'TNA iMPACT!' Retrospective - Triangle X Squared O.
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- TNA iMPACT! isn't just a television show that aired on FOX Sports Net and SPIKE TV, guys. It's also the name of the one and only true home console video game TNA Wrestling ever released! It's hard for me to believe that this game dropped 11 years ago, but it was easy for me to decide that I wanted to do a full retrospective on this one. This is Triangle X Squared O, DanDans, and it's time for Ultimate X!
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Dude. Just do a retrospective on early TNA. Id totally watch that.
Hey, we’ll see what happens. Thank you for the vote of confidence!
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I agree with that above comment.
That'd be a great trip down memory lane!
Meh
seconded af
Best channel in the history of TH-cam ☝☝☝
I'll never forget the instant classic triple threat match with Samoa Joe, AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels for the TNA X Division Championship
10 out of 10. Ungodly amazing.
TNA UNBREAKABLE 2005, that till this very day is still my favorite match of all time
“Jay Lethal I believe you’re first.”
“Why do I have to go first?”
“Cause you’re black.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 DAMN!
Fuckin Nash, hahahah.
And Bob Backlund says you should go first Jay.
Shane Hill “Bob Backlund isn’t even here!”
Bellocks1 Here’s here in spirit.
This game really CROSSED THE LINE. Now that I have made a TNA reference that maybe 3 people will get, I'll see myself out.
Great stuff as always brother
"I Understood that Reference"
@@linkueiavenger4065 A hat-tip to your magnificence good sir.
Pat Suley it is my destiny this is the truth I seek in this world I’ll find a way to CROSS THE LINE
Ha! Thanks for watching, Pat!
@@616Entertainment You have a loyal Acolyte at this point brother. Can't wait to see you cover Legends of Wrestling. I think the second one had a hilariously broken reversal system, and all the weirdness of the wrestlers movesets.
Motor City Machine Guns is one of the best tag teams.
They were so smooth, man. One of the greats.
The PS2 version is actually more shallow than the PS3 and Xbox 360 version. There's all the limitations from the next gen versions, but; for the PS3 and 360 versions, you get to create a wrestler for the story mode.
On the PS2 version, you just get Suicide X, a modified version of Suicide. IIRC, they're both unlockable for exhibition mode.
Oh man, I never played the PS2 version, I had no idea there was a Suicide X. That sounds terrible, hahaha.
Bro I remember that 😂 sucks we couldn't creat
TNA Impact was, in my opinion, a great first effort that could have been built into something really good. Great video Ian loving the series.
100% agreed, dude.
Absolutely. Rome wasn't built in a day. Unfortunately the reality is with game development, it's very expensive & Midway had to release it at some point.
They couldn't keep it in the oven forever & it came out 2 generations after SD1. The standards of development were a lot higher & you can't just release a first entry then a critically acclaimed sequel 9 months later like the old days. Unfortunately the ROI wasn't enough to justify a sequel & of never got a chance.
The developers of this might get a second chance. Think about it.
Warner Bros. owns Midway.
Warner Bros. owns TNT and Bleacher Report.
AEW airs on TNT and Bleacher Report.
@@rayelgatubelo that would be good, I'm a wrestling game nut, so I feel the more wrestling games the better. I believe some of them went on to work on WWE All-Stars too. Also with the news that Yukes have been released from WWE games I am curious of what their wrestling IP will be.
@@MarlonAnthony Yeah, it's a real shame things didn't pan out better.
I did like the level of detail in this game like how in the Japan arena the crowd actually watches in silence and only perks up for big moves like an actual puro crowd.
Also you could play as Ready 2 Rumble's Afro Thunder if you got enough style points.
MoonlightStrider It’s all in the details, my guy. Good eye.
TNA Wrestling: Where AJ Styles became a God.
Wrestling God I think JBL has something to say about this other deity
You're god damn right.
Jay Lethal and his Rick Flair promos are in my top 5 of all time.
He became a "God" in NJPW, where he wasn't relegated to a dumb bumpkin to make way for a WWE fly in.
AJ went from a good worker to a legit top guy. If he stayed in TNA, his career would've been rotten with "what ifs?"
@@timmutohfan yeah yeah but where did he build his name at first the impact zone just like Jericho will always be a wcw guy like Booker t n Goldberg it's all apart of the Journey
I swear sid had the most hilarious promos in history
Emo Bassist “I don’t know shit, cry baby!”
I always gave TNA IMPACT the game an A for effort it wasn't perfect but it was still fun to play in my opinion. Too bad we never got a console squeal aside from the DS and Mobile versions.
LB 2.0. 100% agreed. A for effort is a good way to put it, because they definitely put the effort in.
The PSP version has Don West and Mike Tenay as playable characters!
Michael Bandada Really? Wow that's pretty neat
I can remember this game Kurt angle was a damn terminator in this game.
He was indeed!
The story mode of tna impact reminds me of wwe 2k19 mycareer you start off as an indie superstar then work your way up to the main event.
fizzpeakgamer 13 I didn’t play 2K19, I had no idea. But that sounds pretty cool.
@NeverMindGaming no it wasnt because you got beat up and started back to square one like in the wwe 2k19 mycareer
fizzpeakgamer 13 They should have added more time in the indies and cut time off the tag division tbh
I wish 2k19 didn't feel like a copy of the others but now with a decent story mode finally. Can't get myself to play long enough to start career
Triangle X Squared Circle might be my favourite TH-cam name ever
My buddy Tony Meintanis came up with the name. He gets the credit!
:)
Now that I have your attention, any chance you have interest in doing an EA Big retrospective?
I really miss NBA Street and you seem to cheer me up when I think about/watch my childhood gaming memories
I cant believe I didn't buy this game. This looks amazing for the time it came out. Great video, and also great job. Keep fighting the good fight lol
Thanks Robert! Yea I recommend checking the game out. Go for it!
i will tell you now the controls will piss you off
Damn, TNA has fallen so far since then. Maybe we'll get an AEW game some day.
We can only hope!
Warner Bros. develops videogames, including Mortal Kombat. And they own TNT. So it is a possibility.
@@rayelgatubelo besides NR, what other game studios does WB own?
Done
AEW is working in his own video game , I shaw that notice a few days ago.
Graphically I still think Impact holds up well. Lack of match types and the over abundance of no name jobbers bugged me (and still does). If I remember right there’s a reference to Lockdown in the story, but no six sides of steel.
Midway and TNA could have gotten names from the Asylum or FSN years to be apart of the game, instead of flooding the game with Jobber #146. As a game, Impact had a lot of potential to be something fantastic. It just felt like a rushed release with a shit ton of delays.
Like you said, TNA during 2004-2008 was phenomenal (no pun intended). I preferred it over WWEs product for the most part at the time.
TNA was so, so, so much better than WWE in 2004-2008. Not that WWE was TOTAL garbage at that point, I don't think it was, but I just loved the TNA product. I was all over it.
TNA looked better than WWE games graphically simply because they only had a handfull of wrestlers to work on. If the TNA game had 80 to 100 wrestlers like WWE games, the graphics wouldn't be what it was.
TNA in and around 2008 had the most stacked roster in modern history - Styles, Joe, Daniels, MCMG, Beer Money, Angle, Sting, Jarrett, Steiner, Booker T, Dudleyz.... and the Knockouts Division was slaying the Divas division every week - Kong, Sarita, Wilde, TBP... and even Ayako freakin’ Hamada!
Impact was must see TV if you were a wrestling fan back then.
I have the Impact app and watch 2006-2011 TNA all the time. It had a great roster at one time. Even though every match is a gimmick match lol. Thanks for this, I had never even seen this game before now!
Before smackdown live was the house AJ Styles built he Built TNA first
100%, dude.
I love your storytelling, editing and the focus of your videos, keep up the good work! i love this channel.
Thank you very much, Mati. Means a lot to me.
I live in Cookeville, a little over an hour away from Nashville so I got to see the glory years of TNA in person. I was in high school until 2005 so my parents took me until I was about 18 then me and my beat friend went after that. We can be seen in the audience in about half the matches in their 1st 2 best of dvds, best of x division matches(they later had a the best of x Division volume 1 and 2) and best of bloodiest brawls and also on AJs and Jeff's dvds. Hell we were there when our favorite wrestler made his surprise debut in 04 at the anniversary show against AJ for the X title, Jeff Hardy. You can only imagine how we marked out for that as we hadn't seen him in action since his WWE firing and he had only made independent and 1 ROH appearance. We were there when they went through their ECW phase, which was awesome and I can be seen handing New Jack a chair in a hard 10 match against Sandman, also on the bloodiest brawls dvd. I have a special place in my heart for TNA, esp those early ppv only days and I was sad when they moved to Orlando. Oh well I'll always know I was there for their best days, esp since WWE went tv pg during this time ending my 2nd fav era of WWE, ruthless aggression so TNA was there to pick up the slack while also having my fav ECW wrestlers b4 they went to WWE's version(which started out great but QUICKLY went downhill after the tv pg rating change) and my all time fav Jeff Hardy. Going to TNA events in Nashville was MUCH more intimate then any WWE event as it was in a small little building at the fairgrounds where the announcers sold the tickets and worked the dvd table and was so small you would get to see and talk to all the wrestlers. It was a great time in my life going every weekend and it was pretty cheap also almost cheaper then just buying the ppvs lol. We did meet Jeff again in a bar across from Bridgestone arena in Nashville also and my friend has a pic of him and Jeff at that bar that I took on his Facebook, I sadly broke the phone with the pic of me on it and didnt have a backup lol. So while yes not having Jeff on the TNA game or esp in Here Comes the Pain really sucked at least I was getting to watch him in person all the time from the front couple rows and at least HCTP had an amazing caw feature with expertly done CAW blueprints online to make up for it and THQ left his moveset and entrance plus his tag team and stable entrances in the game so a good CAW looked authentic.
Dude this comment is awesome. Thank you for watching!
I've never been a big video gaming channel fan but your content and production value is so good!
Highly appreciated, dude. The quality is only going to get better and better. Stick around!
Your vids are solid bro, keep em coming, thanks
Thanks dude! Plenty more on the way.
You were spot on about Kevin Nash and those backstage segments. The PCS was hilarious!!! Keep up the great work.
Paparazzi Productions is a career high point for all of them, hahaha
Your review made me go back and re-buy this game. No joke. Thanks as always for the content!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you snatched a copy. Enjoy!
Many years later and WWE can’t even capture superstars faces this well
Agreed. =/
It's probabaly because wwe 2k games are on a strict time limit to get done but yea i agree
fizzpeakgamer 13 agreed, I also don’t think it’s necessary to make a Wwe game every year. I don’t blame them for wanting to do it though since idiots are dead set on spending their money every year for their garbage but whatever.
Wow some great information in their I did not know! Thanks again Ian for the outstanding work effort and time.🤙🏻🤙🏻keep em coming.
Highly appreciated, Gino. Thank you!
Really great retrospective DuDE!! i remember playing this game with my best friend it came out on xbox 360 it was hella fun, we played it for a while but we got bored from it for the lack of moves i was a huge TNA fan at the time and he wasn't that much yet it was something really refreshing but we had to return to the gamecube games which was one of the best games on that Era.
Thanks for talking about Midway and how great they were to me Midway was/is one of my favorite Devlopers lots of hits and favorite games came from, Favorite game of my childhood Gauntlet dark legacy and best Story Era for mortal kombat along with awesome concepts and fighting games ^_^
Spending part of my Sunday getting caught up and rewatching some of your videos. Appreciate the work Dan.
Hahaha, my name is Ian, not Dan, but I appreciate it. =)
@@616Entertainment lol it's all good
Such nostalgic memories of getting out of peewee football practice and my mom taking me to block buster to rent a game and and a wwf vhs… good times. Watching your videos take me back brother! Appreciate it🤙
Thanks Cody!
Great vid bud, love how you always cover the good and the bad separately before rendering your final verdict. Just need a let's play Friday of TNA now ;)
I'll always call it down the middle. Gotta highlight the tops and the bottoms, y'om sain?
I was so excited for a TNA video game. This was when I was hooked on their weekly product and wanted it to succeed so badly. Just to get another game. The lack of moves and customization was such a killer for me. So much missed potential here. Great video!
The game definitely could have benefited from more time, I agree. Thanks for watching!
Dude you are the man. Love your work.
Thank you, Miguel. I appreciate it!
Those PCS segments with Nash and the X Division are fucking classics. There's a few kickass matches on the Bonus DVD that came with the game as well, including the awesome AJ Styles vs Jerry Lynn vs Low KI ladder match. Great video!
Thanks for watching, dude!
I’ve been watching your vids for a while and thought you had millions of subscribers, you should have way more! Great stuff👌🏽
Getting 100,000 subs has been my goal every day since 2018. And I've been on TH-cam since 2007, so, it's a long and hard road. Spread the word, let's get to 100,000! =)
Can't wait for the Crush Hour video! My friend and I discovered that if you're the second player and you pick Stone Cold and it has to be specifically on the Bottom Line level, he'll do a flip during his entrance. I've only ever seen it twice and it's rare it happens
Is that supposed to happen? Haha, I wonder if it's a bug.
@@616Entertainment Must be!
I met Samoa Joe at an event where Midway was promoting the game. I asked if it was going to be as good as Fire Pro and he laughed. Later at the same event Midway had Christian vs. Joe in game with Joe and Christian both commenting on it...match started with some crazy top rope dropkick and Christian warned Joe "better watch out tomorrow, first move i always do is the top rope dropkick. yeah they really nailed the realism here." Everyone laughed and Midway had egg on their face. Game came out about 10 months later...they fixed nothing lol
That is an amazing story. I love this.
I played the shit out of this game, I was big TNA mark and first Facebook profile pic was Suicide holding the TNA title from career mode. I was pissed seeing Jeff Hardy renders only for him to not be in the game, but SvR 08 made up for it. This game was good, just there was soooooo much that could of been added, like Knockouts, title matches, and like you mention more match types. This game will forever hold a spot in my heart
Thanks for watching! And yea dude, you and me both when it comes to being TNA marks. I was so into TNA back then.
bruh I started HOLLERING when you started going on about "Rockstar Wrestling". Throwing in Steve Brule was perfect
Hahahaha
Loved TNA, and loved this game! Awesome video! Hit me with the nostalgia!
I do my best! Thanks Bradley.
Thanks for taking my request! I didn’t think it would happen!
I'm always going through the comments. =)
Here’s the thing. I watched this on my tv the day it came out, which meant I couldn’t leave a comment with my PS4 controller. So I can’t remember if I commented later that day or if it slipped my mind, so if I forgot then I’m back to fix it haha. This game looks like it was a lot of fun, but would be kinda easy to get tired of after a week of owning it. The graphics and everything are killer, and the match types would be good to mess with a couple times. This was a great look at a game I totally missed, really cool video here man!
Hahahaha, no worries brudda. I'm glad you liked it. It is fun, I recommend grabbing it if you see it for like $5. Would be a fine night with the Mountain Man.
I didn't know how much I would miss Kurt Angle until I noticed how much I would spend time paying attention to his TNA career
His TNA run had some of his best work.
I not only grew up watching TNA Wrestling (now Impact Wrestling) in its heyday, but grew up playing that TNA Impact game religiously.
It sucks that, not only was there no sequel to the original video game, but that TNA was dying a slow & painful death and totally lost viewers like me.
But, man, was that game cool!
I'd LOVE for one day to see this game either get re-released or remastered for current gen consoles.
TNA's horrific fall from grace is extremely sad, but hey, we have the memories of their glory days.
"Jay Lethal, I believe you're first"
"Why do *I* have to go first?"
"'Cuz you're black"
That line still makes me wheeze, Paparazzi Productions was pure kino
I like how you make your videos into a documentary and you show video clips of the game footage and advertising it’s cool. I’m pretty sure all of us here love wrestling. Keep up the good work bro. I watched the video 3 times already lol it’s that good 😂😎
Andy Sanchez Plenty more to come. Thanks for watching, Andy!
Another awesome video. I am always amazed at the amount of info you cover.
I really try hard to be informative and not just spit out facts that ANYONE knows off the top of their head. I really try and do deep research. Thanks for noticing!
Always great work,you’re videos are one of the best on TH-cam.
Highly appreciated, Mark.
Thanks for posting this....I enjoyed it!
Allan Davis Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Played it on Wii and thought the gameplay was awesome !! Impact 2 would have been INCREDIBLE
What could have been, right?
Another wonderful and passionate review, bud!
Thanks for watching, my friend.
Fantabulous retrospective as always, Ian! I never watched TNA Wrestling or played the game, but darn it if you didn't keep me glued to the screen for twenty-one solid minutes with your boundless enthusiasm. I cannot WAIT to see what you have to say about Crush Hour, and of course, Rumble Roses.
YAAAAAS
WE NEED A NEW CRUSH HOUR LIKE ASAP 😱
Rockstar already made 4 wrestling games
Saints row
@@Cj-hj6rm Saints Row wasn't made by Rockstar though. That was Volition. :)
@@Areala21 eh it was Terrible overall
All 4 sequals were just down right bad
Wouldn't mind seeing a WWE game being made by Rockstar tho
@@Cj-hj6rm Well, sure...if you were looking at them as wrestling games. :D If you enjoyed them as open-world sandbox games, then we can agree to disagree. I've received more entertainment out of Saints Row 2, 3, and 4 than I have any GTA game since Vice City. :)
One month is too long to wait for these videos!!! I need it in me now!
Ha! I wish I had more time, man. That's what the Patreon is for. If I don't spend as much time at my real job, I can start to put more time into my videos. Maybe some day!
Another dope video bruh. I honestly didn't know professional wrestling games (or wrestling itself) had such a big n passionate following.
Dude, HUGE following! Thanks for watching.
Can't wait to see what AEW has in mind for a game. They confirmed a game will be coming, and there's talk of possibly using a bit more solid version of the Aki engine which was used with WM2000 and No Mercy and WCW v nWo. Not sure if they're planning on a semi updated retro experience, or something more modern. Will be exciting to see.
We can only hope. Fingers crossed.
God damn. The visuals still look amazing today !
They hold up!
Nice job with the vid 616. The games graphics look really good. I missed out on tna during its glory years as I got out of watching wrestling consistently until Bret hart came back in 2010 to come face to face with hbk. The product today I watch seldom and find myself reliving the 90's of wrestling in wwf n wcw. I'm glad the network exists. I've seen some things from tna and I think, damn I missed out on done good wrestling
Dude TNA was incredible for several years. Brand new faces mixed with familiar faces, awesome match types, it was truly a breath of fresh air.
@@616Entertainment lets hope aew will brings something similar or better to the wrestling world. A good alternative and make all wrestling great again.
General Manager at a hardware store 😂😂😂😂
King Eazzy360 Dude THANK YOU. I loved that joke and it doesn’t seem to be getting much attention, Hahaha.
Hey! I’ve been with you since the mortal kombat series and I have to say I am absolutely in love with your content, keep it up and you will make a Mill for sure
Thank you, my friend! And holy shit, a million? Haha, we'll see!
Just started watching these vids and I dig your work, man. Would love to see a retrospective on Legends of Wrestling as well.
MC Quick ....stick around. =)
I am telling you man, You are only getting better and better. Would love some tips lmao. Great video. I have never been a huge TNA fan but you make the game sound interesting and I might give it a shot.
Highly appreciated, dude. And tips? Tips on what? Tweet at me, we'll talk. @IDS616
SIJW has retrospectives of real life and 616 has retrospectives of video games. Thank god for youtube
He and I might be working on a little something together...
I remember getting this on the day of release and playing it to death, still think to this day that it deserves a sequel. That roster TNA had back then was easily the best in wrestling in a long time, people forget that although impact is now a joke they were damn near on par with WWE for a brief time
I'm with you. I was gutted when I found out TNA iMPACT! 2 was cancelled due to the Midway bankruptcy. =/
You hit the nail on the head about this game. It's a fun title. It had a sequel of sorts in WWE All-Stars and you can tell so in some of the animations.
I'll talk all about that when I do an episode on All Stars, don't worry.
@@616Entertainment Lookin' forward to it!
I have to say that Ian and @supereyepatchwolf are my favorite wrestling channels! Keep it up Ian!
I just looked him up and he's huge, that's good company to be in! lol
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who found this game to be fun. I really enjoyed playing it on the Wii
YES!
in the DS version there are new forms of combat.(just weapons) .. 😘Love from Chile
Yea I've seen there are a few more weapons. Weird that that weren't in the original game!
Great retrospective as usual. You're right, The game doesn't deserve the dismissal it gets, It unfortunately became part of the "TNA Fail LOL" trend, But pre-release, there was hope and anticipation and even watching this video, Reminds me that the game has potential to be fun and a distraction in small doses.
As usual, Wrestling suffers with a lack of demand in the grand scheme of things as it's just not financially viable to make wrestling games let alone sequels, Unless you're WWE. Like WCW Mayhem 2, TNA Impact just needed another chance to build upon it's foundation, A bit more time like Smackdown 1 did but it never came.
100%, dude. I really don't understand why people think this game sucks. I really believe most of the people spinning this narrative have never played it and are just parroting shit they've heard other people say. Sad. Thanks for watching.
I love these videos, keep it up!
Plenty more to come. Thank you!
ANOTHER GREAT JOB, Ian! This video helped illuminate a lot for me in regards to this game. All I read prior in regards to this game was negative stuff but your video helped dive in a little deeper and paint it in a much more respectful and positive light, bro. Keep up the great work, bro, I am a proud subscriber of yours. One legit question though, why do you call us Dan-Dans?
Phil Leotardo's Ghost I have told the DanDan story 1,000 times. Episode 264 of my podcast has the full, in depth story. I’m at the vet right now and can’t link it but it’s easy to find. Long story short, anyone in my friend group is a DanDan. Anyone who is a fan of the channel is a DanDan. Its just a silly name. Thanks for the compliment on the video, and yea, I’m always going to call these games down the middle. The good and the bad. Gotta be fair.
Love the rare Paul London clip and the Raven theme!
You know I gotta slip the weird shit in.
TNA was... unique. There was a lot of bollocks (like most wrestling feds tbh) but they had some fantastic stuff, great wrestlers... it's just a shame they had this amazing lack of luck combined with terrible leadership.
It amazes me that they survived everything like they did.
Thun Sioux their continued survival over the years really is a head scratcher.
Never played this game so was curious about this video. When I saw those initial graphics I was blown away.
Dude these graphics STILL hold up!
Great video, it was awesome to see
Thank you as always, my dude.
Fucking amazing. “Bob Backland says it’s fair”
Moooowtor Ciiiiteah!!!! I still remember the epic feud with Beer Money, Aces and Eights, Sting's demented persona and the epic story between Mr Anderson and Hulk Hogan. By comparison my strongest memories of WWE the last 20 years are simply Eddie Guerrero and CM Punk pipe bomb. Oh, and the Nexus (RIP)
Dude you were watching TNA for some great moments. That makes me happy!
@@616Entertainment Well, I guess TNA's storylines had more "impact" :P At some point I stopped watching when the website that streamed it was shut down and had no other way to follow. But thanks for reminding me how much fun I had with it!
I just stumbled onto your channel. Great content!
Thanks for coming, Albert!
I use to play the hell out of this game on my PS3 and PSP. The game does have fewer moves than I am use too, however, I love finding out what moves you can do using the environment and the object in it, so that made up for it somewhat. I wish somebody made a successor to this game with a different name, some extra modes, fix the issues of the first game and make it available on all platforms.
NASIRUB1 it would be cool but I think there’s a 1 in 189,000,000 chance that Impact ever gets another game. =\
The psp game was a diffrent game
Ugh... Phone is drunk, maybe TH-cam is or maybe me being in a different country... This was awesome and I love the history behind it, nothing to deep enough but leaving you wanting more. Thanks again, but seriously you talk and I'm like shhhh...Ian is speaking 😎 Private Mustard is ranting and going on to long, take care Bro 🤘🐐🤘
HA! I'm glad you liked it, Ben. I'm glad the intro with the background on TNA's origin, there's nearly 7 minutes before I show the game at all, and I wondered how that would go over. Seems like you guys liked it!
@@616Entertainment I honestly think you could have gave us the whole spill on TNA and we would be like... Sitting, enjoying and been like... He's going to show us game footage, right... Lol
HA. I'll keep that in mind. Maybe I can branch outside of games somewhere down the line.
@@616Entertainment sounds like a plan...cause I've noticed besides being very informative, you obviously see it through a fans prospective... And I find myself saying, I was thinking that or he just said what I said, etc... That's why I think your history of Smackdown and MK are so well done and these retro specs... Best way I can put it it's like Ben Stein doing history and then we have you (Ian(Bad@$$ Dude) that gives us insight, footage, everything and anything relating, etc, basically a live reenactment... And of course you have the haters (oh your forgot this and that) but forget about it...your awesome and this DanDan greatly appreciates the work you put into this channel. Sorry for the small rant, have a good one and I'll see you soon 🤘
This is the best channel EVER! I agree with you almost always,kepp being awesome!
Plenty more on the way. Thank you!
I bought TNA on sale when Circuit City was closing down. I was surprised how fun the game was. Unfortunately, it is shallow and I was disappointed with the amount of moves. But the reversal system was awesome. I never got to play that AAA Lucia Libre game on PS3 which looked like this game. I wonder if it’s just as good or better... or worse lol
If I can find a copy in the wild, I'll pick it up. I think you're onto something with the games looking similar, too.
Its pretty much the same
I wish 2k19 had those chains of reversals I mean you and a friend can make good chains but that one you showed looks a lot better than most I have done.
Kevin Nash looks like Doug Dillinger in this game. And boy did I hate Kurt Angle, at the time, for what he did to his body and how he refused the help WWE offered.
It was really unfortunate to see him leave somewhere due to his health/abuse issues and just show up somewhere else like nothing happened. Quite negligent on TNA's part.
Wwe all stars had the same physics as TNA. It was made by THQ San Diego, but developers from Midway San Diego helped with it. Also, Manik was an actual wrestler because of how popular the character was.
A big part of my All Stars episode (it will happen) is going to be covering the shared aspects of All Stars an iMPACT!, which I think most people don't even know is a thing. You know your shit.
Perfect time! A great way to end NXT takeover and Summerslam weekend. A new episode TXSO. TNA impact was an ok game, like u said for its face value and what it is, it was solid. Wish there was more moves and i didnt know they would've added king of the mountain. I would've loved that. Still a good game overall.
Crush Hour... Lol i forgot that game existed. Now im really looking forward to what u have to say about it. I remember renting it twice, and thats about it lol.
Great video once again Ian! 😎💯💯💯
Thanks for watching, dude! Yea I'm excited to roll out the Crush Hour episode. That... That's gonna be something, haha.
I just sold bought this game 😂😂 btw i love your work dude I'm now subscribing 😉😂👍
Thank you!
It's worth having in your collection. Thats for sure.
Agreed 100%.
If midway never went out of business I'm pretty sure we would've gotten a solid sequel, the first game had a very good foundation
I want to travel to that universe where Midway didn't go under and see what TNA iMPACT! would become.
5:58 Bro, that’s a great idea bro
Man I love your concept of a Rockstar game
I'd play it, ya know? Someone make the call!
I was so pumped for this game I really had high hopes for TNA maybe they will make a comeback and turn it around
They won't but... We'll never lose the greatest days.
Love this series, man. Maybe we can get your take on Lucha Libre AAA: Héroes del Ring sometime?
Possible!
An open world wrestling game would be dope. Rockstar should definitely do one.
Another great video mate funnily enough I just picked this game up the other day for 1 English pound looking forward to giving it a try with my house mate. What about wwe all stars next?
I announce at the end that WWE Crush Hour is next! And funnily enough, the original plan WAS to do All Stars next, and I called an audible.
I’ll be honest I’d had a few beers I missed that about crush hour at the end haha. Still I’ll look forward to your take on it as it was always a game I passed on when it came out.
Dude... Rockstar Wrestling is something I didn't even know I wanted...
Nice Dr.Steve Brule reference for your health!
I can't remember what reference I made, what did I say? lol
The instrumental version of Modest got my hyped for a few secs. I respect Jeff hardy's vocals but Alien Waltz was a great musical piece
Dude it's a great entrance theme for sure.
I'm just here admiring that Sincere Engineer shirt.
Dude, you’re the first person to ever notice. She’s the best, she performed at Freelance Wrestling and was incredible. I’ll support her forever.
Admittedly the graphics still hold up
They do big time!
Great video, slap nuts!
Thank you, hahaha.