Has anyone tried Rumble Roses?

[Jaded-Dragon]

Looked through the first couple of pages and didn't see a topic on it. So, can anyone tell me how it is? Kind of curious how the engine is.

[AareDub]

The engine is great. Better than the Smackdown series IMO. The story mode isn't as bad as I expected, though it isn't anything to rave about. Once you get over the fact that its a ridiculous game, it's pretty solid and entertaining.

The buttons are a bit backwards from what I'm used to. Triangle is the grapple button and X is run, it always feels like it should be the other way around. Some people like quick grapples that go straight into moves, others like where you grapple and then press a button to do a move. Well, Rumble Roses has both and mixes them together very well. The engine is a bit slower paced, but it didn't bother me. It has a few moves that give the possibility of chain wrestling, and though I haven't mastered the reversal system yet it seems very cool.

Each girl has 2 meters, a special meter and a humiliation meter. When the special meter is full you can either do a killer move or a lethal move. They are both special moves, one of them being a bit stronger than the other. If I related it to WWE terms The Rock's killer move would be the people's elbow and his lethal move would be the rock bottom. The humiliation meter gets filled a little whenever a girl finds herself a little exposed. For example if you do a fishermans suplex with a bridge the girl's crotch is in the air, that fills up the humiliation meter a bit. Some moves affect your own meter, some affect the opponents, and some affect both. Kind of an interesting idea. When your opponents meter is full you can do a different special move that is both humiliating and unbelievably powerful.

Finally there is something called a vow system. It lets you set conditions for victory. I haven't messed with this mode at all, but I'm pretty sure you vow to do something like win with a humiliation move, or win by submission, etc. Somehow or another this also effects your face/heel percentage and earns you shots at the title. *shrug*

Anyway, I think its a demo of an engine, I just wish it could be expanded into something more than a t and a game.

[Kane Knight]

The plot is pretty lame.

The game is pretty awesome though.

Now all they need is to put less detail into the jiggling...

[HeartBreakMan2k]

From what I understand the purpose of RR was just to test a new wrestling engine with the public for as cheap as possible. RR was cheap to make (as far as games go) since it didn't have to license out for characters. Supposedly and this is a big supposedly, they're thinking about joining up with some wrestling company since this game was so well recieved (for it's wrestling engine).

Our Sony rep was in store the other night and said that it is a demo engine, and there are heavy rumors it's going to partnered up with an actual wrestling company but it's definently just rumors as of right now.

As far as wrestling games go though, it is genuinely a good wrestling game. Just a bit too much T&A. (ie: there shouldn't have been any)

[Funky Fly]

The engine sounds fantastic. Here's hoping it goes to a company with lots of great talent (ie TNA).

[Jonster]

I thought Rumble Roses just used an adapted Smackdown engine?

[Kane Knight]

I thought Rumble Roses just used an adapted Smackdown engine?
It does.

the game is improved, but not radically different. They actually flipped the controls, but it's largely the same arcade style.

[AareDub]

If it is the same engine they have radically improved it. It feels almost entirely different (notice I said almost). It is still very arcade style in the aspect that the matches aren't terribly long and the characters have somewhat of a health meter for submissions and such. There aren't too many back and forth style matches like you could get in No Mercy etc.

If we really are doomed to have these arcade wrestling games from now on this is at least a step in the right direction with the engine imo.

[SuperSlim]

well this is very rather old but I finally tried it out, rented it, and it's aight. THe engine is nice, the action in the ring is well above average, the story tellin is below average but the voice overs compared to SvR :roll: is real good but overall is average. so overall the game gets an average rating.

SO if you want it rent it first before goin to buy it otherwise you may feel cheated.

[Shaggy]

The wrestling engine in the game was all screwed up for me. You dont really have a bunch of moves like I was expecting. Or atleast that I could figure out how to pull off. The graphics were great and the girls looked pretty good in the game. I wouldnt trade it in for a smackdown game or anything like that but maybe when the price lowers it might be interesting to get.

The story mode is nothing basically and you can beat it within 2 hours at the most. But there is like 10 characters and I think you can beat it with all the characters but I guess thats some reason to keep on playing. I say once its beat once there is no point and doing it again if the story is this crappy.

[deathtrap]

I have a demo but don't know the controls

[Batsu]

Finally got the chance to rent this recently (damn Game Pass holders)...

and I agree with a good number of the impressions sent here. The plot is a total "LMAO" affair, but the actual wrestling is cool. My only gripes is the lack of variety in the individual movesets, but SmackDown fans will find a lot of the moves used by characters in this game familiar.

The Humiliation system is probably the coolest thing about this game -- it's almost similar to the Heel/Face element. In addition to setting up a "submission" strategy, once one gets used to the movesets of the characters in this game, one can set up a "humiliation" strategy.

I hope that Yuke's takes some of the moves that don't exist in Smackdown (there are some SICK finishers -- Evil Rose's "killer" move reminds me of the Canadian Destroyer for example)...and puts them as hidden moves in an upcoming SmackDown title. Despite the "arcade" feel...a lot of the "non-SmackDown" moves look like they could be pulled off by real wrestlers -- like the triple 619 used by Bloody Shadow, and submissions like the "Tombstone Hold" (it's exactly what you think it is, by the name)...

The replay value is low, but this game is better than any of the X-Box WWE games I've played (if that's saying anything at all). If Konami turns this into a franchise this could be interesting.

[Fignuts]

Really good, and showed a lot of potential. Unfortunatly there wasn't a lot of game modes. Also, I liked the the face/heel thing, but it sucked that only one of their personas were selectable at any given time. If they make a sequel and add more features I would probably buy it. But for now I would definitly rent this one. It's fun.

[Kane Knight]

Really good, and showed a lot of potential. Unfortunatly there wasn't a lot of game modes. Also, I liked the the face/heel thing, but it sucked that only one of their personas were selectable at any given time. If they make a sequel and add more features I would probably buy it. But for now I would definitly rent this one. It's fun.
Considering how cheap it is used, I'll prolly get it soon as my system's back up and running.

[M. Banana]

Triple 619?

waht?


And I've never played it. But I've wanked to videos on an EGM disc.