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Strong Female Characters / Bad Sound, Graphics, Gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 29 / 42
Date: July 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You might find it odd that a woman would be playing / reviewing Rumble Roses XX. Really, though, I am pleased that there are games that involve strong female characters. It's a step forward - sort of. It wasn't that long ago that guys would not play ANY game with female characters. It also wasn't that long ago that all females in games were hiding in corners going "help me help me!" while the strong guys waltzed in to save the day.

So in many ways, Rumble Roses XX is a good thing. Yes, the women are shaped like Barbie Dolls. We could equally complain that guys in fighting games tend to be rather buff - when most guys I see on the streets look like pears or apples. The outfits here are skimpy to put it mildly, and play on typical fantasies - teachers, nurses, lingerie, etc. This is certainly not a game for the kids.

But, to be fair, these women aren't strolling down the beach or standing on a tower saying "someone come save me from this big monkey". They are actively kicking butt with strong, muscular moves. They're not "hitting like a girl" (a phrase that always bugged me). They punch, they body slam and they get up when they're knocked down. I find these to be actually good messages for guys - and girls - to know. Women can stand up for themselves and in fact deserve to.

OK, so on to the actual graphics and gameplay. If we accept as a fact of the game that we are all about big breasted Barbie Dolls, the graphics are reasonably good. The outfits look painted on and the backgrounds really don't show the full power of the XBox 360. I really think they could have done much better with the environments and the fabric / etc. of the outfits. Maybe they figured most players - male - would only look at the cleavage, but surely even the most desperate of guys would need something more than plasticy looking breasts to keep them interested for more than a day or two.

Speaking of cleavage, they had some really bizarre effects that were quite UNnatural - including many situations where a woman was standing still, just breathing, and the breasts would make wild, jerky moves. If they really were going to focus just on cleavage in this game, they should have made it look natural - not like robotic implants were making them move independently.

Gameplay gives you a bunch of moves - kicks, punches, jumping on the ropes, leg wraps, arm bends, and more. You don't get a health bar - instead you get a special abilities bar and a humiliation bar. One lets you earn power for cool moves, while the other is about people embarassing you. Each time someone does, you "fart out pink gas". I kid you not. It is very silly looking.

You can do four-on-four matches, tag team matches, and try to build up your popularity. Along the way you unlock costumes. They have a fighting game style mode with a regular health bar.

The sound featured really bad voice acting, really silly background noises and a soundtrack that just didn't have a good mix. Apparently the sound was not what they focussed on here.

Getting into the porn realm, I do have to comment that there are a lot of "special features" in the game that are solely for guys to look at, lust after, and who knows what else while the game is running. These involve a lot of photo shoots, sexy swimsuits, and things like "watching her jump on a pogo stick".

I actually think there was good potential here, with a female fighting game that everyone could play. However, from the pink farting to the bad sound, questionable graphics and heavy emphasis on the construct-girl-on-girl-photos as a "side game", they have really narrowed their audience down to a really small group. This group is nervous about buying real porn - so they want to buy porn that's built into a video game. Even for that group, to pay $60 for this would seem like a waste of money to me. If that's your aim in life, you could buy a ton of actual porn DVDs and get much more realistic sound and video. If your aim really is to "Play a game" with sexy females, I can recommend several other fighting games instead.

Great wrestling game, little bit shallow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, yeah, I've read the critic's reviews that this game is nothing but T&A and only for losers with no girlfriend and the gameplay stinks and all that. All I can say is this: don't believe the hype. While there is definitely a "sex sells" kind of attitude about Rumble Roses, it is done in an over-the-top, very tongue-in-cheek fashion that is more likely to make you laugh than arouse you. That aside, the fun is in the game itself. Wrestling game fans should be more than satisfied with the gameplay; it features dozens of diverse and creative moves for each of the great characters, all of whom have 4 different incarnations (face, heel, and a superstar version of each) with different styles as well as 3 finishing moves each. The entrances range form super-badass to ridiculous to hilarious and feature some unique...ummm.. visuals to say the least. The action is fast for a wrestling game, arcade friendly, and provides lots of challenges in the way of unlockables you can get by beating a character's specific rivals repeatedly or by performing various other challenges. The best mode is tag-team which features a lot in the way of teamwork between tag-partners. Team with your character's buddy and your teamwork will rock your opponent's worlds. Screw up and attack your friend too often or choose a bad teammate and you will find yourself with a partner who won't tag with you or participate in doubleteam attacks. The voice acting is great and conveys trash-talking, self-motivation, teammate encouragement, or the decline of your friendship with said teammate during the matches. Then there's the "queen's match" in which the loser has to perform a humiliating task in an outfit of your choosing. There are tons of things: cleaning the pool, sexy poses, jumping rope, getting squirted with a watergun, bouncing on a pogo stick, limbo, dances, the list goes on and on. After victory, you get to watch you opponent's embarrassment as they perform the task and you can zoom in and around the shot in any angle you like in a manner similiar to the Dead or Alive games. Lastly, there's the "street fight" mode which borrows heavily again from DOA but drops the actual fun. All of this is great fun, but the game could have been much, much better. First off, the countering system is a little janky, it can't seem to decide whether to be easy or hard so it pretty much seems to only work when it feels like it. Skill doesn't appear to play much of a role. While there are lots of outfits to unlock, most of the best outfits are what you already start out with and it takes HOURS of matches against the same opponents to unlock costumes that usually aren't worth unlocking. The biggest problem, though, is that there is no real story mode. You just choose the venue and fight whoever's there and that's about it. The only incentive is the redundancy of unlocking the same old stuff for every girl over and over by fighting the same people over and over. You can create dozens of custom fighters, but you can't enter them into the pool of opponents (which gets quite shallow pretty fast). You can also customize each character in many ways, but those sessions usually end up with just an increase in bust size. Sorry, I'm a guy. It's also extremely disappointing that you can't pick songs from your hard drive as each girls theme music and there's no customizing the entrances either. Too bad. Like I said, this game is loads of fun and will provide hours of entertainment, but what could have been a truly incredible all-girl wrestling experience is held back by a failure to add any depth to the game itself. If you love wrestling games and gratuitous silly sexuality then this is a no-brainer to buy. Just don't expect the same depth other, license-based wrestling games have offered in the past.

Such a sweet smelling rose.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting when I loaded up Rumble Roses XX for the first, but I do remember I wasn't expecting to be impressed. So much for pre-judgment.

Rumble Roses XX turned out to be a pretty sweet game.

First off, I have to say, I rarely ever play wrestling games. The last one I played was on the Dreamcast, and I thought it sucked (the game, not the system). So, if there is any common criteria by which such games are judged by, I am unaware of them. I can only comment on what I liked and disliked about the title.

That said, I must say, there wasn't much about the title I didn't like.

Rumble Roses XX, is a wrestling game. All of the standard characters you play with are female. There are a variety of play modes to enjoy and entertain you and your friends with.

The graphics are gorgeous, and I'm not just talking about those lovely polygon models that you wrestle with (though they are, err... composed very well). The stages you play on are richly detailed and beautiful. The soundtrack never seems to be inappropriate; every song or tune seems to match the moment it is played. The character models are well designed and well animated. Most model motions are smooth, fluid and natural looking with the odd exception of the execution of a few of the holding moves. I'm pretty sure most normal people can't bend like these character models can bend.

Graphics, sounds, and pretty polygons are all done very well, but all those points would amount to nil without good game play to enjoy them with. Fortunately, Rumble Roses XX has very solid but simple game play. Nearly all moves are executed by hitting a single direction and a button. Special moves are executed by positioning yourself correctly, and hitting a simple combination of buttons (usually no more than two). The most annoying control issue is the mashing of buttons to escape holds or pins, but that seems to be a universal design flaw among almost all wrestling games I've read about.

You can participate in a variety of different match types against a computer opponent. You have the traditional one on one match, the tag team match, battle royal free for all matches, handicapped matches (two on one), and humiliation matches. With the exception of the humiliation match, in all of these you win by pinning your opponent to the mat or having them submit to a hold.

Rumble Roses XX has in addition to the wrestling mode, a street fighting mode. This is a sort of simplified `Street Fighter' type fighting mode. Your wrestling moves are limited, and you have a `life bar'. You win a round by simply pummeling your opponent until their life bar is empty, and you win a fight by winning two out of three rounds. It does make for a nice change of pace from the normal wrestling matches.

Complementing the primary wrestling focus of this title, there is a collecting aspect that features many things may be unlocked. Each character has many outfits you can acquire. These outfits run the range from very revealing thong bikinis and suggestive shorts, to combat gear and school girl outfits. There is a photo shoot mode where you can take pictures of the characters wearing the outfits you have unlocked while they participate in special activities you have also unlocked (like riding a bike, swimming, or stretching).

Also, in addition to unlocking additional outfits, each character has a counterpart that can be unlocked. The game has a face versus heel arrangement (good guy versus bad guy). Each face character has a heel version you can unlock, and the same goes for the heel characters. Each character version has her own unique outfit and intro movie.

In addition to playing against the computer, there is an `Exhibition Mode' where you can play against up to three friends, and use the outfits you have unlocked. All of the wrestling match types, along with the street fighting mode, are available. I've found this to be a very enjoyable element of the game.

Rumble Roses XX lets you online to play against others, and even lets you share photos you have taken.

There are only three things about this game that annoy me, all fairly minor.

The first thing that I found annoying is that it is a great pain to change a characters costume in the `Exhibition Mode'. You can only change the color of the outfit your wrestler is wearing, or pick her `Super Star' outfit if it is available. To change the outfit to something different you have to exit out of the exhibition mode, load up your single player character, change her costume there, then go back to the Exhibition Mode. Very annoying of you have four people who keep wanting to change outfits.

The second most annoying thing I found about Rumble Roses XX is that it is unclear what you are supposed to do in the single player mode, and how you progress in the game. If it is explained in the manual, I overlooked it. I just kept playing matches until I won a title.

The last thing that annoyed me about this game (and this is really the most minor) is that there was no kind of training mode. I guess I've played too many fighting games where this feature is provided and I've come to expect it.

Over all, I have to say, I enjoyed this game greatly. It's entertaining to play by yourself, and is a great title to bring out when your friends come over.

Unexpectedly, Rumble Roses XX turned out to be a really sweet smelling rose, without any thorns.

Rumble Roses XX can put you in a sleeper hold

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I'm not some horny 16 year old who just bought this game to see half-naked women. I am the gamer who plays games for fun and entertainment. When I first heard in 2004 that Konami was going to produce a wrestling game, I said "Sure, why not? They make action games, survival horror and dance games, why not try wrestling?" So I immediatly picked up Rumble Roses when it was first released.

When I first heard that sleeper hit Rumble Roses was going to be released and remade, I knew that I had to purchase it. I really loved the game that was released for the PS2. It was a tease and it played well. It was not like other games that degraded women. Ok, I take that back because of the really skimpy swimsuits and the mud matches.

I purchased this game despite the mixed reviews. I went on this site everyday looking for new reviews but the only things I could find were the 16's who loved the bouncy breasts. It's a shame that's all I could find. A few people actually posted some honest reviews. Well, I would like to join the few who are the average gamers.

Rumble Roses is a wrestling game. I won't take that away from it. The wrestling part plays out pretty well seeing as it was made with/by Yukes. I like the work Yukes has done in the past. Most of the girl's moves have either been improved or changed for the better. I can live with that. The wrestling system works well as I would have expected. If you liked the Smackdown series, you will like the wrestling.

Some other things were changed. Gone are story mode and mud-match wrestling. I can live with out the mud, but I wish story mode was left and fixed so it made sense. Now without story mode, the game is just so long and boring having to fight every single woman just to get a title shot. In the story mode, every woman's story was explained as to why she was wrestling. Now, every woman fights for the hell of it, I guess. Another addition that I like street fights. You fight your opponent in an outside cage with no submission or pins, the point is to knock out the power out of each other. Street fights remind of games like Street Fighter or Tekken.

Added was create a character/wrestler. I was really excited that I was finally able to include a wrestler into one of my favourite present wrestling games. I figured that since Yukes was behind this game, they would have a kick-ass create a wrestler as with the Smackdown series. Well, not exactly kick-ass but decent. The create a wrestler is really lacking. You can have up to 30 created wrestlers which is cool but they are all the same woman Lambada. You can't change her face or entrance. That really sucks. You can't edit her moves either. Every "Lambada" has the same entrance and since there is only three voices, eventually they will all have the same voices. Another thing that bugs me is that your character can only be as tall as 5'9 and as short as 5'5. She lowest she can weight is 115 and the most 151. So much for making a realistic woman. I love looking at anorexic models.

There really isn't a "main" mode to speak of, so you have to fight in matches to earn money and unlock costumes. While this probably seemed like a good idea while the game was in production, it is extremely repetitive trying to earn all the costumes. There is only like 40 costumes for you to unlock. Every girl has the exact same costumes to unlock, so it really isn't any fun trying to unlock the same exact costume over and over. The methods for unlocking items aren't really that exciting either. It takes forever trying to save enough for all the costumes. The outfits in the game are just your skimpy thong swimsuits and your average Japanese sterotypical clothes like maids and school girls. What a suprise. I wish they would of had more of a selection than that. Once again, I figured since Yukes was assisting they would have included some of their previous create a wrestler material. Wrong. What you see is what you get.

My overall view of this game is rent before you buy. You might like wrestling and women but this game does have a few flaws as I hope I mentioned. I just wish that games would stop degrading women as just sex objects. You never see men like this, so why should women have to suffer this treatment. Out of a possible 5, I rate this game a 2.5. I could have been better. The reason for the score, is because I was already of the first Rumble Roses and I love wrestling. It loses points on the lacking of reason for fighting and create a wrestler.

Jayson

A Little More Addition with a Lot More Disappointment!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Here's my advice: Before you buy a game please check out reviews ANYWHERE before getting it. I made that mistake when I got this game. Overall, when I had gotten Rumble Roses XX it seemed like it was going to be something promising with its new modes but quite honestly where they opened the doors to new features, they've done a pretty lazy job on it.

The first thing you will definitely want to try out is the Create-A-Wrestler mode where you can make your own character from a variety of different options: hair color, make-up, and yes... you can pick between TWO different costumes. After playing professional wrestling games with personas you actually see on television like WWE, there have been moments in those games where it just seemed like they squeezed it out and some things were disappointing. If you put Rumble Roses XX in the pro-wrestling game genre it would make those other lame looking games gold. Yes, the customization is THAT bad. When morphing your wrestler's form, you can only change three things: B-W-H. You cannot change facial structure or even push their height past 5'9" (because women taller than that is absurd!) There may have been only 5-6 different hairstyles all you can change between 3-4 different hair colors on. The costumes you can only change the color on as well.

After just an hour playing this game, I realized one thing: I was gipped. When playing a match, it feels like this is not a pro-wrestling game but just a fighting game guised as one. The controls are less responsive than a comatose person. As part of the game, you can fill up your opponent's "embarrassment" meter when you constantly land attacks on them and you keep countering theirs. The problem: They can do the same back, and they do it a bit TOO well. I've tried countering many times and I got a low percentage of success. If I attack the CPU, then they miraculously counter every move I make. It's just like guessing at a Scantron True / False section while locking horns with someone who has the answers written on their palm.

I would tell you about the other modes this game has which I bet are a blunder. The unlockables are probably not even worth it. You can't beat your opponent unless you survive to the 10 minute time limit.

If you want to give this game a shot, then by all means RENT it. Do not buy it and expect something that'll tear off the roof.

This rose has no petals

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: May 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are two types of men in this world. There are men who like girls with a little class, girls who have a grace and elegance as well as some sense of intelligence. Then there are men who just don't care. These men would prefer their women to get down and dirty and would sacrifice IQ for a bra size in the snap of a finger. In this sense, the former men are playing Tecmo's Dead or Alive 4. The latter are going to want to play Rumble Roses XX instead.

I must say that I've never laid hands on openly sexual or perverted games like Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, Playboy Mansion, or even the original Rumble Roses on the PlayStation 2. Rumble Roses XX didn't break the sexual game ice for me-it shattered it. It is a game of fetishes, a place where the sexually intrigued (or frustrated) can enjoy watching cowgirls, S&M slaves, and school girls bitch-slap each other into submission.

This disturbing and extremely shallow premise doesn't make for much of a story, and it seems to me that both Yuke's and Konami preferred to focus on watching rather than playing, because Rumble Roses XX is a disaster. None of the dozen-plus "Roses" control well, and while wrestling games are almost always slightly sluggish, Rumble Roses XX is painful by direct comparison. Yuke's, prior to creating this total lack of class, made a wrestling game that even I enjoyed-WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2006-and it was extremely entertaining. The controls were much better and the reversal system that worked so well in WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 is shot dead and butchered by Rumble Roses XX. On top of it all, each Rose has only a handful of striking moves and grapples, few of which are very interesting or flashy.

It's surprising to me, even after playing Rumble Roses XX and swearing at the television, that a game featuring sweaty men in tights is much better than a game featuring more panty shots than a year's subscription to Maxim.

Rumble Roses XX only features a few different game modes, and nothing pounds the trashy button like the Humiliation mode. In this mode, the loser of each match is forced to suffer through some sort of embarrassing event. The events range from tickle sessions to embarrassing poses. Whichever one is preferred can be chosen at the beginning of each match, and only an embarrassment meter and time limit stand between the player and a ridiculous display of virtual, pixilated, girl-on-girl play. Of course, there are traditional modes like Tag Team and Battle Royale for the few who will play this game for the actual wrestling.

What might be the only real "good" quality about Rumble Roses XX are the character models. Though they're pretty similar in battle, the characters all display a different sort of fetish and they animate perfectly. From an art sense, they're very interesting and respectably detailed. Most of the characters are proportionally correct, and traditionalists will be happy to know that there are some stars in this game whose bra size stays in the lower twelfth of the alphabet. It's too bad that the girls are displayed in such a trashy fashion, because a few of the characters (namely the cover girl, Reiko) are less trashy than eyebrow-raisers like Candy Cane and Miss Spencer. Also, anything else that could be considered a visual oddity is low-quality: the backgrounds and crowds surrounding the fights are boring and sometimes ugly, the menus are confusing and almost randomly organized, and the animation is stiff and jumpy-sometimes you'll see characters initiate grapple moves from several feet away and clotheslines simply don't look right.

I'm pretty disgusted that Rumble Roses XX is such a trashy fighting game, because the Dead or Alive series has already proven that it's possible to be sexy in video games without losing all traces of professionalism and decency. Even more unfortunate is that the game actually plays so badly, especially when Yuke's has had such an extensive a history of high-quality grappling projects. If you're looking for a quality Xbox 360 fighting game, look in Tecmo's direction. I can't say that Rumble Roses XX isn't entertaining-at least it's possible to laugh at the outright indecency of the action-but it's not worth $60 and it's not worth your time.

Rumble Roses XX Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

How can this game get three stars?! It's got cool wrestling moves,it's really sexy,and it's really fun. All I can say to you people who gave this game low scores is you should be ashamed of yourselves and f*** you big time! This also goes out to those who gave Dead or Alive 4 a score of three and a half. For those of you who gave this game high scores good for you. I do suggest for every XBOX 360 collection you should own this game along with Dead or Alive 4 and Dead or Alive:Xtreme 2,because without a doubt these are the sexiest games on the next-gen market and they're 360 exclusives. I do caution parents with these games because of their mature ratings. So I'll name off their content descriptors: Rumble Roses XX- mild language,partial nudity,sexual themes,and violence,Dead or Alive 4- blood,violence,sexual themes,and partial nudity,Dead or Alive:Xtreme 2- partial nudity,sexual themes, and simulated gambling. Of course I give all these games a perfect score,and I definitely recommend them.

Huge Let Down After First Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Unlike most people I am not going to complain about this games content,it's a free country and game makers should be able to put what they want in games and not have some headline seeking politician censoring them.That being said once you get past the controversy with the game it has to be one of the worst in terms of time to unlock ratio.I was a fan of the first Rumble Roses and the actual wrestling gameplay like the original is good,but I can not believe the amount of time you have to spend just to unlock outfits or anything else.I stopped playing after 20 hours and I had about 2% unlocked and I didn't even lose a match,not one!I don't care how good a game is there is no reason for a game to be this slow.Who let this game come out like this?The game has no way to tell how to even get done what you need to do.I'm not a newbie to video games,but this is just mind-numbing.

Ready To Rumble Again

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Roses are back, with new options, new moves, and tons of new looks. I was a fan of the first game when it came out for the PS2, and have been long waiting for a sequel. This isn't exactly a sequel, as the story elements from before are pretty much gone in favor of a bunch of new play modes and match types.

It takes a lot more work to unlock the alternate versions of the characters than before, but instead each character has a lot more options in the ability to change the character's physique and even choosing the powerful "Superstar" version of each Rose. There are even a bunch of generic "Lambda" characters to customize, and these all go towards unlocking all the game's Achievements.

There are a few new play modes, such as the Queen's Match, which replaces the old mud wrestling rounds with dozens of ways to humiliate your opponents, and the Street Fight, which is more a fighting game than a traditional wrestling match.

There are a few minor down sides, as all games tend to have a flaw or two. Unlocking everything takes a long, long, LONG time...earning money to unlock things is fine, but having to save up the funds for EVERY character to buy every costume, pose, and humiliation is just inane. Instead of buying an outfit and unlocking it for everyone, you have to buy it for each character separately. The other downside is the flaw of the first game...a total lack of move lists or training modes...you have to figure out and try to remember each character's moves, plus all the positions for the ever-powerful Lethal Moves (which are then different for the Superstar versions!)

In closing, a solid wrestling game all around, and a great step for the franchise. A little more planning could have made this game truly great!

this game blows

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Make sure your try this out before you buy it. If I had gotten the demo first I most definitely would not have bought this game. The women are beautiful..no question about that..however everything else about this game is horrible. The gameplay, the animation during game play, some of the background graphics, the music, the voice acting. Damn.

And to think this is from the same company that brought us the metal gear series.

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