The Hollywood Byte #50: Kane

WWE superstar Kane, who entered the professional wrestling ring in October 1997, is quite a different person off-screen. Anyone who's watched the hulking 7 foot tall, 300 pound wrestler, who wore a red mask for much of his career; is likely intimidated by him and his antics on The CW's Friday Night Smackdown.

Those who've watched his Hollywood debut, the horror film See No Evil, which is out on DVD and is also coming to Xbox Live's Video Marketplace; probably feels the same way. That horror movie had Kane killing a group of juvenile delinquents in an old hotel.

But in real life, Kane is a pretty easy-going guy who likes to spend a lot of his free time playing videogames. In fact, videogames are his favorite subject to talk about.

"I was one of those people that started gaming in the arcade back with Pac-Man and Centipede," said Kane. "And then I got the old Atari 2600 with a joystick and one button. The best thing about the home consoles was the Reset button that you could push and start over when you weren't doing so well. I've seen the whole evolution from that to being so excited when Intellivision came out with voice synthesis. Of course, then I moved on to the Super Nintendo and now I play Xbox 360."

Kane's been hooked on his Xbox 360 since Christmas, when he received the next generation console as a gift. He also got Gears of War and Call of Duty 3, which has been taking up a lot of his free time since.

"I'm a big first-person shooter fan," said Kane, who likes the way Epic Games turned the genre around with a new third-person perspective. "I used to play Unreal Tournament on the computer, although I wasn't very good at it, and then I played Unreal Championship on the Xbox. Now I play Gears of War."

Kane has spent so much time playing Xbox and now Xbox 360 that he can't go back to the PC games.

"Now I can't even play on a computer any more because I can't get used to the keyboard and mouse after using the control pad for so long," said Kane. "I don't really think that translates."