 "Great fun" | 2009-06-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: ATP6L1IWXC6H9 |
| This game is great fun, it arrived in a timely manner and has been played ever since. Thanks I've had a blast. |
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 "the absolute low point" | 2006-07-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2582KMXLK2P06 |
I *hate* this game. Let me state right away: graphics in a WWE wrestling game mean absolutely NOTHING to me. The graphics in WWF War Zone are pretty good (and original, back in the day) but who cares? It seems the only thing wrestling video game fans today are interested in is looking at their television set in amazement because the wrestlers look realistic, and their movements true to life. Who cares? When War Zone first hit the scene in the late 90's yeah, the graphics WERE cool. Not now, especially when the only thing the WWE cares about these days is impressing gamers with realism.
You know, WWF War Zone was the very first game that brought the graphics to a whole new 3D level. A whole new level of crap. You see, it makes me sick that the WWE wrestling games for 10 years now are all basically the same. Let me explain why this is a bad thing.
You know when you buy an updated sports video game (such as football or hockey) and the only thing different about it from the previous year are a couple new player names, and maybe some new options here and there? That's exactly what the WWE has done with their video games. For the last 10 years all the WWE games have been WAY too similar to each other, and it completely sucks out the fun when every new wrestling game that hits the market only offers a slight difference over the previous years game.
It doesn't matter if it's Smackdown, Smackdown 2, WWE Raw for the Xbox, WWE Wrestlemania for the Gamecube, etc. Those games are all the same- a lousy attempt to impress gaming and wrestling fans with realism. I'm all for realism, but it DOES NOT MATTER in a wrestling game. A wrestling game is like any other video game in that it SHOULD be all about having fun with it. And I can't have fun with a wrestling game released today that, more or less, is exactly the same as a wrestling game from 10 years ago. It makes me sick to think 10 years later, hardly anything has changed in the world of wrestling video games.
Before WWF War Zone, you had WWF In Your House which, to this day, is a game that completely stands apart from other WWE wrestling games (along with WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game). Before those games you had the button-smashing delight of WWF Raw on the Super NES and Sega Genesis. Once again, the formula in those old-school wrestling games didn't stick around and overstay its welcome. Over 10 years with games just like WWF War Zone IS too much.
The very second WWF War Zone came out on the Playstation and N64, it all went wrong. Game companies got the idea that people wanted realism in their wrestling games, so from that point on ALL the WWE games had to be about having realistic-looking gameplay and wrestler appearances, and the fun factor washed away like sandcastles on the beach. It's hard to have fun with a game when the year before you were playing the same thing. After a while you get sick of it.
WWF War Zone is an innovative game for taking wrestling to new heights, but it was the WORST thing that could have happened. Graphically, WWF War Zone is the first of its kind. Being the first means it's bound to have some flaws (despite the fact that existing is its biggest flaw!) Another MAJOR problem with the game is how SLOW it is. After the adrenaline-rushing WWF In Your House, we now experience wrestlers walking around in the ring VERY slowly. Painfully slow, in fact. Going from WWF In Your House to WWF War Zone is like going from a cheetah race to a snail race. Your grandparents can wrestle each other faster than the wrestlers in this game. To be fair, the ONLY thing WWF wrestling games today have improved is the speed. Everything else is the same as it was 10 years ago.
WWF War Zone also started the popular "create a wrestler" mode. But it doesn't matter because, as I mention above, wrestling games for 10 years have had that option. It's an option that has lost its charm because of overkill, and it's time game companies got rid of it, or did something to drastically change it. It was a fun and interesting idea at first but now, 10 years later, I don't want to have it in a wrestling game ever again.
I tried getting rid of WWF War Zone at a yard sale but no one wanted it, so I had to get rid of it by throwing it away. No way was I keeping such a crappy game in the same shelf with MUCH more deserving Playstation games.
If only WWE was more innovative with their wrestling games today, instead of repeating the same formula every year, I wouldn't have to keep going back and pointing out WWF War Zone as the game where the downfall began. After 10 years, updating the graphics and adding just a few new options and wrestlers doesn't get the job done. |
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| "i hate this please can i pay with money" | 2006-05-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: A119JWVFYBAODH |
| i wish i had the game |
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| "These negative reviewers..." | 2005-06-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3UN6WX5RRO2AG |
...seem to rate a game by:
If out-of-date
Graphics
et cetera
While some disclude the amount of FUN with it. I can respond to some of these. "Oh, well this is out-of-date!" So? It doesn't bring down fun. Even though I liked Acclaim's WWF games better than THQ's. "The graphics are terrible!" Does it effect your play? Most of the time, the answer is no.
Now with the game. This is my favorite WWF/WWE game. It has LOTS of fun packed in this PSOne CD. Two years before it, there was a WWF: In Your House. This game is much more realistic than that. Really, I bought this new at a store. Now, it's freezing up because of the many scratches on the back! Matches are often long, like the WWE now. There are also MANY moves to learn how to do. I'm STILL learning. I also find the meter with the name good compared to WWF WrestleMania X8 GameCube which no meter. You have to find out when to pin in WMX8 which can be frustrating. Better than it's time, great fun, highly recommended, WWF WarZone PlayStation! |
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 "WAS OKAY,BUT SERIOUSLY NOW,OUT-OF DATE" | 2005-05-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3UN6WX5RRO2AG |
(I am reviewing the N64 version)
This was the first wrestling game i ever had and i t marks the new WWF Attitude era(that in cluded the change of the WWF belts and logo).The game has very little features of match types that include Single,Tag-Team,Weapons(now known as HardCore match),Gauntlet(Same as a Slobber Knocker match exept u can leave the ring),Royal Rumble,Cage-Match(older style).The matches are good but The Cage match is the one that has no ropes in the Ring so when you Irsh wip ure oppenent he/she crashes into the steel wall.The commentary is done by the-now WWE RAW commentator Jim Ross and the WWE ChairMan Vince McMahon jr. and its the best commentary ever and is timed well like if 2 opponents arnt fighting J.R. goes "C`mon guys fight,THIS IS a wrestling nmatch" but in games that are even newwer like WWF SmackDown! 3 and you and ure opponent arnt fighting Cole says things like "This match is great!" tats pathetic.The roster is small and include;
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin
Rocky Mavia(know known as The Rock)
"HeartBreak Kid" Shawn Michaels(as D-Generation X member)
Hunter Hearsley Helmsley(now known as Triple H,also a D-Gen X member
Ahmed Johnson
Goldust
ManKind(Mick Foley)
Ken ShamRock
Mosh&Thrasher as "The HeadBangers"
UnderTaker(Old School attire)
Kane(With long hair and tradeMark Mask)
Trainer(A Made Up superstar that is only a Punching bag)
The British BullDog Davey Boy Smith(R.I.P)
Bret Hart(normal super star version,not LEGEND)
Owen Hart(R.I.P)
Some of these wrestlers are still here 2day(ie Stone Cold,The Rock,Mick Foley,KANE and Taker) other have left(ie Bret Hart,Ken ShamRock and The Head Bangers) and sadly some are dead(Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith) all superstars make screams of pain when locked in submission Goldust sounds like a lady when she,i mean he is being hurted.The Challenge mode are just a pyramid of matches going all the way to the WWF championship,I was not a wrestling fan when i got this game in 1998 with my N64 but i still enjoyed it especially Cage,Tag and Weapon matches.there are BETTER Wrestling games out on this platform like No Mercy. CYA LATA |
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