TNA Impact! - Xbox 360

Wished I never got rid of this when I originally had it. Not the best wrestling game but was still fun. Glad I picked it up. Would buy again from seller. Packed well, came in earlier then expected. No issues.

Do not waste your time. Seriously. This product is terrible on control scheme and control responsiveness alone. Graphics are good though.

When you think about wrestling game franchises, WWE is probably the one you immidiatly think of. So when a new wrestling game that isnt WWE people take notice. In this case TNA wanted to overthrow professional wrestlings most well known company with their own game. TNA is as you would expect, a fast paced wrestling game, and you would be right. Its action is much faster paced than the smackdown vs raw series and at times has a very arcade style feel. This really was a good choice because this better replicates the action in TNA, making it feel more emersive. Along with this it has a great pick-up and play nature that any beginner can play, but can be mastered by people who have played it longer. Something else that really is noticeable were the superb graphics and smooth action. Besides this things are a bit more realistic in the way that finishers can be interupted and so fourth. The graphics (in my opinion) exceed those of smackdown vs raw by giving the wrestlers an even more realistic look (with a couple of exceptions). While the gameplay has a much more free flowing nature to it making counters and attacks feel more continuous. Though these all sound like great reasons to buy this, there are some flaws that will put a lot of players off. One glaring flaw is the huge lack of custimization. If you've played SvR then you have become a custom to extensive creatablity such as indepthly creating your own wreslter, making there extensive move list then giving them a flashy intro that you can even add your mp3s to as theme music. Well in TNA you can make a wrestler from a limited amount of selections, give them a move list from a small amount of manuvers, and give them one of the short premade entrences. If you are all about creating your own wrestler, then this wont convince you to buy it. Besides this, the story mode is on the short end, and it seems it is missing some things that have become standard in wrestling games, such as tag partners coming in together or preforming double team moves (this really surprised me due to the game containing some popular tag teams and some of TNA's best wrestling happens in tag team matches) This game can be extreamly fun, especially when you are playing with friends. TNA Impact has brought some great ideas to the wrestling genera and if they expand on them and give the user more creativity this could easily compete head to head with Smackdown vs Raw.

This is one of the best buys that I have made on Amazon so far. It was a great price and it plays perfectly.

If you're comparing this to the WWE series from 2K games (or THQ/Yukes before it), you're going to be disappointed. This game was rushed (Midway, a once great and legendary gaming company was closing in on bankruptcy I hear) and is vastly more limited than any of the recent installments in that much more popular series. It's true, that this game was made when Total Nonstop Action wrestling was still within its prime (some say it peaked in 2005-6) and considered by its fans to be an "alternative" to the WWE, now that WCW and ECW were no longer on television. As such, it is filled with wrestlers that were once in WWE (or are there now) but no longer on the Impact roster. Probably the best thing about this game is the single player story mode. You start out as "Suicide" a character that was created for this game, but featured on TV for awhile (played by several different wrestlers, and now revamped to look a lot less like "Spider-Man" and renamed "Mannik"), a high flying daredevil of the "X-Division" going for the championship. The story plays as if professional wrestling is a real competitive sport and the heels are "bad guys" in real life, etc. The story takes a clever twist allowing you to create your own character and build your moves. Sadly it takes a lot of time to earn new moves (even after you've beaten the game, you'll have to grind out many matches in single or multiplayer exhibitions to earn the last few moves and characters... that's right, not all of the roster is available at the start). There are only 5 character slots for created players (that's right, only 5! and fans of WWE2K15 complained when they only had 25 on next gen consoles...). The options for creating are also pretty limited. In keeping with the storyline, it makes sense that you can't do more, but that's how it is. More variety would have been nice. You can unlock some videos of the "Knockouts" matches (which at the time were still some of the most popular segments on the show, before most of the talent was fired and it became more like a generic divas division that focused more on their looks than exciting matches) but you can't play as any of them in the game. Graphics look good with everyone looking like whom they are supposed to be and the sounds make the hits sounds painful. The voice acting is the cheesy stuff you'd expect from a professional wrestling show on cable. If you're a modern fan, the gimmicks will seem pretty dated, of course. The online play is a major disappointment. I had heard bad things, but by the time I got the game the online community was dead. I could fire up a game and find no one to play with. Plus, your only choices are 1 v 1 or a tag team vs. AI opponents (which apparently is terrible as the AI doesn't do well in this mode). Game modes in general are pretty limited. You get a small number of arenas (with the six sided ring) and they all are basically the same... there are some folding chairs lying on the ground that you can use as weapons (there's no referee, so no disqualifications), and you can have 1 v 1, tag team, falls count anywhere variant or variants of the "Ultimate X" match. "Ultimate X" was TNA's most popular gimmick match that was a variation of a ladder match. They had criss-crossed ropes on pillars around the ring, so that you had a belt (or "X") hanging from the center, that people needed to climb the pillars and climb across to get. Once you get to the center you play a timing based mini-game of button presses to dislodge it (takes about 7-10 tries if I recall) while your opponents try to kick you off or pull you down from the ground (and the weaker you are, the longer it takes you to get up). This can be fun for awhile if you know what you're doing. There just isn't much variety in this game. All of the sound effects are generic (though there is a ton of recorded speech from the original wrestlers and commentators in the single player story mode). The commentary isn't too bad, but again pretty generic. All of the characters are the same size and have very similar movesets (with their special moves and finishers being the exception). This game makes it pretty easy to counter moves, and by the time you have your finishing move ready, you can basically knock your opponent out and win right then and there, so it's "realistic" as far as that goes. The graphics are pretty good for a game like this, though the crowd looks a lot more fake and cardboard than the rest of the graphics. It does a pretty good job of re-creating what TNA wrestling looked like in 2008, though the camera angles are going to be based on gameplay, not tv angles like the latest WWE games (which went out of their way to try to look like the TV show). That means in 4 player matches the camera is going to be zoomed way out for most of the match. Content-wise, this game is no worse than any of the recent WWE titles, though there are some uses of adult innuendo in the single player mode that young kids might catch. Overall it's tamer than the actual cable show, if that's any comfort to parents. Overall this is a title worth trying out if you're a TNA or pro-wrestling game fan, but if it were available as a rental, that would probably be the best way to enjoy it. Once you've unlocked the main roster and finished single player, there isn't much replay value to be had. If this were in a video arcade where you plunked down quarters to play, it would be phenomenal. But as a sports entertainment simulation game for modern consoles, it leaves a lot to be desired. Apparently TNA made one other game after this on portables but then the company was not in a position to make any other games. The engine was used in a later game called "AAA Heroes Del Ring: Lucha Libre" which got mixed reviews and only seemed to see marginal improvements in gameplay. It's too bad, because with enough development I think this really could have been a great series, more akin to the WWE series (which has going for it many years of development, to be fair).

The graphics get a 4.5 of 5...the last .5 is because the characters do not actually touch during matches, there is a small space between them. Gameplay is alright...3.5 of 5 Storyline gets a 2 of 5...you have to use a created wrestler in story mode, the only choice is what the person looks like and the moves he does, you cant even change the name of the character, which is Suicide(I wanted to do that myself after only five minutes of play)... Create a Wrestler is horribly organized and there are a limited number of choices to make as far as attire and physical appearance...2 of 5 Just to show how bad it is Gamestop sold the game for 60 dollars on its release date...and the trade in price was 20 dollars...a game that has been out for 3 weeks is still earning 30 dollars, those that decide on prices knew this game was a bomb before they released it on the market.

Disk had a crack in the inner ring and game would freeze up during gameplay.

Can't find this new any more, but my son's friend has this game & my son really liked it. I found it used & like the seller said "very good condition, works". My son is having a blast with it.

The game play is terrible. I booted this game once and will never play it again. I like TNA wrestling but this game was poor.

TNA tries to compete with WWE and it has its moments on TV, but their gaming department is absolutely horrible. This game is more or less a button smasher with junky graphics and, at times, too difficult and annoying to keep playing. Save yourself some money and just stick with WWE releases instead.