TNA Impact!: Cross The Line (video game)

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TNA Impact!: Cross The Line
Developer(s)Midway Studios Los Angeles, Point of View, Inc., DoubleTap Games
Publisher(s)SouthPeak Games
Director(s)Sal DiVita
Designer(s)Mark Turmell
Programmer(s)Brock Feldman
Artist(s)Paul Interrante
Composer(s)Dale Oliver
EngineUnreal Engine 3
Havok
Platform(s)PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
ReleaseJune 25, 2010
Genre(s)Sports[1]
Mode(s)Single-player

TNA Impact!: Cross the Line (stylized as TNA iMPACT!: Cross The Line) is a professional wrestling video game for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and Nintendo DS consoles, released by SouthPeak Games on June 25, 2010. The game is a port of TNA Impact!, a game originally developed by Midway Studios Los Angeles and Point of View, Inc, released by Midway Games in the fall of 2008. The PSP version is largely the same as the 2008 release, though the Nintendo DS version was specially configured by DoubleTap Games.[2][3]

Development[]

On November 11, 2009, SouthPeak Games confirmed that it acquired Midway Games' TNA video game license in its quarterly report.[4] The company would publish TNA Impact!: Cross the Line for PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS, with it releasing on June 25, 2010.[5] The game was essentially the same as the TNA iMPACT! release, with the addition of several new characters such as Mick Foley and Consequences Creed, and the removal of older ones, such as Christian Cage, who departed the promotion in 2008.

Hulk Hogan made his TNA video game debut for the Nintendo DS version, though he is not available in the PlayStation Portable version.[6]

Reception[]

System Metacritic GameSpot GamesRadar+
PlayStation Portable 50 (6 reviews)[7] 5/10[8] [1]
Nintendo DS N/A 5/10[8]

The game received "mixed or average" and "generally unfavorable" reviews from critics, Metacritic gave the PlayStation Portable version a 50 out of 100, based on six reviews.[7] GameSpot gave both the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS versions a 5 out of 10, writing, "A wrestling game shouldn't be about wrestling with the controls."[8] GamesRadar+ gave the game a nagative review, with a rating of 2 out of 5 stars, writing, "Crossing the line; of decency?"[1]

See also[]

  • List of licensed wrestling video games

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "TNA Impact!: Cross the Line review". 30 June 2010.
  2. ^ "SouthPeak Interactive announces TNA iMPACT!: Cross the Line for PSP and DS".
  3. ^ "TNA Cross The Line Nintendo DS".
  4. ^ "Southpeak Grabs TNA From Midway's Bankruptcy Sale". kotaku.com.
  5. ^ "SouthPeak publishing TNA Impact! on handhelds 'later this Winter'". Engadget.
  6. ^ "Hulk Hogan in the New TNA Video Game, iMPACT Rating, Foley". 15 May 2010.
  7. ^ a b "TNA Impact!: Cross the Line (PSP) Review". Metacritic. Retrieved August 11, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ a b c Meunier, Nathan (August 19, 2010). "TNA Impact!: Cross the Line Review". GameSpot. Retrieved August 11, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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