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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.
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