Why i cannot trade it in
Everybody wants a backyard wrestling game and what we got was an insane clown posse fighting game .
thee is wrestling moves......well i think there is wrestling moves...theres powerbombs , piledrivers , shooting star presses and even The F-5.
But basicaly this game is a fighting game.
so if you get this game and expecting it to be a wrestling gma e, you will hate it . but if you exepect it to be an over the top ,peice of arcade fun, you might just not trade it in right away.
What could be mroe fun then setting a stained matresss alight and slamming a Clown into it? Jumping off a roof of a mansion with the ultimate moonsult? Fighting with Sabu in a strip club?
well as funs as these things sound , its not pulled off that well in BYW.... but at leaste they tried. this is the only game where you can do these things , and as much as the in between "grappling" frustrates you, with the dreaded "homing weapons" at least you can tell your friend that you have a game where you can do such things as well as the ability to.Jump off a treehouse onto a guy called Horndog.
the levels are good looking , specialy the talk show , backyard , truckstop and Strip club.
the "wrestlers " them selves look very weak and down right ugly.Frame rate drops out from time to time.
the sounds of grunts and "death from above" play over and over .but you do have custom soundtrack if you get sick of the brilliant soundtrack for the game ( witch you can download from the game disc to ...your Xbox!)
All the modes are forgetable other than the very very basic Versus match witch is over very quickly , and the loading times arnt killer but it is a hassle to change Fighters and look for a new "ring". thats another thing..would it of killed them to have a ring?
the insane clown posse , mad man pondo , M-dogg , Josh Proabiton, The Artist Formely known as "magor Gunns" and Sabu are about as mainstream as you will get. the rest of the "grapplers" are so far underground , or made up...... that the are forgettable . i wouldnt of minded the made up characters if they just looked.like normal.....just average guys in t-shirts and jeans would of done nicely , but alas we get .......well there so unforgettable i have ...forgotten them.
The weapons is one other Highpoint .....you dont feel like cringing after the the first few shots ....but they serve there purpose....to distract from the oddly name wrestling moves.
The special moves are so stupid they dont deserve reviewing..
oh and now its time for the best feature of all.the unlockable videos...
great stuff ranging from Backyard heroes , "attractive " women , the game launch lunch and some killer JCW footage witch begs the question why the Honky Tonk man wasnt included into this game.
the create-a-wrestler mdoe is just a list of different ugly combinations of boring , bad models.
Overall after all the rubbish you have to put up with , i still like this game...maybe its just for the flaming matress but never the less , it still has a home in my collection for life.