WWF Attitude Playstation
WWF Attitude Playstationby Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Platform: PlayStation
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00000K1V9
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Editorial Review: 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.
As the wrestlers comes out, their theme music is played, and they go through their trademark moves. From there the action gets a little slow. While the crowd sounds very realistic, the actual moves are executed rather slowly. Plus Acclaim has included a function that causes the wrestlers to lock arms if they get too close. This is designed to keep a player from using the same moves over and over again. It doesn't work--an entire match can be won by just hitting the kick button. What it does do is force numerous arm locks that do little damage and can turn monotonous. However, executing a great move like a body slam is cool--when it works.
Hard-core professional wrestling fans will appreciate the accurate character models and faithful reproductions of signature moves of their favorite wrestlers. While those who are into fast and furious wrestling action will be better served looking elsewhere, fans who enjoy watching the pros will enjoy this game's cinematic attitude. --Allen Stewart
Pros:
Excellent graphics
Great crowd noise
Awesome moves--when they work
Huge cast of wrestlers
Cons:
Slow gameplay
Same basic move used over and over
Basic moves are slow, and exciting moves are hard to execute
GameSpot Review: It's been a little over a year since Acclaim released WWF War Zone. In my review of the PlayStation version of War Zone, I called it "a package that is completely unmatched in both gameplay and in atmosphere." Now, a little over a year later, Acclaim has polished up its wrestling engine and added a few bells, some whistles, and a bevy of modes, releasing it as WWF Attitude. The important question most of you are asking is an obvious one: "I loved War Zone. Is Attitude worth getting?" In the end, it all depends on how you look at the game.
The most obvious improvement to the game is the roster, which has been updated with the times to reflect the ever-changing faces of the World Wrestling Federation. That's not to say that the rosters are current, though. Much like War Zone, and well, most other licensed wrestling games, a few wrestlers have changed gimmicks since the game's development began. Of course, with development cycles as long as they are these days, you really can't fault Acclaim for this one bit. So the Headbangers are still in the game, as is Sable, and Triple H enters the ring to the original D-Generation X music, complete with X-shaped fireworks.
Speaking of ring entrances, they've come a long, long way since War Zone. Now you get to see the full ring intro from the game engine's perspective, complete with the real music, from Steve Austin's slow swagger to the ring to Ken Shamrock punching himself in the head. Once the wrestlers have all made it to the ring, they'll each bust off a little non sequitur before the match starts, like "DTA! Don't trust anyone!" or Kane mumbling something through his little voice-box thing. It would have been nice to see some end-of-match taunts, similar to the beginning-of-match speech, but instead the winning wrestler stands in the middle of the ring and lamely goes through his taunt animation over and over again. It would have been even nicer to see a few more FMV clips in the game, specifically clips of the wrestlers talking trash about each other to various announcers. A rendered announce table at ringside to facilitate a little prematch commentary also would have added another level of depth to the game's already thick atmosphere.
But enough about all this extra atmosphere stuff. As much as an installment of Raw has very little to do with actual wrestling and more to do with storylines and atmosphere, the game still needs to deliver in the gameplay department. Attitude plays extremely well, but it also plays nearly identically to War Zone. The most significant change to the gameplay is the addition of a more robust set of reversals. In War Zone, most people stayed away from the tie-up position, instead raining on an opponent's parade with tons of moves from the ready position. But Attitude's got more reversals for moves that come from the ready position, so varied attacks are more important than ever. Regardless of that, however, the game remains largely the same, so those of you who didn't like the War Zone rock-paper-scissors-style tie-up system will still be out in the cold. The tie-up system is a great idea, and it keeps you honest by preventing you from doing the same move over and over again, but too frequently you'll be trying to do a move from the ready position as your opponent grapples you. You'll still be hitting the button for your ready move just as the grapple takes effect, and the result is a match filled with arm bars and other weak moves. Also, even though lots of wrestling games feature tag team or other multiplayer matches, no one seems to have come up with a good way to control all that action. The result in Attitude is a button that cycles though and determines which wrestler you're facing for attacks, blocks, and even tags. Since there's no easy onscreen indication of which wrestler you're actually facing, it's very easy to get confused in fast multiplayer matches, resulting in you hopping out of the ring instead of tagging, blocking in the wrong direction, or just kind of spinning around in circles like a moron.
There are also a whole lot of modes in the game, most of which are slight variations on the same type of match. You can throw down in standard versus matches, two-on-one fights, three-on-one matches, tornado bouts, and tag team contests, among others. There are also modes based on some of the WWF's more famous Pay-Per-View matches, like the Royal Rumble and the Survivor Series. The Rumble pits you against 29 other wrestlers in an over-the-top-rope brawl. In the real thing, a new wrestler hits the ring at a set interval, though here the number of simultaneous wrestlers never gets higher than four. There's some slight slowdown in the Royal Rumble as new wrestlers are loaded on the fly without stopping the action, but considering the alternative (halting gameplay while the wrestler completely loads), it's a pretty fair trade-off. Add to that various match conditions, like hard-core matches or first blood, and you have enough options to keep you creating your own pay-per-views for months. --Jeff Gerstmann
From the Manufacturer: WWF Attitude is the smash follow up to WWF War Zone; the #1 Sports title for 1998! Over 40 of your favorite WWF Superstars like The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, D-Generation X, Mankind, Kane, Val Venis, Ken Shamrock, Al Snow, Sable and many more are featured on this game! First ever Create Your Own Pay Per View Mode: Select 8 wrestler matches, Title Belts on the line, Specialty Matches and Authentic WWF Special Events, over 20 Game modes including all new Specialty Matches: LumberJack, Survivor Series, Triple Threat and King of the Ring, all new options include: First Blood, I Quit, 2 out of 3 falls, Iron Man, Tornado, Hard Core, Last Man Standing, Steel Cage and Weapons. Wrestle a full WWF season in all new Career mode: House shows to TV tapings like Monday Night Raw to the ultimate Pay Per View Event: Wrestlemania! With the All-New Create-a-Wrestler Options you can customize your wrestler's move sets by selecting moves from your favorite superstars. You can create your own costume including custom text on T-Shirts, trunks and jackets. Comes with All-New facial characteristics and custom theme songs. Action features include photo realistic polygonal wrestlers with real-life faces and 3-D environments, all-new motion captured maneuvers by the premiere talent in the WWF, over 400 moves including signature moves for each wrestler, trademark finishing moves and taunts unique to each wrestler, 2 man commentary featuring Shane McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler, training mode: practice maneuvers before you take on your opponent, surprise your opponents with all-new weapons (and some old favorites) including Vince McMahon's bedpan, baseball bat, shovel, TV monitor and more, and special cheats and codes.
Customer Reviews:
The incredible loading made this game not worth it, November 13, 2002
Reviewer: Elbert Batica from St Paul, MN United States
WWF Attitude, although a good game don't get me twisted, was not worth it on the Playstation because of the incredible loading time. ... Seriously, if you picked Owen Hart, Gangrel, Road Dogg or even Kane or the Undertaker, you had to wait atleast 2 sometimes exceeds of 3-4 minutes just to get a match started. And if you picked a hardcore or cage match, sometimes, you had to wait even longer.
The trade off was truly not worth it for me because of that reason. Granted yes what you got on the Playstation version rather than the N64 version was better. PSone had more sounds, more create a wrestler options in the voice and music and some clothes. Because of PSone's memory capability, the game could have more and that was a definite plus over the 64.
I will admit that once you got the match started on the PSone version, the game itself was faster than N64's version but still, anyone could appreciate not having to wait 5 Minutes to play a simple game. The controls can be a little challenging at first but once you get it, you're golden and you don't have to worry about a thing.
For the game itself I will give a 4 star because it is still a fun game to play with your friends but because of the awful loading and wait time I give WWF Attitude a zero. ...
It's ok but could have been better, September 7, 2002
Reviewer: TwistaG from Jackson, MI
Acclaim Sport's release of Attitude revolutionized the way wrestling games look and sound. The WWF Superstars' faces and bodies were scanned with stunng accuracy and detail. Along with visuals, each competitor's theme music and (partial) entrance was added as well. Collision errors and long loading aside, this game is something else. However, the controls were less than responsive. Acclaim used the Mortal Kombat button combos for each set of moves and, to be frank, it was a like Chris Beniot, a pain in the neck.
Best AT THE TIME..., April 23, 2002
Reviewer: chrisshadybell from Huh
Smackdown:Just Bring It for the PS2 and Smackdown 1 and 2 for the PS1 are better. But it is nothing compared to WWF Raw for the XBOX. Raw for the XBOX is better than any of them. But if you have'nt got a PS2, XBOX, or Gamecube yet this is a must get game. Gameplay is good it just takes a day or maybe a little more to get use to. If you want to save money rent it and smackdown 1 or 2 and see which one you would want to have the most.
Well, Its A Very Good Game!!, December 25, 2001
Reviewer: Kartik from Karama, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ok as its my habit to say the BAD things first, i'll do it.
Well the gameplay is a little slow and like the moves are sometimes hard to perform. but i got the trick on how to do these moves easily (u will know it too after u play the game for some days), so i am being able to perform the most comlicated moves pretty darn easily, so i dont need to complain! but the gameplay in the SD series is very good.
the career mode is OK but u dont actually see the belt ie u winning the belt somewhere, and u cant fight for belts in exhibition mode but u can do that in SD2.
another glitch is the movelist. i cant see why rock does not have the sharpshooter as it is one of the only submissions he does best. and many more movelist problems are there but there's no prob with that.
Ok now for the Good part.
The game's really exciting and can keep u entertained for hours. unlike SD2, the moves are not so easy to perform and u get really excited when u make a finishing move (coz in SD2 i perform my finishing move atleast 20 times hehe) the character list is very good and thanx for putting in Owen Hart i love him and also rare people like kurrgan and goldust, and Dr.Death and EVEN Sgt.Slaughter is there *u gotta unlock him tho*
there are alternate costumes too ie we can have a stonecold or ANYONE with 4 different types of costumes in the game. its very cool. another thing i liked in the game is the different types of matches, there are lumberjack matches, stable matches, and EVEM grudge matches. awesome.
Overall : Well its a very good game and a must buy for anyone who atleast KNOWS what the WWF is. and those who dont know what the WWF is, this would be a good choice for u to start off!!
This Game Rules, And Thats The Bottom Line, Coz STONE COLD Said SO
So Great, December 8, 2001
Reviewer: A 9-year old gamer from StatenIsland,NewYork
It rocks I just bought it from right here on amazon.My fovorite part of it is when a superstar is coming down the stage and the create a superstar is so cool I dont need alot of space on my memory card.
Solid wrestling game, January 24, 2001
Reviewer: curt hiott from Charleston SC USA
I personally own this game and can testify to how good it is. WWF attitude has eccellent character selection, and create a player mode....for its time. Unfortunately it is getting lost in the shadow of games like Smackdwon 2 with its quick executing of moves, unlike Attitude, and its enormous backstage area, unlike attitude. But on the good side it has some things other games don't, tag team Gauntlet and its huge hidden character selection that you are always trying to unlock. Great game, i would reccommend it to anyone who likes slowerpace games.
Smackdown blows this away!!, September 14, 2000
Reviewer: harmfuljays from Hell in a Hand Basket
Well this wrestling game was it and I played it a lot. The moves were tough to pull off and sometimes didn't work all the time. Nevertheless this was a hell of a lot of fun. Trust me.....save your money and buy Smackdown! or something else from THQ. It blows this away.