WCW Mayhem (PS1) Gameplay Sample

OH LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING BROTHA!!!!!!!!! I miss WCW. I miss that whole period of Wrestling before it sucked. I used to be a huge wrestling fan, though I missed the Monday night wars due to not having cable growing up. Still such a great time in wrestling, gaming, and in general.

WCW Mayhem was the last traditional WCW game relesed (Backstage Assault isn't traditional), and overall, it's a decent, if not flawed effort on EA's part. The game has some obvious collision detection issues, and a few other technical problems, but is solid, if not incredibly flawed overall. A strange tidbit of trivia: This was actually the first wrestling game that let you go into the backstage area of an arena. The areas are selected at random, but WWF Smackdown, and No Mercy would later use this idea. So, overall, this is an average Wrestling game with some deeper features (season mode, creat-a-wrestler, unlockable wrestlers, etc), it did ad an the innovation of going back stage that other games would later use to their benefit.

Overall, I would rank this as my favorite WCW game on the PS1, and Yes, I do own WCW vs the World as well, which has a less-evolved, less-fluid playing engine than Aki's later N64 games which play much better IMO. Mayhem has the presentation and a good roster that should bring back some good nostalgia for WCW fans.

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