With an absolutely paper-thin roster bolstered by a lame tournament style campaign, horrendous controls and the worst animation routines this side of Primal Rage, it’s no stretch to say that time avoiding playing this abomination is time well-spent. Barely a wrestling game of any description, the character models in WWE War Zone looked like sentient, painted planks of wood locked in an epic struggle to fury-hump each other into submission. So instead of that more accurate, more nuanced wrestling sim that most of us craved, we unfortunately got this instead. Best & Worst WWE Games: WWF War Zone – PSOne (1998) Notable for: If you were born from 1996 or so onwards, you were probably fortunate enough to avoid playing it. ONLY WWE GAMES TVSadly then, the whole digitised, exaggerated wrestling shtick had already run its course by the time WWF In Your House released in late 1996, and folks were already on the lookout for proper WWE games that more accurately represented the on-screen TV spectacle rather than a Z-grade fighting game with grainy, digitised, garbage sprite work. This time round the rings also took on the personas of various wrestlers too The Undertaker’s arena for instance, has skulls adorned on the turnbuckles and the sort of backdrop that wouldn’t look out of place in Mortal Kombat or an orphaned fourth grader’s scribble book. The digitised sprite-based madness continued with WWF In Your House, where a similarly larger-than-life tact was taken with the characters and their moveset, The British Bulldog for example actually wraps his foes in the Union Jack flag and his head morphs into, you guessed it, a bulldog whenever he headbutts his opponent. Best & Worst WWE Games: WWF In Your House – PSOne (1996) A bit like Reptile in the first Mortal Kombat then, except for the fact that, well, at least Reptile got over. Notable for: Years after release the developer confirmed a long-running rumor that mid-card talent Adam Bomb was a hidden character, but maintained that the grappler in question was not present in a fully completed form. Still though, it was a good bit of fun for what it was and remained a good way to distract oneself from the frankly horrendous booking that was going on in WWE at the time. I feel a bit sick now.ĭespite having a selection of wrestling moves, WrestleMania arguably felt much more like a traditional fighting game with the onus placed on racking up high combos rather than trading holds or, y’know, employing any sort of ringcraft. Look at those digitised graphics! Imagine them in 4K! No, actually don’t. ONLY WWE GAMES LICENSEEssentially the result of an unholy marriage between the traditional wrestling games of the time and Mortal Kombat (no coincidence given that the WWE license and Mortal Kombat shared the same publisher), WrestleMania: The Arcade Game played up to the gimmicks of the wrestlers with The Undertaker smashing Tombstones over the skulls of his fellow sweaty folk and Shawn Michaels… I dunno, doing something funny with hearts.Īnyway, back then digitised sprites were the in-thing, and seeing the actual real-life representations of Bret Hart, The Undertaker and Yokozuna doing their bit was somewhat of a treat given the overly gaudy art that defined earlier wrasslin’ efforts. What good reason is there for this little OTT gem not being featured in the PSOne Classics line-up? No good reason, that’s what. Best & Worst WWE Games: WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game – PSOne (1995)
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