One of the advantages of being WWE Universe Community Leader is that I get to see many of the cool WWEShop items before they hit the shelves in the Web store.
Today, a copy of THQ's upcoming "WWE Legends of WrestleMania" game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 arrived at the dot-com HQ today, just a few days before the THQ staff join the Raw Live Blog Monday night to discuss the new game.
Above, you can see Video Content Coordinator Matt Zimmer working with King Kong Bundy and Mr. Perfect. The entrances are deja-vu-inducing, with classic music and graphics, detailed down to Mr. Perfect's towel toss. Amazing.
Of course, the ring announcer for the game is WWE.com's one-and-only resident historian Howard Finkel, who took some time to battle some of the WWE.com staff. Fink's weapon of choice
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I'm glad to see the WWE Legends and Hall of Famers finally get their time to shine on the video game scene.
If you missed it, THQ announced yesterday that they are coming out with WWE Legends of WrestleMania for the PS3 and XBOX 360. The game will be released in Winter 2009, to coincide with WrestleMania XXV, the silver anniversary of the Super Bowl of sports-entertainment.
So finally, we'll see the WWE Legends and Hall of Famers get their due. I imagine the game will be similar in controls to the SmackDown vs. Raw series. But with the ability to have downloadable content, the possibilities are endless.
Imagine if you could reinact Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant in the Silverdome for WrestleMania III? All we'd need is Howard Finkel on the ring announcer microphone and we've got a WWE
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