The full experience of wrestling games

[Breetai]

[Razzmatazz]

Interesting thread. The first game I ever bought myself was WCW/nWo Revenge on the N64, and I absolutely loved it. I owned Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy too, and I thought they were great, but I played Wrestlemania 2000 a couple months back and it was horribly dated. The 1-player was just matches one after another until you got a title shot. And the fact I would have a 5-10 minute match on Raw whilst Viscera vs Gangrel was a 60 minute epic almost made me laugh. I know that is only details, but I did find the controls dated and sluggish. I'd love to pick up WCW/nWo Revenge and play as Dake Ken to get the wooden mallet out the crowd, but I fear it will disappoint.

I still think the early PS2 titles were the best wrestling games. Royal Rumble on the Dreamcast, and the Acclaim games were too arcadey and beat em up like for my tastes, but Shut Your Mouth and Here Comes the Pain are still excellent to play, and have good storylines. They still allowed the player to be stupid, such as having a 500lb guy doing moonsaults, entering the ring on a moped, using a forklift as a weapon. It's the fun things like that which I miss from the modern games.

On a related note, what were the Gamecube wrestling games like to play, namely the Day of Reckoning titles. I've seen them used rather smartly by NoDQ CAW on Youtube, whereby storylines were developed between Spiderman, Superman etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgXTyusfHw

[Reprise]

I agree with pretty much everything Breetai has said. I have played a shit ton of wrestling games and few have come close to No Mercy on the N64. And personally, I've found the latest ones on this generation of consoles have actually regressed.

I think the best since No Mercy were the Day of Reckoning games and Raw vs Smackdown 2006.
Edit: Oh and Razz also pointed out Here Comes the Pain was also rather good.

[Breetai]

Is anyone here into Fire Pro?

[Reprise]

I have Fire Pro D on the Dreamcast, which I love. That's the only one I've played though.

[Breetai]

I have Fire Pro D on the Dreamcast, which I love. That's the only one I've played though.

I think that one, and the first one on the GBA, are the only ones I have. I might have Tornado and 6man on the Saturn, but, to be honest, I totally forget!

[RCBH928]

I think what Breetai is trying to say is...

That if we take out the graphics , roster, music and just keep the gameplay the AKI games will win because they handle best and most fun to play with, which I think might be correct.

I would love to play early ps2 wrestling games"smack down" but I dont own a ps2

Any one knows the difference between Day of Reckoning and Wrestlemania on GC? is it the same game updated or totally different game? because reviews are more in favor of DOR.

I believe you can play fire pro wrestling on a modern pc and its free right?

[Menegrothx]

Here comes the pain is awesome, if you buy a PS2 get your self that one. It has nice story mode (you get "moral choiches" which determine wheter you're heel or face, are you a friend or foe of wrestler X etc and your reputation increases/decreases as you win matches)+ this

but Shut Your Mouth and Here Comes the Pain are still excellent to play, and have good storylines. They still allowed the player to be stupid, such as having a 500lb guy doing moonsaults, entering the ring on a moped, using a forklift as a weapon. It's the fun things like that which I miss from the modern games.
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[the King]

Is anyone here into Fire Pro?

I'm not a fan of the fire pro grappling system. I haven't spent of ton of time with the games, so that could be why. I am a huge fan of how everything is editable and customizable. If someone releaseed a current gen game with the fire pro customization and the n64 wrestling engine I don't think I would leave my basement.

[mas]

I just bought a 64 just for the wrestling games. Just wcw revenge,worldtour and wwf wrestlemania 2000 and no mercy. Even though no mercy is great I love wcw revenge. What a list of legends. The true legends of wrestlemania/wrestling. The tag teams are great also. True tag teams not crap that they have today.
I also love smackdown 1 and 2 on psone. Loading times for smackdown 2 sucks but still alot of fun. The last games I love is day of wreckoning 1 and 2 for gamecube. Those games are fun as hell. Those are my only wrestling games that I love. I do have wcw nitro and mayham for the psone but that is only because I bought those with my psone back in the day.