WWF Attitude

"WWF Attitude has the Attitude!"

I really like this game from Acclaim, it has everything WWF Warzone for Gameboy has, color, and a lot more. It has several of the WWF superstars, not the same amount as the versions for Nintendo 64 and Sony Playstation, but it has a reasonable amount. It includes wrestlers such as The Rock (The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment), X-Pac, Val Venis, the Godfather, Kane, Edge, Undertaker, Gangrel, Al Snow, Triple H, Taka Michinoku, Mankind, Billy Gunn, The Big Bossman, Jeff Jarrett and two wrestlers that are no longer with the WWF, Goldust and Sable. Oh yeah, did I forget… "Stone Cold" Steve Austin? Yeah, he's in there somewhere too!

Graphic wise, It looks alot like WWF Warzone, and has a low amount of moves, and half the guys look the same as another one of them, but it's only Gameboy, so you can't really count the graphics.

There are six modes in WWF Attitude for Gameboy. First we have the basics such as tag team and singles, where you basically pin your opponent (or as tag team is concerned, one of your opponents) and that's all. You're done.

Second is Career Mode. This isn't as detailed and as in-depth as the console version, but it has a few "up's" that you'd be surprised about. I'm not really that far into this mode, so I can't really go into details, but it looks pretty good.

Besides Career Mode, there's the similar mode in Challenge, where you start at the bottom of a ladder of twenty wrestlers, and you make your way up to become champion.

Then, there's the King of the Ring mode, which is a tournament consisting of seven wrestlers other than yourself, and you defeat three opponents to become WWF King of the Ring.

Next there is the cage match mode, which I believe was in WWF Warzone, where the only way to win is the climb the cage. There are no walking out doors, taking the easy way out here. There are no pinfalls either.

There's a good option in the Options Menu where you can change the match type from where you win by the first to score a pinfall to the "time mode," which is like an Iron Man Match. You set a certain time, may it be five minutes, ten minutes or whatever, it's the person to score the most wins in that time frame who wins the match.

There's a Menu Option where you can train yourself, and learn moves so you're ready to start wrestling.

If you want to know how all about who you're using to wrestle, you can always check out the Biography Feature and it includes the wrestler's height, weight, hometown and finishing move.

Speaking of wrestler's finishers, they're all in this game, from the Michinoku Driver to the Stunner to the Rock Bottom to the Implant DDT, they're all there. You can execute them quite easily, by pressing select during a lockup when your red dot turns into a white dot for the majority of them.

Overall, I'd say my favorite part of the game was the Career Mode, since they included it and also kept the Challenge mode in there as well. I'd say if you were looking to get a cheap version of WWF Attitude with all the graphics, all the moves, all the wrestlers, all the sound, all the modes and all of the glory to it, that you not get this one as you'd be severely disappointed. This game is more like the little crippled version of WWF Attitude, which you can play in the car for a road trip, or to preview just some of the things that will be in Attitude. In the rating, I gave it a high score because it's a Gameboy game (maybe Gameboy Color, but its still no Nintendo 64), and when you buy a Gameboy game, you have low expectations and low standards. That's why I really liked this game, it had some features that really surprised me.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 11/01/99, Updated 11/01/99