Backstage Assault will include more than 800 motion-captured animations, including some 300 reused from last year's WCW Mayhem. EA boasts that the game's controls will be much quicker and more responsive than Mayhem's. The exquisitely detailed wrestler-create feature even lets you specify holes in a wrestler's pants. EA is also touting the fully rounded wrestler-create option for females. Developer Kodiak Interactive (which also made Mayhem) has also advanced the art of weaponry by implementing fatigue. For example, a two-by-four will crack the second time you whack a rival with it, then break completely the third time it's used. Kodiak is also busily concealing weapons in crates and other objects.
