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Donde estan mis zapatos?: Your TNA iMPACT! career starts in Mexico

1:59 PM on 08.12.2008, Nick Chester 19 comments

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We've gone hands on with Midway's upcoming pro wrestler title, TNA iMPACT! on a number of occasions, but they were always tight-lipped on one thing: the game's career mode.

At a TNA iMPACT! event that took place in Trenton, NJ this past weekend, Midway finally pulled off the covers on the game's interesting on the single-player career progression. The game initially puts you in the shoes of a Midway designed wrestler named Suicide, who is quickly making his way through the ranks as one of TNA's top superstars. When asked to take a fall to the current champ, Suicide refuses, and is later viciously attacked by TNA tag-team, LAX. 

Beaten down and severely disfigured, you wake up in a dirty hospital bed in Tijuana, Mexico. With no memory and a strange desire to climb into the ring with other men and fight, you're given the opportunity to re-create your persona through the game's create-a-character mode. By working your way up and through independent wrestling organizations, you'll eventually make your way back to TNA. 

More info after the jump.

I went hands-on with the early portion of the career mode, and went head-to-head with "jobbers" in a Mexican wrestlers circuit, including a masked high-flyler, and a wrestlers modeled after long-time Midway designer Sal Divita named "Nightwolf" (a nod to the Mortal Kombat character that Divita was also modeled after). It looks like the mode will be story-heavy, with cut-scenes between many of the career's 30 matches. Interestingly, Midway also hinted at some sort of tie in between the in-game character Suicide and TNA's television programming, a first in wrestling videogames.

While at the event, I cornered some of TNA's top talent to talk about the game and videogames in general. Check back later in the week to find out which TNA superstar has killed all of the pidgeons in Grand Theft Auto IV and which barely has played a game in his life.

TNA iMPACT! is set to hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 9, with Wii and PlayStation 2 versions following later this year.


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Knives's Avatar
Knives at 08/12/2008 14:12
I wonder if the Midway guys came to TJ to party while doing "research" for the game
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YONKE at 08/12/2008 14:15
i hope they recreate the Tijuana Wrestling Arena (Which is called Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez) at it finest.....i know will not happen but would be cool if you figth againts the real wrestlers of the Tijuana Wrestling Circuit....(figthing againts Rey mysterio Senior or Nicho el Millonario or Psicosis would be priceless........)
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Krahsh at 08/12/2008 14:15
Not really into wrestling games but this makes me wonder about the potential of an over the top lucha libre themed game.
It'd be like rumble roses but with big, sweaty men!
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Nick Chester at 08/12/2008 14:15
@ Big Z:

Didn't work properly in the headline with our software. :(
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Kif at 08/12/2008 14:17
I saw a clown face. I'm so creating the Joker as my wrestler.
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Justice at 08/12/2008 14:20
That's actually a pretty good excuse for the character creation.
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Irvine_frost at 08/12/2008 14:25
awesome, maybe if they added Japan as a sesoning experience it will be golden!
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Brilliam at 08/12/2008 14:27
I'm not a big wrestling geek but I have a few friends who are, and while I can't really watch the stuff, I am intrigued by the industry. Is this game intending to put you in the role of the actor or the wrestler? Do they maintain a real-life plot vs. a kayfabe plot? If so, then this game would be to wrestling games what Braid was to platformers. Seriously.
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Scrixx at 08/12/2008 14:34
Actually Nick, it's mi, not mis. I'm part spanish :P
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Big Z at 08/12/2008 14:42
Scrixx: I'm pretty sure you have to have the s because you're referring to the pair of sneakers, not only one of them. If you had the left sneaker in your hand but couldn't find the right, then you'd ask where su zapato is, otherwise you'd be looking at me with a confused look on your face in your socks asking for sus zapatos ;)
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TrailerParkJesus at 08/12/2008 14:54
This reminds me of skate's opening sequence where you had to (re)create a skater after the bus hits you.

Mis pantalones están en la biblioteca, pero el escritorio es muy largo.

I know espanish too.
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Scrixx at 08/12/2008 14:59
Big Z - But isn't Mis - Mine, and Mi - My. So I'd think it'd be my shoes, instead of mine shoes. To each his own, I guess.
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Nick Chester at 08/12/2008 15:05
I cleared the Spanish with a Spanish-speaking individual on staff known as the guy who wears the robot helmet. Case closed. ;)
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Scrixx at 08/12/2008 15:08
Lol, oh well. Depends where you grow up really, Dominicans Speak differently then puerto ricans, and both speak differently then cubans, and so on.
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MechaMonkey at 08/12/2008 15:57
Los zapatos son verde, y en la biblioteca.
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MechaMonkey at 08/12/2008 15:58
Ugh, missed a word or two in there. Good thing I'm American. Don't your fancy foreign words.
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Knives at 08/12/2008 16:03
I get the feeling that Nick won't bother trying to write in Spanish again :P, he was checked even more than Samit :O.
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