PS Wrestling & Boxing Games Index
Contender 2by BAM! Entertainment
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00004WJV9
Do you have what it takes to be a contender? Step into the ring with more than a dozen of the hardest-hitting fighters the world has ever known and find out. Watch for your opponents' weaknesses and use your special combos to give yourself the edge. Knock them out and earn yourself a shot at the belt, proving you have the stuff to be world champion. Choose from 18 different fighters, each with his own unique fighting style. Dynamic lighting and multiple camera angles add impact to every punch. Take on a friend head-to-head in two-player mode.
Extreme Championship Wrestling Anarchy Rulzby Acclaim
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00004RBEQ
Extreme Championship Wrestling is to other professional wrestling outfits what gangster rap is to mainstream rap: a much more hard-core permutation. Whereas the WWF and WCW are more like soap operas, ECW features in-your-face, high-impact maneuvers and, shall we say, more aggressive language. Acclaim made an equity investment in the wrestling series, and Anarchy Rulz, their second PlayStation title in the Extreme series, is fully loaded with plenty of features and gameplay modes. Plus, you'll have 34 wrestlers that you can select from, including Tommy Dreamer and Super Crazy (note the easy-to-remember names!). Of course, knowledge of the franchise helps immensely.
Extreme Championship Wrestling: Hardcore Revolutionby Acclaim
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Mature
ASIN: B00004R9IE
Extreme Championship Wrestling is an east-coast-based wrestling organization that uses "extreme" wrestling matches as a way to distinguish itself from the slightly more kid-friendly WWF and WCW. Good ECW matches contain all sorts of mayhem that you'd never see on a more straitlaced wrestling program, from people being tossed through mountains of tables, to barbed-wire matches. Any rules you might be used to from watching safer wrestling shows have been thrown out the window. ECW may not have the big names or the big budgets of a WWF or a WCW, but it's got many talented wrestlers and a unique and interesting product. Acclaim's ECW Hardcore Revolution, however, contains none of this. Remember Acclaim's last wrestling game, WWF Attitude? ECW Hardcore Revolution is, at its core, Attitude with different wrestlers and different sound effects, with a couple of new modes and moves (mostly finishers) tossed in to help make you forget that you've already played this game...
Knockout Kings 2001by EA Sports
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00004W4R5
The bestselling PlayStation boxing game of all time is back with a vengeance, and reaches a new level of control with Dynamic Punch Control. Dynamic Punch Control allows you to create your own combinations by smoothly flowing punches together in a series, and to control every punch in a combination. Knockout Kings 2001 features third-generation graphics for the most realistic boxers that have ever been seen on the PlayStation. Add the top female boxers, including Mia St. John and Lucia Rijker; trainers who provide strategy between rounds; and exciting commentary and analysis from boxing experts Al Bernstein, Teddy Atlas, and Max Kellerman, and Knockout Kings 2001 delivers another huge KO on the PlayStation.
Mike Tyson Boxingby Activision
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00001QERC
Iron Mike was always at his best when he was in the ring, and in this game, nothing can keep him out. In Mike Tyson Boxing, you'll get everything from the easiest sucker punch to the endgame strategy. Choose from multiple modes of play, including arcade, championship, and boxing management. In versus mode, you can choose from 16 international boxers and 16 arenas. You'll learn to train and manage your boxer, taking on up to 90 fighters in different weight classes. In the showcase mode, you can create a tournament with up to eight players and eight CPU opponents. Be sure to stop by the gym for practice, where you'll familiarize yourself with a full range of punches and defensives, not to mention hidden combinations. If you don't, you'll surely see what your boxer is made of--blood, sweat, and bruises--thanks to the game's real-time effects. The game also features a score bar that reproduces the score system used in boxing and rewards players for outstanding defensive play.
Ready 2 Rumble Boxingby Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00000K1VJ
Let's get ready 2 rumble! Step into the ring with the rowdiest characters in the gym and battle it out! Every one of these guys (and gals) packs enough verbal and pugilistic power to make you fall down laughing! Featuring world-renowned boxing announcer, Michael "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" Buffer, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing gives players the opportunity to compete as one of 16 boxers, each with his own fighting style. Each boxer is hyper realistic with an unlimited number of punch combinations for both realistic and over-the top boxing styles. Featuring world-renowned boxing announcer, Michael "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" Buffer, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing gives players the opportunity to compete as one of 16 boxers, each with his own fighting style. Each boxer is hyper realistic with an unlimited number of punch combinations for both realistic and over-the top boxing styles.
WCW: Backstage Assaultby EA Sports
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00004W4R0
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.
WCW Mayhemby Electronic Arts
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00002R28O
Out of hand. Out of the ring. Wrestle the biggest stars in sports entertainment in and out of the squared circle. Choose one of 60 WCW celebrity wrestlers (or create your own) and battle your way through the ranks to the Championship Belt. Fight in all WCW TV events including 12 PPV super-events. No rules apply as you break through secret areas and continue brawling backstage into locker room and garage areas. Feel the intensity with true to form entrances complete with pyrotechnics, theme music, crowd chants, wrestler taunts and play-by-play color commentary.
WWE Smackdownby THQ
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00004LN2T
WWF Smackdown! enters the wrestling game ring with plenty of features that should bump up the testosterone levels of virtual grappling fans. Endorsed by the granddaddy of celebrity wrestling leagues, this game boasts an impressive cast of over 30 World Wrestling Federation mega-stars, including The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and the Undertaker. Even WWF head honcho Vince McMahon returns to the ring, appropriately decked out in his signature spiffy designer suit.
WWF Attitude Playstationby Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00000K1V9
WWF Attitude is just like its subjects: big. Over 40 World Wrestling Federation wrestlers--with bigger-than-life bodies and personalities to match--take to the ring, including The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, D-Generation X and Triple H. Wrestle as an individual or tag team, create your own pay-per-view event, or choose from a wide variety of options for matches and gameplay.
WWF: Warzoneby Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B000007NJC
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.