WCW vs The World

"I'd rather watch an episode of WCW Saturday Night"

The game that practically set the standard for shoddy wrestling gameplay, the experience of playing WCW vs. The World can be equated to hanging out with Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch when you were a little kid. Worse yet is the loading times, which will hit you like a kick to the kidneys. I've considered buying one of those Pitbull Dogs that eats turds off the ground and train him to destroy every copy of WCW vs. The World he can find.

Graphics: 4/10 - Every wrestler in the game looks like a white skinned robot with the same hair color as their real-life counter-part. The population of people that don't have faces in the ''World'' must have increased when they were making this game because none of the characters have faces that resemble anything. The ring looks like something I could have made in 4 minutes using that old SNES video game Mario Paint . The only ''decent'' part is the opening video, which ironically contains footage of quite a few wrestlers that aren't even in the game.

Gameplay: 2/10 - The only ''throw'' you'll see in WCW vs. The World is the one you'll be doing to your Playstation when it goes out the window. In order to successfully strike the enemy, you have to be so close that you can't even fit a credit card in between the two of you. The grappling leaves a lot to be desired as well, as you can do your special moves at the beginning of the match and it actually takes a couple of seconds after pressing the grapple button before you actually grab the other guy.

Sound: 3/10 - I'd rather listen to Tony Chivone on a headset for hours than listen to the European Techno-Mexican Salsa style of music again. At least there's not too much of it in the game.

Choice of wrestlers: 1/10 - This has to be the worst part of the game. At a time when WCW probably had a roster of 90 wrestlers, they somehow only managed to put about 13 of the in the actual game. With people you don't care about like Dean Malenko and Rick Steiner, you'll quickly be looking to the ''jobber list'' of wrestlers from made up organizations. The jobber list is much greater than WCW's list of stars, there are probably about 50 made up people in all. Unless you're one of losers who goes to WWE events and cheers for nobody but the likes of Essa Rios and Gangrel because you have too much time on your hands, you won't care about the jobber list of wrestlers, who were based off of real wrestlers but slightly modified so they can avoid copyright infringements. It appears they spent more time avoiding copyright laws than they actually spent on the game.

Replay Value: 1/10 - I wouldn't buy this even for a dollar. The only way I'd play it is for free at one of those TV screens at Wal-Mart, and that'd be just to show people why the game sucks so bad.

Final Thought: The game was made partially by THQ, so what did you expect?

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 10/23/02, Updated 10/23/02