WWF: Warzone
WWF: Warzoneby Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B000007NJC
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Features:
• Play as your favorite WWF wrestlers
• Features WWF stars the Rock, Steve Austin, and more
• More than 300 moves, including signature moves and surprise weapons
• 9 gameplay modes
• For 1 or 2 players
GameSpot Review: Professional wrestling is huge. People who cut their teeth on the Rock and Wrestling era of the WWF are returning in droves, and the industry is doing better than it ever has before. Games based on wrestling have progressed through the years, and while WWF War Zone plays similarly to its predecessors, it presents a package that is completely unmatched in both gameplay and in atmosphere.
Most of the WWF's biggest stars are represented, including Steve Austin, the Undertaker, Kane, Mankind, the Rock, Triple H, and Ken Shamrock. Since the beginning of the game's development, Bret Hart, Ahmed Johnson, and the British Bulldog have left the WWF, but they remain in the game. A few hidden wrestlers are also in the game, most notably Mankind's other personalities, Dude Love and Cactus Jack.
There are several different modes in War Zone. The challenge mode is the game's main mode, putting your wrestler in a quest to win the championship belt. Along the way you'll be challenged to grudge matches by the wrestlers you've wronged during your career. These grudge matches come in the form of the game's two other modes. Weapons matches are falls-anywhere, no-rules kinds of matches, where smacking your opponent with a two-by-four and suplexing him onto a table are the order of the day. The cage match forces you to beat your opponent, then climb out of the cage while he's too dazed to do anything about it. Once you've won the belt in challenge mode, the game continues with you defending the belt against various challengers. There is also a really good tag-team mode that contains most of the four-man action from the real thing. Multiplayer modes include a free-for-all, cooperative cage matches, and tornado mode. There is also a comprehensive training mode, but it isn't as useful as the manual would have you believe.
WWF: War Zone plays, essentially, like every other wrestling game out there. But the control has been refined to a point of perfection, and a complicated tie-up system keeps people from doing cheap, low-damage moves over and over again. The game controls very tightly, and while you will do some button mashing to break holds and pins, it is kept to a minimum.
The graphics in War Zone are better than any other PlayStation wrestling game. Some of the characters (the Undertaker, for instance) look eerily like their real-life counterparts, although a few of the faces look a little weird. The sound effects are really good - all the grunts and screams were recorded by the real wrestlers. Also, all of the entrance music is in the game, although you only get to hear a few seconds of it during the game's lackluster ring introduction sequence. You can, however, head to the biography section if you feel the need to hear any of the music in its entirety. The two-man announce team of Vince McMahon and Jim Ross is good, but it sometimes gets a little bit behind the action. Also, there are only a couple of different sayings for the signature moves, meaning that you'll be hearing Jim Ross shout "Stone Cold Stunner! Stone Cold Stunner!" quite a lot during the course of the game.
WWF War Zone is long on gameplay and has a lot of atmosphere. However, it really could have used a little more atmosphere. The ring introductions are extremely short, and the cutscenes in challenge mode (all of which feature a really bad-looking polygonal woman and a limousine) are just plain stupid. The grudge match challenge clips are decent, but their lack of specific taunts makes them seem a little flat. Still, this is best wrestling package ever released and shouldn't be missed by anyone with even a passing interest in wrestling. --Jeff Gerstmann
Customer Reviews:
WWF Warzone Review., August 9, 2002
Reviewer: Josh D. from Farmers Branch, TX
This game is ok. When this game first came out, basically like half the wrestlers in the game were no longer in the WWF(WWE). If your a real big WWE fan or someone who wants every single WWE game then you should get this game. But other than that I wouldn't get it.
BEST WWF GAME BESIDES THE SMACKDOWNS!!, April 7, 2002
Reviewer: A 10-year old gamer
This game is awesome with a create wrestler section where you can create your dream wrestler. The moves are easy to memorize with smooth controls. With 16 wrestlers (HBK, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Mankind, Stone Cold, Undertaker, Kane, HHH, Farooq, Rocky, Ahmed Johnson, Golddust, Mosh, Thrasher, etc.) Also the ability to unlock DOA, Dude Love, and Cactus Jack, which I havent unlocked yet. The graphics are great for wrestling. Vince McMahon and JR provide sometimes funny comentary. I've played Smackdown 1 and 2 however, and can ya say MAJOR IMPROVEMENT OVER WARZONE!! But now for the glitches of the game... on the biographies they say the Rock is from the South Pacific, he's really from South Florida. The signature moves are pulled off exactly like real life. Challenge is for me (gulp) really challenging. What [stinks] is that there is no Royal Rumble, table, cell, casket, anywhere fall, and tlc matches like Smackdown 2 really bugs me. The wrestlers say catch phrases while wrestling like Bret Hart saying: pink and black attack is back, rock saying: im gonna lay the smackdown on ya. Those that make me laugh are: Mankind squealing and calling his "mommy". Weapon matches disapoint me cause well since when do fans throw weapons to the wrestlers. Plus you can only use a weapon 1-3 times before you instantly drop it. And there is way too many weapons. It's possible to win in 3 minutes with weapons which in my opinion is plain dead stupid. However the good parts of game are GREAT!! If you dont have this or the Smackdowns buy it. You cant be disappointed
Who needs titles anyways?, July 25, 2001
Reviewer: A gamer from Boring Place Called, ND USA
Way back in the day, maybe Warzone was cool. But to you people who still thinks this game rocks after all these years, there is much better...(stuff) out there now. Ever heard of a Nintendo 64??? Look for WWF No Mercy, or even Wrestlemania, and you'll get alot more action and perhaps more satisfaction. Looking back at Warzone now, what we thought was an amazing Create-A-Player is considered puny to the ones of No Mercy, or Smackdown. Warzone feels slow, making it look like your wrestler gained about twenty years just hopping into the ring. Warzone, in other words, is just old lame ...(stuff) =o). Go find yourself a real wrestling game, like No Mercy or Smackdown if you are still playing this terrible game called WWF Warzone.
THIS GAME IS THE BEST, July 2, 2001
Reviewer: Josh from USA
This game is awsome. When i first got it I played it all night. After that I played it all the time. I like how it has lots of different types of matches to choice from, Tornado is the BEST. Create-a-wretler is awsome to. I created the HULK and now i have him all stats up and he is the best, if u like wrestling then it is a must get game.
this game is da bomb, January 14, 2001
Reviewer: JEREMY from Mesquite TX USA
when I first got this game I couldn't stop playing it. I really liked the move menu. I thought the game was easy to figure out. I kept getting better and better at it. I started career mode and that was so cool. the create a character was really fun because I could give my guy the best moves.Any true WWF fan would love this game.
Awsome! I love the Create Player option!, September 8, 2000
Reviewer: A gamer from A Pathetic Little Hole in the Ground, Earth
In that you can stick a "Rule Breaker's" Moves on a "Fan Fav's" Body And dress him up any way u want! Too bad I dont have the Strat Guide for the finishers:( If you have them PLEEAAASSE put them here or e-mail me! (eevee_lover@thepokemasters.com) (Side Note: The King Of H(e)arts does NOT do well in the cage! This Might be me, i do most of his moves off the ropes or turnbuckles.)
An awesome game of it's time., August 18, 2000
Reviewer: gr8erthangr8 from The Wrestling Ring
I have had this game since it came out. too many people see this as a bad/old game, but i remember when this first came out...it was revolutionary. this was the ORIGINAL game to use the engine, while attitude was a sequel, and ECW just plain copied it. If you have a choice, though, you should buy it's sequel, attitude.
The Greatest Wrestling Game Ever*, August 5, 2000
Reviewer: Josh The Great 1 from SC, PA, USA
*although I do not own Smackdown yet.
I can never stop playing this game. I got the game two years ago and I still play it a lot. The graphics are so good you can even see the Texas tattoo on Stone Cold's leg. A must buy for diehard wrestling fans, and you'll probably like it even if you're not a wrestling fan. However, with the millions of moves, I suggest getting the strategy guide.
WWF WARZONE, July 30, 2000
Reviewer: A gamer from San Jose, California USA
It is the worst wrestling game I have ever played. There might have been worse but that is the only bad wrestling game I own after I bought Smackdown and Wrestle Mania 2000.