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Published
by Konami
Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Release Date: Out Now
Price: £39.99
Rumble
Roses, an introduction.
Did
you ever play a wrestling game and wish there had been more
female wrestlers included? Well if you have then you'll
be pleased to know that Konami have made Rumble Roses an
all girl affair with fictitious wrestlers that all have
their own unique moves and styles. We have to get one thing
straight though, the game attempts to fit as much sex appeal
in as possible and it detracts from what is an enjoyable
wrestling experience. The characters include the red leather
clad Evil Rose, the face masked Bloody Shadow and Miss Spencer
who is dressed in a kinky school girls uniform, need we
go on?
What's
the game about?
Rumble
Roses allows you to play in an Exhibition and Story mode.
Exhibition gives you a choice of a normal, mad mud or title
match which isn't a great deal to be honest. Story allows
to play through a mini-story for each of the characters
(there's 10 characters here plus an alter ego character
for each of them). Like in most story modes in games of
this nature each character has their rival. However the
story mode in Rumble Roses is very poor and few will be
interested playing them through for each character. Finally
there's the gallery mode which basically allows you to play
voyeur on all the ladies in the game. You can watch them
fondle themselves and assume very daring positions. You
can even zoom in and out and rotate the camera fully if
you want to.
What's
good about the game?
I
know that Rumble Roses will get a lot of attention just
because it involves girls and that the characters have obviously
been designed to arouse but what you can't take away from
the game is its solid control system (complete with taunts)
and the great wrestling model that Rumble Roses has. The
game was designed in conjunction with Yuke's Entertainment
(a company with an impressive pedigree in creating wrestling
simulations) and it's obvious that the developers of Rumble
Roses were out to create a game that not only looks the
part but also felt right too. If you like wrestling games
you'll certainly appreciate how Rumble Roses plays. The
addition of a lethal move for each character makes it interesting
too.
What's
not so good about the game?
The
main bone of contention with Rumble Roses is in the limited
number of wrestlers that have been included. Yes the included
wrestlers are made up but it would still have been great
if more fictitious ones had been included. The game doesn't
really offer a great variety of modes either and with no
online play you have to question the longevity of the game.
The story mode in the game is very weak and won't keep you
interested for many minutes. The fact that the game relies
on sex appeal rather than having game modes of any great
depth may also grate with fans of WWE games too.
How
does it look?
Rumble
Roses certainly looks impressive and you can't deny that
Konami made every attempt to make the girls as alluring
as possible and as you can see from the screenshots their
skimpy outfits and poses only serve to highlight the idealistic
feminine physique. Even the cutscenes feature as much boob
bouncing and bum and crotch views as is practically possible.
We aren't talking Dead or Alive 3 standards here but we
definitely have one of the best looking wrestling games
on the PlayStation 2 to date. What I would say though is
that the mud wrestling doesn't look as good as it could
because the mud itself looks all wrong. The mud fights actually
look like they are in ankle deep weak chocolate milk. Still
there's support for 60Hz which is always great to see.
How
deaf gamer friendly is the game?
We've
said a thousand times before that sports games aren't really
that much of a problem for deaf gamers. Of course Rumble
Roses has a story mode and thankfully it is subtitled. Any
comments that occur during a fight are not subtitled, although
this doesn't occur very often. The voice comments in the
Gallery mode are not subtitled either but this won't cause
any problems.
Final
Thoughts.
Rumble
Roses looks like it attempted to be the fetishists ideal
wrestling game. Think of a lady in any kind of kinky costume
and the chances are there's a character in Rumble Roses
to match. The Gallery mode only serves to highlight the
fact that the biggest thing Rumble Roses has to offer is
it's sex appeal. Once you see past the boobs, buttocks and
kinky costumes there's not a great deal here. Sure the wrestling
model is a sound one and the idea of a lethal move for each
character is a good one. However the modes on offer are
poor. With no online play, a poor exhibition mode and an
even poorer story mode it's not going to have much lasting
appeal which is a crying shame because it could have been
so much better.
Overall
Game Rating: 5.5/10
Deaf
Gamers Classification:
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The story mode is subtitled which
is good but other, less important, areas are not subtitled.
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