It has been announced that Hulk Hogan has teamed with Majesco to offer the first fully motion controlled wrestling game for the X-Box Kinect motion sensor system.
The announcement came a few days ago, and the plans for a Hulk Hogan-only video game have many wrestling fans scratching their heads.
The description released by the developer states that a player will create a custom wrestler, and then face off against the Hulkster in nine different venues. These include a backyard, gym and numerous stadiums.
The moveset will consist of approximately 30 moves that can be performed by utilizing the Kinect feature. The actual game has yet to be demonstrated so it is still unknown how certain things like kicking out of a pin and diving moves will work.
Since this game only features Hogan and a small moveset, I'm led to believe this may end up as a download-only game, not available in disc format.
Hopefully the developer and Microsoft don't charge too much for the game because I have a feeling that very few people would be willing to pay the average $59.99 price tag for a game that only features one known wrestler.
Hogan has had a variety of different projects over the last few years ranging from infomercials to film projects to his role in TNA, and now he appears to be branching off from TNA to create this game.
TNA's frist video game was met with little enthusiasm by gamers and a lack of sales prompted the company to hold of on making another game anytime soon. Its later-than-anticipated release didn't help much either.
With WWE ruling the wrestling game world—with their highly popular Smackdown vs. Raw series and the newly released WWE All Stars—I have a hard time thinking this game will make any kind of a dent in those sales.
I praise Hogan for being proactive in keeping his name relevant and continuing to work, but sometimes I wonder why he signs up to do these things.
I guess only time will tell if the game will be successful. So far Kinect has seen relatively strong sales, so there could be a large enough market for this game to succeed.
What do you think, will the Hulk Hogan game be good or a dud?
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