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Screens & Info Updated: 10/2/2003 Violent forms of wrestling entertainment have existed underground for years, but surprisingly, only now is a company turning the idea into an interactive format. Eidos Interactive and developer Paradox Development's Backyard Wrestling teams up with one of the most unpopular, forgotten acts in music, Insane Clown Posse, to bring the blood, sweat and tears of a sport usually played behind houses in suburban neighborhoods right to your home!
Involving Insane Clown Posse is nearly enough to write Backyard Wrestling off (why, Eidos, why!), but having spend hands-on time with nearly complete copies of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 revisions, Gaming Age is certain Backyard Wrestling will find its niche. Don't head into Backyard Wrestling expecting a deep wrestling engine. Although the combat certainly isn't limited to punches and kicks, the action moves at such a frenzied rate the game turns into little more than a button mash much of the time. Put a little effort into learning reversals, however, and fights are made more interesting. But really, the basic combat engine isn't the focus here. The environments are the real stars of the game. There are few games on the market that could claim to have comparable environmental interaction as Backyard Wrestling. Utilizing the various sharp, heavy and blunt objects found in each stage make for some completely insane fights. In a matter of seconds, players can toss their opponent into a fire, kick 'em in the crotch, and then climb a ladder to drive their foot into the downed wrestler's skull at 60 miles an hour. Ouch. The single player mode is where new characters and gameplay features are unlocked; surrounding it is a bare-bones storyline where the Insane Clown Posse is allowed to speak at intervals of more than 5 seconds, causing severe headaches and nausea. Versus mode is where the game hits its stride; beating the bloody pulp out of AI is only so thrilling - beating your best friend with a lead pipe rocks. There's a create-a-wrestler mode thrown in for good measure, but there isn't too much to it and doesn't allow for a whole lot of customization. Compared to the options available in "real" wrestling games, Backyard Wrestling doesn't quite stack up. Next week Eidos Interactive releases Backyard Wrestling to the masses. Look for Gaming Age's full review soon.
Screens Updated: 8/20/2003 A dozen new screens added to the media section. Remember, Don't try this at home!
Backyard Wrestling allows you to step out of the staleness of the wrestling genre, and into a new world of open ended gameplay. Punish your opponent in highly interactive sprawling environments implementing instruments of pain like thumbtacks, barbed wire, light bulbs, stop signs, baseball bats, tables, fire… as well as the environment itself. Prepare yourself to endure inhuman amounts of pain, and take incredible risks, as you leap from breathtaking heights to beat your opponent, and be crowned "The King Of Hardcore". Features: - Just Added-CREATE A WRESTLER MODE: Create a BYW superstar in your own image, and play through any of the game's modes.
- Objective based gameplay allows for unique level progression and access to unlockable environments, characters, and bonus video materials (behind the scenes).
- Dozens of weapons to beat, bludgeon, and mutilate your opponents with, including barbed wire, thumbtacks, light bulbs, car doors, tables, etc.
- Innovative damage model system allows the characters to get cuts, bruises, and gashes all over their bodies depending on what type of moves they've been doing, and more painfully, what moves have been done to them.
- Fully interactive and destructible environments let you re-arrange more than your opponent's face.
- Over 20+ hardcore superstars from the world of Backyard Wrestling, and JCW Juggalo Championship Wrestling. Sabu, Mdogg 20, Josh Prohibition, Insane Clown Posse, Rudeboy, Madman Pondo, The Masked Horn Dog, El Drunko, Kitana Baker, and many more
- Multi-Faceted and Multi-Tiered environments take players beyond the traditional restrictions of the wrestling genre.
- Awesome in-game soundtrack featuring Sum 41, Andrew WK, Insane Clown Posse, Rancid, C.K.Y., American Hi-Fi, Bowling For Soup, Anthrax, Biohazard, Sepultura, Chimiara and many more!!!! OVER 35 SONGS!
- Totally unique combat enviorments include: mansion, truckstop, gentleman's club, slaughterhouse, shopping mall, TV studio and more….
Check back soon for more information and screens!
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