Rumble Roses

Followed by Rumble Roses XX, released for the Xbox 360 in 2006. Roses features only female wrestling characters, each with both a good (Face) and bad (Heel) persona for players to choose from; the only limitation is that the good and bad version of the same character cannot fight each other. The game features 11 playable characters, each with two versions of the same character. It received indifferent reviews, with most commending it for the graphics, but being less impressed with the audio quality, gameplay and storyline.

• Title — Rumble Roses • Developer — Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Yuke's • Publisher — Konami • Director — Hiromi Furuta Mugio Awano • Producer — Akari Uchida Norifumi Hara • Designer — Shiki Emiya Hidekazu Tanaka • Programmer — Toshiyuki Mori • Artist — Makio Yamanaka Shiro Kotobuki Tatsuya Watanabe • Composer — Akira Yamaoka Mutsuhiko Izumi Michiru Yamane • Platforms — PlayStation 2 • Genre — Sports, fighting • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

• Illustration — Gameplay screenshot Rumble Roses features an all-female cast. There are regular matches and mud wrestling matches. There is also a story mode and a watch-only mode where both wrestlers are played by the AI. Each character model is claimed to contain 10,000 polygons, a record number for the PlayStation 2. Rumble Roses features a heel/face system derived from real-life American professional wrestling. 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 goals the player must complete during matches, such as not using weapons, performing a Killer Move, or winning within a certain time limit. The game's unique unlock system allows only one version of each character (either heel or face) to be unlocked for exhibition matches at any time. The characters can still change back and forth, and unlocked characters remain open for story mode and gallery mode. This effectively cuts the roster in half for exhibition mode.

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