Last day
* Doctor Wagner Junior is the cover luchador for AAA Heroes en el Ring, pinning Fake Silver King in what turned out to be a four way with Elegido & La Parka Jr. I’m sure he won’t let this win go to his head. Slang hasn’t posted the cover yet, but I’m sure we’ll see in rather soon. I’m still surprised a wrestler more representative of the history of AAA like La Parka didn’t win (not to mention the people who would just assume it was the WCW guy and be more interested.) Wagner is still a fine pick. He’s an archetypal luchador, the sort of guy who’d be pictured next to “luchador” in a dictionary, if they still had dictionaries with pictures in them.
Wagner’s new feud with Vampiro makes a lot of sense now. Being on the cover of the AAA video game is clearly going to be a bad omen, like the Madden Curse.
Based on who was in Las Vegas and would fit the gear, I’m guessing Fake Silver King was Psycho Clown.
I’m not so crazy about what I played of the game, either. It felt like a sub-par wrestling game with a lot of enthusiasm and style, but nothing about the in-game action really set it apart. At the very least, Héroes del Ring offers up something unique, and its emphasis on the culture behind the sport is what really makes it stand out.
There will more previews/reviews as we get closer to the release.
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It also looks like you get a Wagner mask if you order from Gamestop.com, and 1 of 4 masks (Octagon, La Parka, Wagner, or someone else I should recognize) if you pre order instores.
^^ Octagon, La Parka Jr., Wagner, or Abismo Negro.
If it’s a premium quality mask I think I might go for that deal.
@Gonzalez: I would definitely not expect to get a premium quality mask as a throw in for preodering a game.
@JB: You get Wagner if you order off the site, in the store itself you can pick from Wagner, Abismo, Octagon, and Parka.
And from the pics on Gamestop’s site of the masks, they don’t look high quality, but dammit I want that Wagner mask.
Also http://www.joystiq.com/screenshots/lucha-libre-aaa-battle-of-the-box-e3-2010/3092651/#/0 take a look at the picture of Wagner there. That’s the same pose as the cover on Gamestop’s site, that’s what the cover will look like.
@wakigatame: Just saw those pictures, and I do not like. No buy from me.
Elegido would have also been an Architypal luchador. His mask has a cross on it which is more representative of the Mexican culture…….but the guy who’s really running AAA is not Mexican, it’s an athiest Cuban.
Man, this game is probably gonna suck!