Rumble Roses | |
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Developer(s) |
Yuke's Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo |
Publisher(s) | Konami |
Distributor(s) | Konami |
Director(s) | Hiromi Furuta Mugio Awano |
Producer(s) |
Akari Uchida Norifumi Hara |
Designer(s) | Shiki Emiya Hidekazu Tanaka |
Programmer(s) | Toshiyuki Mori |
Artist(s) | Makio Yamanaka Tatsuya Watanabe |
Composer(s) |
Akira Yamaoka Mutsuhiko Izumi Michiru Yamane |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Fighting |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Aggregate scores | |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 67.06% |
Metacritic | 66/100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
EGM | 6.83/10 |
Famitsu | 29/40 |
Game Informer | 7.75/10 |
GamePro | |
GameSpot | 6.2/10 |
GameSpy | |
GameZone | 8/10 |
IGN | 7.8/10 |
OPM (US) | |
X-Play |
Rumble Roses (ランブルローズ?) is a professional wrestling fighting game that was developed by Yuke's and Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2004. The game uses the same engine as Yuke's 2003 release WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain. Rumble Roses was followed by Rumble Roses XX released for the Xbox 360 in 2006.
The Rumble Roses game featured only female wrestling characters, each character with both a good (Face) and bad (Heel) persona for players to choose, the only limitation was that the good and bad version of the same character could not fight each other. The game featured 11 playable characters, each with two versions of the same character. The game received only lukewarm reviews, with most commending it for its graphics but being less favorable of the audio quality, game play and storyline.
Rumble Roses features an all female cast. There are regular matches and mud wrestling matches. There is also a story mode and an option to allow two computer controlled girls to "duke it out while you watch." Each character is claimed to contain 10,000 polygons, a record number for the PlayStation 2.
Rumble Roses boasts a heel/face system. Each character has an alternate side, bringing the total character count up to 22. Most characters start as a face, or good side. Three of them, however (Bloody Shadow, Candy Cane, and Evil Rose), start as the heel or evil side. Alternate forms of each character are unlocked through the Vow System. Vows are specific things the player must complete during matches, such as not using weapons, using a Killer Move, or winning the match within a certain time limit.