WWF Attitude careened onto PSOne back in 1999 when everybody thought the world was going to end, and this lump of cack did little to dissuade them of the fact. WWE Games: WWF Attitude – PSOne (1999)Īnd so they did it again. Notable for: During the match wrestlers would spout stuff like “Hit the gym fatass!” which obviously wouldn’t play these days and even back then, made me cringe so hard into my chair that I almost fractured my spine. Of course, I’m sure you could unearth it from somewhere for next to nothing but equally appealing (and cheap) is the act of scooping your eyes out with a rusty spoon. 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.
Notable for: If you were born from 1996 or so onwards, you were probably fortunate enough to avoid playing it.
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Sadly 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. 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 midcard talent Adam Bomb was a hidden character, but maintained that the grappler in question was not present in a fully completed form.
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Essentially 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.
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. WWE Games: WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game – PSOne (1995) 29 WWE Games – The Best And Worst Wrestling Games Ever
#Old wwe games Ps4#
So it is then, I have decided to delve into the history of this relationship and remind us all, for better or worse, the calibre of the WWE licensed games that have spanned the life of PlayStation on PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and soon PS5. 29 WWE Games – The Best And Worst Wrestling Games Ever – Inextricably linked for well over two decades, it’s fair to say that WWE games and PlayStation go hand-in-hand, much like how chair shots and concussions just so happen to run in the same circles.
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