This game is like a quiche with fine ingredients, but taken out of the oven fifteen minutes early.

User Rating: 8.6 | Rumble Roses XX X360
This game is one of those "I coulda been a contendah" games. This game, for all intents and purposes, had the potential to a) be one of the best wrestling games out there and b) fill the void that is created by one WWE game after another, namely, why watch sweaty men in tights play with each other, when I can watch sweaty women in tights do the same. The game brings just enough of a crazy Japanese flare for perversion without going overboard. Nothing in the game is tasteless, albeit the angle of the game is still "sex sells". As far as depth, this is where the game suffers. There is no story to speak of, so career mode soon faulters in its replay value. Additionallly, the unlockable achievements require the participating gamer to forsake the sun for what may end up being a year long hiatus from the world of man. On average, you earn about 2500 "dollars" per match win. Well there are a ton of unlockable costumes (most of which are mediocre at best) that are exuberant in their cost (anywhere from 5000 to 30,000). So to unlock anything takes absolutely forever. This wouldn't be so much of a problem, if there was replay value! Unfortunately, with the lack of any kind of story, and the inability to truly customize the wrestlers in any tangibkle sense, you quickly lose steam. Thankfully, the graphics are so incredibly well done that they redeem the game immensely. If you like a kitschy, Nippon-inspired, sexually repressed raunchy romp of a wrestling game, then you will love it. If you don't, then you may well think this is game is a rotten egg. It's fans can't get enough of it, but it's critics seem to go out of their way to extoll its flaws as well, more than any other game in recent past, as if it was their personal witch hunt or "questing beast". Whatever the case may be, it makes for an interesting conversation piece if not a fun game. All in all, you'd be well served at least trying the game.