Finally played the demo last nite for a few hours and I admit after getting used to the controls and getting to know what the hell I was doing I liked it alot.
Pros
-The kicking out of a pin is great and always can keep you in a match.
-The taunts are very well done and adds strategy to it which hasn't been done in a wrestling game before that I've played.
-Graphics and sound is good, the cutscenes and the camera angles didn't distract me as much as I thought it would. The blood scenes were cool.
-There's alot of moves to do and it was more fun as I learned more moves and got comfortable. You can pull off enough stuff to keep me happy.
-the button prompts, which I thought I would hate, are actually well done and quick enough that it would be very difficult to master in a higher skill level, which I hope they have.
-There was times where I was kicking *** and made one wrong move and payed for it by losing which makes it unpredictable and therefore fun.
CONS
-The matches were too short. Once I got comfortable, I could win any match in less than 5 minutes so hopefully there are higher skill levels that will give me some epic matches. well at least over 10 minutes long.
-It seemed pretty easy once you knew what you were doing. I really hope that was the easy skill level because it will get old fast if it's not much harder than that. I never felt after an hour that I could lose unless I wanted to by punishing my opponent just for fun but I felt I could pin him any time I wanted and I usually could. Sometimes I would get suprised and lose but that was my fault because I wanted to see how long the match could go and wasn't ready to end it yet.
-the submissions are weird when you are on the receiving end. Once Andre got me in the neck pinch\massage
submission or the Rock in Boston crab there wasn't any way to get out of it unless I'm missing somethingand you give up pretty quickly. They should incorporate the same thing they do with getting out of pin. Would be much more fun.
I still think it's worth a purchase if it does have multiple skill levels. Online would be really fun because you can't really cheat. There better not be any type of lag or it will be ruined and online is where you get long term value out of this.
I was happy with it and it was the only wrestling game I've played that got deeper and more strategic the longer I played so that's a 1st for me.