Forget everything you've ever known about wrestling games. We're taking a one hundred percent new take on the genre. This is not Fire Pro. This is not Smackdown. This is something entirely new.

The highest rated wrestling videogame of all time is Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain released in 2003 with an overall Gameranking of 86% (tinyurl.com/y2khhu8). The highest rated overall game of all time is The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time at 97.66% (tinyurl.com/yacyplq).

That’s an eleven point difference.

There isn't any reason we can't apply the lessons learned from the 842 games that have rated higher than the highest rated wrestling videogame of all time and use them in our game to make up for that difference.

Right now we're still very early in the development process - but the main games we're looking at as design influences are "Mass Effect" and "Fallout 3" (among other Bioware RPG titles). Our primary focus is on providing the most open-ended single player campaign in the history professional wrestling videogames. Each wrestler will have his own specifically developed story and players will be play their chosen wrestler as a heel or a face. And quite frankly - each wrestler's story will fit it's own genre of storytelling.

When all is said and done - we expect anywhere from a 60-80 hour single player campaign. However for us to focus our limited development resources on these huge and unique storylines means we won't be able to include every single wrestler on the independent circuit in our title.

However we will be reaching out to every single wrestler across the independent landscape and hoping every single wrestler on the independent circuit reaches out to us so that we can release their characters as DLC - in a similar vein to Guitar Hero and Rock Band. This includes every female wrestler on the circuit.

If things work out well, our title will have the largest roster of Professional Wrestlers in the world.

We will also be releasing DLC with different play modes - including one mode that plays EXACTLY like No Mercy. Another that plays EXACTLY like Fire Pro.

The current roster includes:

01. Tyler Black
02. Claudio Castagnoli
03. Kenny Omega
04. Colt Cabana
05. Dasher Hatfield

To put things in perspective. "Mass Effect 2" had one main character and it's the been the best rated game of 2010. Very simply - we're looking to rate about as high.

Our goal isn't to make the best wrestling videogame we can. It's to make the best videogame.

If you still don't believe this is real - you can also ask Dasher and Claudio about it at the Conclave (hopes Claudio can find a plane).

We haven't begun work on our Dasher Hatfield model yet. Once we've got it together - we'll showcase it to you guys for your feedback.

This is official. We've gotten agreements with the wrestlers and have been going back and forth with them regarding the direction of their storylines.

Phenomenal1 schrieb:

Kann es sein dass der Beitrag am ersten April erstellt wurde?

Muffi schrieb:

Nicht ganz. Erste Infos + Pics sind Anfang März aufgetaucht.

Kann aber verstehen das der Beitrag von dem Herren noch ziemlich unglaublich klingt. Immerhin setzt er sich Ziele, wos hingehen soll.

Nochn paar Sachen: 12 Mann arbeiten an dem Projekt. Die Modelle für Tyler Black und Claudio Castagnoli sollen Ende der nächsten Woche fertig sein und dann gibts auch neue Infos.

Muffi schrieb:

We will also be releasing DLC with different play modes - including one mode that plays EXACTLY like No Mercy. Another that plays EXACTLY like Fire Pro. zendavis.com/blog/?cat=40

Smooth schrieb:

Aber war nicht mal irgendwann irgendwo die rede von einem MMO Wrestling-Game von THQ auf dem PC??? Sind das erste anzeichen von dem selbigen?

Perfection schrieb:

Wird heute noch in einer News auf der Homepage zu finden sein. Danke an Armz, der mich hier hin verleitet hat. :7

Early texture test on Kenny Omega: tinyurl.com/27qkp7t