WWE Here Comes The Pain (PS2) Hidden Wrestlers (6/6): Old School Undertaker gameplay скачать в хорошем качестве

WWE Here Comes The Pain (PS2) Hidden Wrestlers (6/6): Old School Undertaker gameplay

Gameplay of the hidden character/wrestler Old School Undertaker in Yuke’s/THQ’s WWE Here Comes The Pain. AdmiralMcFish KNOWS he can't sum up 'Taker in one description, so he's not even gonna TRY. There have been few wrestlers as consistent and as influential as The Undertaker in wrestling history. For 30 goddamn years, the guy was at the forefront of wrestling in some way or another, and only officially retired in 2020. He’s another wrestler I can’t really do justice, and you know there’s a lot to say when they have to make a separate, “Old School” variant of them because a wrestler has been around so long. Taker was from the “New Generation Era” of WWF, as it’s generally known. This was talent who were usually low or mid-carders using the late 80s and early 90s, who suddenly started to rise up the card in the early 90s as talent left to go elsewhere, retired, or in general were just a bit beyond their years. These guys include Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Lex Luger, amongst numerous others. All of them had been wrestling for a while, but really broke out during this era as they were given the limelight in a way they hadn’t before. Bret and Shawn were in tag teams, while Nash and Hall were really struggling to come up with decent gimmicks, and so a whole bunch of rebranding and gimmick changes occurred in relatively short succession. Nash became “Diesel”, Hall become Razor Ramon, Bret Hart was now Bret “The Hitman” Hart and Shawn Michaels became the Heartbreak Kid. He was previously in WCW as “Mean Mark Callous”, which you’d be forgiven for forgetting as 1. He didn’t make much of an impact, 2. He was only there for a year and 3. Everything he did afterwards was just so much more influential it kind of eclipsed it. If his WWF debut was his equivalent of Bad Religion’s Suffer, then time in WCW was his equivalent of Into The Unknown. Hilariously, he was actually originally called “Kane the Undertaker”, but the “Kane” part was eventually dropped and he just became known as The Undertaker, thankfully. What’s so interesting about Taker, however, was that he was kind of brilliant from the beginning, and how quickly everything fell into place for him. He debuted in Nov 1990, gained Paul Bearer as a manager in ’91, feuded with the Ultimate Warrior, and by Nov ’91 he would win the World Heavyweight Championship from Hogan at Survivor Series. So, within a year, the guy had fully established himself and even became World Champion. In a 30-year long career. That’s nuts, really. And while he did alter his gimmicks as time went on, they always worked surprisingly well. Even his “American Badass” phase felt surprisingly natural, and it’s not the kind of thing a lot of other wrestlers would’ve been able to pull off. Taker also had “The Streak”, which would take a while to really build up but was easily one of the best long-term story-telling elements in recent WWF/E history. Having too long of a streak can make people disillusioned with a wrestler (as Kevin Nash likes to point out in interviews, there were a lot of people fed up with and booing Goldberg by the time he finally lost), and a streak at Wrestlemania is just that bit more special. It’s an event, as opposed to something you’re subjected to week after week, and like any yearly event it’s something you look forward to and anticipate rather than getting tired of, like the Champion’s League final or the Superbowl. Of course, that all changed in 2013, when Vince decided he wanted Brock Lesnar to get over by finally ending the streak. Then he eventually lost again to Reigns (I think?), which killed the mystique even more. Lesnar, a bit like Goldberg, had his chance in my opinion, and him coming back to be a star again is one of those things which never really sat well with me, but that’s rant for another video (or possibly even the UFC games, so I ever get round to covering those). Still, it says a lot that he was a still a legend regardless of these choices. I'm a big fan of boxing too (there seems to be a bit of an overlap when it comes to fanbases), and it's been a bit surreal to see Tyson Fury professing his admiration for Taker in the past, but that's just how wrestlers are I suppose; to many they're almost real-life superheroes to some extent, and they have this weird, charismatic aura to them that you just don't tend to get from other athletes. Anyhow, that’s a very small part of Taker’s very long run. There’ll be other videos on him in later games however, so plenty more to say about him, but I’ll take it at that for the time being. That finishes it up for the hiddens. Are we done yet, though? Hell no. Unplayables coming up next.