Customer Reviews

WCW vs. NWO: Thunder

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This game has good graphics and sound but it is hard to control and play. overall it's okay.

I know this will sound crazy, but the main reason I finally broke down and purchased a Playstation several years ago was because I wanted to play some of the wrestling games available for this particular console. For whatever reason, no one has ever come close to producing a decent wrestling game for the PC. At the time, I was a serious wrestling fan, having been drawn back to the fold by the brilliant internal division in WCW between the good guys and the evil NOW. WCW Thunder came out while the WCW was at its peak of popularity, and I just had to have it. While the game has naturally lost some of its luster as time has passed and gaming hardware improved, it had all sorts of enticing features then and remains a fun diversion even now.

WCW Thunder had a lot to offer fans when it was released. For starters, you had some 60 superstars to choose from, including the biggest names around such as Goldberg and Hogan; all kinds of other hidden wrestlers also lay buried inside the game, waiting for you to win with certain characters (or use the handy dandy cheat codes) to unlock them-everything from made-up goofy characters to the wrestlers who got beat up for a living every week to announcers to members of the Nitro Girls (including the luscious Kimberly). While certain basic moves worked for all wrestlers, each individual wrestler, including the hidden ones, had their own signature moves. Thus, you could have Goldberg take his opponent out with the Spear followed by the Jack Hammer, or have Lex Luger turn a man into a little baby while hoisted up in the Torture Rack. Each wrestler came with his own theme music and personal allegiance, but you had the option of changing a guy's alliance. This could become important in terms of one of my favorite features of the game, the ability to have an ally come to the ring to help you avoid a loss or just to help you beat the heck out of your opponent.

The game offers a number of game types for one or two players. You can fight an exhibition match or go for the TV Title, US Heavyweight Title or walk that aisle in pursuit of the World Heavyweight belt. If you get tired of one-on-one action, you can choose tag-team play or battle it out with 29 other wrestlers in a Battle Royal. You can even get down to brass tacks and battle it out in a cage match. The only bad thing about a cage match is the fact that it does not allow you access to any weapons. In normal game play, there are a number of weapons outside the ring (you control how many) that you can pick up and use to beat the fool out of everybody that gets in your way; you can even just keep wailing on your opponent after he hits the ground.

WCW Thunder is and never was perfect, though. For one thing, the game quickly becomes rather easy. You can just pile drive your opponent over and over again into oblivion if you like or take a stop sign upside a guy's head a dozen or more times and pin him easily. The clumsy combination moves actually become a good thing here because it is sometimes a challenge to perform that special killer move your wrestler is famous for and end the match in style. The graphics are decent but not great, and my Playstation seems to have a few hitches in its gitty-up when it tries to render large numbers of wrestlers all at once in Battle Royal mode. I still enjoy playing WCW Thunder, though. It looks a lot like the earlier WCW Nitro game, but it plays a lot better in my opinion. There are better games available now, even for the Playstation, but I have a feeling that I'll be enjoying this game on and off for many years to come.

Wcw Thunder is an okay game. One of the greatest features it has is to see all the fmv. Also the game has tons of moves plus three or four specific ones for each wrestler. The gameplay while not as great as mayhem ,attitude, warzone, or smackdown is still fun. Especially with all the great extra wrestlers weapons and cage match. I would recommend to buy this but more than likely used.

I have played this game; in fact, I bought it last year. I just want to say that it is terrible. The graphics are exactly the same as Nitro from the year before. The game moves so fast that you have no idea what is going on; that is not a good thing. The moves are performed instantaneously, which looks very stupid. It plays like a fighting game, and is very little fun. The reason I am writing this now is because I had ordered WWF Smackdown off Amazon. However, my friend bought it and I played it yesterday, and the game is terrible. It plays just like Thunder and Nitro. I am not going to make the same mistake twice, and I just cancelled my order on Amazon for the game. THQ should have used the same engine from WWF Wrestlemania 2000, which I bought recently along with an N64. The game is so much better than all these other crappy titles. Buy it instead of these if you are going to get anything. It is well worth it.

OK, where to begin..... The gameplay is that of a fighting game......which would be good- except for the fact that this is a wrestling game! The roster is deep.....which makes it fun to pound on the Nitro girls like Big Poppa Pump pounds them off-screen.

this game is bad be case it dose not have any thing new from nitro and it is blaw and dole and plain i would not sugest it it has a coulple of diffrent peaple then nitro but the same stuff and i think one nitro was a naufe

WCW Thunder is more of an upgrade to WCW Nitro it includes a larger roster of wrestlers to choose from and more game modes plus areas to wrestle in. You even get to choose different faction like WCW, NWO, Four Horsemen, WCW Wolfpac, and LWO. Its has faster gameplay than Nitro and you can finally play with up to four players via multi-tap if you have one and three other friends. The game uses actual entrance footage from WCW Thunder broadcast when you start a match to show the wrestler coming to the ring and you even get a vs screen with who you are fighting as. You get alot of game modes like battle royal, steel cage, which weren't in WCW Nitro by the way plus weapons that are outside of the ring. You get to choose from now WCW Thunder, WCW Nitro, Starcade, Halloween Havoc, Souled Out, GAB, Spring Stampade, Uncensored, Saturday Night, and others.

I like this game. There are tons of wrestlers and all the authentic rings. I also like the FMV entrances that they put on before the match. And almost all the wrestlers have their authentic music. The gameplay is the same as Nitro's, which is good, except that it is too fast. I like Nitro better, but this is a great game, too.

WCW vs NWO Thunder is a fun game. There are many secret codes that enhance the game and make it better. The are lots of different wrestlers to choose from and several moves you can use. I would recomend this game to children 10 and up because of the skill capability level. Thunder provides fun for everyone.

This game is very good when you first try it out and there is lots to do. But when you start using it loads it eventually gets boring as the computer puts up no challenge at all. I have never been beaten and I am not very good at these games! Hopefully Mayhem will be better.