Rumble Roses

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Rumble Roses

Developer(s)	YUKE's Future Media Creators/Konami TYO
Publisher(s)	Konami
Release date(s)	November 9, 2004 (NA) February 17, 2005 (JP) February 18, 2005 (EU)
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Mature (M) PEGI: 12+ CERO: 17+ (D)
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2
Media	DVD-ROM

Rumble Roses (ランブルローズ, Rumble Roses^?) is a Versus fighting game that was developed and published by Konami in 2004 for the PlayStation 2.

1 Features
2 Characters
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Features

Rumble Roses is unique in that it features an all female cast. There are regular matches and mud wrestling matches. There is also a story mode and an option to allow two computer controlled girls to "duke it out while you watch." Each character contains around 10,000 polygons, a record for the PS2^{[citation needed]}.

Rumble Roses' boasts a heel/face system. Each character has an alternate side, bringing the total character count up to 22. Most characters start as a face, or good side. Three of them, however (Bloody Shadow, Candy Cane, and Evil Rose), start as the heel or evil side. Alternate forms of each character are unlocked through the Vow System. Vows are specific things you must complete during matches, such as not using weapons, using a Killer Move, or winning the match within a certain time limit.

The games are heavily criticized on using sex appeal in order to garner sales in a similar manner to how the Dead or Alive series is marketed. However, the series has gained a cult following not only amongst professional wrestling fans, but also from fans of fighting games and Japanese animation.

Another game in the series, titled Rumble Roses XX, was released on March 28, 2006 exclusively for the Xbox 360.

[edit] Characters

These are both face and heel forms of all the wrestlers (the default disposition is in bold).

Aigle / Killer Khan
Aisha / Showbiz
Anesthesia / Dr. Cutter
Becky / Candy Cane
Dixie Clemets / Sgt. Clemets
Judgement / Bloody Shadow
Lady X / Lady X Substance
Makoto Aihara / The BBD (Black Belt Demon)
Miss Spencer / Mistress Spencer
Noble Rose / Evil Rose
Reiko Hinomoto / Rowdy Reiko

[edit] Trivia

Some of the characters' theme music in the game first debuted in the Dance Dance Revolution series of video games, most notably Reiko's theme, which is a rock remix of "Look To The Sky" which first debuted in DDR MAX.
Rumble Roses' unique unlock system allows only one version of each character (either heel or face) to be unlocked for exhibition matches at any time. The characters can still change back and forth, and unlocked characters remain open for story mode and gallery mode. Unfortunately, this effectively cuts the roster in half for exhibition mode. This can be countered with a cheating device such as a Codebreaker or Gameshark, however, enabling the player to save the game with all of the alter egos unlocked.
Some of the names of the characters' alter-egos were different in the Japanese version. Aisha's alter-ego, Showbiz, is known in Japan as 'Sister A'. Makoto Aihara's alter-ego, the BBD, is also called differently in the Japanese version under the name 'Death Judo'.