Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood Preview
We bust chairs, tables, and skulls to bring you this preview of the outrageous extreme wrestling title.
Backflips off of second-story construction sites, weed wackers wielded as weapons, and a roster full of underground wrestling celebrities... These are just a few of the things you'll see and do when playing Eidos' Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, the sequel to 2003's Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home. We've spent some time beating up our opponents with household implements, and we've gotten a good feel for the gameplay features found in this over-the-top beat-'em up.
Backyard Wrestling 2's roster features real-life grapplers, adult video performers, and… Andrew WK?!
Fans of the this brutal form of sports entertainment should be pleased with the roster, which features more than 20 fighters to choose from, including actual independent extreme grapplers New Jack, Vic Grimes, Sandman, and Sick Nick Mondo. Of course, you'll also find the ever-present Insane Clown Posse duo Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope and a host of unlockable Backyard Wrestling brawlers. Let's not forget the ladies, because performers Tylene Buck, Sunrise Adams, and Tera Patrick all lend their fine female forms to the game, too. Finally, the inclusion of rock-and-roll oddity Andrew WK rounds out an impressive, if eccentric, cast of characters.
The main game features two modes: exhibition and career. In exhibition mode, you'll set your grapplers of choice loose in any one of a number of different match locales, from the traditional backyard or trailer park arena, to more bizarre settings such as a restaurant, brewery, or mini golf course. As was the case in the previous version of Backyard Wrestling 2, each locale contains plenty of opportunities to both deal destruction to the combat arena and mete out punishment to your opponent. Many of the objects found in the game--like tables, sheds, and barbecue grills, for example--are simply there to be destroyed and subsequently wielded as deadly weapons. This is in addition to objects that are already lying on the ground when a match begins, like golf clubs, power drills, sledgehammers, and chain saws. Nearly everything you see can be used to draw "the juice" from your rival.
Backyard Wrestling 2's career mode will likely be where most gamers will spend the majority of their time with the game. Your first step in career mode will be to create a wrestler from scratch by using the game's create-a-wrestler tool. After choosing a name for your extreme alter ego, you'll find a number of appearance options to modify, including a number of body, face, and hairstyle choices. Multiple outfits for the upper body, lower body, and feet are also available, as is a custom logo creator. You can choose from more than 120 different tattoo-style logos that you can place anywhere on your character's face or body, and you also have the option of changing the size, color, and rotation of your chosen brand. As you progress through the game's career mode, you'll also be able to spend the money you earn from match victories on accessories to further customize your wrestler. Hats, pipes, bandoliers, and much more are all available for the purchasing. You can tailor your character's move set in this mode as well, right down to the specific types of grappling, jump, dash, and ground attacks used in any given match situation. Don't forget to choose your supermove as well, since you'll have 25 of these punishing finishing moves to choose from.
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- Eidos Interactive
- Paradox Dev
- Wrestling
- Release: Nov 16, 2004 »
- ESRB: Mature
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