matches in a row, you end up just spamming square until you can pin your opponent which shockingly enough becomes really repetitive and boring.

Despite all that, the gameplay was a bit fun at first when you're just starting to figure things out. It's neat to see what moves and features from pro wrestling are incorporated and what animations will be triggered. Like actual WWE it doesn't fail to put on a show. But once you've seen it once you stop being impressed. The character models look nice and I think the graphics hold up well for a game from it's generation. But a lot of the moves are just reskins of each other which adds to the repetitive-ness. None of the characters I played as really felt all that different. You could do the exact same things with Andre the giant as you could with Brett Hart.

I was surprised by the amount of customization with this game. It felt ahead of it's time in that regard. I liked the inclusion of all the different match types and modes. I liked the inclusion of the actual video footage of old matches and wrestlemania's. It felt like a true love letter to pro wrestling and WWE, but it just fell short. The difference in match type and mode again felt like it was a moot point since the gameplay was all so repetitive and it became stale quick.

In short I liked some of this games features, I appreciated that it was a quick easy platinum, I enjoyed it for a touch of nostalgia, but overall it was a pretty weak game due to poor button mapping which resulted in shallow and repetitive gameplay.

It's basically Quick time Events-The Game but for an interactive documentary... it's far from bad but it's also far from good. Legends of Wrestlemania lets you play some matches from Wrestlemania 1 to 15. Kinda cool to see how the showcase mode as a concept came to life here before establishing itself in WWE 13. The roster is also pretty good although some wrestlers like Roddy Piper look weird.

All in all... I had a bit fun with it but it fades in comparison to the SvR-Series, which is actually a totally different game with a different system.