[game] - TNA: IMPACT! (coming this summer) gonna be the best Wrestling game of the current gen

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TNA Impact! (official typeset "TNA iMPACT!") is a planned professional wrestling video game to be based on the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion. It's scheduled to be released in Summer 2008 on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles by Midway Games.




Production

After periods of negotiation with Electronic Arts and Rockstar Games, TNA signed a multi-year agreement with Midway Games on November 7, 2005 to create games for consoles, PCs, and handhelds. Midway announced their intentions to release Impact!, the first game in TNA's history, for each of the seventh generation consoles on March 2, 2006.

TNA wrestlers have been involved with the games production. The self described "hardcore gamers" Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles have both taken part in meetings with Midway staff to brainstorm game-play ideas, and Joe, Styles, Christopher Daniels, Senshi, Sonjay Dutt, and Jeff Jarrett were all a part of the motion capture sessions.[8] During the October 23, 2006 tapings of the weekly TNA Impact! program, members of the TNA roster were "scanned" for the game and audio samples of the Impact! Zone crowd were recorded.

[edit] Features

TNA Impact! is to be geared towards a quick-paced, high-impact style of play, with less emphasis on submission maneuvers. It's also planned to feature straightforward, intuitive controls, with "accurate" and "detailed" character models. Scans of the actual wrestlers were used for the game in place of hand-painted textures to include small details, such as skin texture and specific scars.

Finishers are accessed by building up the "Impact! meter" displayed on the screen. In the same area a color-coded damage indicator shows the condition of characters. The game also features mini-games for escaping pin attempts and submission holds.

TNA's exclusive Ultimate X and King of the Mountain will be playable match types alongside the more standard singles, tag team and Fatal Four-Way matches. The game will be playable online, and support tournaments. Eight different venues—including TNA's main home, the Florida Impact! Zone, and arenas in Japan and England—will be available to house matches, with the Impact! Zone having an increased ringside area for play and hot spots for player interaction.

At least one match has been filmed to be exclusively featured in the game.





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Theyre really gonna make this game one of the most awesome wrestling games of all time, its taken more than a year to make which hardly ever happens and its being made by MIDWAY, the same guys that made Mortal Kombat and Unreal tournament.




Video Preview of gameplay by MIDWAY!
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