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Sorry about the past 3 days. I’ve been busy with school work and the dreaded spring cleaning. xD Anyway, I will catch up tommarow with a two in one recap of Lockdown and RAW, and then try to cram two more updates, depending on the homework load of course. Anyway, that’s it and I’m sorry for the inconvience but I promise it will never, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR happen… AGAIN! *proceeds to give everyone new E=Jackets… how this will be useful to you I’m not sure, but it’s the thought that counts.) Goodbye my friends. ^_^

Let me first go on record of saying that I DID NOT like Jeff Jarrett’s country singer gimmick. I did, however, like The Real Double J… Jesse James.

This my friends, is Bad Gimmicks I Like. The fact is, the wrestling industry has had alot of crap… but some of it isn’t really crap. I will say that Wrestlecrap does a GREAT job of deciphoring the true crap from the stuff that people just thinks of crap. Of course, it’s all up to opinion. RD’s opinion is the ultimate opinion on Wrestlecrap, and my opinion is the ultimate one here.

Now there is actually a reason I wish to start with the Real Double J, and it’s not an excuse just to litsen to that awesome “With My Baby Tonight” song. I will get to why in a second but let me first point out With My Baby Tonight.

Face it… the song is great. Well, I believe it is, and I’m NOT a country fan. Believe me, you can’t get me to touch the stuff unless it’s Johnny Cash, and that certainly was not Mr. Cash.

Jesse James can actually sing. HE CAN SING! That is the thing that Jeff Jarrett was missing to make the whole Country Superstar gimmick work. Would it of got over if Jarrett could sing? No. Well, probably not, but it would of helped. Instead of singing though… Jarrett… Well…

Need I say more. Now, the Real Double J… by comaprision.

Yeah… I know that’s Honky first but it gets to Jesse. Actually Honky Tonk Man is another example. He had the gimmick of a singer and could sing. A singer gimmick can work, as long as you can sing and SING GOOD! This is besides the point…

The point is this gimmick wasn’t totally bad. It provided some halfway decent entertainment, and the truth is I actually like it.

Now the reason I picked it is to say that I do not agree with it being a co-winner of the worst gimmick award in 96. IT won along side the Fake Diesal and Fake Razor gimmicks. Those gimmicks were bad, but they were all listed of having the same basis. They were replacements for fired wrestlers.

And I disagree with that in every sense.

First and formost, yes Fake Diesal and Fake Razor were created to replace Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, but Glen Jacobs and Rick Bognar were told to IMPERSONATE. The Real Double J is certainly not like them in this sense. They acknowledge, heck, they make it a storyline point that it is not Jeff Jarrett. Had they paid someone to come in and parade calling himself “Double J” and pretending to be Jeff Jarrett, then I really would agree with it, but it’s “The Real Double J” Jesse James, and he doesn’t really borrow all of Jeff Jarrett’s mannerisims. Fake Diesal and Fake Razor, did. They tried to be them right down to the ring attire and theme music.

The last point I will make is this, and that is the circumstances these charecters were created were VERY different. THe Real Double J charecter, or atleast the Roadie coming out and saying he sung With my Baby Tonight and entering a feud with Jarrett was suppsoed to happen, but Jarrett left the company. So, WWF just decided to go ahead and reveal it was Jesse and that they didn’t have to have a feud with Jeff. When Nash and Razor left the company, WWF decided to get two entirely new people to play the charecters and parade around like them. I personally think they were hoping that maybe over time the fakes would get over, but it could of been just to poke fun at Hall and Nash, who knows? All I can say is this; At the end of the day, the Rael Double J was not Real Real Bad. Alright… that was a horrible attempt at a pun and I’m sorry.

Anyway, that’s all for today. Saturday, opinion time! Whoooooooooooo!!!!

Sorry this is so late, but I’ve had a real long day. First up the Impact Wrestling Recap.

I should point out that I’m having a friend that I watch Impact with helping me out with this. So anyway, here we go…

Show opens, how is, with footage from Hogan’s first night as GM. You know, so far, I like Hogan as GM. As long as the show doesn’t become all about him, I’ll continue to be ok with it.

Next up, out comes Eric Bischoff. He begins to talk about a the legacy he has in the business and then talks about his Lockdown team. With that, out comes Daniels, Bully Ray, Kaz, and Gunner. Bully Ray takes over from there and says he is prouud to go to war for Eric, but Eric did make one mistake, Garrett Bischoff.

You know what I said about not making the show about Hogan? I’ll gladly take that over making the show about Eric’s relationship with his son. It’s slim, but I think I need which is more entertaining.

Anyway, Bischoff reveals that Hogan is having a best of three series to determine who gets the man advantage at Lockdown (Hm… sounds like last year). Bischoff saids Gunner can beat whoever his punk son throws at him. Out comes Garrett, who reveals Gunner’s opponent to be… MMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!! We head to commercial before the wrestling can start.

We rejoin the program with the Gunner-Anderson match already in progress. It seems more like a brawl then a wrestling match though. The match ends, to my amazement (and not in the good way) when Anderson refuses to stop choking Gunner in the turnbunkle. Eric’s up 1-0

We get hype for Eric Young and ODB’s wedding (oh joy…) and the final cronfontation between Robert Roode and James Storm (OH JOY!) before we go to break.

Eric Young is preparing for his wedding when we come back, wearing a nice tux. Joseph Park comes in and askes Eric if he’s thought about a prenep before asking about Abyss. Eric thinks, and tells him that he was messed up with Immortal.

The Motorcity Machine Guns cut a promo on their careers togeather, and how they are looking towards the future. They warn Joe and Magnus they aren’t taking on Shark Boy and Curry Man (I love that reference right there) but one of the best tag teams in the world at Lockdown.

Out come Joe and Magnus, who compliment them and admit they respect them. Joe then saids though, that it’s about who the best team is today. Magnus then suggest that they go right now!

But then Mexican America come out. Anariquia points out that they were tag champs for six months but are being left out of the picture (dang right!) They head into the ring, but are quickly taken care of by The Machine Guns and Joe and Magnus. The two teams then stare down.

I hope Mexican America crash the match at Lockdown. I want tag team wrestling in TNA again darn it!

Anyway, the next match that is hyped up is the next part of the best of three series, as Daniels takes on a mystery opponent next.

When we come back it turns out it’s Daniels… vs AUSTIN ARIES! YES! These two don’t have a time to put on a classic, but they do have a very good match. Easily the best match I’ve seen this week. Austin picks up the win with a brainbuster to even the series.

Dixie Carter said that they are looking to focus on new talent. I prey that one of the guys front and center for that is Austin Aries. He is the best debut I think TNA has had in a good, long while.

A steel cage is getting set up as Jeff Hardy heads down to the ring. He basically cuts a promo on how Kurt screwed him and that their feud ends this sunday in a steel cage. It’s Jeff Hardy, nothing to extradoinary. The shocker is that Kurt didn’t come out for a retort. Seems rare for Impact to just have a guy come out there, cut a straight forward promo, and leave.

Footage of James being angry at Roode shows. These guys (The Montgomery Gentry) say they want a peice of Roode after Storm is done with him Sunday.

Eric Young is getting ready but then Rosita and Sarita approach him in lingarie! WOAH! They warn him about marriage… to which Eric saids he’s getting married and runs off. Way to go dude, stay loyal to your girl! Lord knows you’re stronger then me…

*cough cough* ANYWAY! After the break, it’s time for the wedding. Oh lord… let me just hit the high points.

- ODB entered to her own music, in a camo dress.

- EY promised to be with her forever, even when she farts. ODB isn’t going to take his last name, but will take his theme music.

- Rosita and Sarita come down, ask EY which would he rather have, then strips back down to their underware. ODB follows suit.

- EY chooses Daniel and they kiss.

Wonderful… It was a little funny, but right now I think Impact needs to lay off this sort of stuff and focus on, oh I don’t know, proving they are focused on wrestling. I’ll let it slide, but only because the show so far has actually been pretty decent.

Flair is giving Bully Ray a pep talk, saying that Hulkamania starts to fall apart tonight. Up next Bully Ray takes on… you guessed it…a mystery opponent.

Bobby Roode has his security in tow as he talks about how he has no problem meeting James Storm tonight.

Bully Ray’s opponenet is AJ STYLES! Nice. These two put on a solid match, but nothing we haven’t seen before. I’m a little miffed because I think it got more time then Daniels-Aries, but I’m not shocked. Kaz tried to help Ray, but AJ managed to stay in the match. Ultimately though, AJ was victim of a shot with a chain for the win. Crud. Bischoff’s team has the man advantage at Lockdown.

Hogan comes down and gives his congrats. Then he reveals that the Lockdown match is 5 on 5 and says they better hurry up to decide their new memeber. When we come back from a commercial break, Bischoff saids that he will be the fifth man, thinking Hogan is the one for his team. Hogan saids he’s serious about being GM and isn’t the fifth man. He then saids he gave Garrett a heads up on finding another guy this week. Garrett then does the RVD thumb sign, out comes RVD thus confirming that he is the fifth man.

Video package is played highlighting the history of Roode and Storm. Nice.

Up next is the knockouts as Madison Rayne and Gail Kim take on Velvet Sky and Mickie James. AFter putting on solid action that you will only get from the TNA Knockouts (and reminding me that the knockouts are another thing in need of a spark) Velvet beats Gail with the In Yo Face… I don’t like that finisher name btw.

After the break, Roode and Storm have their confrontation. Storm talks about their past togeather, as Beer Money and Roode even admits they had alot of good times, and that Beer Money was once one of his proudest accomplishments. Beating James Storm for the TNA world title, however, has replaced that moment.

Storm saids that was the night that Roode destroyed Beer Money and their friendship, to which Roode counters that they never really liked each other and that Storm just got by on his (Roode’s) talents. Storm counters by saying that Roode is selfish and that he sold out his friends. Storm also saids that he loves wrestling, the fans, and that they will beat the hell out of each other at Lockdown! They then throw insults back and forth, Roode even throwing up Storm’s deceased family members, and the exchange continues as we go off the air.

Impact was good… BUT only 4 wrestling matches. To be fair, none of the matches were just short little ones, all were given some time, but it still shows Impact is a bit too segment heavy. Still, this one had match of the week in my book… so I can’t take too much away from the wrestling itself.

Match of the Night- Duh. Daniels-Aries. I hope these two get to do some more work togeather in the future.

Flop of the Night- Re-using the same concept used last year to determine who has the man advantage at Lockdown.

Shock of the Night- Hogan, nor Sting, being the Fifth man. I honestly thought that it was one or the other when Hogan announced it. Can’t say I’m dissapointed it wasn’t though.

Anyway, that’s it for Impact see you next time.

Now, I should point out that my deisire is to have daily updates. That typically means, well, that it’s a recap on Monday, Thursday, and Friday, and sometimes Sunday. I want to update following the events from now on, that way I can recap them and give opinions while they are freash on my mind. I still can’t do a real blow by blow, but MAYBE I can start doing up-to-the minute things. Anyway, the unfortunate thing is thanks to my SD! recap coming in late, my schedual got threw off. So, I’ll either post two updates today and tommarow.

Now, what about Wendsdays and Saturdays and PPVless Sundays, because I am NOT going to cover the online shows. I’ll give my opinions on them every now and then, but as far as I’m concerned… There just not important enough to cover. Well, Sunday will be a newsday, I’ll try to find all the top stories of the week and cover them, while Saturday will be an opinion day and on days before PPVs opinion days. Oh, and I cannot cover ROH due to it currently being unaccessible to me. I may ask a friend to join up on this site and give me coverage of that but I make no promises due to the fact that I do not know if he’d be interested. Actually, I want to know if anyone would be interested in giving me some assistence. I cannot possibly cover EVERYTHING in the depth and detail that I’d like too, and also having a wide range of opinions on this site would be well appreciated. If you are interested then please leave a comment here. I would say email me but I don’t think just randomly giving out my email account is the best move. xD

So anyway, I got pretty off topic here, Wendsdays, as the topic indicates, is Non-Wrestling Wendsday. Only, since my schedule got messed up, it’s on a Thursday. I should point out though that sometimes, like today, the topic will still be somewhat wrestling related only not related directly to the going ons in WWE and TNA.

HEY! Do you guys remember when Jesse Ventura fought Chris Kanyon in 1983!? How about when he ended Goldberg’s undefeated streak!? Oh, or the LA Screwjob when Raven locked in the Sharpshooter!? What, you guys think I’m crazy!? Well, it’s all in the Jesse Ventura story!

Sadly, I can’t find this movie in all of his greatness, and honesty might I add, to share with you all. However, LannysPermJuice on YouTube did post the highpoints of this epic tale of the rise of Jesse “The Body” Ventura.

Yup, exaclty as the wrestling history book saids it happened.

For the record, I have no jokes I can raelly say… I think the videos speak for themselves.

Anyway, that’s all for now, hope you enjoyed. Tonight, I get to endure some Total Nonstop Action… Or Impact Wrestling. What’s bad is, just like with SD! I’m catching up. All I know is Hogan’s GM, Sting’s watching his back, Roode is champ and taking on James Storm at Lockdown, and Austin Aeris is X Division champ and feuding with Bully Ray. I’m hoping for the best…

I started on this last night, but sleep overcame me. I’m sorry for the delay.

SD! opens with… Mean Gene Okerlund to begin our “blast from the past” as he introduces Sheamus to us all. I swear, the crowd still started a Daniel Bryan chant. I don’t think it’s just Florida who isn’t fully behind Sheamus, though the Hampton, VA crowd was certainly more behind him then Miami was.

Anyway, Sheamus says he’s sorry to the ref he beat up last week and that he hopes the crowd can accept forgiveness from an Irish redhead. I’ll admit, that was sort of funny.

Then the most awesome theme music any GM since Eric Bischoff comes on, and JL comes down to the ring, alone. That’s a little shocking. Actaully, he didn’t play too big a part in tonights SD! I find that a nice breath of freash air, but I’m almost certain it won’t last.

Anyway, he shows the footage of Sheamus kicking the ref last week and basically makes him say he’s sorry all over agian. First to Chad Patton (the ref who was, to quote Heidenreich once, victimized) then to all the refs, then to the whole world. JL, apparantly not satisfied with the apology, that he is under permanent probation and that if he touches a ref again, he will be fired. He also fined him 500,000 bucks and made a match with Sheamus taking on Alberto Del Rio and Daniel Bryan. Sheamus’s partner… MEAN GENE OKERLUND!? Oh, boy… we’re in for a long night.

Backstage Cowboy Bob Orton tells his son, Randy, not to take Mark Henry too lightly.

When we come back it’s the entrance for the man who hears voices in his head. Mark Henry is, of course, Orton’s opponenet for tonight. I think the match was alright, but it was very slow paced and dragged on for way to long. It was relativly evenly matched, with Henry getting the upper hand with his strength and Orton using his…er… agility to get the upper hand. Then, after Orton knocks out Mark outside the ring, the flames go off and Kane appears on the titantron.

Kane basically drags on about how he beat Orton at Mania and became a monster, or something, but that last week Orton proved he can get just as nasty as he can. He said it would be a shame for this all to end, because it’s been enough fun for the whole family to enjoy!? I wish I was kidding here folks. Oh, and he said that while crouching over Bob Orton’s unconcious body.

Oh, but it gets better. Orton takes off for the back, hunting Kane down only to find his father’s unconcious body. Kane then nails him in the gut with a lead pipe. After owning Randy, Kane said’s “I’m a sucker for family reunions.”

Ok, Unmasked Kane who talks = Lamest. Masked Kane who talks = Lame. Unmasked who doesn’t talk = nice. Masked Kane who doesn’t talk = AWESOME!

JI have to say, Masked Kane is awesome, I love the new mask and the new design and I marked out when he came back and chokeslammed Cena. Then I saw that they were still having Kane cut promos. He’s an ok promo man, but it gets boring hearing him drag on like he did against Cena. The only thing lamer? Kane giving one liners. Ugh.

When we come back, Tony Atlast and the Million Dollar Man are talking backstage. Tony actaully saids “This will be a good old squash match.” Wow.

I have to say, I agree with Tony as Benny Camer is introduced and then proceeds to cut a promo on how this is his first WWE match, as if we had to be told that, but he gets cut off by Ryback’s theme music. Huh, Ryback? You know, I’ve read some good things about Skip Sheffield in this gimmick, but I just cannot picture that ring name ever getting over. I guess we’ll see.

Oh, the match is a squash. Clothesline, Muscle Buster, victory Ryback. Ryback, that just sounds like a syfy name. What was his FCW gimmick!?

In the back, Heath Slater is raising himself up to Tyson Kidd, saying he’s a better tag partner then Justin Gabrial and how he was told that he could be the next Honky Tonk Man. Personally, I’m just happy to see Tyson get some screen time. Anyway, Heath sees he’s found an awesome manager. Tyson askes who, and in comes the MOUTH OF THE SOUTH JIMMY HART! ALRIGHT! Tyson doesn’t look ecstaic about this as we head to commercial.

When we come back, Mick Foley heads out to join the commentary team. Man, I hope he kicks Cole out of the commentary team. Anyway, outcomes the One Man Southern Rock Band and Tyson Kidd, along wtih Jimmy Hart. The Usos then come out and do their little dance. You know, these guys might be my favorite tag team right now. That dance is awesome. Anyway, the match gets underway and it’s top knotch tag team action, well, as top knotch as WWE will allow it to be anyway. Jimmy Hart continously brags about being the top GM, and Mick soon gets annoyed and puts on Mr. Socko. Jimmy Hart takes off through the ring, distracting Heath, and the Usos nail their finishers on him for the win. Jimmy Hart comes back, only to get the Mandible Claw locked on him by Mick. Funny segment, to bad it resulted in a crummy ending to an otherwise good match. Oh well, I guess I can give this one the pass, because atleast it had Jimmy Hart and gave Mick an excuse to use the sock.

Next up, preview for the Sheamus-Gene vs ADR-Bryan match. Speaking of Bryan, PIPERS PIT with Daniel Bryan is up next. YES! YES! YES!

The bagpipes begin and out comes the Hot Rod Roddy Piper. Piper talks about Daniel’s loss at Mania and then talks about Daniel’s dumping of AJ. Piper then, sounding like he’s ready to give a good old butt kicking tonight, introduces Daniel. Bryan comes out there and he begins screaming the whole Yes, yes, yes thing. The chants do sort of start, but don’t become anything major.

Piper says that Daniel looks pretty happy for a guy who lost the world title in just 18 seconds. Daniel reveals he just talked with JL and that at Extreme Rules he will have his return match with Sheamus and that this time he won’t win off a fluke. He saids that he wants to pin Sheamus, and make him tap out. The return match is, a 2 out of 3 falls match. At some point during this an 18 seconds chant got started, and then another chant seemed to get started but it was so messed up sounding I honestly couldn’t tell what it was. I assume it was “18 seconds” “Daniel Bryan” but again, not sure. Anyway, Daniel points out the reason he lost, AJ, will not be there this time. Roddy then goes Jerry Springer on us and reveals that AJ is here tonight and that he wants to bring AJ out there. AJ heads out there and thanks Piper for bringing her out tonight, and that she’s glad to be on Piper’s Pit. She then, to Piper’s shock, says “hi” to Daniel. She goes on to say that she knows Daniel is a good person. Piper questions her, but AJ doesn’t litsen. That’s basically how this whole segment goes. AJ talks about how great Daniel really is, Piper tells AJ she’s talking crazy and talks Daniel down. Daniel finally interrupts and tells AJ that if she really loves him, she’ll leave the ring. AJ, to Roddy’s dissapointment, litsens. Daniel then goes to leave, but he ain’t out of the woods yet.

Piper lectures Daniel on how he shouldn’t yell at ladies nor should he use them as a human sheild, and then calls him a coward and says he’ll be happy to see Sheamus kick Daniel’s head off. Daniel says he’s better then Sheamus, SMACKS THE HOT ROD, and then leaves. Roddy is ready to fight, but Daniel just heads to the back screaming “YES! YES! YES!” I’m sorry, but Daniel screaming Yes about slapping an old man, esspically one as mentally unstable as Roddy Piper, is flat out hilarious.

Anyway, we see yet another preview for the tag team match tonight before the break.

When we come back, no entrances. Drew McIntyre and the Bella Twins are already in the ring, as are The Great Khali, Natayla, and Alicia Fox. Hm, when did Natayla turn face? Last I checked she was a heel, teaming with Beth, and she was in a flatuance angle. Actually, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know when this changed occured, I’ll just live with it.

Anyway, Khali beats up McIntyre but then Drew leaves screaming “I deserve better!” Man, ain’t that the truth. Anyway, after he leaves, one of the Bellas charges in to take on Alicia and… they… I honestly don’t know what that was. I think Alicia was supposed to do a hair pulling face buster but it just ended up looking like they both grabbed each other’s hair and then face planted onto the match. Alicia still beats whichever Bella that was (I read it’s Nikki) for the win. Natayla and Alicia then begin to dance their way up the ramp with the Great Khali when… MAE YOUNG COMES OUT!? Woah! Mae comes in, kicks Khali in the leg bringing him down to one knee, and then kisses him! Khali looks a little grossed out, but doesn’t freak out or anything, as they all celebrate. Well, as long as this doesn’t become a romance angle involving a hand, I’m ok with it. I hate to admit it, but I was cracking up when Mae came out there.

ANOTHER PREVIEW FOR THE MAIN EVENT! We get it already, Sheamus is paired up with Gene, stop showing the footage.

Anyway, when we come back a promo for Damien Shadow and gives us a lesson on sophistication. He then talks down social media and tells us how it is erroding our brain. Yeah, the whole time I was just looking down at the graphic that showed Damien’s twitter account. Sophistication? Maybe he should of gave us the defination of hypocrisy. Anyway, that aside, I like this gimmick. He so far seems to have the charisma to pull it off, and though I have to say with that ring name I figured he’d have a darker gimmick, the old genius gimmick could be pretty cool to see make a comeback.

They show Sheamus and Gene getting ready for their match. Gene says he doesn’t like their chances but he sees that smile on Sheamus’s face. He wants to know Sheamus’s plan. That plan…actually, Sheamus knows they are dead. WOW! Sheamus says that after the show they’ll either drink to remember or drinkk to forget.

Anyway, next HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Hacksaw Jim Duggan comes down to the ring for a match. Hunico comes out… on the back of a tricycle, woah, woah, woah. When did this start!? How much SD! have I missed. Last I checked he was supposed to be a hardcore gangster, or something. Just, wow. Anyway. Hacksaw hauls off on Hunico, but Hunico goes outside to talk to his tricycle cheuffeur (don’t know his name yet) and then Sgt. Slaugher comes down! Slaughter yells at Hunico, then tosses Hacksaw the 4×4. Hacksaw nails Hunico, and Sgt. Slaughter and Hacksaw beat up the two tricycle loving gangsters as we… cut to commercial after seeing another preview of the main event. Well, atleast they changed the footage this time.

Cody Rhodes now heads out to the ring. He blastes this Blast from the Past show and saids we need to focus on the future, the future with him once again as Intc. Champ. A future where legends do not hog the spotlight. He is cut off with the sound of “AMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMERRRRRRRICAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN DREAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM” as the SON OF A PLUMMBER, THE AMERICAN DREAM, IF YOU WILL, DUSTY RHODES comes down to the ring. Cody tells Dusty that this doesn’t concern him, but Dusty saids it does. He saids that all Cody did was poke a gizzly when he messed with Big Show. Cody then tells Dusty that he’s embarrasing him. It’s probably a good thing that Goldust doesn’t come down here.

Anyway, Cody tries to head to the back, saying that they can talk about that there, then Big Show’s theme hits. He tries to impersonate Dusty as he talks, and he does alright. He says he’ll show us the real Cody Rhodes. Tonights “Embarassing Cody Rhodes Moment” is one of Cody’s old “dashing” tips where he talked about applying moisteriousing lip gloss! Huh, I finally laughed at one of those embarassing moments. I hate to point this out, though I feel it’s obvious, but Cody could destroy Big Show at this if he wanted too. Big Show has been covered in sewage for the loved the pete! There’s alot more to choose from then just his Mania blunders.

After showing that embarrasing footage Show says that was embarrassing and leaves. Cody leaves… and Dusty starts to dance, thus embarrasing Cody even more. Poor Cody…

Anyway, we see Mean Gene and Sheaus heading for the ring as we cut to commercial.

When we come back it is time for the main event! The match basically goes how people would expect. Sheamus starts off ok, then starts to get double teamed, and then Sheamus begins to come back. He sends ADR to the outside and tries to Brogue Kick Daniel, but then Daniel sends Sheamus to the outside. ADR and Daniel prepare to double team “Mean” Gene. Heck, even Ricardo gets in there to get a peice. Then Hot Rod’s theme hits and he comes out leading all the legends in the back tonight. During this distraction, Sheamus got up and is ready. Daniel turns around and gets his the Brogue Kick. 1,2,3.

After the match, Howard Finkle, who did the intro for Sheamus and Mean Gene, joins the legends and Sheamus as they all celebrate by beating up Ricardo. Michael Cole then enters and says he knows the legends will have to head back to the retirement home soon, and proposes a photo op. They beat up Cole instead. The show fades to black as they all celebrate afterwards.

Meh, alright show. Better then I thought it would be but MAN the constant reminder of the main event was annoying. Do they honestly think channel surfers would stop if they heard that Mean Gene Okerlund was gonna wrestle. It made me very tempted to switch the channel, but alas I didn’t. Am I glad I didn’t. Hm, yeah I guess. The show had it’s moments, but nothing too great or memorable occured.

Match of the night- The tag team match. It was a good match, and had it gotten more time it would of been a great one. The only other match that was in the running was Orton-Henry, but it tended to drag on, though that should be expected with Mark Henry in it.

Flop of the night- Not the match, but how much time was put into hyping Mean Gene teaming with Sheamus. It was uneccesary and quite pointless. I would of been perfectly content with just seeing the graphic for the match, but instead, they showed the footage over and over again.

Shock of the night- MAE YOUNG! I did not see that coming at all, partially because I don’t remember her being advertised for the show, and the timing was great. It should probably be noted that Sgt. Slaughter came in a close second.

Anyway, that’s all for now. I should note the Not-So-Super part doesn’t mean I didn’t like the show, it just wasn’t super. Anyway, bye bye.

Fisrst order of business… celebration is in order, ladies and gentleman, as the Bella Twins are slated by various websites and reports to be on the way out of the company. I was going to type up something different, but since I have a headache, allow me to just paste what I said on Gerweck.net on here

“THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! In my humble opinion they were the two most worthless divas in the company… well… the most worthless divas who were on TV almost every frickin week. No wrestling ability, average looks (face it, if it wasn’t for the fact that their are two of them they would be incomparable to alot of WWE divas) and no mic skill.”

That pretty much nails what my thoughts on this are. I couldn’t e more elaborate even if I wanted to be.

-So, yes Brock Lesner is back. Big whoop.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a Lesner fan but there are several factors that need to be taken into account when looking at this issue and I feel several of which have been over looked.

First and foremost, you guys do know why he cmae back, right? Is there a soul alive that thinks that had Lesner beat, or atleast not get utterly humilated, by Alistair Overeem that Lesner would of ever thought about coming back. Alistair gave Lesner a harsh taste of reality, and that was that Lesner’s 15 minutes of fame in the UFC were over. Dana White, to use wrestling terms, over pushed him anyway. Lesner’s path to a world title was as follows

1. Beat a nobody in a no name promotion; get’s UFC contract.

2. Get’s caught by Frank Mir. Loses UFC debut.

3. Beat Heath Herring, who is an ok UFc fighter.

4. Gets title match, wins belt!? What the…

How that justifies getting a UFC title is beyond me.

The second thing people need to look at is how long he’s been gone. Yes, he is younger then Rock and that means it is more reasonable to believe he can come back and be just as good as he left off, but suppose he doesn’t. Heck, he’s already busted open Cena and I have to say that based on what I’ve seen the guys who have an MMA background and join the wrestling business (Ken Shamrock, just to name one) tend to work very stiff. That can be a good thing, but it can also tick people off. Also, the fact that he is playing kiss up to JL (I’m not even going to try and spell his name anymore… I saw how I kept getting it wrong during my RAW recap) and that his promo chops have still not improved any (though that doesn’t surprise me) makes me think that his character might actually become dull.

Next, how many appearances do you expect him to make? I read somewhere that his contract only requires him to make 35 appearances. He’ll pop up more often then Rock, and as I already said I’m shocked he has a match at Extreme Rule, but one thing that was well known was Brock’s dislike of traveling. I think he’ll probably take some time off after Extreme Rules, and then pop up again for Summerslam and keep appearing roughly every week up until Mania, and that’s assuming that he agrees to an extension.

Him and Rock are apparantly supposed to have a match for the WWE title. The rumored main events are Cena-Taker, Lesner-Rock for the WWE title and Punk-Austin. I have to say, why does Lesner-Rock have to be the WWE title match? It’s not the biggest dream match on that list, we’ve seen the match before and I have to say it was ok, but nothing amazing. Punk-Austin will steal the show at Mania assuming that rumored card is true and that nothing changes between now and then. It will be another case of a match that wasn’t the main event, but should of been, stealing the show.

Finally, this is a step in the wrong direction for WWE. I remember when Rock, who by the way is a much bigger star to this business and has done more for WWE then Brock did, came back everyone was making an article talking about how WWE needs to be pushing new stars. I agreed then, and I think now more then ever that’s true. Can’t we give Punk the main event? How mbout giving Miz his push back? Maybe someone who’s been overdue for a push, like Dolph Ziggler or Cody Rhodes? Heck, I’d welcome a Zack Ryder title run at this point, at least it’d be a breath of freash air. Aside from Punk and Daniel (and I have to say, Daniel Bryan is the least likely of the on the bubble guys from last year who I expected WWE to push) no new talent has been pushed to that main event level. Lesner coming back is taking away someone’s push. I guess it’s ok, because he’s younger? Ha.

-Finally, Punk and Jericho. I love CM Punk, and I love Chris Jericho, so I should love this feud, right? Well, I did. Then WWE decided “HEY! TWO GUYS FEUDING TO DECIDE WHO THE BEST WRESTLER IN THE WORLD IS ISN’T ENTERTAINING! WE NEED TO BRING FAMILY INTO IT!”

Why? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, wrestling doesn’t draw. That’s the argument one of my friends tried to give him, and you know what, he’s right. When wrestling is the only thing on the card it doesn’t draw. However, in WWE with it’s swing and miss storylines, mediocre wrestling matches, and struggling product, a feud with wrestling as the basis would actually be a breath of freash air. It would, in all honesty, be an epic 80s NWA-esque storyline that would provide the viewers with incredible matches on top of potentially incredible promos that probably could go on for a couple of months. Heck, even if they keep insisting it’s to decide the best in the world and the wrestling aspect is seldom mentioned I’d still love it.

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, let’s jazz it up by having Jericho become a disrespectful little… oh, there are so many words I want to use and most of which I can’t because this is still a PG friendly blog but this topic I have became particuallrly enraged by it that I’m really tempted… ANYWAY, the point is, the direction they are going in has done nothing but turn this feud into a total crapfest. Yes, a crapfest.

Let me explain.

First and foremost, a vast majority of feuds that bring family into a feud are tacky, crummy, and down right insulting. I am honestly finding the fued offensive to me, and I will point out that it is due to reasons personal to me and my family and I’d rather not bring them up online, and I’m sure I’m not the only one offendened by this. You know, I wouldn’t mind it so much, if it wasn’t for the fact that at this point, it’s the only reason they are feuding. Quite frankly, it’s a step backwards in this feud and the company direction.

The more mind boggling thing however, is that people actually enjoy it. I read on Bleacherreport that the new aspect of this feud has jazzed it up, and gave it a refreashing breath of freash air. No. No it has not. IT ADDED A TOTALLY UNNECESSARY ASPECT TO A FEUD THAT WAS BEING DOWN PLAYED BY WWE THANKS TO JOHN CENA AND THE ROCK! That’s all this has really done. I want WRESTLING back in my WRESTLING show, and this feud could of been a great chance to do that, but instead it’s just more sports entertainment and quite frankly it’s netheir nor at this point. I see no sports or entertainment in what they are doing right now. Oh,. and how long will it be before seeing Jericho dumping alcoholic bevarages all over Punk get old. Quite frankly, it’s only happened twice and I’m already sick of it.

Let’s just ignore my obvious hatred of this feud for one minute though. Let’s ignore the tasteless stupid premis of this feud for a moment and look at two things…

1) Why hasn’t CM Punk brought up the arrest of Chris Jericho two years ago for public intoxication? So what if it was two years ago, it shows that Jericho may have some alcohol problems himself, and him ridiculing Punk for his family’s substance abuse problems is pure hypocrisy.

and 2) This has actually made an already predictable feud more predictable. Jericho WILL beat Punk… I promise that. But ultimately Punk will overcome Jericho’s ridicule to win the WWE title back. He will not succomb to the alcohal gene or what ever it is that compels Jericho to think that Punk can be persuaded to drink so easily, and he will rise up embracing his straightedge lifestyle stronger then ever.

You know, I think I know why people like this; we are that desperate for the Attitude Era. What was it that made that era so great. To be honest, it was the storylines, alot of the storylines are as stupid as they come, but it was the freashness and the unpredictability of the time. This feud, I suppose, is freash, but it is as predictable as they come and that’s why this feud will grow old and dull quickly. If WWE had stuck with the original idea of these two feuding to call themselves the best then maybe, just maybe, this feud would be more engaging and more unpredictable but as it stands, it is just another potentially great feud that WWE murked up.

Anyway, that’s all for now, hopefully SD! is good tonight. Blast from the Past, hopefully with plenty of Blast!

I’m doing a RAW recap because… well… I’m actually thinking about turning my blog back into a wrestling one. The reason? The truth is: The harder I try to stay away from it, no matter how bad the product get, I keep finding myself being drawn back in. Plus, the product has been getting better, at least in the IWC’s opinion, and I’ve found myself watching more wrestling then playing video games. Plus, I think all my video game reviews will be put up on Youtube as a seperate project. Text based reviews just seem so outdated now… text based recap and opinion articles, not so much.

Oh, and it should also be noted that to my knowledge I don’t have any regualer readers, and as far as I’m concerned that means that people won’t really care one way or another.

Now… let’s just get on wi- WAIT! One more thing. I do honest to god promise that I will be taking this much more seriously from here on in. I want to update regualrly and not just have a blog just to have one.

Anyway… onto the show…
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WELCOME TO MONDAY NIGHT RAW! LIVE IN WASHINGTON DC! TONIGHT’S GUEST HOST…

Wait… GUEST HOST!? I thought they were done with that? Meh, I guess it can’t be that bad. It’s… the Three Stooges. Wonderful. By the way, I doubt that they can turn the slap sctick trio into a full 2 hour theatric release. I’m sure it will have it’s fan, and I’m sure people still love the stooges, but in my opinion, they are, well… were… overrated. Don’t get me wrong, they “revolutionized” comedy (airquotes because without Charlie Chaplin slap schtick would not be as popular as it is now anywaY) and I get a chuckle every now and then, but boy… I’m CERTAIN that moview will flop on release.

Also, did WWE advertise for this at all, I didn’t see anything about it in the ads for RAW.

Anyway, Mark Henry will take on CM Punk for the WWE Championship… Gee, wonder who will win that one?

And now out comes John Laurainitus (btw, I don’t really care about misspelling that. lol) along with David Otunga. John talks about the new face of the WWE and then shows footage of what the new face, Brock Lesner, did to John Cena last week.

By the way, I will be talking about Brock Lesner and my opinion of his comeback tommarow, and just to let you know, I’m not really for it.

Anyway after that John invites Brock down to the ring and here comes the pain as Brock Lesner heads down to the ring. I have to say, I’m shocked that this is the opening of the show… I figured they’d save this for the end.

Anyway, Lesner comes in and thanks John for letting him back in the WWE and for wanting to bring legitmacy back to the WWE. I’m sorry but if John wanted to bring “legitmacy” back to the WWE he would start a campeign at Titan Towers to allow the word WRESTLING to be mentioned during RAW, but that is besides the point. Cena comes down, to a mixed ovation though it is much more positive then last week, and SLAPS LESNER IN THE FACE! HOLY!

A brawl starts and Cena’s lip is busted wide open (it turns out the first punch Lesner threw legit hit Cena) and the locker room pours out to break it up. Wow, this feels Attitude era-ish. Lesner and Cena each break free once, but in the end the order is restored and we cut to commercial.

When we come back they show the brawl again and then show Laurinitus backstage scolding Theodore Long for not restraining Cena (shouldn’t that be securities job?) and blames all of this on Long. He then tells Long to go find Cena and tell Cena that he wants an explanation for his action (apparantly, Lesner attacking Cena isn’t a proper explanation) and then the hoski, Eve, walks in. Her and Laurinitus go back and forth, but ultimately Eve is blown off, but she does tell Laurinitus to call her. I prey this angle doesn’t go the way I think it will…

Next up… it’s time to get FUNKY up in here. Brodus Clay and Santino head down to the ring. They show the footage of Brodus helping Santino out with Dolph and Swagger last week. Their opponents, of course, are introduced by Vikie Guerrero, All American Perfection (I like that tag team name for them) Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger. They have an ok match, though it was pretty much Santino getting killed and then tagging in Brodus, but Brodus ends it with a splash on Ziggler. The Funky Cobras (that’s my name for them, btw) then proceed to dance and celebrate.

Backstage Laurinitus and Miz are talking, but Miz is blown off. Grrrr… Anywho, Cena comes in with Teddy and tells Laurainitus that he had to get Lesner back. Lauainitus, for what ever reason, makes a match between Cena and Otunga for tonight. Alrighty then.

Santino is hunting for the stooges and then we see a recap of Henry-Punk from last week as we head to commercials.

We come back as they show the Washington Monument and then the Cena-Brock brawl from earlier tonight. They then show Santino bumping into Kane. Santino askes if he knows where the stooges are, and Kane just glares at him until Santino leaves. It was sort of funny…

R-Truth vs Cody Rhodes

Nice match up, and fast paced… Until Big Show comes out there to embarrass Rhodes again, this time by showing the footage of Cody losing the Kofi last week. Cody then gets hit with the Little Jimmy and R-Truth picks up the win.

Santino sees a crate that saids “Fragile” on it and opens it, releasing the stooges. They do some of their usual antics, and then Santino shows Moe how to do the cobra as the stooges try to figure out what to do for tonights show. I wish that crate had been tooken away by “top men” but maybe that’s just me.

After commercials they show two guys from some show called “Dream Machines”. I should point out I don’t much care for Syfy.

Lord Tensai squashes Yoshi Tatsu. Only thing of note here is the Albert chant during the match.

They show the footage of Jericho smashing the whisky bottle over Punk’s head last week (another topic I plan on talking about) and they tell us that the WWE title match is up next.

WWE comes back to remind us that they broke Sun Life Stadium’s attendence record. No mention of the “1.9 Million Buys” Hmm. We are told that 30 injured soldiers are in attendence tonight…

And then once again shown footage of Punk attacking Jericho. (Spoiler alert, something I think is really messed up happens after this)

Punk comes out and talks about his straigt edge lifestyle and how he doesn’t want people to feel sorry for him. He then talks about how he beat Jericho at Mania. Jericho has now took it one step too far with what he did last week and how all he could think about was how he smelled like his father. Jericho then comes on the titantron and pokes more fun at Punk, asking Punk if he’s hung over and what not. After more drunk jokes, Punk basically saids it’s now all about kicking Jericho’s @$$!

Mark enters as we head to commercial and then when we come back Punk hits Henry in the head with a monitor. Punk retains as result of a DQ.

Jericho then comes out with two 12 packs of beer as Henry attacks Punk from behind. After Henry’s done, Jericho dumps the beer all over CM Punk. He leaves after refs come out to help, but not before he hits Punk with a codebreaker.

By the way, a “Be A Star” commercial was shown later on in this program. I should point out that Jericho is picking on Punk’s family for making bad decisions and life and is mocking Punk by using his family background and, I dunno, the alcohal gene that must lay dormant in Punk. The point is, this angle is HIGHLY dis-tasteful. I’ll get into this more tommarow, but all I can say is that all of you IWC members who enjoy this angle are truly idiotic.

Anyway, when we come back we are treated with Zack Ryder putting on a valient effort against Alberto Del Rio, but coming up short as ADR locks on that cross armbreaker. I’m a little surprised Sheamus didn’t get involved. He didn’t even attack post match or anything.

The Stooges are up next… wonderful.

So, the stooges come out, well, two of them anyway. They are getting booed as they talk, but then… REAL AMERICAN HITS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Oh, it’s the fat one dressed up like Hulk Hogan. Actually, I’ve never laughed this hard at something the stooges have done. Moe attempts to attack Curly, but Curly starts impersonating the Hulkster, very good might I add. Then Kane comes out there. Curly is abandoned, he hulks up, but Kane chokeslams him. I have to say, that relieved me. I was worried they’d let Curly beat up Kane.

Henry is interviewed by Josh Matthews and reveals that next week Punk will defend his title against Mark in a no dq match. Again, wonder who will win that one?

When we come back, Josh is interviewing Brock, who talks about how he became UFC champ and that he is proud to be back at the top of the WWE. FYI, Lesner’s promo chops are still as dry as ever.

Next, the superstars talk about how amazing the end of an era match was. I remember they did this same thing last year… I found it annoying, but I guess you have to fill air time somehow. Psh, and why give this time to let a up and comer cut a promo, or to add time to a match, no we have to be reminded by how amazing this match was.

Anyway, next is Otunga vs Cena. Otunga’s posing… is just weird. It’s actaully the best thing about his charecter though. They put on an ok match (I know, shocking) but then Cena hits the 5 knuckle shuffle, the Attitude Adjustment, and then locks in the STF for the win. Lesner then comes out and kicks Cena’s leg and hits another F5. The show ends as Lesner leaves and JL is clapping.

Strong start, then a mediocre RAW. Figures. Still, it will be interesting to see where Lesner Cena goes, OH, and Lesner will take on Cena at Extreme Rules, which I have to say shocks me. I know I forgot to mention that, but I don’t feel like scrolling back up to edit it. Anyway…

Match of the night- I have to say Del-Rio and Ryder. The whole card was sort of weak, and Rhodes and Truth had a dissapointing ending.

Flop of the night- Hm… no major flops. Except for the hypocrisy of the Be A Star campeign… It only bothered me one other time, and that was when the Bellas made horrible fat jokes towards Kharma.

Shocker of the Night- Me actually enjoying the Stooges. xD I’m soory, it shocks me.

Anyway, that’s all for now. See you next time

Well ladies and gentleman, I just figured I’d let you guys know that my next planned review is on the Power Ranger games. I should point out I am, er, i mean WAS a big Power Rangers fan. It’s not like I still look at Power Rangers Samurai in the hopes that it will get better and continusly watch the old episodes of In Space (no offense to MMPR, but In Space is simply the best written out of the shows). Alright fine, I’m still a big fan… It’s not over Pro Wrestling on my list, but it’s a close second.

The one thing I want to note is that I do not own all the PR games. I do have access to many of them, but I don’t think I’ll be able to cover them all.

I also WAS planning on doing this games in the order of their release, but I came up with an idea that was too good to resist. You see, I just happen to have the misfortune of owning two of the, ahem, greatest N64 titles ever… One of which is not a Power Rangers game but I’ve decided to pair the two togeather out of fear that all the rings in the other one will cause me to rip the catridge out an-… I mean… I will be so overcame by it’s awesomeness that I just can’t play it anymore. <_< >_>

In case you can’t figure it out… the PR game reviews kick off with Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, but in a double whammy of awesomeness, it will be included with the greatest game ever made for the N64… Superman.

Just so you know, I don’t honestly feel this way… a friend of mine on the other hand, does. He will be doing the next review for me. His name is EeathDdge… Yeah, I don’t get it either. Unlike me, he lacks common sense and seems to have a love for causing himself mental torture when he indulges himself in a “great game”.

One final note, I CANNOT do Super Sentai games. MAYBE if there is a translated rom version of them you can point me out to I’ll do it but do not even bothering expecting me to review Battle Ranger Cross or anything like that. Anyway, that’s all for now and EeathDdge hopes you tune in for his review!

One thing that sucks about reviewing this game is that Calibur is considered a misspelling, which of course means I get that REALLY annoying squiggly red line whenever I put down “Soul Calibur” which, of course I’ll be doing a lot of.

Now, I’ve been a firm fan of the series ever since I got Soul Calibur 2, and I have since played the arcade versions of SC 1 and Soul Edge. By the way, the game takes place 17 years after SCIV, which is why the game has a new story and new characters, as well as new appearances for most of the vets of the series.

The Story

Now AT FIRST, this story does start out very well, but it picks up way to quickly and ends way too fast. This would be ok, if it wasn’t for the fact that the past 2 Soul Calibur entries had a story for every character. This meant that you’d have a lot of replay value. I understand why they swapped to a story based mode, because MK did it and also NAMCO did it in Tekken 6 and both had success. Do you want to know the BIG difference here… those game’s ARCADE type modes still gave you endings for the character you just beat the game with. Though it’s not a full fledge story, it’s still a nice reason to keep playing, to unlock endings for all the characters.

Also, this story only introduces you to two of the new characters in full fledge fashion, Patroklos and Pyrrha, while the other two newbies that pop up, Viola and ZWEI, are introduced but not in very good detail. Also, Viola was stated to be a big part of the story. Now, maybe it’s just me, but three lines of parables (or at least, I think those were parables) does not equal a “big part”.

Spoiler Alert here folks…

Nightmare and Seigfried are turned into supporting characters right from the get go. I know, I know, the new cowardly Nightmare (Lord Dumas, who looks A LOT like Raphael) is still the “main antagonist” but I use this term loosely. He does cause problems for the protagonist, Patroklos, BUT to be honest with you Soul Calibur is probably the antagonist. I know this is a change of pace, and a little odd, but once you play the game or read about the story, whichever you choose, you’ll see what I mean.

Also, in a game full of new characters, the game does introduce you too them but they do a very mediocre job. They don’t really give you much of an idea about why the characters are the way they are or any insight into their personalities. Also they left out some fan favorites such as Yoshimitsu (granted, he’s “the second” one) and Mitsurugi. If you are a Soul fan, just stop here for a second and let this soak in…

MITSURUGI DOES NOT PLAY ANY PART IN THE STORY MODE!?

The bio that I’ve read on him reveals that he was one that fought the main boss in SC 4, which would admittedly be the first time he was involved in the main tale of the two swords, BUT WHY ON EARTH DOES HE NOT DO ANYTHING IN THIS ONE!? I would be willing to overlook this if their Arcade mode or even, at the very least, their little “Legendary Souls” mode (a mode in which you battle several bosses) had some sort of ending system or story system. It seems to me that he was put into the game to have some nice cover art and images featuring him fighting Ezio Auditore. Anyway, this does provide the perfect transition for me to talk about…

Grade- C+ (This is SC!!!! The story is too short and doesn’t have enough characters included. This series has been praised for interlocking almost all characters intertwined in some way, here is just the Patroklos, Pyrrha, and friends show!)

The Characters

The roster on the game is very strong, despite it’s poor use in the story mode. The roster has 27 (28 if you pre-ordered at Best Buy) characters, all with their own unique styles and abilities. The only exception to this are Edge Master (who uses all styles) Elysium (female styles) and Kilik (male styles). I know the oddity in the room, so let me explain…

Elysium is Soul Calibur, well, the form it takes inside Patroklos’s mind. She looks like Sophitia and she is, of course, very strong. Kilik, mean while, well, I still have no earthly idea what the deal with his outfit is.

Yeah I don't know... Source: Soul Calibur Wiki

I would put up a picture of how he normally looks for us to compare it too but you know what, I don’t think I have too… I think any one can take one look at that character and know he looks stupid! You know what fine… here is Kilik’s SCIV appearance.

I know it’s been 17 years… but dang. It would SURE be nice to know how that happened. What happened over that time span, according to the SC Wiki, Kilik decided to go down the path of Edge Master (his trainer and another mimic character) which certainly explains his change in fighting style but… why on earth does he wear that horrible armor!? Edge Master, to my knowledge, has never wore anything that resembles that! -_-; Oh well…

The rest of the new characters are very nice fighter. Am- I mean… Viola and her friend ZWEI are very unique fighters to the series, Natsu has a lot of Taki’s moves, but has a unique enough move set to get by, Patroklos and Pyrrha fight a lot like their mother… but when Patroklos gets his second form and a weapon change he’s fine, and Pyrrha’s the same case. For spoilers sake, I won’t go to deep into detail about the forms.

The returning characters, however, didn’t get too big a move set change, well that I could notice. Some minor differences here and there but overall, Tira, Mitsurughi, Ivy, and the others all fight the same way they did in SCIV.

Grade: A (All additions are welcome and the favorites weren’t messed up enough to not be able to pick up and play with them quickly. I have to mark it down though… Kilik’s design and the lack of in game profiles make some cases confusing. I know you can look them up online but you know what, I shouldn’t have too!!! At the bare minimum they need to have something in the instruction manual that gives brief explanations.)

The Gameplay

The 8 way running system is still there and the fight mechanics are still the same except for one major thing.

Critical Edges are the new “finisher” like moves in the game. Really, there more like glorified special moves but the fact is if you want to win at this game mastering this is a must. Those who know how to hit it will turn the tide very quickly, and might be able to come back on an otherwise over whelming opponent. This also goes vice versa as an over whelming opponent can also destroy a pathetic opponent. The Critical Gauge must be filled and then when that happens, I think it’s filled by doing moves and it will also be auto filled if are getting your butt kicked, you can unleash your ultimate moves. They are awesome but I’ll be honest I missed the Critical Finishes. I know they were a bit of a pain to do, but a move that instantly defeats your opponent adds realism to any fighting game. I digress though, because the Critical Edge is still a very welcome replacement.

There were a few other tweeks to the game mechanics but those are the most notable two. There were some pretty big guard revamps… but that’s about the only other big thing.

The online server is also very good… I didn’t have much trouble finding matches. Yes there are spammers and unfair people, but that’s a problem you are just bound to run into in fighting game online servers.

Grade: A- (I would of liked to see a few more tweeks.)

The Graphics

The most overrated thing in gaming, the graphics. I’m sorry, but I feel that too often an otherwise mediocre game is praised by gaming sites the world over because of a very fancy coat of paint. I do have to say though, these graphics are AMAZING. One sad thing is that they didn’t revamp the “armor falling off” thing that was in SCIV, but it didn’t look very in IV so I guess I’m not shocked they decided to just scrap it all togeather. The fact is the graphics are amazing.

Grade: A+

Final Verdict:

The fact is, I don’t like the game for it’s lack of story but that’s honestly my only complaint. The gameplay’s still good, the graphics are the best I’ve seen in a fighting game, and the roster is still very solid. I give this game a nice firm A- overall. I actually will recommend it, but I would like to say that SC IV is still, in my opinion, the perfect SCIV game. I will get around to reviewing it in due time… I have a plan for what I’m doing next though.

Anyway I’ll see you guys next time, I just hope it doesn’t take me this long to get my next review up! xD I hope you enjoyed reading.

I’m changing the direction that I’ve been taking my blog in… I’ll still do occasional pro wrestling related articles, as well as things on other things, but well… the unfortunate truth is none of the wrestling on TV has interested me too much. After reading about the Miz being punished for Survivor Series buyrates being low (because it’s all Miz’s fault… despite the fact he was wrestling against the Rock, a guy who could wrestle a broomstick and still draw AT LEAST a couple thousand.) and about Brodus Clay being pulled off TV (Which is just bull… we’re still school friendly ladies and gents but you know what I was going to say) and got fed up. Maybe someday I can resume, but for now, I’m just a frustrated fan.

Anyway, onto something that I have been doing a lot more of lately, video games. I will begin reviewing video games for the PS3, N64, and multiple other consoles. I also hope to be doing video reviews soon, but we’ll have to wait and see how that goes. I will say that odds are I’d be using Unregistered Hypercam 2 and I’d be using a emulator to do the reviews. Rest assured though, text based reviews will still be posted!

Anyway that’s it for now, stay tuned for my first, well, err second review as I did do one for WWE All Stars, which will be for… Soul Caliber 5. I got it for my birthday and I have to say… VERY big let down.