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* RegionalBonus: The PAL version of ''Legends of Wrestling II'' adds British wrestling legends Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, Wrestling/GiantHaystacks and Mick [=McManus=] to the roster.

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* RegionalBonus: The PAL version of ''Legends of Wrestling II'' adds British wrestling legends Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, "Big Daddy" Shirley Crabtree, Wrestling/GiantHaystacks and Mick [=McManus=] to the roster.
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* ObviousBeta: The final game, Showdown, was incredibly glitchy even compared to the previous two.
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* RegionalBonus: The PAL version of ''Legends of Wrestling II'' adds British wrestling legends Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, Wrestling/GiantHaystacks and Mick McManus to the roster.

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* RegionalBonus: The PAL version of ''Legends of Wrestling II'' adds British wrestling legends Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, Wrestling/GiantHaystacks and Mick McManus [=McManus=] to the roster.

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* ArtificialStupidity: Each game has suffered from this to some degree. Notably, Legends of Wrestling II has enemy AI immediately go outside the ring for a weapon as soon as his opponent is dazed... even when [=DQs=] are active and the referee isn't down.



* IdiotAI: Each game has suffered from this to some degree. Notably, Legends of Wrestling II has enemy AI immediately go outside the ring for a weapon as soon as his opponent is dazed... even when [=DQs=] are active and the referee isn't down.
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Creator/{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with Wrestling/{{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with Wrestling/{{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Of Wrestling'''.

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Creator/{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with Wrestling/{{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with Wrestling/{{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Legends Of Wrestling'''.
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* DreamMatchGame: The entire draw of the series is being able to pit the greatest wrestlers across all eras of the sport against each other.
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* RegionalBonus: The PAL version of ''Legends of Wrestling II'' adds British wrestling legends Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, Wrestling/GiantHaystacks and Mick McManus to the roster.
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* IdiotAI: Each game has suffered from this to some degree. Notably, Legends of Wrestling II has enemy AI immediately go outside the ring for a weapon as soon as his opponent is dazed... even when DQs are active and the referee isn't down.

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* IdiotAI: Each game has suffered from this to some degree. Notably, Legends of Wrestling II has enemy AI immediately go outside the ring for a weapon as soon as his opponent is dazed... even when DQs [=DQs=] are active and the referee isn't down.



* SceneryPorn: The international arenas in Legends Of Wrestling two are a bit stereotypical (the one in Cairo looks like an ancient egyptian temple, the one in Rome looks like the Coliseum) but damn if they aren't freaking '''gorgeous'''.

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* SceneryPorn: The international arenas in Legends Of Wrestling two II are a bit stereotypical (the one in Cairo looks like an ancient egyptian temple, the one in Rome looks like the Coliseum) but damn if they aren't freaking '''gorgeous'''.
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* AllStarCast: And '''how'''!!!



* [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Worthy of the trope's original name, as every single wrestler's theme in the game (that wasn't a public domain song, like [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]]'s theme) was composed by the Mouth Of The South himself.
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* IdiotAI: Suffers from this a bit in places.

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* IdiotAI: Suffers Each game has suffered from this to some degree. Notably, Legends of Wrestling II has enemy AI immediately go outside the ring for a bit in places.weapon as soon as his opponent is dazed... even when DQs are active and the referee isn't down.



** Furthermore, Legends of Wrestling II is a game featuring all those great old school wrestlers you grew up with... and the soundtrack is by flavor-of-the-moth nu-metal bands like Saliva and Trapt.

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** Furthermore, Legends of Wrestling II is a game featuring all those great old school wrestlers you grew up with... and the soundtrack is by flavor-of-the-moth flavor-of-the-month nu-metal bands like Saliva and Trapt.
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Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys such as Killer Kowalski and Wrestling/Bruno Sammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]] to even modern wrestlers such as Wrestling/RobVanDam and Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian Creator/AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with Wrestling/JerryLawler.

In total, three instalments were released before Acclaim folded: ''Legends Of Wrestling'' in 2001, ''Legends Of Wrestling II'' in 2002 and ''Showdown: Legends Of Wrestling'' in 2004.

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Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys such as Killer Kowalski and Wrestling/Bruno Sammartino Wrestling/BrunoSammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]] to even modern wrestlers such as Wrestling/RobVanDam and Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian Creator/AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with Wrestling/JerryLawler.

In total, three instalments installments were released before Acclaim folded: ''Legends Of Wrestling'' in 2001, ''Legends Of Wrestling II'' in 2002 and ''Showdown: Legends Of Wrestling'' in 2004.
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** Furthermore, Legends of Wrestling II is a game featuring all those great old school wrestlers you grew up with... and the soundtrack is by flavor-of-the-moth nu-metal bands like Saliva and Trapt.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''WWE Legends of Wrestlemania''.
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Creator/{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with Wrestling/{{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with {{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Of Wrestling'''.

Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys like Killer Kowalski and Bruno Sammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as HulkHogan and TedDiBiase to even modern wrestlers like RobVanDam and EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with JerryLawler.

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Creator/{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with Wrestling/{{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with {{ECW}} Wrestling/{{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Of Wrestling'''.

Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys like such as Killer Kowalski and Bruno Wrestling/Bruno Sammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as HulkHogan Wrestling/HulkHogan and TedDiBiase [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]] to even modern wrestlers like RobVanDam such as Wrestling/RobVanDam and EddieGuerrero, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian AndyKaufman, Creator/AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with JerryLawler.
Wrestling/JerryLawler.



* GlassJawReferee: Any in-game referee suffers from this, staying down for a considerable amount of time from the merest bump from an incoming wrestler. Since you can pick any in-game character to be a referee in this game, it becomes hilarious as EddieGuerrero bumps into AndreTheGiant, who rolls around in pain like he just got powerbombed by Godzilla.

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* GlassJawReferee: Any in-game referee suffers from this, staying down for a considerable amount of time from the merest bump from an incoming wrestler. Since you can pick any in-game character to be a referee in this game, it becomes hilarious as EddieGuerrero Wrestling/EddieGuerrero bumps into AndreTheGiant, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, who rolls around in pain like he just got powerbombed by Godzilla.



* [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Worthy of the trope's original name, as every single wrestler's theme in the game (that wasn't a public domain song, like "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan's theme) was composed by the Mouth Of The South himself.

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* [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Worthy of the trope's original name, as every single wrestler's theme in the game (that wasn't a public domain song, like [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan's Duggan]]'s theme) was composed by the Mouth Of The South himself.



* SoundtrackDissonance: A minor example, but it is incredibly unsettling to see the roided up, bleach blonde Scott Steiner enter the ring to his old "high school marching band" theme music.

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* SoundtrackDissonance: A minor example, but it is incredibly unsettling to see the roided up, bleach blonde Scott Steiner Wrestling/ScottSteiner enter the ring to his old "high school marching band" theme music.

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** Tony "The Boss" Pavoratti (Northeast region) is an italian version of VinceMcMahon.
** Tex [=McGraw=] (Southwest region) is based on TedTurner.
** Belle Jackson (Southeast region) is based on Christine Jarrett, grandmother of JeffJarrett.
** Randall Schmandall (Pacific region) is a skinny, location-displaced PaulHeyman.

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** Tony "The Boss" Pavoratti (Northeast region) is an italian version of VinceMcMahon.
[[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]].
** Tex [=McGraw=] (Southwest region) is based on TedTurner.
Ted Turner.
** Belle Jackson (Southeast region) is based on Christine Jarrett, grandmother of JeffJarrett.
Wrestling/JeffJarrett.
** Randall Schmandall (Pacific region) is a skinny, location-displaced PaulHeyman.Wrestling/PaulHeyman.



** Hiro Natsuume is based on Hiro Matsuda, former president of NewJapanProWrestling.

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** Hiro Natsuume is based on Hiro Matsuda, former president of NewJapanProWrestling.Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling.



* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: At least in tag team matches, even in Easy mode the enemy AI will know exactly how to position itself for double team moves, which are both devastating ''and'' unblockable.



* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: At least in tag team matches, even in Easy mode the enemy AI will know exactly how to position itself for double team moves, which are both devastating ''and'' unblockable.
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{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with {{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with {{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Of Wrestling'''.

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{{Acclaim}} Creator/{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with {{WWE}} Wrestling/{{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with {{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Of Wrestling'''.
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* ShownTheirWork: A very particular example, although the game suffers from numerous flaws including relatively inaccurate movesets, the designers actually programmed the crowd in the Tokyo arena to act like a Japanese wrestling audience, with clapping during spots rather than massive pops of cheers.
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Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys like Killer Kowalki and Bruno Sammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as HulkHogan and TedDiBiase to even modern wrestlers like RobVanDam and EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with JerryLawler.

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Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys like Killer Kowalki Kowalski and Bruno Sammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as HulkHogan and TedDiBiase to even modern wrestlers like RobVanDam and EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with JerryLawler.
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* GlassJawReferee: Any in-game referee suffers from this, staying down for a considerable amount of time from the merest bump from an incoming wrestler. Since you can pick any in-game character to be a referee in this game, it becomes hilarious as EddieGuerrero bumps into AndreTheGiant, who rolls around in pain like he just got powerbombed by Godzilla.
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* SceneryPorn: The international arenas in Legends Of Wrestling two are a bit stereotypical (the one in Cairo looks like an ancient egyptian temple, the one in Rome looks like the Coliseum) but damn if they aren't freaking '''gorgeous'''.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The inclusion of UltimateWarrior, RandySavage and {{Wrestler/Sting}} in Showdown.



* PortingDisaster: The GBA port of the second game.
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{{Acclaim}} always had its ups and downs as a video game company, but they always managed a certain degree of success with licensed ProfessionalWrestling [[WrestlingGame games]], first with {{WWE}} (before losing the license to THQ) and then with {{ECW}} (before the company went under). In 2001, without any prominent promotion to cash in on, they decided to go for a bold move. That move was '''Legends Of Wrestling'''.

Legends Of Wrestling features wrestlers from various different eras of professional wrestling, from old school guys like Killer Kowalki and Bruno Sammartino to Rock'n'Wrestling era stars such as HulkHogan and TedDiBiase to even modern wrestlers like RobVanDam and EddieGuerrero, although it'd be lying to say that Hogan himself wasn't the top attraction of the games, featuring prominently on every installment's cover. The second game also featured the late comedian AndyKaufman, with the career mode being able to relive his feud with JerryLawler.

In total, three instalments were released before Acclaim folded: ''Legends Of Wrestling'' in 2001, ''Legends Of Wrestling II'' in 2002 and ''Showdown: Legends Of Wrestling'' in 2004.

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* AllStarCast: And '''how'''!!!
* AnachronismStew: Deliberate, given the inclusion of famous wrestlers from across 50 years of modern professional wrestling. A large number of wrestlers also feature a lot of modern moves added to their movesets, in an attempt to appeal to casual gamers as well.
* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The inclusion of UltimateWarrior, RandySavage and {{Wrestler/Sting}} in Showdown.
* CaptainErsatz: The second game featured a story mode with regional promoters, all ersatzes of existing wrestling promoters:
** Tony "The Boss" Pavoratti (Northeast region) is an italian version of VinceMcMahon.
** Tex [=McGraw=] (Southwest region) is based on TedTurner.
** Belle Jackson (Southeast region) is based on Christine Jarrett, grandmother of JeffJarrett.
** Randall Schmandall (Pacific region) is a skinny, location-displaced PaulHeyman.
** Scotty [=MacDougall=] (Midwest region) is based on Jim Crockett.
** Hiro Natsuume is based on Hiro Matsuda, former president of NewJapanProWrestling.
* CharacterCustomization: Since Acclaim popularized this in western wrestling games, its inclusion is a given. However, the quality of the mode varies wildly from game to game:
** The first game lacked facial customization but allowed the loading of an in-game wrestler as a template.
** The second game did away with the in-game wrestler template and instead added more parts and more faces and body types.
** The third game used both the extended customization options and the in-game wrestler template, but ended up doing away with color customization on attire pieces.
* IdiotAI: Suffers from this a bit in places.
* [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Worthy of the trope's original name, as every single wrestler's theme in the game (that wasn't a public domain song, like "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan's theme) was composed by the Mouth Of The South himself.
* LighterAndSofter: Graphics-wise anyway, the game went for a very cartoony look, perhaps to distinguish itself from THQ's more realistic game offerings, or perhaps to reflect the larger-than-life personas of professional wrestling legends.
* ObviousBeta: The final game, Showdown, was incredibly glitchy even compared to the previous two.
* PortingDisaster: The GBA port of the second game.
* SoundtrackDissonance: A minor example, but it is incredibly unsettling to see the roided up, bleach blonde Scott Steiner enter the ring to his old "high school marching band" theme music.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: At least in tag team matches, even in Easy mode the enemy AI will know exactly how to position itself for double team moves, which are both devastating ''and'' unblockable.
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