Hulk Hogan's Main Event

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Hulk Hogan's Main Event
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Developer(s) Panic Button
Publisher(s)
Platform(s) Xbox 360 (Kinect)
Release
  • NA: October 11, 2011
  • EU: November 18, 2011
  • AU: November 24, 2011
Genre(s) Professional wrestling, fighting
Mode(s) Single-player

Hulk Hogan's Main Event is a professional wrestling fighting game starring Hulk Hogan created by American studio Panic Button and published by Majesco Entertainment for the Xbox 360. The game requires the Kinect peripheral.

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Reception

Hulk Hogan's Main Event received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] Dan Ryckert of Game Informer commented that Kinect has a hard time in recognizing many required motions within the gameplay, even when the Kinect device works perfectly. [2] Dave Rudden of Official Xbox Magazine was critical to the game, calling the career mode "boring", cartoony visual style "ugly", and the voice implementation "sloppy". [5] In 2013, GamesRadar+ ranked it as the 40th worst game ever made. The staff criticized its poor Kinect implementation and the dated use of Hulk Hogan. [7]

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References

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