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Backyard Wrestling

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

NO.....SERIOUSLY DON'Y TRY THIS AT HOME.....Somehow I got stuck reading almost all of these reviews... and I can't believe that their are actually people out there that say this game is great, or even good for that matter. I rented it last week, and returned it 3 days early! I'm sorry you guys... this may be thee most boring game I have ever played for the PS2 console. The game consists of the charactors constantly "running around"... it seems more of a game of tag than anything else. And when you finally engage in actual fighting, you can punch, kick, and when your opponent is down you can body slam him..........Thats it. End of story. I would advise everyone to rent it, and get that backyard wrestling rush out of your system (and it will happen quick), and save your $50.

Ridiculous!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Never in my life have I ever wanted to play a game for so long, and then when I finally get to play it, I throw my controller against the wall in disgust. Not because I lost a match or anything like that, just because the game is that bad. I'm actually contemplating finding the people who made this game and punching them in the mouth. Horrible graphics, terrible controls and tiny fighting areas make this game horrible. And the characters are always running. What the F**K!!! This game is pathetic. I wish I could give it a negative rating, or that by some mistake Eidos sent a whole shipment, I'd say about 10 million, of this game to my house, so I could spend the rest of my life smashing them into various items and places around my house. Thats all the game is good for, nothing more.

Backyard Wrestling: Definative Review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ignoring WWE's advice to `Please don't try this at home', kids across the nation are all too keen to bust their friend's heads open with chairs and launch themselves off their neighbour's garages. This `Jackass' style trend, known as Backyard Wrestling, has spawned quite a following. After recent DVD successes, and the continued popularity of wrestling games, it's no surprise that `Backyard Wrestling' should find it's way onto video game consoles.

The kamikaze wrestling licence has been taken on by Eidos, best known for creating hits such as Tomb Raider, Soul Reaver, and TimeSplitters. They have enlisted Paradox Entertainment to work on the game. Paradox have produced several fighting games in the past including `Wu Tang Clan: Shaolin Style', and the notoriously banned `Thrill Kill'.

The main focus of Backyard Wrestling's action takes place in `Talk Show Mode'. On starting a level, you are `treated' to a cut scene of a fictional Chat Show called `Today's Talk'. Here a number of degenerative guests talk about the day's subject, Backyard Wrestling. This leads to scenes reminiscent of the Jerry Springer Show, complete with beeped out swearing. Cut scenes loosely introduce the action for the upcoming levels, which include slaughterhouses, strip joints and television studios. Each level consists of three consecutive matches in a row. If you loose one of the fights, you will have to start the entire level again. Progression can be frustrating, but stick with it and you will be rewarded with new characters and video clips.

`Exhibition Mode' is ideal when you want a quick fight against the computer or a friend. Once they are unlocked, you can select from 30 wrestlers to use. Characters include Dogg 20, Josh Prohibition, Mad Man Pondo, The Rudeboy, Sabu, Insane Clown Posse, and various scantily clad women. All of the levels from Talk Show Mode' are available to use in `Exhibition Mode'.

Other unlockable features include `King of the Hill', Tag' and `Survival' Mode. Completing `Survival' will earn you an additional 5 wrestlers to use in the game. These modes offer little variation to the rest of the game, and do little to enhance its lifespan.

The `Create a Wrestler' feature is quite misleading. There are only 8 pre-designed character models available, and their physical attributes cannot be altered. Their clothing is the only part that can be changed, and only by colour. This means that CAW mode effectively contains 8 more pre-designed wrestlers to use in the game. Well not quite... there are only 6 save slots in which to save the wrestlers, meaning two will be left out. Do not despair however, as your likeness can still appear in the game. You will just have to gain a couple of hundred pounds and start dressing like one of the characters.

So there aren't many options, but we all know that it's the gameplay that makes a good game. There are a variety of blood inducing moves at your disposal, including punches, kicks, and grapples. There are also plenty of weapons about, to be used or thrown. The latter is the computer-controlled wrestlers favourite past time, as will soon become apparent. Instead of taking you on directly, your opponents prefer to run around, continuously picking up and throwing weapons at you. Conveniently, weapons have been installed with homing devices, and will hit their target nearly all of the time. This in turn causes you to also run around, avoiding projectiles, and trying to get the odd move in. Punches and kicks are more effective then grapples, as they are harder to block. Grapples will only come into play when your opponent becomes stunned, and unable to counter your every move. What you are left with is a fast-paced weapon retrieval game, set in the garden.

The character designs aren't exactly rich in detail, but are functional enough. As you inflict more damage, your opponents' body will quickly become bloodied and bruised. Each move sends a mist of blood into the air, leaving a puddle on the floor. Each level is full of multi-tiered platforms to launch off including bamboo huts and music stages. There are also various interactive elements, such as mattresses that can be set on fire, and background characters that attack on approach. The game also suffers from extreme clipping, so expect to get stuck in a lot of walls!

Interestingly, the most entertaining part of `Backyard Wrestling' doesn't involve the game at all. On completion of certain levels, unlockable movie clips are made available in the `Media Room'. They feature the Backyard Wrestling stars at their most stupid, hurling themselves from rooftops onto wobbly cardboard tables and getting hit repeatedly with dangerous objects. More entertaining still is their choice of costumes, which look like cast offs from Marilyn Manson.

In the few clips that actually show wrestling, one detail becomes evident. Like other Wrestling Federations, the Backyard guys also fight in a wrestling ring. Bizarrely, this little detail seems to have been overlooked, with not a single wrestling ring to be found in the entire game.

Underneath the blood, carnage and semi-naked women, hides a game lacking any substantial depth or playability. Even the `Create a Wrestler' and multiplayer modes offer little replay value. With the amount of high quality wrestling titles on the market, it appears that Eidos has underestimated the expectations of its target audience, producing a below-standard beat-em-up.

Unless you are particularly entertained by games with graphic violence, it's probably best to take Backyard Wrestling's own advance and `Don't try this at home'!

Mark (webmaster)
www.Smackdown5.com

the backyard wrestling movies are better than the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is not all that good. when you see it in the video store it does look good. But looks can be decieving. I rented the game and never beat one person. And also, backyard wrestling is just like mortal kombat or primal rage or something. The backyard wresling movies are better than the game. The reason why I put 1 star for this is not because it's gory or violent or anything, but because it's BOR-RING!!!

backyard boring fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In one word i will say what this game is all about "stupid", the charactors act stupid the girls are stupid the video clips are stupid this game reeks of stupid! Its ultra hard and no wrestling is ever involved its just fight club with macho teenagers. The reason people buy WWE is we get what we want mostly which is wrestling, not some dope saying he is a viagara expirement gone wrong.
puching and throwing bricks is not wrestling its boring hardcore baby stuff, sissies fight hardcore because they cant wrestle!

if i could give it a 0 i would

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i hate this game... i know physics isnt a big basis in most games, but when the comp throws something at you it turns in mid-air to hit you... wtf??? when you fall down you squirm... who squirms?!?!! and best of all: there is no tutorial youre thrown into the game not even knowing the buttons, i didnt have a booklet with it when i rented it and i had to have my ass kicked about 400 times before i realized what the buttons did i would not order this game aven if it were free... well ok i would, then i would snap the cd in two

Could have been better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Now I dont hate this game, but I dont like it either. The game consists of several players that you can choose in multiplayer mode or in the one player mode. The levels themselves are surprisingly small, and even though there are an abundance of weapons, once you use them, they disappear!

That is not how I would have liked to play it. If you hit someone over the head with a chair, would you have liked it to disappear? Some of the levels are also really dark and you either have to squint to see your opponent, or skip it entirely.

The music for the game is the only great thing about it. You have a huge list of bands that can play songs and listen to them while you play the game. The characters are good, yet some can get really annoying with all their taunts.

Another problem would have to be that the moves these guys use looks like they are part superhero or something. Now I dont know if any of you like the fact that these guys can jump 50 feet in the air and throw their opponents on mattresses of fire while they come down, but it just doesn't look real to me. Call me crazy but it just doesn't.

This is a great game to RENT, not to own. There are some laughs in here, and some moves do look cool, but unfortunately not everything is great, and some things should definately change:

For example, if you knock out your opponent and want to finish them off by laying them on a table and climbing to the roof of a house and jumping off right onto them, you have to do it as quickly as possible. I say that because the opponents wake up literally less than 10 seconds after you knock them out, making it seem less fun as it could have been.

There is one level at a gas station in the desert where if you slam an opponent against a gas pump the whole thing will explode and will go flying in the air. Another level is in a backyard where the matress of fire is, and even though it looks cool, again your opponent will just stand up again and run away before you have a chance to light it.

The worst level would have to be where you fight in the club. There is literally nothing to pick up and use as a weapon, plus it's really hard to see any weapons at all.....

If you really want this game then you should buy it, but for those of you who want something a little more like WWE style wreslting, only rent this.

Mediocre title

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The developer of the infamous Thrill Kill brings you Backyard Wrestling, a deceptively innovative title that glorifies the frighteningly popular antics of such backyard wrestling phenomena as Josh Prohibition, MDogg20, and Madman Pondo. Chances are you haven't heard those names before, and that's okay; the game relies little on personalities in its odd blend of wrestling and party-game combat. Backyard Wrestling's core gameplay places two fighters in an improvised ring of sorts, such as the parking lot of a mall, the backyard of a mansion, or the floor of an abandoned slaughterhouse. While the game's title promises wrestling action, the gameplay actually supports something more like Power Stone-esque hijinks: You run around, toss bricks and bicycles, and leap off impossibly high structures onto your opponent. It's pretty cool to beat someone into submission with a television set before you pick them up and whip them through the glass of a large aquarium on the wall. The coolest thing about these levels is that each one has some sort of "unlockable" hazard, such as the security guard who emerges if you slam your opponent into the SUV parked behind the mall. This makes each match a little different and helps avoid the "wrestle, taunt, wrestle, taunt, pin" pattern of THQ's WWE titles. Backyard Wrestling's problem isn't in its concept but rather in its finish. It just doesn't look, sound, or play well enough to keep up with the cool core design idea; the graphics hearken back to the PS2's first generation, the muffled sound does what it needs to and not a bit more, and the controls just feel sloppy and awkward. Collision problems and timing issues mar the otherwise smart rock-paper-scissors nature of the grappling system, and it's just too hard to avoid getting hit by thrown, apparently heat-seeking projectiles. The reversal system thankfully eliminates the thumb-destroying button mashing of other titles, but it takes tons of practice and split-second timing to pull off. Finally, the Create A Wrestler mode is a joke and seems like an afterthought, but it's a decent alternative to playing as one of Backyard Wrestling's mostly unknown selectable characters. Backyard Wrestling is notable for its clever design, but there's a bit too much sloppiness in its execution to really hook a wide audience. The chaotic action's fun enough (especially in two-player matches), but only the most hardcore will ignore its faults.

slow motion

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is fun and cool, but i had to give it 3 stars because of the time it takes to load. i can play 2 or 3 rounds of golf before the game loads up. the controls aren't that great also. the game could use a lot of improvement. the 'create a character' mode was horrible. you can't create a character, you have to pick one. overall, i found it fun to play, but considered suicide while waiting for the game to load.

Just not enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was realy looking forward to this game after reading all of the reviews. Then the truth set in when I recieved the game. The game simplely put leaves you wanting more. More boards that is. there are only 7 boards that get mighty boring after playing them 4 or 5 times each. I also had several problems with glitches in the program. Lock up, charicters geting stuck behind things on the boards that seem as though they where maybe supossed to go erlier in the game development and some how was not totaly written out. It does have some realy cool moves and and all kinds of stuff to use as weapons. (i.e. bottles,chains,barbwire wraped clubs ext.) On a scale of 1-10 I would have to give it a 5

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