WCW: Backstage Assault
WCW: Backstage Assaultby EA Sports
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00004W4R0
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Features:
• All matches take place outside of ring
• 14 locations include parking lots, locker rooms, and bathrooms
• Choose from over 50 different wrestlers
• Create your own wrestlers by choosing different aspects in 39 categories
• Supports 1 or 2 players
Amazon.com Product Description: WCW: Backstage Assault takes the action out of the ring and puts it in a complex of more than a dozen interlinked rooms. The fully interactive environments contain more than 40 objects as weapons. For example, smash your opponent over the head with a two-by-four, then knock a urinal off the wall and on him. Players can choose from over 50 male and female wrestlers. You even can create your own wrestler by choosing characteristics in 39 different categories. Game modes include Tournament, Grudge Match, First Blood, and Human Torch.
Customer Reviews:
WCW Hardcore Fun!, August 5, 2002
Reviewer: A 12-year old gamer
Graphics: It's okay for PS but it could have been way better. Kind of blocky and the faces look like robots.
Sound: Great commentary, yet boring. The themes are simple and boring also.
Gameplay: 2 words: E.Z.
Frusteration: Barely any frusteration once you figure out the controls.
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It's fun, for a while., February 12, 2002
Reviewer: Chris LeTempt from Sumter, SC United States
Face it, wrestling games are really fun. This one is not the greatest, but it is alot of fun to bash your opponent with all manner of hardware lying about! I personally got this one just to play as either one of the Outsiders {Hall and Nash}. The quality of the wrestlers appearance is decent but certainly pales to the now reigning Xbox and PS2. Game play is routine and quick to learn. Like I said, it is fun but grows boring quickly.
...and I thought The Grinch was a bad game!, January 7, 2002
Reviewer: isams from London, KY USA
I am a huge WCW fan and I am angry and sad because it doesn't come on any more. I love WCW Mayhem by Electronic Arts, and that was their first wrestling game, and this is their second , but it is something that you dig out of a litter box. I don't like this game because there are only about four weapons laying around and when you use a weapon about three times it turns into dust and that makes it impossible to win a first blood match (they're nearly impossible to win with weapons anyways). Also, the backstage areas that you have to wrestle in are smaller than the wrestling ring itself. There are only about two moves that you can do besides punching and kicking and you have to win a match, which is almost impossible, to unlock a new move. It is also very confusing to even start a match on this game. The graphics would look better if you cracked the television screen with a hammer. WCW Nitro is better than this game. Any wrestling game, even on Atari, if they have a wrestling game for it, is better than WCW Backstage Assault. The only thing this game is good for is to keep a fire burning for a couple of extra minutes.
WCW RULZ!, October 2, 2001
Reviewer: DYLAN from ATLANTA,GEORIGA
IAM THE BIGGEST WRESTLING FAN!IAM 9 YEARS OLD.MY FAVORITE WRESTLER IS STING... MY FAVORITE GIRL WRESTLER IS DAFFNEY.I THINK SHE IS PRETTY... ON BACKSTAGE ASSUALT I GOT ALL THE PEOPLE.IVE WON THE HARDCORE GAUNTLET IVE WON 3 TIMES.I KNOW A FEW CODES.1 OF THEM IS YOU HALF TO DEFEAT KIDMAN TO UNLOCK HIM.THE 1 CODE I WROTE I HAVE DONE IT.THIS ONE I HAVE DONE TOO.WIN THE HARDCORE GAUNTLET WITH STING TO UNLOCK GENERAL RECTION.I KNOW MORE BUT I DONT WANT TO JUST WRITE ABOUT CODES.SO IM JUST GOING TO WRITE ONE MORE.SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE HARDCORE CHALLENGE MODEON HARD DIFFICULTY SETTING WITH VINCE RUSSO TO UNLOCK ERIC BISCHOFF.I GOT 16 WRESTLING POSTERS.THE LAST NITRO WAS AWSOME.IT MAKES ME MAD THAT THE WCW DONT COME ON NO MORE.I GOT 19 WCW MAGAINES.AND I GOT 4 WCW MOVIES.AND I GOT 26 WCW CARDS.AND I GOT 14 WCW SHIRTS.MY FAVORITE WCW BELT IS THE WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BELT.MY 10 FAVORITE WRESTLERS ARE STING NASH DDP KONNAN KIDMAN REY MYSTERIO JR VAMPIRO GOLDBERG BOOKER.T STEVIE RAY BIG VITO.THE WRESTLER I HATE IS BIG PAPA PUMP.WELP I GOTTA GO.OH BEFORE I GO MY NAME IS DYLAN.
Pro's and Con's, December 8, 2000
Reviewer: Gamer from Southern California
Rather than wasting a lot of time and words, here's the pro's and con's of this game. The Pro's - Excellent FUN gameplay, EASY to perform moves, easy to perform finishers. The Commentary is funny and entertaining at times. Being able to customize your favorite wrestlers with whatever moves you like is great, want to see Sting, pull a jackhammer on someone, you can do that. the backstage areas and weapons are fun to use. The Con's - graphics could be way better, they're blocky and some wrestlers don't look very much like thier real life wrestlers. opponents get up, or kick out way too quick after performing a finishing move. Finishing moves aren't exact to thier wrestlers (since when is sting's finisher a sidewalk slam aka the bookend) The Scorpion Death Drop should have been much easier to perform, instead of a rear grapple to do it. EA should watch WCW and write it all down before the next WCW title comes out. The last problem i find is moving around is slow, unless your running. I really liked Mayhem, and this is better, they've got some great trademark moves in here, Nash putting his hands up, before he knees someone in the corner is great. keeping up with times though, it's too bad people like Raven, Randy Savage, and Gorgeous George aren't in this. ... Scott Hall is in this game, you have to beat him to use him. If you like WCW BUY THIS GAME, if your a WWF fan or play WWF games, give this one some time to get used to, the play control is very different.
WCW Back Stage Assault, November 29, 2000
Reviewer: mick_foley_wwf from Northwestern IL, USA
WCW may not be the best wrestling product out there, but it's wrestling in general, and that's why I like it. This is game is pretty cool (in my opinion) so please respect my opinion. This game has all the top wrestlers in WCW (including La Parka, my personal favorite even though he got cut). The graphics are good, the sound is good, the only bad thing about it is that there IS no ring. I love this game and I loved WCW Mayhem as well. I also recomend WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role and ECW Anarchy Rulz.