While watching a few NFL games today, I repeatedly saw an ad for the new WWE Wrestling video game. While watching the commercial, I started to think about how the game works.
When you play a wrestling video game, do you wrestle or write a script? Harrogate?
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This is a good question. Harrogate has thought about it some, too, and has even toyed with the idea of buying the game.
In the end Harrogate would have to argue that when you play these kinds of games, you're scriptwriting to a far greater extent than you're wrestling. Because of course you're injecting story into the way you're experiencing the game. If you do a Pedigree with Triple H, for example, you're fully aware that you're doing it as Triple H. That's what's fun about it.
And of course, as you know, like video game Hockey and every other sports-type video game, the fun for the wrestling game would be trebled when it's two players going against each other, talking shit. Then it REALLY takes on the aspect of STORY.
Tekken and its successors, by the by, have the distinct advantage of draining character/story away, and making it all about the videogaming/fighting skills.
That has its pleasures, too.
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