THQ’s “WWE ’12” has one of the biggest rosters in video gamehistory, featuring a variety of WWE Superstars, Divas and Legends. The latestinstallment in WWE's best-selling video game franchise includes all of the WWE’s biggest names – John Cena, The Rock,Michael Cole, CM Punk ...
Hold on –Michael Cole?
Yes, it's true. The downloadable content for “WWE ‘12” allows players to"be" Michael Cole, if that’s your thing. In fact, Cole recently took time totalk with WWE.com about his feelings on his video game character.
“The Cole Miners have beenbegging for this. They’ve been begging for more Cole, not only onvideo games, but on the website and on television all over the world,” heproclaimed.
The Raw SuperShow announcer praised THQ for how realistichis character looks, especially his trademark orange singlet. “It’s the bestpart of the game,” Cole proudly said. “Whowouldn’twant to play as Michael Cole in my classic orange singlet that I debuted atWrestleMania, and that’s made appearances at other pay-per-views and, ofcourse, on Monday Night Raw? Man, Ithink I’ll play as myself all the time.”
Cole is so proud of his video game character that he tookthe time on SmackDown to show a virtual beatdown where he captured the WorldHeavyweight Championship from Daniel Bryan. Although the WWE Universe can bethankful that real life doesn’t reflect video games, Cole has ideas of what hisloyal fans can do with him in “WWE ’12.”
“I think we are going to take on the best of the best. We’ll knock off Cena. Probably take out the Big Show to show Cole’sdominance. The Celtic Warrior, Sheamus? Cole’s going to take him out aswell. I think Cole may be undefeated inthis game,” he boasted about his video game “self”.
Still, Michael Cole isn’t completely pleased with THQ. Infact, he was downright livid after discovering that a certain WWE Hall of Fameannouncer is also a downloadable character.
“Wait a minute –JimRoss is a character in this game? You can actually wrestle with J.R.? I thought this game was aboutathletes. I didn’t think it was about being able to eatribs or sit on your couch and watch television with your remote control or justto be fat,” he angrily told WWE.com.
Once he found out his biggest rival was in the game, Colealtered his plans for when he picks up the controller to play “WWE ’12.”
“I’ll probably have a tournament where I beat everyone inthe WWE. I’ll probably put Jim Ross in the first round. Actually, he’llprobably just be part of my preseason. Idon’t even think he deserves to actually be a part of the season at all withme,” he declared.
Both Michael Cole and Jim Ross are available now fordownload on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Cole’s ego may require extra harddrive space, though.
