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]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hulk Hogan's Main Event for Xbox 360 Reviews". Metacritic . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Ryckert, Dan (October 1, 2011). "Hulk Hogan's Main Event: Eat Your Vitamins, Say Your Prayers, And Play Literally Any Other Game". Game Informer . GameStop. Archived from the original on March 3, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ Workman, Robert (October 25, 2011). "Hulk Hogan's Main Event Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hulk Hogan's Main Event". Official Xbox Magazine UK . Future plc. February 2012. p. 99.
  5. 1 2 Rudden, Dave (October 24, 2011). "Hulk Hogan's Main Event review". Official Xbox Magazine . Future US. Archived from the original on October 25, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Lafferty, Michael (2011). "Hulk Hogan's Main Event". Common Sense Media . Archived from the original on March 3, 2018. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ GamesRadar staff (April 15, 2013). "The 50 worst games of all time". GamesRadar+ . Future plc. Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2018.


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