Hulk Hogan's Main Event

Hulk Hogan's Main Event is a professional wrestling fighting game starring Hulk Hogan created by American studio Panic Button and published by Majesco Entertainment for the Xbox 360. The game requires the Kinect peripheral.

Hulk Hogan's Main Event
Developer(s)	Panic Button
Publisher(s)	NA: Majesco Entertainment EU: 505 Games
Platform(s)	Xbox 360 (Kinect)
Release	NA: October 11, 2011 EU: November 18, 2011 AU: November 24, 2011
Genre(s)	Professional wrestling, fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	26/100[1]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Game Informer	1/10[2]
GameZone	1.5/10[3]
Official Xbox Magazine (UK)	3/10[4]
Official Xbox Magazine (US)	2/10[5]
Common Sense Media	[6]

Reception

Hulk Hogan's Main Event received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[1] Dan Ryckert of Game Informer commented that Kinect has a hard time in recognizing many required motions within the gameplay, even when the Kinect device works perfectly.^[2] Dave Rudden of Official Xbox Magazine was critical to the game, calling the career mode "boring", cartoony visual style "ugly", and the voice implementation "sloppy".^[5] In 2013, GamesRadar+ ranked it as the 40th worst game ever made. The staff criticized its poor Kinect implementation and the dated use of Hulk Hogan.^[7]