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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
Anyway...There's a regular career mode, just no "story" mode except for the 6 RTW deals? Because other than unlockables, I don't think I care about RTW anyway. How's the gameplay this time around? Most of my concerns seem to have been addressed, but I'm still kinda sorta on the fence in terms of purchasing.
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Well, the walk/standing animation is better. They don't look like they're ice skating as much and they did away with all the ridiculous standing-in-place animations.
I guess everyone hated the abilities system from 08 (never played it due to horrible previews and, reviews across the board) but the system they have now is pretty straight forward. You get six slots into which you can insert a bunch of different abilities like lock pick (press y to escape submissions instantly), steal taunt (massively demoralizing to opponent if successful), evasive dodge (uhhh, self explanatory), foreign object (ability to grapple with weapons), kip up (if you get too beat up, you kip up and instantly have a finisher ready to go), etc. It changes things up, mostly in a good way, but certain abilities mean that it detracts in general from regular abilities of the past games (the submission specialist ability means that you can only make a guy tap out to a sub if it's a finisher if you don't have the ability).
The load times are
vastly improved.
3 letters: D, L and C. So far, Super Crazy, Evan Bourne, Charlie Hass, Ted Dibiase and a few second third attires are confirmed through video as DLC. Even better is that their moves, music and trons get added to the CAW sections. Also, they're actually providing support for the game. They're supplying a patch that will fix a couple of nagging issues such as not being able to clone a built up CAW and have the stats transfer over too and not being able to change your abilities once you've unlocked them.
Alo, the controls are kinda weird at first, but actually quite functional after you adjust.