WWF Warzone

by Sony Playstation / Acclaim Sports

Product Features

• wrestling

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000007NJC
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: July 1, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,577 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

Professional wrestling is huge. People who cut their teeth on the Rock and Wrestling era of the WWF are returning in droves, and the industry is doing better than it ever has before. Games based on wrestling have progressed through the years, and while WWF War Zone plays similarly to its predecessors, it presents a package that is completely unmatched in both gameplay and in atmosphere.

Most of the WWF's biggest stars are represented, including Steve Austin, the Undertaker, Kane, Mankind, the Rock, Triple H, and Ken Shamrock. Since the beginning of the game's development, Bret Hart, Ahmed Johnson, and the British Bulldog have left the WWF, but they remain in the game. A few hidden wrestlers are also in the game, most notably Mankind's other personalities, Dude Love and Cactus Jack.

There are several different modes in War Zone. The challenge mode is the game's main mode, putting your wrestler in a quest to win the championship belt. Along the way you'll be challenged to grudge matches by the wrestlers you've wronged during your career. These grudge matches come in the form of the game's two other modes. Weapons matches are falls-anywhere, no-rules kinds of matches, where smacking your opponent with a two-by-four and suplexing him onto a table are the order of the day. The cage match forces you to beat your opponent, then climb out of the cage while he's too dazed to do anything about it. Once you've won the belt in challenge mode, the game continues with you defending the belt against various challengers. There is also a really good tag-team mode that contains most of the four-man action from the real thing. Multiplayer modes include a free-for-all, cooperative cage matches, and tornado mode. There is also a comprehensive training mode, but it isn't as useful as the manual would have you believe.

War Zone plays, essentially, like every other wrestling game out there. But the control has been refined to a point of perfection, and a complicated tie-up system keeps people from doing cheap, low-damage moves over and over again. The game controls very tightly, and while you will do some button mashing to break holds and pins, it is kept to a minimum.

The graphics in War Zone are better than any other PlayStation wrestling game. Some of the characters (the Undertaker, for instance) look eerily like their real-life counterparts, although a few of the faces look a little weird. The sound effects are really good - all the grunts and screams were recorded by the real wrestlers. Also, all of the entrance music is in the game, although you only get to hear a few seconds of it during the game's lackluster ring introduction sequence. You can, however, head to the biography section if you feel the need to hear any of the music in its entirety. The two-man announce team of Vince McMahon and Jim Ross is good, but it sometimes gets a little bit behind the action. Also, there are only a couple of different sayings for the signature moves, meaning that you'll be hearing Jim Ross shout "Stone Cold Stunner! Stone Cold Stunner!" quite a lot during the course of the game.

WWF War Zone is long on gameplay and has a lot of atmosphere. However, it really could have used a little more atmosphere. The ring introductions are extremely short, and the cutscenes in challenge mode (all of which feature a really bad-looking polygonal woman and a limousine) are just plain stupid. The grudge match challenge clips are decent, but their lack of specific taunts makes them seem a little flat. Still, this is best wrestling package ever released and shouldn't be missed by anyone with even a passing interest in wrestling. --Jeff Gerstmann
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Product Description

WWF War Zone is a Wrestling game, developed and published by Acclaim, which was released in 1998

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this game is da bomb, January 14, 2001

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JEREMY (Mesquite TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WWF Warzone (Video Game)

when I first got this game I couldn't stop playing it. I really liked the move menu. I thought the game was easy to figure out. I kept getting better and better at it. I started career mode and that was so cool. the create a character was really fun because I could give my guy the best moves.Any true WWF fan would love this game.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Wrestling Game Ever*, August 5, 2000

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Josh The Great 1 (SC, PA, USA) - See all my reviews

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

This review is from: WWF Warzone (Video Game)

*although I do not own Smackdown yet.

I can never stop playing this game. I got the game two years ago and I still play it a lot. The graphics are so good you can even see the Texas tattoo on Stone Cold's leg. A must buy for diehard wrestling fans, and you'll probably like it even if you're not a wrestling fan. However, with the millions of moves, I suggest getting the strategy guide.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Who needs titles anyways?, July 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: WWF Warzone (Video Game)

Way back in the day, maybe Warzone was cool. But to you people who still thinks this game rocks after all these years, there is much better...(stuff) out there now. Ever heard of a Nintendo 64??? Look for WWF No Mercy, or even Wrestlemania, and you'll get alot more action and perhaps more satisfaction. Looking back at Warzone now, what we thought was an amazing Create-A-Player is considered puny to the ones of No Mercy, or Smackdown. Warzone feels slow, making it look like your wrestler gained about twenty years just hopping into the ring. Warzone, in other words, is just old lame ...(stuff) =o). Go find yourself a real wrestling game, like No Mercy or Smackdown if you are still playing this terrible game called WWF Warzone.