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Have you played Turok: Evolution? Turok: Evolution. Ferrari Challenge. Ferrari Grand Prix. In its quarterly earnings report, Acclaim announces new Ferrari racing, boxing and PS2 titles. By Douglass C. Perry Updated: 22 Jun pm. Acclaim Entertainment reported its fourth quarter earnings and losses yesterday, and hosted a conference phone call with company president Gregory Fischbach.

But the real news is its emphasis on PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games. After the soft, weak sales of Nintendo third-party sales, Acclaim, along with the rest of the industry is getting out of the Nintendo 64 business. For fiscal year , Acclaim plans to bring out 55 new products this year alone. Astounding numbers indeed, but part of Acclaim's new strategy is to acquire new development houses, and to pick up games from international developers.

Add to that its next-generation system plans, which Fischbach stated include three PlayStation 2 titles in the launch season, and Acclaim could very well distance itself from its recent return to its old self. The South Park series showed that Acclaim hasn't quite forgotten its "god old days. Also, in the distant future, Acclaim stated that Turok but not Turok 3 will appear on next-generation systems can you say "PS2 and Dolphin? YES NO. Was this article informative?

And I think they did a good job at it. Some of the themes sound a lot like the wrestler's actual entrance music. And Acclaim matched music types from the region the wrestlers came from, like all the wrestlers from Japan will have oriental like music, and all the wrestlers from the south have more of a country like tune to them.

So what Acclaim gave us gets the job just fine. Jimmy Hart and Lou Albano appear after matches in Career mode to give you advice with actual voice acting from them, but those are the only actual voices you get in the game.

I was amazed that there was no commentary featured in this game like Acclaim's past titles showcased, but after listening to the commentary in Smackdown: JBI, I'm not complaining. The sound effects for the game are the same as most other wrestling games out there with all the stomps, slams, and smacks sounding the way you expect them to. Game play At last, Acclaim has ditched the control scheme it used for its past four wrestling games. In LoW a brand new control set up is introduced.

The controls are a lot like the most similar to the ones found in WCW Mayhem and Backstage Assault, but runs at a slower pace. You do most of your standard moves in here by setting them up with grapples, and you can run and do various clotheslines and dropkicks.

However, I was very surprised with the total lack of moves for all the wrestlers. It appears all the wrestlers only have the minimal amount of moves to do, like it seems all I can do is about only three moves out of a grapple. The game does offer a new countering system, where in a moment right before a wrestler delivers a maneuver, you see a red meter and an arrow that runs across it pretty fast, you want to hit the X button at the precise moment to get the arrow to stop in the little green section so you can pull off a counter.

This is an interesting new feature that Acclaim decided to add, and I think it works well. For game modes, you don't have as many as you think you would. When you take a look at Acclaim's last few wrestling titles, you saw dozens upon dozens of ways to play.

In this game, you don't even have ten modes available to you. There is exhibition mode where you have your basic match ups like single, tag team, triple threat, and four way dance. Then there is tournament mode, which is your usual King of the Ring type of mode.

There is Arena mode, but all that there is to that is that you can pick one of several arenas to fight in. Acclaim's great Career mode is back, but designed a lot differently. Instead of a monthly calendar, we now have a map of the United States, and we pick one of several territories to wrestle in. I really like how you pick to wrestle in the Midwest, Northeast, and so on because it was pretty much how the Indies worked in the United States several decades ago.

Any ways, the goal is to capture all titles of the territories and unify them as one national title. The Create-a-Wrestler mode is back, and just like one of the many other things Acclaim did great in its previous wrestling games, they ruin it in this title. Instead of the great depth and variety of items that Acclaim pioneered with its Create-a-Wrestler mode, they severely limited the amount of things to tinker with in this game.

Like, for example, you only have one face for all your created wrestlers. That's right, you can't even customize the eyes, nose, or mouth like you could before in Acclaim's other wrestling games. There are a couple of nifty features in this option, like if you name a certain created wrestler by a famous legend that is not in the game, like Ric Flair for example, the announcer will automatically announce his full name instead of ''Player 1.

Replay Value The game starts you off with about 20 wrestlers to choose from right from the start, and with another dozen or so to be unlocked by beating career mode and performing other various tasks in the game. So you'll be playing for a while trying to get everyone unlocked. It's usually fun to create your own wrestler, but not in this game.

Also, up to four people can play this game, but I don't see the point with the lack of multi player modes. Where are the battle royals, hardcore matches, etc. They're not in here. The main complaint about Acclaim's past titles was over the control system, which was improved greatly in LoW. Though everything Acclaim did right in it's past games, they did wrong in this release by limiting the Create-a-Wrestler, cutting back the amount of modes, and having horrible entrances. And it is obvious that Acclaim did all this so they can have something major to brag about being included in a foreseeable sequel.

This game does have some major ups and downs going for it, and I recommend that you rent it before deciding weather or not to purchase it.