WWF No Mercy (N64)

It's been a while since there was a really good wrestling game, but lets not forget the time when there was some great games in the genre. For those than can remember the early THQ published wrestling games on the N64 they will be able to remember a time when wrestling games we're fun to play, limited but fun. Starting with the original WCW game (WCW v NWO: World Tour) based on the then huge World Champion Wrestling and it's major faction of the time the New World Order. The game created by AKI was over hauled by the same developers when the sequel WCW n now: Revenge was released in 1998, a game that was effectively the bench mark of wrestling games at the ...  Read the complete review

When THQ developed their engine for WCW/n.W.o. World Tour, we knew they were on to something. A wrestling game without an energy bar…like it should be. Finally, a game where the player couldn’t be whittled down to unconsciousness and pinfall by moves that should never pin a wrestler. Like in Wrestlefest, when a backdrop would take a quarter of your energy. Instead, we run on spirit. If your wrestler was down to almost no life, he could reverse a move and make a comeback, delivering his finisher, and ending the match. But the finisher wasn’t always the end-all, be-all. You could kick out of it!!! Now, THQ delivers No Mercy, the fourth ...  Read the complete review

It's obvious, even before No Mercy was released, that AKI dominates the wrestling computer games market, not only in terms of sales but in terms of quality. Acclaim and others have tried and failed, WWF Attitude was appalling, and nothing on the excellent WWF Wrestlemania 2000. Therefore, even though this is a new game and some fans might like to see a total change from the prequels (WCW/NWO World Tour, WCW/NWO Revenge, WWF Wrestlemania), it's actually much to my glee that they chose to stick with the tried-and-tested formula used in aforementioned games. Basically, No Mercy uses the same control system, except with a few little tweaks here and there, ...  Read the complete review

Wrestling there isn’t really much to say about it , a bunch of sweaty Americans having a play fight, not really my sort of entertainment. So you can understand that at first I was quite sceptical about getting No Mercy, but I wanted a fighting game and let’s face it the only other kinds of beat em ups available for the N64 are either cartoon button bashers or Xena the Warrior Princess. When I first got the game home I turned it on too hear the most cliché Wrestling music possible, some weird sort of mullet rock number, I really started to wonder what I had let myself in for. It was only when I started to explore the game menus to find more options ...  Read the complete review

Is there any more fun to be had than watching big oily men with bad hair throw each other around? Well, maybe only playing as them! WWF gives you and up to 3 mates the opportunity to take on the role of one of over 60 wrestlers, and beat each other up in any way you see fit. Whether you choose to use weapons, drop your opponent through a table, or just do it the old fashioned way with the hundreds of wrestling moves at your disposal, including the signiture moves for each wrestler, you're bound to have fun. There are plenty of different types of match available, with the best of them being fatal-four way matches, Royal Rumbles, and ladder matches. ...  Read the complete review