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Grey Dog Software Releases Total Extreme Wrestling 2008

09:58 AM - June 8, 2008 by Steve_OS

Phoenix, AZ June 08, 2008 - Grey Dog Software, a Phoenix based developer of sports management simulation software for personal computers, today releases Total Extreme Wrestling 2008. Total Extreme Wrestling 2008 is a sequel to Adam Ryland's extremely popular Total Extreme Wrestling series, and is available for digital download exclusively through Grey Dog Software for U.S. $34.95.

Total Extreme Wrestling 2008 allows players to take on the role of a wrestling promoter, where it is up to you to try and steer your company to the top of the industry, along the way dealing with prima donna superstars, wars and alliances with other wrestling companies, family feuds, and the demands of TV and PPV corporations!

Features:

Personality Plus - every single character in TEW08 has their own Personality. Consisting of 10 traits including; Humble to Egotistical, Generous to Selfish, Dependable to Flaky and many more.
Multi-Advance - Optional tool that allows the player to skip through a specified number of days in a row.
Larger Game World - The thirty-three region game world that was in TEW07 has been upgraded to become a forty region game world in TEW08.
Backstage Environment - An overview of how harmonious your locker room is. Players can try and balance the backstage environment in a number of ways.
Announcer Chemistry - Levels of good chemistry improving their performance, levels of bad chemistry degrading it.
TEW07->TEW08 database converter - Plug your favorite TEW07 database in and have it converted in a matter of seconds in to a new TEW08 game.

To purchase Total Extreme Wrestling 2008 or to try out TEW08�s demo version please visit Grey Dog�s official website at http://www.greydogsoftware.com.

To learn more about TEW2008 or check out TEW2008's Developer�s journal, visit our forums at http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/

The Extreme Warfare series of games has been considered the premier brand of wrestling simulators for many years, having built up a huge fan base through word-of-mouth. Since its original release in 1995, including the award-winning Extreme Warfare Revenge title released in 2003, the popular Total Extreme Wrestling series, and the off-shoot games Wrestling Spirit: Rookie to Legend in 2004 and its sequel WreSpi2 in 2006, fans have come to expect the most accurate portrayal of the wrestling world from Adam Ryland games.

Game: Total Extreme Wrestling 2008Reader Score: 8/10 - Vote Now
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Member Comments

# 21 The GIGGAS @ 06/12/08 05:41 PM

How not? It's so deep, especially if you don't start at the top with WWE. Building a local promotion to at least Cult is even more difficult now.

I love this game so much!

# 22 ballerzinc @ 06/12/08 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The GIGGAS


	How not? It's so deep, especially if you don't start at the top with WWE. Building a local promotion to at least Cult is even more difficult now. I love this game so much!

What's the best mod you've tried so far?

# 23 DTX3 @ 06/12/08 06:40 PM

Mine would be hands down 2013 mod, but the Montreal Screwjob is always a good one to play with.

# 24 The GIGGAS @ 06/12/08 11:16 PM

I've only tried the HurryUp. I think it's that... not sure.

# 25 CaptainZombie @ 06/20/08 11:08 AM

I can't remember, but do they accept paypal to purchase TEW? How many licenses do they give you?

# 26 DTX3 @ 06/20/08 12:38 PM

You could buy it with PayPal, thats how i did it, got my license quickly after. You get as many licenses as you buy.

# 27 CaptainZombie @ 06/20/08 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DTX3


	You could buy it with PayPal, thats how i did it, got my license quickly after. You get as many licenses as you buy.

If I installed it on my laptop and then a few months later I decide to uninstall off my laptop and place it on my desktop, all I do is use the same license key correct?

# 28 DTX3 @ 06/20/08 01:29 PM

Yep.

# 29 CaptainZombie @ 06/20/08 01:51 PM

I remember last year, Ubernoob had a nice set of rosters that I used. I need to see if I have the file on my PC since I made some modifications to it.

Is it true you can take the real world files from the last version and have them converted to 2008?

# 30 DTX3 @ 06/20/08 02:00 PM

Yeah, but you still have to tweak them to work on 08. Theres a couple of straight converts on their forums.

# 31 ggazoo @ 06/22/08 06:23 PM

I'm thinking about getting this game. Having never played it though, I have a bunch of questions:

1) Do you have to book finishes, or can the winners of each match be a surprise? Do you have the option?

2) How long does it take to run a card?

3) When looking at the screen shots, it looks like the game is made up of fictional wrestlers. Can you edit the in game wrestlers to real life stars? And, if you can, are any of the fictional wrestlers based off real life guys? For example, Fire Pro Wrestling had fictional characters too, but it was pretty easy to figure out who was who; you just had to rename them.

4) Do you have to use one of the pre-made feds, or can you create a new one from scratch. for example, if I wanted to re-launch WCW, could I do it?

5) As the "promoter", can you get fired? One thing that I don't like in sports games is that when you run a Franchise, sometimes you can get "fired"... major bummer. lol

6) And finally, is anyone playing this on the Mac? I'll have to use Boot Camp and run Windows XP on that, and I was wondering if anyone else was doing the same thing.

Thanks!

# 32 The GIGGAS @ 06/22/08 08:35 PM

You can pick the winner or you can leave it up to the road agent.

Depends, I can usually book an hour show in about 15 minutes if I'm rushing and not thinking it out, and running it is quick, as it's just text and notes and etc.

There are mods out there with real wrestlers. I don't believe any wrestlers are just renames of existing wrestlers.

You can create feds before a game, and then assign yourself as owner once you start it up.

You can get fired as the head booker, but you can't as owner. You can only leave as owner by retiring or having your fed go under financially.

Can't help you on the last one.

# 33 ggazoo @ 06/23/08 08:50 AM

Thanks for the info... it sounds great. How does it compare to TNm 7? Better? Worse?

And can wrestlers age in this game? For example, could I hire a rookie Ric Flair, run 30 years, and watch him retire? What about career-ending injuries?

# 34 JiggidyJames @ 06/23/08 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by ggazoo


	Thanks for the info... it sounds great. How does it compare to TNm 7? Better? Worse? And can wrestlers age in this game? For example, could I hire a rookie Ric Flair, run 30 years, and watch him retire? What about career-ending injuries?

I'm pretty sure you can run it with Boot Camp.

Of course wrestlers age and retire. There's a Hall of Immortals for when the superstars do. Career enders are in, I just haven't seen any yet in my game.

# 35 ggazoo @ 06/23/08 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JiggidyJames


	I'm pretty sure you can run it with Boot Camp.

That's what I'm hoping for, thanks.

Sorry for all the questions, but I'll be shelling out quite a bit for this game if I get it. A couple more:

1) If you create your own fed, does it have to start small?

2) And can you in fact create a wrestler from scratch? How many can you create?

3) Where can I download mods from? Do mods for previous versions of the game work in 08?

# 36 The GIGGAS @ 06/23/08 11:49 AM

If you create it in game, it has some choices. If you make it in the editor, then you can make it 100% pop everywhere and trillions of dallars.

You can create as many wrestlers from scratch as you want.

You can get mods on the forums. You have to put 07 mods through a converter to get a 08 mod.

# 37 DTX3 @ 06/23/08 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ggazoo


	That's what I'm hoping for, thanks. Sorry for all the questions, but I'll be shelling out quite a bit for this game if I get it. A couple more: 1) If you create your own fed, does it have to start small? 2) And can you in fact create a wrestler from scratch? How many can you create? 3) Where can I download mods from? Do mods for previous versions of the game work in 08?

The game is wide open when it comes to creating whatever you want. Hell if you want to run a all womens hardcore tag team fed then you can, you could do anything that involves wrestling basically. I suggest downloading the demo and play around with the editor, you'd be surprised at the options you can customize.

# 38 ggazoo @ 06/23/08 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DTX3


	I suggest downloading the demo and play around with the editor, you'd be surprised at the options you can customize.

Well, I can't get the demo yet... I'll be shelling out quite a bit for this game if I get it. Running on my Mac, I'll have to upgrade to Leopard to run Boot Camp, and then get a copy of Windows XP. I just want to be sure that it's worth it, hence all the questions.

# 39 DTX3 @ 06/23/08 02:10 PM

Well let me put it this way, ive been playing this series since Extreme Warfare 7500 and all the games are worth playing and buying(04-08). Speaking of Extreme Warfare 7500, has anyone here tried Promotion Wars when it was out? from what i remember i used to enjoy that game more than EW.

# 40 JohnDoe8865 @ 06/23/08 02:34 PM

I remember Promotion Wars. I liked it a lot back in the day. It was a very cool alternative to EW. It's a shame that it never got 'picked up' like EW (TEW) did and allowed to be fully fleshed out. That was a great time for the wrestling text sims when we had both EW and PW, and the community had a lot of people with big ideas about creating new text sims. I remember being excited about a lot them that never got released, lol. I also remember a few really solid efforts back then that never got much publicity.

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