Or just modern day H with long trunks.

As long as the Wii version isn't cheated like on WWE 12... Then I'll be happy...

Blue Blood HHH would be nice to have in the game. I wasn't a big fan of DX HHH.

My money's on long pants DX Triple H definitely. They'll have all of DX in there as a stable.

Although I'd prefer Billy Gunn to have his Mr. Ass shorts and t-shirt than DX gear.

Screw all of you. I want badass chainmail-wearing, Jim Ross arm-breaking, Drug-fuck-and-marry don't give a fuck because I'm that damn good because I was the first heel to ever win in the main event of Wrestle FUCKING Mania Triple H.

Dunno about this, a bit disappointed...I usually like to play as a current day roster, don't really use Legends that aren't active today. Makes for a small roster unless you include legends, which I didn't really want to do.

Hate the idea of the same person being in twice or three times. Will be stupid if it was like last year's and random people show up in cut scenes. Attitude Rock beating down modern day Rock after a pinfall will suck...

Or you could edit it so one Rock is on the roster...

That would be an awesome business card.

And then they show up in the crowd anyway because Universe is still broken.

Sounds about right to me.

Just goes to show anything can happen in the world wrestling federation :shifty:

And it can happen at EVERY FUCKING SHOW.

This match on Superstars between Alex Riley and Yoshi Tatsu that just finished via pinfall will now be a SUBMISSION MATCH.

Not only is that nonsensical, I now have to turn off the 360 because I don't care anymore.

Sounds prophetic to me.

It's worse when the original match ends by submission

When will there be a Teddy long "hold on a minute playa tag team match" in WWE Universe mode?

Take it with a huge grain of salt but its very possible this could be the last game THQ makes for the WWE. WWE has been rumored to be reconsidering their deal with THQ ever since THQ's financial problems became public last year.

Supposedly an Art Director in charge of the WWE and UFC games the last couple of years suddenly was let go by the company last week and adds to the tally of 2 important people and 1 studio involved gone since this year started.

http://www.captainstarball.com/news/...wwe-video-game

Damn, THQ really are a sinking ship

Sad.

Weird that they can make the UFC games great but WWE sub par.

Very different games.

Different teams too, if I'm not mistaken.

That too.

Preorder now and get the exclusive Mike Tyson playable character.

They couldn't find anyone else to give us?

Dunno, Tyson seems a better incentive than The Rock was last year.

dont really think its worth it . doesnt even look like tyson

Is anyone even interested in these games anymore? Honestly couldn't tell much difference in 11 and 12 other than the name change. Heard it was supposed to be a completely new game last year but that turned out to be bullshit. I think they should give the license to EA and let AKI have another go.

Actually fuck EA just let AKI have another go.

Tyson seems to do a very poor crotch chop, just like in real life. That's pretty good realism right there.

He looks like a reject Shad Gaspard there to be fair.

Doesn't look that bad but also seems like something they made in the CAW mode instead of creating him from scratch.

AKI doesn't want to make wrestling games anymore.

I wonder if he's gonna be either an unlockable character in this game or just a DLC character, I thought that for sure last year that Rock was gonna be an unlockable character for WWE'12 but ended up as an DLC character instead

Hopefully they will give us day one <strike>Shad</strike> Mike Tyson alt attire DLC.

http://wwe.thq.com/fighter/mike-tyson0
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So, I thought as long as it wasn't the "scratch" logo, that WWE could still use the old "block" style logo with the "WWF" showing instead of just the "double W's":?::?::?:

Or does THQ not know this/not care?

they did that in the legends of wrestlemania game too

Confusing to add the 'F'

Probably trying to prevent brand confusion. I have noticed WWE has blurred the old block WWF logo sometimes here lately. I wonder if they got sued again or what.

I thought I read somewhere once about them keeping the F in the block logo was only for a temporary time as part of the settlement with the wild life federation.

Either that or THQ programmed the WWE logo(s) a certain way and didn't feel like resizing the block just to accommodate the "F" section in the same space the scratch logo uses.

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"shopTHQ exclusive! For a limited time, customers in the U.S. and Canada can pre-order the "Austin 3:16" Collector's Edition of WWE ’13. The Austin 3:16 edition includes a copy of the WWE '13 videogame, access to global pre-order offer Mike Tyson playable character, plus the following items:

* Exclusive foil packaging featuring embossed Stone Cold Steve Austin skull.
* Exclusive collectible art card personally autographed by Stone Cold Steve Austin.
* Exclusive Stone Cold Steve Austin in-game ATV ring entrance and attire (red skull t-shirt circa 2001).
* Disc #3 of "Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time" (DVD/Blu-Ray)."

Interesting enough.
Cool for the guys who are into collecting autographs.

Shit Cover.

All this hype for a shit ass game, mugs will buy it, kids will buy it.
Why can't they just go back to the Wrestlemania 2000 days?

I loved WM 2000 and No Mercy, but I'm also tired of the old 'let's go back to...' comments for long running franchises.

Those games haven't aged as well as everyone likes to think.

I like the CM Punk cover better.

They should really go through with the People Power cover. I was hoping for an actual pre-order type deal.

https://img.game.co.uk/_images/merch...SteveEd_pn.jpg

...wow. *Insert "no wonder they went bust" comment here*

Seems odd that they split the Austin DVD between the PS3 and Xbox 360 sets

£65????

It should be man
where i stay there is a Game & a Game station next door to each other, the price difference is insane had the choice of paying £12 quid for Ray-man origins in game station or £45 in Game
Thats how to run a business

On the bright side, there's finally a reanimated stunner that doesn't have a flip.

If you mean graphics then yeah but they were made in an older time and I accept that. To me they've aged better than the godawful Smackdown vs RAWs 2008 & 2009 (the two black sheep of the SD gaming franchise)

DOR has aged a lot better than No Mercy, honestly.

Why bring up the black sheep of the franchise against two beloved games? I don't get that.

Pennywise - Revolution(official WWE '13 theme)
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and according to a twitter post from Cory Ledesma, that song and the superstars themes will be the menu music.

Bet THQ isn't happy the cover-star of WWE 13 is now a heel.

That wouldn't be the same THQ that made HHH a cover star when most his career was heel?

Looks like NOD Henry is in plus Survivor Series-Deadly Games

Don't know how I feel about that model :-\

THQ probably would be more upset how every year the roster is a bit outdated due to the WWE almost never telling them when releases are done or when certain character changes are made.

THQ recently released a new video for the game which shows off some of the changes WWE 13 is going to have mostly in the audio department.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...c-crowd-chant/

Really hated the commentary the last few years so any change is good.

Might actually buy this just to re-create the Deadly Games tournament.

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Didn't GAME buy GameStation a few years back? Wouldn't their prices have come in line?

I just want to be able to see a CaS with a title without the belt floating 2 feet away from their body.

Kama Mustafa and D'lo? Nice.

finally, glad to hear that

Looks like I was only half right.

In the new video, it shows the full new animation.

Despite the fact that it doesn't look like it should have a flip, it still does, it's just not as exaggerated.

Lame.

With that said, there's a new shining wizard, which gives me hope for new moves.

FUCK YES on the old ppv sets.

One of my top 5 PPVs of all time. Fuck to the yeah.

We still have Jerry "The Hasbeen" Lawler & Michael Cole as modern day WWE commentators only for a WWE game? No Booker T & Josh Matthews for modern day SD! in a WWE game yet? Oh well at least JR is back commenting in a WWE game

Another year and no Shucky Ducky Quack Quack.... :'(

<font color=goldenrod>Apparently they added an extra slot to the Attitude Era roster - bringing the Attitude Era total up to 33. Not too long after that happened, Kurt Angle went to Twitter and said he would be in WWE 13. He retracted his statement hours later, saying he didn't know if he would be in.

Angle is the one Attitude Era TNA guy I could see them going out of their way to try and bring in to the game. I don't think WWE want Jeff Hardy anywhere near their games at this point, and as much as I love Al Snow and D'Lo Brown (not convinced that write-up was a D'Lo confirmation) I don't think they'd really bother going above and beyond to get them into the game.

Angle being in wouldn't hurt TNA at all, it'd just mean Kurt gets royalties. Plus Brock was still under UFC contract when he was put into the game last year so it's not exactly unprecedented. Team ECK Reunion in Attitude Era mode?</font>

With WWE allowing Christian to appear on a TNA PPV, it appears that relations between the two companies are not exactly hostile. I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with a deal to have Angle in the game.

If anything, it'd help TNA because casual fans might wanna see what Angle is upto nowadays. Short of having footage of Vince McMahon fucking a goat, there is nothing TNA could do to hurt WWE and any publicity WWE gives TNA helps TNA without hurting WWE at all.

THQ announces no Wii U version nor any other platforms besides the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii just like last year. Probably also means no late port either due to the schedule and way THQ works on the games.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ii-u-says-thq/

JR was interviewed recently in regards to the commentary and he mentioned that the Attitude Era part of the game has a lot more ad libbed content for commentary than the modern/current portion which mostly follows the script THQ has for the game.

http://captainstarball.com/news/jim-...ary-script-yet

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I hope that THQ include a training mode in this year's game because last year I had some degree of difficulty learning the new controls

I felt like the AI got SLIGHTLY smarter for WWE 12..but I am not sure.
The problem for me is that at this point..I have been playing this games for like a decade. I have just gotten used to the gameplay and AI..even with the legend difficulty.

Apparently if you reserve from Gamestop in the US, not only do you get DX Mike Tyson, but you get the CM Punk Ice Cream Bar shirt too.

Playing on legend is no challenge at all. All it is just constant reversals, rather then fighting agains't someone. I think the harder difficulties on No Mercy provided a perfect challenge, and really felt genuinely victorious when I did manage to beat the fucking AI on that game.

We need to do a tourny!

have you guys seen the entrances yet?

here they are
the miz
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cm punk
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Mark Henry

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Mankind
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Stone cold
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chris jericho

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i think that this game looks awesome so far

The Miz Finisher
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CM Punk Finisher
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Mark Henry Finisher
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Mankind Finisher
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Stone Cold Steve Austin Finisher
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Chris Jericho Finisher
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The entrances are WAY better this year, Punk, Miz, Austin and Jericho each have their entrance attires as well.

Curious to see which version of Attitude Era Rock is in whether it be NOD, The Nation, or Corporation I'm hoping for the 2nd myself.

We'll probably get them all as DLC.

When Rock was used as a legend before, they usually go with Face Rock just before Hollywood Rock. Looking at the other Attitude wrestlers, they may go with Corporate Rock.

JR's commentary is really restricted for WWE 13 with THQ saying his voice only appears for the Attitude Era mode only and can't be used for Exhibition or other modes even if you use Attitude Era wrestlers.

THQ's official reason or excuse is "disc space issues."

http://ringsidegaming.com/2012/08/ww...era-mode-only/

I hope they still have their system in place to download other people's versions of wrestlers, storylines, arenas, etc., but more polished and non-crashy like.

I have absolutely no issue whatsoever about JR being Attitude only. They could be lying out of their ass about space for all I care.

Q&A
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Fuck, I'm excited. I'm a sucker every year.

I am too, but this time I think I'll wait for more info before I start to fall for it because at around 1:54 Cory said "Full Current Roster" which it doesn't look like but we'll find out Saturday August 18th.

Have they said if they are improving Create-an-arena? Like, if you can edit the stage this time?

Haven't said anything about Create Mode lately, except in the Q&A which the arena settings in it haven't changed.