WWE games, such as their most recent WWE All-Stars, are the type of game that probably come to mind when you think of the wrestling franchise. The corporate brain behind this old entertainment past-time is trying something new, removing the ring, the audience and the realistic style, with their newest venture. WWE Brawl will feature cartoony characters set in destructible environments, and seems to take its cues from more traditional fighting games with things like super powers and finishing combos.

As the name of the game implies, the type of combat will be brawler style fighting. I didn't see a single ladder or folded chair in the preview and I can't say I am sad about that.  I have never picked up a wrestling game before, but I would be willing to give this one a chance, which is the point.  By changing the look and feel of the game, the franchise heads are hoping to entice players who normally wouldn't give a WWE game the time of day.  It's still too soon to say for sure but hopefully this new spin on an old style will prove a to be a good one. Right now WWE Brawl has an expected release window of some time in 2012.

New WWE game WWE Brawl trailer 720p HD [BreakingPointGraphix]

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Epic-Kx

Why does it remind me of Power Stone?

Trevor McGee

WTF is this garbage? What did they do, turn them into superheroes or something? Graphically it looks like Team Fortress 2 or something. WWE All-Stars actually turned out pretty good, but there is nothing "WWE" about it, so what's the point?

Camiwaits

Ew.

JDefined

Oh, that's swell. I always thought professional wrestling needed to be more cartoonish.

William Stephen

This is actually old news. As i've discussed in my video, the game was shown at a wwe conference back in APRIL. Except no one noticed it until now surprisingly. You can look at some character art as well as the trailer again here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tXrSuG_dME

Edco

That gets my WTF for the day.

JetSetRadioForever

Someone at THQ doesn't remember the utter shittiness of WCW Backstage Assault.

thefaulk

Read title : sounds interesting
Read article : um...ok
Watched trailer : WHY

NickCull

Um... what? Why would a WWE fan play a WWE game without WWE characters? It's like Friday the 13th Part 5 all over again!

GohanGVO

Smash Bros. + WWE = Super Smash Wrestlers?

RustyBullet7

All Stars had the same idea, except All Stars looks better than this... Thing

Joe Warner

@NickCull that had WWE characters, I saw Undertaker, HHH, and John Cena.

Mitchell

All-Stars is already the perfect blend of arcade brawler and WWE license. This just looks strange.

SayWord

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Fucker likes big men in skimpy outfits!

SayWord

:(

SayWord

njsykora

There has NEVER been a good wrestling game where there wasn't a ring involved at some point. See WWE Crush Hour.

Bogard

Hmm, very mixed feelings about this one. It looks quite a bit like the comic series they did recently.

Baines

@NickCull
I think those are supposed to be the WWE characters, just roided up to superhero levels and given fantasy powers and origins.

The guy with the baseball cap is John Cena. The Undertaker is pretty recognizable thanks to his outfit. The others, the video is too blurry to make matches to, assuming they are based on real people in the first place. (Maybe flaming hair sword guy is Sheamus?)

Davidfoundation

What is this...I don't even

Edon95

No...Just no...

Artemus

AKI/Asmik Ace! Where are you?! The world of wrestling video games needs you. These other developers will never, ever get it right. Come back, please. AKI/Asmik Ace! AKI/Asmik Ace! AKI/Asmik Ace!

Voxeril

HULK HOGEN IS IN BRAWL GUYS!

KingSigy

WCW Backstage Assault did this. It sucked.

Putthebottledown

What systems was this going to be for?

acutelyaware

What the hell is this shit? Dribble!

BoomingEchoes

@KingSigy

"WCW Backstage Assault did this. It sucked."

Ha! Yep, thought the EXACT same thing.

janny98u

Impressive blog post, lots of great information. I'm going to show my friend and ask them what they think.


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camey23

Ooohh, Just wanted to respond. I thoroughly loved your post. Keep up the great work. :)





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