Customer Reviews

WCW Nitro

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

 

 

(Bad) graphics, limited match options, no create-a-wrestler mode, and confusing gameplay. That's what WCW NITRO brings to the table, folks. This game has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Don't waste your money. If you want to play a fun wrestling game on your Playstation, buy the first or second Smackdown game. This one just isn't worth your time.

After playing WCW Nitro in it's entirety I've come to one conclusion; this is a bad game. THQ, usually known for quality games, really show that this is one of their beginning efforts on the playstation. So many problems keep this game from being a top notch wrestling game. But let's start with the positives. There are a ton of hidden characters. Okay, that's it for the pros. The flaws in this game however are abundant. The graphics are way behind the curve and make the game seem childish. It looks as if you are using a cartoon as a wrestler. It isn't realistic at all. To add to the childish graphics is the childish gameplay. This game is just a bunch of mindless button mashing and that is what you have to resort to to makes it easy. There is also a serious lack of depth to this game. You only have a smal amount of modes to select fromwhich makes the game boring after you've beaten it. This creates a lack of replay value. The only thing keeping you coming back are the cooky hidden characters you unlock. The only reason I didn't fail this game completely is because of the hidden characters and the fact that it was created in 1998 ,but that is still no excuse in light of the fact that such excellent games such as Resident Evil 2 and Metal Gear Solid were released that year. If you HAVE to play this game, rent it before you purchase it. You'll see what I mean.

you cant pick up any weapons and their is hardly any commentary and you dont see the wrestlers come out, all you see is their picture. I would avoid this game.

Before going into this review, i might as well get the messageover and done with: DON'T BUY THIS GAME! It's very, very bad.

Havingsaid that I'm sure you probably want to know why, so let me explain. WCW Nitro is a wrestling game based on the WCW (which has very few fans compared to the WWF) and has a selection of different rings available and has most of the WCW superstars along with their own short video. Nothing sounds too offensive yet, but these 5 sec videos are the most entertaining thing in the WHOLE GAME and it's the execution that totally kills the whole thing! The animation of the wrestlers is horrendous, some of the worst I've ever seen. You can barely make out at all who they're meant to be and they're skin color is all orange. When the camera zooms out at the end, the wrestlers look bigger than the ring, so the perspective is all wrong, too. The crowd is a mess of grey pixels jumping up and down. It looks so bad it has to be seen to be believed. It also sounds dire, with terrible music and no commentary.

However,the shocking graphics and sound are the least of WCW Nitro's worries. The gameplay is so slow and so frustrating that makes it painful to play. There are only about 5 moves for your player, all of which are the same on every wrestler and can only be triggered by battering at the buttons. 99% of the time it doesn't work as your opponent seems to have some super powers over you. You get pinned in about 30 seconds. The only way to even figure out how to work the controls is to take the 2P option by yourself and try it on the other player. If you manage one move you're almost gauranteed you'll never do it again.

So got the message? Let me tell you now that this is easily the worst game I've ever played...

I believe this is the second game THQ released the first being WCW vs The World for PS1. Seeing how Nintendo got WCW/NWO World Tour and WCW Revenge made me upset that Sony got this garbage instead. Back then I used to enjoy WCW Nitro with its bad graphics and controls but now if I were play it I would hate it. I bought it for[...]when it became a GH just because I rented it and was a huge fan of WCW at the time. It has a huge roster and unlockable characters and exhibition modes plus a career mode. Its a fast action game similar to WWF Smackdown! but the controls are kinda bad and lose and not tight like other wrestling games. You can have one on one, tag team, two on one, three on one, and battle royal. You get WCW Nitro, Halloween Havoc, Great American Bash, Starcade, Springstamped, Uncensored, as PPV you can fight in. You can't go backstage and the commentary is just one line delivered from Tony, Brian, and Lee Marshall so its not on going only when you do a move or pin someone.

WCW Nitro is one of the older wrestling games available for PlayStation, and while the game does not have a wide range of features to recommend it today, I have to say that I still quite enjoy playing this game. I would describe the game as the equivalent of a demo version of WCW/NWO Thunder - the look and feel is similar, but a lot of nifty features are not available. There are no weapons available for you to pick up outside the ring, each wrestler is introduced with nothing more than a picture, there's almost no customization options for each wrestler, and about the only vocalizations you hear are the announcers identifying a wrestling move or counting the seconds in a pin attempt. Still, you do get your choice of a wide range of wrestlers, each of which has his own special moves.

I can best express my appreciation of this game by describing my experience of playing as the Nature Boy himself, the living legend Ric Flair. One of Flair's trademark moves is the old cheap shot in which he grabs his opponent around the neck, turns around, and delivers a most effective kick to one of his opponent's more sensitive areas. After dishing out a couple of these moves, I can sling my opponent against the ropes and deliver a patented Nature Boy chop across his chest. Once the guy is down and all but out of energy, I can slap the Figure Four Leg Lock on him and make him cry like a baby as he submits. There is nothing like ending a match with the Figure Four. To really be Flair, though, you have to do more than simply beat the other guy to a pulp; you have to strut a little. Before the Figure Four, you can have Flair do a little showboating, and that makes the win all the more satisfying. Once the match is over, Flair does some of the strutting he is famous for and delivers a few Whoos to the crowd. How can this not be fun, no matter how old the game is? There are certainly better wrestling games available these days, but WCW Nitro still manages, despite its several undeniable weaknesses, to deliver some pretty good thrills for this gamer.

this game I would say is pretty good but there are a few problems like it is sort of complicated, it's hard to learn, but after a while you get the hang of it & it's fun!

Before going into this review, i might as well get the message over and done with: DON'T BUY THIS GAME! It's very, very bad.

Having said that I'm sure you probably want to know why, so let me explain. WCW Nitro is a wrestling game based on the WCW (which has very few fans compared to the WWF) and has a selection of different rings available and has most of the WCW superstars along with their own short video. Nothing sounds too offensive yet, but these 5 sec videos are the most entertaining thing in the WHOLE GAME and it's the execution that totally kills the whole thing! The animation of the wrestlers is horrendous, some of the worst I've ever seen. You can barely make out at all who they're meant to be and they're skin color is all orange. When the camera zooms out at the end, the wrestlers look bigger than the ring, so the perspective is all wrong, too. The crowd is a mess of grey pixels jumping up and down. It looks so bad it has to be seen to be believed. It also sounds dire, with terrible music and no commentary.

However,the shocking graphics and sound are the least of WCW Nitro's worries. The gameplay is so slow and so frustrating that makes it painful to play. There are only about 5 moves for your player, all of which are the same on every wrestler and can only be triggered by battering at the buttons. 99% of the time it doesn't work as your opponent seems to have some super powers over you. You get pinned in about 30 seconds. The only way to even figure out how to work the controls is to take the 2P option by yourself and try it on the other player. If you manage one move you're almost gauranteed you'll never do it again.

So got the message? Let me tell you now that this is easily the worst game I've ever played.

This game is pretty lame.......Trust Jiggy on this one. Some of the moves are excecuted quite strangely, and character move variety is virtually nonexistent. Thunder would be a better buy, but not by much......

I love this game. I remember at my birthday 2 years ago I got this as a present. It was my first wrestling game and is the reason that I got more. It has most of the authentic rings, the wrestlers look good, the rants at the selection screen are great, and if you win the belt with a wrestler, it shows a pretty cool FMV of the wrestler cleanin' house on Nitro. I admit that when I first got it that I had trouble pulling off the wrestler's special moves. The key is button speed. You have to push the buttons pretty fast. I suggest trying a submission hold first like Sting's Scorpion Death Lock or Ric Flairs Figure 4. Then, the wrestler you're fighting won't be fighting back. This is a great game. It's a must buy.