The ring lights up, the crowd roars, and you're about to throw your wrestler over the ropes.

The profile leans toward instant thrills. Fun and sound break out in front, ahead of 74% of games, though each rests on a single vote, so to be confirmed. Feel in the hands sits exactly in the middle, on two votes, which is already a slightly firmer signal. The urge to rediscover hovers mid-table. Only art direction drops off, ahead of just 30% of titles, no surprise for a 2009 sports sim that has inevitably aged on screen.

It's a heavyweight of the wrestling genre, built for multiplayer, the couch and creation tools. Its turf is the session with friends, not the visual gut-punch or the adventure you remember for years.

So, who's it for? For you if you love controller-in-hand nights, the high-voltage atmosphere and back-to-back brawls. A lot less so if you judge a game on its looks or on the emotion it leaves once it's switched off.