ECW Hardcore Revolution

by Playstation

Product Features

• 1-4 Players
• 20 Game Modes
• Over 40 ECW Stars
• Real Gutter Mouth Crowd
• Commentary from Joey Styles

Product Details

• ASIN: B00004R9IE
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,590 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

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. But with the game playing nearly identically to Attitude, it's impossible to shake the feeling that you've played this game before. None of the "extreme" elements that made ECW as popular as it is are present. Any finisher that requires an object of any kind (Rob Van Dam's Vamdaminator, for instance) isn't in the game. You won't see anyone flying off the top rope out into the crowd area here. The only "extreme" differences between this game and Attitude is that this game plays slightly faster, it's easier to toss someone out of the ring, the language is a slightly dirtier, and there's a barbed wire match, which turns the ring ropes into some horrible-looking barbed wire. Trying to bounce off the wire makes you fall over in pain. For those of you unfamiliar with WWF Attitude, it uses a balanced gameplay system of grappling and reversals that keep players from relying on the same easy moves over and over again. Basically, you want to pull off a few easy moves, like punches, kicks, and other simple moves to swing the match's advantage in your favor. Once your advantage light is fully lit, it's significantly easier to execute grapple moves. If you don't have the advantage, harder moves will usually be blocked. As you wear your opponent's health bar down, you'll eventually be able to perform your wrestler's finishing move. ECW works in the exact same way, right down to identical life bars. Graphically, the game has been bumped a notch over Attitude. The characters are more colorful, as are the arenas. The sound is also good, though it's still chock-full of lame phrases from the crowd. The announcing seems more accurate, mostly because Joey Styles, the voice of ECW, works alone, so there's less speech to match up with the action. ECW Hardcore Revolution isn't a bad game, by itself. But it in no way represents the style of wrestling that the ECW uses, it has absolutely zero points going for it in the originality department, and the game comes off as a real slap in the face to the federation's hard-core fans. ECW and its fans deserve better than this. ECW's wrestling style isn't the same as the WWF's, and ECW's game shouldn't be like the WWF's, either. Plus, this is the third year that Acclaim has trotted out the same wrestling engine with a few slight tweaks. It's getting very old. Fans of ECW would be better served by waiting for Acclaim's next ECW game, which will use a new (and hopefully more accurate) engine. --Jeff Gerstmann
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Game, February 19, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: ECW Hardcore Revolution (Video Game)

If you don't mind the fact that this is a virtual "clone" of WWF Attitude with ECW wrestlers in place of the WWF ones, and that every wrestlers entrance music has been changed due to copyright concerns,this is a very fun game. The barbed wire match is great, if you don't mind ALOT of blood. The menus are easy to get around, letting you set up a match in less than a minute. The CD Load time is quick too, and in fact is faster than Attitude. And, personally, nothing is more beautiful than seeing RVD do a 5-Star-Frog-Splash from the top of a steel cage. Parents should be warned, however, that this game contains alot of very strong language and blood. Overall though, this is a great game, so I give it 4 stars.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A real shame, March 16, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: ECW Hardcore Revolution (Video Game)

ECW deserves alot more than what this game gave it. Essentially, this is the exact same game as WWF Attitude (Attitude was good for it's time, but that was a along time ago in video game time). The barbwire match is dumb. The only difference is that when an opponent is thrown to the ropes he falls down and holds his back. The cage match is weak as hell....all Acclaim cage matches suck. The worst part of this is that the majority of matches you play in career mode are just normal matches! NOT ECW MATCHES! You'd think since this is ECW all matches would be hardcore rules, but no. Just basic matches with a few gimmick matches thrown in. I'm really disappointed about this game. It deserved so much better. If ya gotta play it, RENT FIRST!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, But Could've Been Better, February 22, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: ECW Hardcore Revolution (Video Game)

I am an ECW fan, and I like this game, but I think it could've been better. Here are some flaws the game has- *It's just like WWF Attitude (all they did is put in new wrestlers, and added one more kind of a match- a barbwire match-which really kicks ass) *It doesn't have the wrestler's real entrance music *Hardly any new weapons *You can't go backstage. But there are some things in this game that makes it better than WWF Attitude- *Barbwire match *More blood *More swearing. I suggest if you are an ECW fan-you should get this game right away, but if you like the WWF, and you are willing to wait another two or three weeks-get WWF Smackdown, it will blow this game away. But again, if you are a real hardcore ECW fan, and you don't like the WWF, get this game right away, it's worth it. It's just not the coolest, just not the best, just in credible.