WWF Royal Rumble (DC)

WWF Royal Rumble is one of a trio of new WWF endorsed games brought out this year, this game along with No Mercy and Smack Down 2 (know your role) are all new titles that have a varied degree of anticipation. Royal Rumble contains two main modes, Exhibition and Royal Rumble, while previous wrestling games flaunted Hardcore, Cage, Boiler room etc. matches you are far more limited in RR. In the Exhibition mode you compete in five matches in order to hone your skills, you select your wrestler and take them as far as you can. The choice of wrestlers isn’t awesome you have the main stars, Stone Cold, Undertaker and of course the Rock with addition ...

WWF royal rumble, originally out in the arcade, it was then ported to the dreamcast. This game essentially uses the same gameplay engine that we saw on smackdown one and two for the ps1. However some of the game mechanics are differant, for example this game only uses three buttons. The first button is used to run, block and to pin, the second button is basic punch and kick attacks and the third button is grapple. In this game the grappling is done by pressing the third button and you will grab the opponent, then you hold a direction and push a button, you will do a grapple. One downside is that you cannot pick up your opponent off the floor, you have ...

Being a huge wrestling fan and having Played Smackdown on the PSX at the time, I was completely shocked when I walked into my local games shop and seen WWF Royal Rumble on the shelve exclusively for the Dreamcast. Being such an impulsive shopper at the time, I whipped out my Visa and planked down £250 to get the system along with this game and Virtua Tennis. My thinking that the Tennis game would very rarely feature in my DC. How wrong I was though. It must be said that although Royal Rumble is not a bad game, it's far from being a great one. Theres no doubt that the graphics were at the time the best for any wrestling game and given the time it came out , ...