Wwe Wrestlemania X8 Players Choice / Game

Before I begin this review, I'm not going to pick on anyone else's review on Amazon, but I will state that this is my personal opinion of the abomination that is Wrestlemania X8.Here's my review-Graphics-The graphics for this game aren't the best; and there's no excuse being that the majority of Gamecube games have excellent graphics. Still, I'm at least able to say the wrestler models are smooth, and the framerate is consistent, but man o' man are the graphics buggy and collision detection is truly crap. In fact, most wrestlers lack detail altogether and look about as generic as possible. The arenas themselves are decent at best and looks very crisp with clean textures, however, the crowd looks about as bad as it can get which would be a giant block of humanity flattened and displayed at 2-frame loops.Nothing special to talk about here. The wrestlers don't sell moves, generally do not look hurt and aren't exactly too accurate in size. Generic, boring graphics galore.Sound-One redeeming quality of Wrestlemania X8 would be the sound...and that's as far as music goes because the sound effects are muffled and bad. The music is really good. Each theme is accurate and a lot better than I anticipated. Just don't expect much when you hit a wrestler or slam them other than a light slapping noise or a muffled thud.There's no commentary which really sucks. I often wondered why WWE games for Gamecube couldn't have commentary when Ultimate Muscle- Legends vs new generation for Gamecube does.Gameplay-Here's the really bad part, as if the sound and graphics weren't bad enough, in comes the incredibly boring gameplay.Westlemania X8 does feature a decent enough roster, but the moves are limited and that's the main problem with this game. The movesets given to each wrestler is about 5 or so moves, a finisher, running attacks, standing attacks and some ground attacks. On paper, this wouldn't be bad, but considering every wrestler has the same bodyslam, suplex, as well as other moves shows just how much this game truly sucks. Even the smaller wrestlers movesets are about the same with minor exceptions.The match types wouldn't be bad if this game was better. You get single, tag team, TLC, Hell in a Cell, Cage, Rumble, Handicap and some other match types.The roster could've been really good, but the graphics are so bad that I could truly care less who's featured in this game. The roster consists of- The Hardy Boys, Rob Van Dam, Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Stone cold steve austin, Triple H, Undertaker, Kane and a few others. There are about 40 some odd wrestlers plus some unlockables. But the one thing that truly pissed me off was the fact that this game had the NWO in it and is such a crappy game. I can't stress it any more how much you should stay away from this game. Bad controls, collision detection problems, bad graphics, limited engine, and so many more screwups makes this title only worth owning if you intend on buying the entire series of wrestling games like myself. If you're a collector, get it, if not avoid this one. It's literally the worst wrestling game of the 6th gen and possibly ever ranking alongside such failures like WCW Nitro, WCW thunder and the abysmal WCW BACKSTAGE Assault.WCW Vs. The World for the N64 is a helluva lot better than this game in every way and that's a wrestling game that's 4 years away from being 20 years old. Terrible.

I dont like the fact that people sell you items that doesn't work properly. I have pictures to prove the malfuction of disk read and random errors. To all of you who are buying games; becareful of the cost and the seller. Some are only out to get the money. They dont even make sure to see if the game is working properly before selling it!!!

I got in the mood to play wrestling games, and it mostly stems from me having a lot of fun with them when I was much younger, and really enjoying them up to about N64, but that was also about the age that I stopped following wrestling, so I don't know many of the new wrestlers, about the time that the WWE was formed as I was much more into ECW and WCW. Anyways, I got this game and I have to say that it just feels like it was rushed to marked on some sort of deadline, but without the team behind it that many big sports games like madden have, and I can't help but feel like if the developers had just put some more time into it, then it could have been at least something. From what I understand, this was a really big wrestlemania, and it makes sense that they would want a video game tie in. I have to say that since I am not as familiar with many of the names as some of the other reviewers, the game just doesn't look very good. There is a lot of footage mixed in, which always signals to me that they had to put something there since the actual graphics are much to be desired. There really isn't much of a story mode, and the create a wrestler features here are a joke, and the most important part of any wrestling game, the way that you actually fight, well the controls and the point just suck. There is no other way to put it. The matches just feel aimless. Easily the worst wrestling game on the market. Sure thee are lots of different kinds of matches and a couple of cool features, but maybe they should have focused on just getting the first one right and going from there. Avoid at all costs.

I loved this era of wrestling games! Had to get this for my GameCube!!!

Decent gameplay but the ai completely ruins it, the CPUs are always pinning and randomly release pins, during battle royals(elimination match) the ai always breaks up pinfalls yet during 4 man Hardcore or Hiac matches they don't break them up.Good game ruined by cheap ai.

Enjoy playing alone and with family and friends.

Wrestlemania 18 is a great competitive game and very challenging too.

My package came in a timely manner and works perfectly.

Great game. Thanks

My son loved it

Another grandson deal for his collection and he enjoys watching them and he has the money I will be ordering something again