User Rating: 9.8 | WWF No Mercy N64
By -CANUCK- | Review Date:
No Mercy is still considered among many fans to be the holy grail of wrestling games in North America. At its time the most polished wrestling game and to this day, its still the best. The gameplay engine helps No Mercy persevere after all of these year. Its a slower, more methodical game than Smackdown and requires a lot more stradegy. Oppenents have strong and weak body parts and its up to you to exploit the weaknesses for maximum damage and a possible tapout. The roster in 2003 is dated but still passable. Many of the WWE mainstays are here, Austin, Rock, Angle, Benoit, Jericho, etc. Being on a cartridge, No Mercy grants players the ability to edit the existing wrestlers' attire. The character models are blocky and the game has some expected clipping but the move animations are still great. Fighting backstage makes a nice diversion. The create-a-wrestler isn't as customizable as Smackdown's but it's still solid. There aren't many match types but they don't feel gimmicky. You have the stock rumbles, King of the Rings and other basic modes plus a cage and ladder match. But neither feel gimmicky and completely change the dynamic of the match. The career mode is, prior to Smackdown : Shut Your Mouth, the best career mode any wrestling game has ever seen. You play through multi-branching storylines, many based on actual storylines from 1999-2000. Each title presents its own story, with the World Title offering many, many different paths. There's no commentary or wrestler voices but we do get entrance music and, considered a big step-up at the time, titantron entrance videos. The music is consists of generic rock/techno tracks. Not that it matters, you can get by turning off the music. In both single and multiplayer, No Mercy is still one of the best, if not the best. Only now are we getting wrestling games that come close.

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