Customer Reviews

WCW Mayhem

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

EA's WCW Mayhem was a very large let down once i got a hold of it. I found that the gameplay was irritating and the moves were annoyingly assigned to the wrong buttons. I compare this game to THQ's WWF 2000 and you can really notice the difference. For the wrestling game fan i advice you, although the fact that you can wrestle in other places than the ring (backstage etc...), do not buy this game. You WILL be disappointed. Hopefully EA will learn from its mistakes. And better luck to them next time...

I agree with Most of the Disses with WCW Mayhem but I don't understand why no one noticed what I noticed about the game.
First of all it's that People are unique we all Act and do things our own way. Case in point WCW Mayhem All wrestlers should Have different taunts and Mannerisms but, in This game every wrestler has the same taunts. They Probobly put all their efforts into making the wrestlers look good(which they also didn't do a good job of) but, still that's no excuse. Judging by the lameness of this game, I'd say they lazily slopped this game together and caring only about the look of the wrestlers, said "Hey lets not worry about making them different, people we'll be so impressed by the awesome graphics they won't notice"

Conclusion: Wcw is not worth the time and money you spend on it to Rent it Much less buy it.

THIS GAME ISN'T THE BEST WRESTLING GAME,BUT IT DOES BEAT THE PREVIOUS WWF GAMES.THE GRAPPLING SYSTEM COULD USE A LITTLE WORK,ALONG WITH THE RING ENTRANCES AND THE ADDITION OF MORE MOVES.IT REALLY IS FUN TO PLAY THOUGH,WITH PLENTY OF WRESTLERS AND TYPES OF MATCHES.UNFORTUNATLY,NO CAGE MATCH.THAT WILL BE IN MAYHEM 2.IF YOUR A BIG FAN OF WCW GAMES, AND YOU REALLY HAVE AN URGE TO TRY MAYHEM,BUY IT.THEIRS MORE UPS THAN DOWNS ABOUT IT.BUT IF YOU WANT REAL MAYHEM, WAIT FOR THE SECOND ONE.

WCW STINKS. At least that's what most WWF, ECW, and other wrestling fans believe, and from the looks of this game, they're right. The only fun thing about this game is the 4-man battle royal. Everything else, the character designs, the entrances, the bizarre physics of contact (I punch while you're a mile away; you feel it) just smell worse than... Santa after a rowdy elf party. Stay away from this game... it gets one star for the battle royal, and the other for just booting up when you turn it on. Go buy Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

I rented WWF Attitude, and needless to say, found it inappropriate for my 5 and 8 year old boys. WCW Mayhem was a breath of fresh air! The kids absolutely loved it, and I didn't have a problem with one element in it. I was amazed. I highly recommend this for your kids.

This game was downright horrible and to think, they made a sequel. tsk tsk...... Im not sure exactly where they were going with this game, mabye they just messed up by tryign to move away from using polygons for graphics. And once again I see my fridn Mr.Da reviewed this game several times as he stuttered tapped the keyboard, I hope this isn't how he speaks, I hate internet speak and ebonics and his writing is just a combination of the 2, absolutely Horrid.

When EA sports got the rights to WCW I guess they thought about how to do it, do they go with the way THQ did it, or the way ACCLIAM would? They seemed to be able to make a graphic that is in between both designs! It's kind of the THQ game play with WWF Attitudes graphics in a way. The graphics of the wrestlers and motion in this game look like Attitudes style only they look stupid, each character looks like a big head on a small body with skinnier legs, they look like they are going to start hopping around the ring like a rabbit or a kangaroo or something.

The game has so many flaw...

- No costume change for any wrestler.
- Cant edit wrestlers
- Created wrestlers cannot have there moves chosen individually. You have to select a pre programmed set of moves from one of the existing wrestlers in the game. And you cant even select a different finishing move which is stupid because it shows an option to change it but if you change it to say the Jacknife Powerbomb then it will change the previous move list to that of Kevin Nash.
- Too many moves are wrong, not done right, given to the wrong wrestler ect and high flyers like Rey Mysterio don't have off the rope moves or anything, there basically grounded. or moves are missing, hogans leg drop is not a finisher, Nash doesnt do that size up thing in the corner, scott hall has no choke slam, lex luger has no torture rack, sting does headscissors, but its the wrong headscissors, he does a cruiserweight one instead of the regular one, randy savage doesnt raise his arms on the top rope elbow, god knows what else is missing.
- Moves just become repeated and it gets boring. Every charactor feels about the same to control.
- It sucks to only be able to hit your opponent with a weapon 2 or 3 times before they block it (every time, no joke) the weapons don't consist much more then chairs and bats.
- Going backstage is nothing special. 4 weapons and nowhere to go but back to ring side.
- The codes are annoying to have to put in up to 15 digit codes every time you wanna access it - meaning you have to put them in each match, then once you finish you have to put them in again.
- There has been little attention payed by the creators to the background.
- Everything is too programmed. You figure out right away that eventually you can hit your opponent twice on the ground before they get up and finishing moves don't mean your opponent will stay down like they should. I did a 3-way match and dropped about a million diamond cutters on them and they get up right away.
- Only one special move for each wrestler. And all are done the same way in a grapple, which means wrestlers like Bret Hart and Stings Sharpshooter are not there finishers!
- You can only select about 5 tunes for a CAW's ring music.
- The entrances are very dodgy.
- The commentary becomes VERY annoying after you've heard it repeated 1000 times in the one match.
- CAW can't choose attires from the other wrestlers, or a moustache like Hogan to make a CAW version of the yellow and red Hogan.
- A lot of moves are missing; Booker T's axe kick finisher thing, Bret Harts 'hart attack', double team moves, ways to turn your opponent around to grabble them from behind, Hogan's big boot, there is only one pin unless it's a move - not one of them hooks the leg or anything unless it's a move given to them, taunts are missing, entrance taunts are wrong or missing.
- It's another game that has completely ignored Hulk Hogan's Leg Drop as being a devastating finisher, it's simply just a running leg drop that doesn't even look like the height Hogan would do it from and I don't know if I've ever seen Hogan pull off a standing drop kick before. It's just an average leg drop with little damage.
- all the backstage rooms are the same, there just a diffrent picture on the walls which is boring.
- Goldberg's not only in the game, but also on the damn cover.
And finally, it's WCW.

My recommendation is WWF NO MERCY. However the WCW fan may prefer WCW/NWO Revenge. THQ made the better wrasslin' games on the 64. Stick with them.

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Codes to try and make this game a bit better (although you have to enter them each time

CODE RESULT
CBCKRMS - ALL BACKROOMS
PLYHDNGYS - ALL HIDDEN WRESTLERS
CHT4DBST - Q. F. T. B. CHEAT
PLYNTRCLSC - CLASSIC NITRO SET
MSKDLTLRY - REY MYSTERIO WITH MASK
MKSPRCWS - CREATE A WRESTLERS WITH FULL ATT.
DPLGNGRS - PLAY AS SAME WRESTLERS
**ENTER THESE CODES IN THE PPV PASSWORD MENU**

When I first picked this game up, I got scared because I thought I already had it, I went to the Create-A-Wrestler portion, and I was already on the memory card, it turns out that created wrestlers from WCW Backstage Assault can be used in this and vice versa, this in itself is quite a step forward, seeing as there hasn't been anything similar since, in a series of wrestling games...
The game itself is okay, the gameplay is kind of easy, and really slow-paced (ie. it looks like its in slow motion at some points.) But for the time, and for WCW/EA's resources, I find it to be very ammusing.
It is a recommended novelty wrestling game for the N64, its not comparable from WWF's No Mercy for the N64, because they are completely different, nothing at all, except for wrestling brings the two together.

Take control of dozens of WCW wrestlers, from Hulk Hogan to Rey Mysterio Jr. Each with differnt moves, grapples and finnishers. The graphics are good, except for their mannurisms, because their normal stance looks like a T-Rex. Then there are the controls, which the buttons are oddly placed and from how slow and laggy the controls are it can be sometimes difficult to perform. There are a kick, punch, dropkick, grapple, run and taunt buttons. The selling point to this game were the arenas and the backstage areas, the arenas look nice, however the space is very limited and with a rotating camera angle its difficult to see where you are going. Another downfall to this game is that it is quite difficult to win a match because of the energy structure. You can beat down a person for fifteen minutes and then they still manage to kick out of a pin. This game is graphicly better and musicly better than THQ games, but its no WWF game.

This has got to be the best wrestling game to date. It is extremely realistic. You feel like you are in the ring.