WWF Road to Wrestlemania is the second wrestling game for the Game Boy Advance in North America

User Rating: 4.4 | WWF Road to WrestleMania GBA
The controls for this game leave something to be desired. For the main grappling system, they take a page out of Fire Pro Wrestling's book where you have to take a pause after initiating a grapple, to enter the button combination to do a move. That may sound all fine and dandy, but too bad your move repertoire is limited to about four moves. All your moves for the most part are a body slam, suplex, and and a simple eye rake. You still have all your standard turnbuckle and running moves. You can perform the wrestlers signature moves in here by pressing A and B at the same time when two of the three bars on your adrenaline meter fill up. Yes, that horrible life meter from the Game Boy Color version of Wrestlemania 2000 is back and it makes playing the game horrible.

WWF Road to Wrestlemania does have a good amount of modes of play. We have your basic exhibition match ups. They consist of your simple bouts of single, tag team, handicap, and triple threat matches. Then we move onto the gimmick matches where we have the standard Cage Match. The Royal Rumble mode debuts in portable WWF games. In it, all 24 wrestlers in the game need to be tossed out of the ring to decide a winner. The King of the Ring tournament is also here, where up to eight wrestlers can compete in an elimination tournament. Gauntlet mode is where you can see how many superstars you can defeat straight with just one life.

The game's main story mode is the Road to Wrestlemania mode. It plays exactly like the same named mode in the N64 version of Wrestlemania 2000. In this mode, you go through 52 weeks of a full calendar year which consist of matches and Pay-Per-View's. This comes complete with storylines, as you work your way up to the main PPV, Wrestlemania. The game only has one creation mode, and that is create-a-ppv. You can create your own card and add as many matches as you want. Too bad there isn't a create a wrestler, because the game really could of benefited from one. Yes, this is only a portable game, but on a brand new platform, so expectations are higher. Also worth mentioning is that Fire Pro Wrestling has a edit wrestler option, even though it has a near 200-man roster.