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Backyard Wrestling: Don’t Try This at Home |
by Elizabeth
12/8/2003 |
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Xbox has stuggled for a good wrestling title, we're mashed our way through Raw, Legends of Wrestling and other messy WWE titles. Now Eidos present Backyard Wrestling: Don't try this at home.
Don't try this on Xbox would be a better title.
Let me give you the background history on Backyard Wrestling - the real stuff.
From the Official BYWF Site
In June of 1998 the Backyard Wrestling Federation was born. In retrospect we've come a long way. Take our roster for example. The first ever show consisted of a 3 way match between Inferno, Sett and Nexus. Sal Bigman was on the camera and I was doing comentary from a picnic table with a computer set up. The triple threat action soon moved my way where a keyboard got broken over Sett's back! OH MY GOD!
Our roster slowly started to expand in the coming months. Disco Stud, Forsaken and Pharcyde all joined up. Even my then girlfriend, joined, playing the role of Jasmine. Our roster continued to grow until the fall of 1998, even getting our own domain name, until the backyard explosion occured.
 
Ok, the BYWF is one of many "Federations" and organisations for mindless fools who beat the living crap out of each other in the backyard. Fights are staged, just like the WWF, er, WWE, the main difference being that these wrestlers are amateurs. I'm not talking about amateurs in the the same mold as an amateur boxer - I'm talking waaaay more retarded than that. I'm talking about idiots beating crap out of each other for fun.
I digress, back to the game. Backyard Wrestling is not a good game. Yes the soundtrack is good, if you like the ICP, Anthrax, Red Tape and Rumblefish, but if you ask me, it's just a nasty old soundtrack of songs that your grandmother warned you about. Where is Chris de Bergh or Kenny G? :-)
Graphically speaking Backyard Wresling is ok. The collision detection system seems to be a bit weak, I was throwing punches/kicks and missing the other players by a mile, however on screen, the other player was going down like a wounded sack of potatoes. Talking of wounded, Eidos have done a superb job of publishing the bloodiest game since, well, since ever. Blood from every inch of the body. More blood than in all 3 Scream movies. You get the picture.
If you're training to become a doctor or a paramedic, Backyard Wrestling maybe just your cup-of-tea.
 
 
Other than the normal wrasslin moves, you can use several tasty weapons including bricks, sticks, bats, clubs, burning matresses, chairs, pool cues etc - It seems as though a normal day at the office (so to speak) just wouldnt be complete without a frienly welder burning your buns whilst you fight a savage wrestler.
There are over 30 playable characters including Mdogg 20, Josh Prohibition, Mad Man Pondo, The Rudeboy, Sabu, Insane Clown Posse, and the babes of Backyard Wrestling - not quite the stellar line up of WWE, but still entertaining.
Backyard Wrestlings' main feature is the talk show mode, otherwise knon as season mode. Here you play through a several of survival matches against plenty of other opponents in each level. These matches are interspersed with video footage that take place on a talk show called "Today's Topic," which is, of course, Backyard Wresling.
The movies are interesting to watch one if you haven't seen any BYW on the net, however the quality is somewhat lacking in the Steven Spielberg department - but is still good for a laugh. With an M rating, you might expect to see some T & A, but alas, the best you can hope for is a couple of bikini shots.
Graphics - 6
Nothing too flash, but then again, BYW is all about the gritty reality. Wrestlers seem to float on objects (tables, cars etc) rather than walk, and the violence (blood) is just too extreme.
Sound - 6
Plenty of thrash metal. Fine if you like that kind of crap. Regular "oomphs" and "thuds" as metal hits bone.
Gameplay - 4
Terrible. Just terrible.
Overall - 5
If you must play wrestling games then Backyard Wrestling is a renter, other than that, avoid.
 
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Maverick
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this games sucks serious ass! wtf are eidos doing publishing a game that is so bad. they already screwed up the lara croft series, now they publish this crap.
lets hope deus ex is better!
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Dorky
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Candidate for one of the worst games of the year.
Congrats Eidos.
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at least he is now giving games the reviews they deserve
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It got 3.3/10 in UKOXM. I really is very very dire.
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donal d duck
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ewwwwwwww this game just looks sick. the graphics sound (and look) gay, the blood and violence isnt needed and the soundtrack sounds whack. one to avoid - thats 4 sure.
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Game´s God awful. Avoid at all costs!
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"Wrestling has never looked so gay" - IGN.com
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adrenaline112
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i don´t know what most of you are talking bout..
most of you/ probably none of you have played the game..
i rented this game and me and a couple of friends were tearing each other apart in the game. It was fun cause almost all the objects and props in the background are usuable while fighting. the grapics are not bad either, think of tony hawk.
anyways some of the moves are so funny, ex jumping off extremely high roofs and landing on a person...lol
thats sh*t is fun....
*on a personal note i can´t stand ICP
p.s.i don´t know none of the wrestlers in the game, except for sabu, ecw. just rented it cause it looked like fun and it was...it may not be the best game out there but its definitly not the worst..plus it makes WWE games look like pokemon with all the violence/mature themes they allow in it...lol...
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just another crappy xbox game for u xbox loving saddam lovers JUST GOES 2 show the XBOX does fund terrorism
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Ok its not great 2 play by urself but when u have friends 2 play it with its awesome
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