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Rumble Roses

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 44 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami Tokyo - Yuke's
Genre(s): Sports, Wrestling
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Summary
Get down with Rumble Roses, the first and only all-womens wrestling game on any platform. These wrestling beauties not only score a perfect 10,000 polygons per character, they also have all the some of the best moves and talent found in any wrestling game. But make sure to watch out for that Mud Match Mode, because these sexy vixens might get dirty. Gorgeous female models and amazing gameplay. Play in the mud with the Rumble Roses in Mud Match Mode. Develop good or bad personas to change costumes and moves. [Konami]
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What The Critics Said
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Stuff
Gallery mode (aka Pants Around Ankles mode) lets sexually repressed gamers get ridiculously close to some virtual flesh.
Read Full Review >GameShark
Its sexuality comes off as more silly than really erotic and, if there wasn't actually a decent wrestling game under it all, it would be as disposable as yesterday's newspaper.
Read Full Review >GameZone
By far one of the most unusual and surprisingly satisfying wrestling games and those fighting fans that don't mind a little tease will highly enjoy this one.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
Oh, yeah, and the ladies? They look good. Not only do they look good, their dresses, poses and mannerisms run the range of surprisingly ingenious and tasteful to downright scandalous. Got a fetish? Rumble Roses has it covered.
Read Full Review >Pelit (Finland)
A competent show-wrestling game with sexual overtones. [Mar. 05]
IGN
It's one of those rare games that manages to capitalize on the whole sex appeal thing without sacrificing the gameplay along with it.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
A surprisingly fun time. And yes, the girls are pretty hot. [Jan 2005, p.125]
Next Level Gaming
It looks and plays very well. The big problem with Rumble Roses is the lack of depth. No real deep story mode, and really only two match types.
Read Full Review >Play Magazine
Beyond the titillating visuals, Rumble Roses also packs a punch in the gameplay department. [Jan 2005, p.82]
Weekly Famitsu
8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - 29 [Vol 845]
TotalGames.net
It can actually be quite a laugh in a very basic sense - but the fact remains that there are better example of both genres, albeit independently.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
OK, we admit it: Rumble Roses isn't the deepest thing going, even for a fighting game. But it's an entertaining and eye-catching spectacle of male-oinker-oriented wrestling fun. Plus, it's populated by some of the best-looking, most meticulously modeled virtual girls ever designed.
Read Full Review >PSX Nation
Rumble Roses' knockout visuals, spot-on control and near-flawless execution of an outrageous premise flirt with greatness. Lack of depth, repetitive moves, and horrendous voice-overs hold back Konami's chances of giving "Smackdown! Vs. Raw" a run for its money.
Read Full Review >My Gamer
When Yuke's broke onto the faltering wrestling scene a few years back, they reinvigorated it with simple but elegant controls, solid animations, and added impact to the fights. They've done it again with Rumble Roses, though it seems to be more of a decent first effort [for a new franchise] than the game that will redefine the genre.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
The graphics in Rumble Roses are astounding, and are every bit as good as the fare put out by Tecmo or Namco in its fighting games. I'd even go out on a limb and state these lasses are more attractive than the cast of "DOA," and they easily show more personality.
Read Full Review >GamePro
So while Konami succeeded at building a simple but graphically enticing fighter, it failed to create anything but an average game with a penchant for g-strings and larger than usual cup-sizes.
Read Full Review >PSM Magazine
Without a fat set of features, I really feel like the developers should have amped up the one unique thing the game has going for it - the girls...As it is, Rumble Roses is a tease - you like what you see, but it won't go as far as you'd like. [Dec 2004, p.70]
GameCritics
Perhaps this is just a pitiful attempt to justify my horn dog instincts and guilty pleasure in playing Rumble Roses behind some twisted logic. But who could blame me? After all, I'm only a man. My wife, while rolling her eyes, sympathizes.
Read Full Review >Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)
If Rumble Roses didn't feature near-naked girls, this just wouldn't have a point at all. OK, the fighting has a sense of power and speed about it, but it's lacking in diversity and is no more than a shameless display of jiggling polygons. [PSM2]
Read Full Review >PSX Extreme
A one trick pony--a no-frills wrestling game that tries to compensate for its lack of modes and options by providing all-out titillation. If that's what you're looking for, then, by all means, rush out and buy this game. You won't be disappointed. Just don't expect a rich experience underneath the jiggling flesh.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
Finally, a game that embraces the inherent homoeroticism of pro wrestling. [Jan 2005, p.132]
Read Full Review >Electric Playground
A good softcore tease with a decent wrestling game thrown in. If you're into that sort of thing.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
While there's something to be said about the upfront nature of Rumble Roses as a jigglefest, you'd almost hope there was more behind it to make it more of a guilty pleasure than a gimmicky title.
Read Full Review >Jolt Online Gaming UK
Unfortunately, Rumble Roses is just stuck inside a teenage boy’s fantasy about Anime and the WWE, with no ambition or revolutionary features even attempted.
Read Full Review >IC-Games
To call this title lame is really an understatement, the graphics engine looks very nice though but I’m afraid that the gameplay as so often seems the case now lets the side down badly.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
While the game's wrestling mechanics are sound, the game's overwrought method of titillation gets completely in the way of the action, and the game's campy-to-a-fault story mode is just plain terrible.
Read Full Review >GamerFeed
Behind the glitz and curvaceous bodies is a rock solid wrestling experience that allows you to deliver bone-crushing finishing maneuvers inside as well as outside the ring (and even in the mud).
Read Full Review >DarkStation
So the game has great graphics, but it doesn't have the modes to back it up. The story mode is ridiculous and the gallery mode just had no reason to be in this game.
Read Full Review >Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
I'll admit it's nice to play as a girl instead of watching one prance around the ring for the boys. Unfortunately, the experience bogs down amidst the sex appeal; for a game with such an overage of cleavage, it's ironic that after a couple hours, Rumble Roses starts to feel flat.
Read Full Review >Operation Sports
There are too few modes, not enough worthy unlockables, and no type of extended functionality, such as a create-a-wrestler - and this brings down the longevity of what would otherwise be a quality game.
Read Full Review >G4 TV
Rumble Roses will probably go over very well at fraternity houses, bachelor parties, and the bedrooms of sexually frustrated teenage boys everywhere. It's too bad that there's a pretty good game underneath all the fluff here.
Read Full Review >Gamestyle
Beyond the jaw-dropping visuals there's actually a fun and entertaining piece of 'soft' ware to be held, er... had. So what if it raises a few eyebrows? It's only a game.
Read Full Review >Boomtown
Unless you happen to be a die-hard wrestling fan or a female equality activist, I’d go and play a more sincere wrestling game that doesn’t try exploit the good ol’ sex sells idea and is considered less of a gimmick for the deprived.
Read Full Review >AceGamez
As a rental title, Rumble Roses is a good choice for a drunken night in with the lads but you're never going to have a long term relationship with this one.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
Rumble Roses takes the biggest body slam in the lack of modes to give the title some longevity...There is a particular crowd that Rumble Roses is gunning for, and the hardcore wrestling fan is not one of them.
Read Full Review >Gamezilla!
Sadly, it's still hard to really pull off your basic wrestling moves with any regularity, and more often than not, you'll be repeating the same move over and over again.
Read Full Review >netjak
There's cheesecake here, there's just not anything else. I think if they revamped this to fix the graphics, and plug in a deeper fighting interface with gauges and such to facilitate playability from the masses, they could pimp this out to be a rival to the "Dead or Alive" series.
Read Full Review >AltGaming
Overall the appeal of Rumble Roses has to be limited to the hormonal crazed wrestling fan adolescents, though really they could do better getting Smackdown and having a browse on Google images.
Read Full Review >3DAvenue
It's a shame because under the skin of absolutely stupid game modes, there is a fairly accomplished wrestling game.
Read Full Review >GMR Magazine
Brings style aplenty, but it rarely stoops to substance and is easily surpassed by its videogame brethren. [Jan 2005, p.85]
Read Full Review >RewiredMind
An average game that looks like the characters were developed first, with the gameplay being filled in as the coders went along.
Read Full Review >BonusStage
If Jerry Springer were given a computer and the technical expertise it took to make a video game, this would be his masterpiece.
Read Full Review >eToychest
Almost everything in Rumble Roses is poorly done, from the controls to the graphics to the writing to the voice acting. It's cheap, it's sleazy, and it utterly fails as a game.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Eric L. gave it a10:
This game rocks!! I wanted it for Christmas and I got it, IT ROCKS!!!
Hand Hanzo gave it a9:
This game is teh r0x0rs...for many reasons. 1 - Hawt chixx0rs: This game satisfies a lot of sexual fetishes, and has gorgeous, 10,000 polygon models of attractive women. This is actually basically a softcore pr0n. I heard about this on 4chan a while back, and now I've played it, and teh chixx0rz = teh w00tness. Just try to keep the fapping to a minimum, please. 2 - VOW system: You can change your character's personality in Exhibition mode by completing certain missions using what's called a VOW system. If you are a n00b at wrestling games, you will get pwned by teh AI. But if you play SmackDown! and/or practice at this game a lot, these missions should be easy...except for VOW #30. How in teh hexx0r do I not take any damage. But if you complete enough VOWs that are against your character's alignment, her personality will change. For example, the teacher, Miss Spencer's personality alignment is 'Face' (fan favorite), but as she becomes a 'Heel' (a 'villain' of wrestling), she transforms from a teacher to an S&M freax0r who is escorted to the ring by a half-naked clown (who is unfortunately only whipped once), and becomes known as 'Mistress Spencer'. Once your character's personality is 100%, she can participate in a Title Match. Win, and you have her in teh gallery. 3 - t3h st0ry!: The story is pretty corny, sure, but there is some stuff in there that made me lmao HARD. Trust me. If you wanna laugh your ass off, this is where you are guaranteed to do just that. 4 - teh f1ght1ng: If you are a fan of Smackdown!, then you will catch on pretty quickly. The button mapping is slightly different though. And some moves humiliate your opponent, hell, some moves even humiliate yourself. But once you have a bar ready, if your opponent is fully embarassed, you can pull off a l33t Humiliation Move. Opponent not humiliated? You can still pull off a Killer Move (done from any posiition in which your opponent is standing), or a Lethal Move (Pulled off in a special position). You can even wrestle in a pool of mud (which Konami did a good job with, by the way)! 5 - Teh pr353nt4t10n: The music is incredible, and the song "Yankee Rose" makes me wanna memorize it so I can sing along. The entrance movies are great. Especially the entrances for Showbiz and Becky.
J S gave it a9:
The game looks great, plays great, and is LOTS of fun. The women look fantastic, far better than in DOA2. My only complaints are that there are not as many wrestlers as I would like (although this might be because they give a detailed background, costumes, and entrance show & music to each wrestler). Also the story mode is really silly, with poor acting, but who cares? Did you expect a serious plotline for a woman's wrestling tournament? The engine itself plays great although I sometimes have trouble getting defensive moves to work right. If you like to see hot chicks fighting (and who doesn't), what are you waiting for? Get it today.
Amehola A. gave it a 6:
Ik denk dat het een goed spel zal worden want jullie kennen er niks van. En het leukste van al is ik kan jullie uitschellen zoveel ik kan. Lelijke mensen
Leo T. gave it a 7:
I preordered and got my copy today, now I have played more than 4 hours. It is fine but still left a lot to be done. Konami sais they use 10000 polygons on every character, I don't know this stuff, but characters are really not that polished as those in DOA. If that is called 10000 polygons, DOA must have 2 times more than that. I never expect RR has a kickass story and I am right.... Gameplay is well done, even though lack a little depth, but playing and watching girls messing with each other is pure fun. I won't recommend this game to you guys even though I bought the game and decided to keep it. Rent if first if you are really eager to see those girls. After all, it is the first VOA style game on PS2.
Al D. gave it a 10:
It's hot hot hot! with those damn and sexy hot bikinis. They should be in Playboy or in WWE.
