Games Database
PS2
Sport: Wrestling
| Viewed: | 3D Third-person, floating camera | Genre: | Sport: Wrestling |
| Media: | CD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Yuke's | Soft. Co.: | Konami |
| Publishers: | Konami
(GB/JP) |
Released: | 2004
(JP) 18 Feb 2005 (GB) |
| Ratings: | PEGI 12+ | ||
| Accessories: | Memory Card | ||
| Features: | Vibration Function Compatible, Analogue Control Compatible: analogue sticks only | ||
Summary
Female Wrestling. All but the most prudish fellow would admit that there’s a certain amount of titillating promise about the phrase, schoolboyish and crude though it may be to point it out. But it’s a fact that when you actually witness womens’ Pro-Wrestling, it’s a far more unnerving sight than you might like to imagine. Trunk-thighed valkyries with fake tans, bad perms, and too much make-up, grunt and sweat in glitzy, rhinestone outfits, all large hands and Adam’s apples.
Video games have a healthy enthusiasm for female combatants, and Breast Jiggle Animation is now a recognised discipline, a great tradition that started with SNK’s Mai and has culminated in Tecmo’s Dead or Alive 3. So the only really surprising thing about an all girls wrestling title being made is that it hasn’t happened sooner.
In Konami’s Rumble Roses, co-developed with Yuke’s (they make the WWE games for THQ) players can choose from one of eleven slender-limbed beauties and take to the ring. The game uses Yuke’s tried and tested Smackdown engine. Each girl has her own distinct moves, as well as good and evil personae with different moves and costumes. On top of the usual suplexes, kicks, elbows and pins, the game also feautres combination attacks and taunts with gorgeous, not to mention humorous, animations.
As if it didn’t already offer enough though, Rumble Roses goes further with the inspired inclusion of a Mud Match Mode. Yes, really! All the girls don bikinis and take to a mud pool, where they proceed to get down and dirty, grappling with each other in their skimpy swimsuits. Bravo, Konami!
Video games have a healthy enthusiasm for female combatants, and Breast Jiggle Animation is now a recognised discipline, a great tradition that started with SNK’s Mai and has culminated in Tecmo’s Dead or Alive 3. So the only really surprising thing about an all girls wrestling title being made is that it hasn’t happened sooner.
In Konami’s Rumble Roses, co-developed with Yuke’s (they make the WWE games for THQ) players can choose from one of eleven slender-limbed beauties and take to the ring. The game uses Yuke’s tried and tested Smackdown engine. Each girl has her own distinct moves, as well as good and evil personae with different moves and costumes. On top of the usual suplexes, kicks, elbows and pins, the game also feautres combination attacks and taunts with gorgeous, not to mention humorous, animations.
As if it didn’t already offer enough though, Rumble Roses goes further with the inspired inclusion of a Mud Match Mode. Yes, really! All the girls don bikinis and take to a mud pool, where they proceed to get down and dirty, grappling with each other in their skimpy swimsuits. Bravo, Konami!
