| TNA Impact!: Cross The Line | |
|---|---|
North American Nintendo DS cover art featuring from left to rightKurt Angle,Hulk Hogan, andAJ Styles | |
| Developers | Midway Studios Los Angeles, Point of View, Inc., DoubleTap Games |
| Publisher | SouthPeak Games |
| Director | Sal DiVita |
| Designer | Mark Turmell |
| Programmer | Brock Feldman |
| Artist | Paul Interrante |
| Composer | Dale Oliver |
| Platforms | PlayStation Portable,Nintendo DS |
| Release | |
| Genre | Sports[1] |
| Mode | Single-player |
TNA Impact!: Cross the Line (stylized asTNA iMPACT!: Cross The Line) is aprofessional wrestling video game for thePlayStation Portable (PSP) andNintendo DS consoles, released bySouthPeak Games in June 2010. The game is a port ofTNA Impact!, a game originally developed byMidway Studios Los Angeles and Point of View, Inc., released byMidway Games in the fall of 2008. The PSP version is largely the same as the original release, though the Nintendo DS version was specially configured by DoubleTap Games.[2]
In 2009,SouthPeak Games acquired Midway Games' TNA video game license.[3] In June 2010, the company publishedTNA Impact!: Cross the Line for PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS.[4] The game is essentially the same as theTNA iMPACT! release, with the addition of several new wrestlers such asMick Foley andConsequences Creed, and the removal of older ones, such asChristian Cage, who departed the promotion in 2008.
Hulk Hogan made his TNA video game debut in the Nintendo DS version, though he is not available in the PlayStation Portable version.[5]
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | 50/100[6] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| GamesMaster | 35%[7] |
| GameSpot | 5/10[8] |
| GamesRadar+ | |
| GameZone | 5.5/10[9] |
| Play | 58%[10] |
| PlayStation: The Official Magazine |
The PSP version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to thereview aggregation websiteMetacritic.[6]GameSpot was critical of the game's controls.[8] Some magazines gave mixed to unfavorable reviews months before the game was released Stateside.[7][10]