Wow, what a bad idea. The game contradicts itself - it mentions that "not all backyard wrestlers are untrained" and yet the game is named after, and has footage from, a line of videos that show untrained kids just hurting each other like idiots. The whole notion of backyard wrestling is stupid - you won't go anywhere in the business jumping off roofs or lighting yourself on fire. If you don't actually go to a wrestling school then you're wasting your time and shortening whatever wrestling career you might actually have through the wear and tear your body goes through while wrestling. If you're "trained" and still wrestling in backyards then you're still an idiot for the above reason. Backyard wrestling is among the worst black eyes for the worked-sport, the last thing we need is a game promoting it. Oh and by the way, the game itself sucks. There really isn't much resemblance to actual wrestling. Sure you have grapples moves but they're so easy to counter and hard to catch someone in. Punching combos and using the weapons are better. To top it off, you don't walk - you just run around (just tapping the d-pard makes you run, no walking here), grabbing and throwing things and doing canned 3 hit combos. The game feels more like a sped-up, dumbed down War of the Monsters than a wrestling game. The people who hate Smackdown for being so fast will hate this. You get to play as an assortment of no-name wrestlers from the Insane Clown Posse's JCW, guys like Josh Prohibition and Rude Boy, that you could care less about. You'll fight in such areas as a backyard and a stripclub, and laugh at such novelties as lighting your oppenent on fire and jumping off a roof. Kinda funny at first but lame afterwards. You'll go through a pathetic Talk Show mode featuring a parody of Jerry Springer that honest to God tries so hard to be funny but falls flat on its face. You know its sad when the best feature of the game is the ability to change whatever song is playing in the background. Which is good, so you can listen to the good songs and skip the Insane Clown Posse's songs. Don't Try this at home? How about play it safe and don't try this game at all?
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