Post by bootlegr on Oct 8, 2005 8:56:48 GMT -5
THQ has included an all-new 3D locker room feature that allows players to customize their very own home base just the way they want it.
Similar to the "Crib" option found in Visual Concepts' 2K Sports series, the Locker Room can be accessed inside and outside of season mode at any time (unless, of course, you're in the middle of a match) and acts as your hub for all things wrestling. Players who access their locker room during a season, however, get three exclusive options not offered directly from the main menu: Cutscene Costume Assignments, Royal Rumble Number, and Cutscene Subtitles.
The costume assignments don't apply to wrestlers without alternate outfits, of course, but if your guy happens to sport one (aka Triple H, Kane, John Cena, etc), you'll be able to switch between them with no problem. The cutscene subtitle option is pretty self-explanatory so there's no need to explain that one, but the Royal Rumble number is actually pretty cool. You see, the more you win over the course of the season, the higher your Royal Rumble number is when the event comes in January (thus increasing your chances at winning a title shot). If you continue to lose match after match, however, your guy will fall down the ranks and eventually be pick number one. It's a cool little feature to be sure.
Welcome to your Locker Room!
Perhaps the most impressive locker room feature in the bunch is the option to modify it until your heart's content. There are more than 200 customizable items in all and the possibility of thousands of different combinations. There are even special themes that players can pick for their room if they're fans of a particular subject (NWO, Kurt Angle, and Hulkamania, to name a few) and nearly 40% of all items are available from the start.
In order to unlock the rest, users will have to earn trophies by completing specific challenges, winning season modes, and by discovering other secrets hidden in the game. Once earned, each trophy will have an assortment of goodies attached to it that include cash, unlockables, and various shop zone purchase options. Most of these will then allow you to customize a number of different portions of your locker room -- Room Lighting, Wall, Floor, Furniture, Locker, Training Machine, Sound System, Trophies Case, Belts Case, and Collection Items can all be altered to reflect your own personal style. So if you want to place a replica of Kane's mask on your desk, you can go ahead and do so. If you'd rather stick a WCW poster up over your television set instead, you can do that too.
Getting these items won't exactly be easy either; the four different challenge options (Amateur, Rising Star, Superstar, and Legend) all bring their own unique goodies to the table. The cool thing is, not all of them play the same. An amateur challenge, for instance, may only require you to perform four finishers in a single match or maybe steal a taunt to earn your rewards. Higher up the food chain, however, things get a little bit tougher. We don't want to give the cooler features away, so the examples are going to remain a secret (for now), but trust us when we say that a lot of them are very tough, very unique, and very cool. There are even certain challenges that you can participate in with a buddy and the option to load certain challenges from scratch to set up scenarios rather than having to stumble on them.
But customization isn't the only thing that players can do in their locker room. After leaving the desk (used for checking challenges, visiting the WWE Shop, changing season mode subtitles, and checking profile stats), players can also head to their locker (change costume assignment), visit their training equipment (to increase attributes via experience points), check out their Wall of Fame (for viewing earned belts, title histories, and trophies), or move on over to a television set where they can select which load screens that want to see between matches. Users can even save up to six different profiles per memory card so that they can have, in effect, six different locker rooms