Legends of Wrestling

 GameCube
Metascore
50

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 9 out of 18
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  1. Armchair Empire
    40
    Greatest of the game's faults is the failure to capture the personality of such an exciting era of wrestling.
  2. Electric Playground
    45
    Acclaim employees take note--varying stats alone do not a satisfying roster of combatants create...that's where novel animations and sound bytes should've come in.
  3. G4 TV
    40
    Legends of Wrestling has, at heart, a deep and intricate gameplay system, but it's mired in overly complicated controls and a shocking unresponsiveness.
  5. GameCube Europe
    49
    The loading times will put you to sleep. The difficulty doesn’t even seem to change when you increase the settings. The gameplay becomes too repetitive and has little to no variety.
  6. Gamer's Pulse
    30
    Exceptionally bad. The graphics are terrible, the sound is worse, and the gameplay is boring and slow.
  7. Gaming Age
    25
    The game, unfortunately, can be played with just a couple of basic moves since the AI is so poor.
  8. netjak
    45
    Nothing more than a sick attempt to purge the wallets of old school goodness.
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  9. Play Magazine
    20
    After playing "X8," legends looks pathetic. This is just not good. [July 2002, p.82]
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  10. TotalGames.net
    47
    A plodding beast of a wrestling game that’s been made even worse by the fact that the PS2-to-GC conversion process has rendered it almost unplayable.

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#99 Most Discussed GameCube Game of 2002

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User Score
6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Metroidguy4
    May 17, 2013
    5
    The career mode and the create-a-wrestler of Legends of Wrestling are pretty good. But I was disappointed with the fact that you can only playThe career mode and the create-a-wrestler of Legends of Wrestling are pretty good. But I was disappointed with the fact that you can only play in four types of matches (one-on-one, tag-team, triple threat, and fatal four way) in the exhibition and career modes and the tournament mode isn't exciting. The control and graphics of legends of Wrestling are mediocre at best and I also didn't like the constant grappling reversals.… Full Review »
  2. BrainGamer
    Aug 30, 2002
    9
    I think this game is very good. The controlls are brilliant and if you're a wrestling fan you will be suprised just how good this game I think this game is very good. The controlls are brilliant and if you're a wrestling fan you will be suprised just how good this game plays. It is realistic, tactical and has a very good 1 player mode, in which you have to fight in different areas of America and become popular to get a shot at winning the title. The grafix are ok but could be alot better and the sound could also be improved. Overall the desighners of this game made a very good attempt and I think the controll system should be used in other wrestling games of the future, as it`s easy to perform and reverse moves. … Full Review »
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