10:56 PM on 12.18.2007
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Last week's Dtoid boot camp debate was a skating showdown between any Tony Hawk game of your choosing versus the recently released Skate. The votes were overwhelming and together we came to a clear conclusion. Here are the results:
- Any Tony Hawk game: 25 votes
- skate.: 95 votes - Winner!
Last week just goes to show that classics don't always reserve a place in our hearts as bigger and better games come along with each new console release. Although, the Thanksgiving debate showed that we still love older football games more than newer ones, so the torch isn't always passed on with each generation that passes in the sports genre.
This week we look at another game series that has greatly changed over the years, not just in graphics and gameplay, but even as an industry itself. That's right, I'm talking about the WCW, WWF, WWE, and whatever the hell else the panda haters decide to name their leagues in the future. For some of us wrestling is nothing more than a one year phase in our lives that we'd rather forget about, but there's no denying it's a successful corner of the entertainment industry. And as far as video games are concerned, it's nice to know that every wrestling game that's released each year undergoes more content changes than just a simple roster switch-up like many of the current sports games have been guilty of in recent years.
New wrestlers come and go just as often as the games released in their series. So this week I want you to pick out your favorite wrestling game of all time. Which is your favorite, and why? Was it the graphics, the controls, or did it just have your favorite wrestler in it? Give us some reasons for your decision, get some other candyasses and jabronis to give their opinions as well, and check back next week for the winner. Feel free to also let us know which wrestlers and wrestling terms you loved and hated the most over all the years. Let us smell what you're cooking.
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Made by Yukes and the foundation for the Smackdown games, their move system is still better than SvR.
Yeah, that describes me pretty well. I used to watch wrestling, and to get back at me, my sister would watch Seventh Heaven.
As far as the best wrestling game, my vote goes to WCW vs. NWO for the N64. My friends and I played that for hours and hours.
Wrestlemania 2000 gets a close second, followed by No Mercy. Yeah, I used to play wrestling games.
"A Winner is It" jokes aside, I clearly remember the first time I ever played that game, and it touched me even then as a milestone in gaming. I mean, you could move all those different ways... you could get out of the ring... you could get back into the ring....
At the time it came out, it may as well have been the real thing.
I'm sure wrestling games since then have perfected all of these areas, but to me it feels like Attitude got things going and paved the path for the rest to follow.
Vote = WWF Attitude.
Fuck all the "real" fake wresting games.
19.99 for the PS2.
WWF No Mercy, WCW vs NWO Revenge and even SVR 08 I think are pretty awesome.
Although a wrestling game that focused on Ring Of Honour would win everywhere.
There are a lot of wrestling games I've enjoyed, going back to the old Wrestlemania arcade machine. The SNES/Genesis games Accalim did were some of my favorite games when I was younger.
The current Smackdown vs. RAW series is incredibly deep, but it just doesn't capture the magic that the AKI developed N64 titles(there were four of them I believe).
Of those four, the best was easily WWF No Mercy.
The Firepro series is great too.
Greatest wrestling game ever made...
Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home
http://www.gamershell.com/news/6078.html
Great characters to play as, great controls, and even a fun create your own wrestler option...
Not to mention THQ man!
As for wrestling goes, yea I recall playing WWF on the NES and watching Hulk Hogan, Undertaker, Yokazuma, Macho Man, etc. then all of a sudden I stop. It wasn't until the attitude era that I watch wrestling again and thats where all of those wrestling games really appeal to me. Plus, the Rock and Sock connection was my favorite! O and I can't forget 3D! and the Hardy Boys.
Damn sorry for the long post got me reminiscing all of a sudden...
Wrasslin' ain't wrasslin' unless you're wrasslin' horrible bug monsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng7uN9Jqfl0&feature=related
Go to the 1:15 mark the video has many lulz....
Oh, and wrestling games are for rednecks. YEEHAW!
I still play it. Long live Rey Mysterio, Jr.
This weeks Game Debate to the Death seems like less of a debate between games, and more of a debate between the publishers/developers. That said, my vote is for the THQ era of games (specifically, as I mentioned, Wrestlemania 2000).
I will say, as a second choice, that Monday Night RAW for Genesis was pretty damn cool too. In fact, I can still clearly remember the music in that game despite the fact that I haven't played it in over 10 years.
Ah, how wrestling has changed...