Showdown: Legends of Wrestling is a fighting developed by Acclaim Studios Austin, released 22 June 2004 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Showdown: Legends of Wrestling is
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling is a fighting game developed by Acclaim Studios Austin and released in 2004. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling features more than 70 of the greatest wrestlers throughout history. Send your favorite wrestlers to the squared circle for bone-breaking matches, including Table, First Blood, Ladder, Cage, and Battle Royal. Create dream matches, unlock classic feuds, and customize your own wrestler. You'll travel down the path of pain in the new era-based career mode. If you can master the new Ready-To-Brawl controls, you'll be prepared to take on the icons of professional wrestling.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling launched on 22 June 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures.
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