This Month's Haul - June, 2013

**Diff-chan** · 24 Jun 2013, 04:54 PM

WWE was huge in the 1990s with the Rock and Stone Cold and etc. It's no surprise that some of the best games out there were WWE. As WWE popularity kind of waned the games became more of a cash-in from THQ's POV while hardcore fans stayed on.

**Timber** · 24 Jun 2013, 05:18 PM

Actually during The Rock & Stone Cold's heyday the best wrestling games were WCW (vs. the World, World Tour & Revenge) then the WWE came in and poached AKI to make their next 2 games. They even put out WM2K only 3 months after their awful WWF Attitude game. Then they had No Mercy and the first Yukes Smackdown game in development at the same time, I think smackdown sold better (mainly due to it being available on the PS1 while No Mercy was only on the 64) but No Mercy was easily the better reviewed game and anyone who played both would agree that No Mercy was a better game. Then the WWE (or maybe THQ) dropped AKI in favor of Yukes. THQ was actually the publisher for both. Then AKI was hired to redesign WCW Mayhem 2 but the game was canned as soon as Vince bought WCW and the engine was moved over to Def Jam Vendetta.

Of course I can remember some of my first online message board ranting was over at GameFAQs to the kids who all thought that the PS1 games (Warzone & Attitude) were better because they looked better and had more options for visual customization, gameplay had no bearing on their opinions.