In celebration of the upcoming release of WWE 2K17, this weekโs Throwback Thursday highlights a game many consider to be the greatest wrestling video game ever made.
Read More - Throwback Thursday: WWF No Mercy
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Still an amazing game! My brother and I played hundreds of hours with wrestlemania 2000 then when we got no mercy it was beautiful. The 2k games still aren't as fun -
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Bradshaw Hammer and The Rock's jumping clothesline were the realest moves.
There's also bans awaiting those that disagree with this being the GOAT wrestling game.Originally posted by MoOriginally posted by MoOriginally posted by MoComment
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So much to love about this game. I still don't have any comprehension of why they moved away from having separate reversal buttons. It used to be a chess match, now once you get the timing it's just too easy to reverse moves, even finishers. Having the reversal limit helped, but I still preferred 1 button to reverse strikes and 1 for grapples.Comment
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Rose tinted glasses still sell well worldwide I see....
Cracking game to be honest and much like Sensible Soccer Miles and miles ahead of its time. The hours I sunk in this and WM 2000 and the WCW/NWO games on N64. Brilliant.
Plenty of modern games have surpassed them in depth and quality but fun factor it was spot on.Comment
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Man me me and the neighborhood kids dropped sooooooo many hours into this back in the day. We all created multiple characters had 3 announcing teams that would call matches from the couch lol.me and my brother were tag team champs before the Pizza Hut incident when I went off on my own to become the intercontinental champion. He would interfere in a match I had later and cost me the title.
Idk if it was being young and having an imagination but they just don't games like this anymoreComment
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I've always preferred the Fire Pro series, but WWF No Mercy is a great game to this day. I still own all of the AKI N64 wrestling games, including the Japanese imports. I think Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 may be my favorite just because of the roster but they're all great.www.heyimbill.com | sports poster art and other cool stuffComment
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Loving these throwback thursdays.
No Mercy was a masterpiece of a wreslting game. The only game in would put against it, maybe, is Here Comes the Pain (that is if we are excluding games like wrestlemania 2000 and we vs neo revenge). What made no mercy even more special for me was that I didn't own an n64 growing up. So going to a friend's or having a friend bring their n64 over in order to play no mercy was always exciting for me.
The gameplay was simply great. Fun yet difficult. Best of all you felt in control. I quickly get bored with the modern wreslting games because I feel like the pacing and flow is terrible. Too much time spent watching moves and animations play out.
The game had some great modes with a good variety of match types and an engaging story type mode. Best of all were the unlockables, which just isn't the same anymore. I remember my friends and me trying to earn as much money as possible in order to unlock characters. Finally saving up enough to purchase someone like Shawn Michaels was extremely rewarding, unlike the "perform these tasks" method of modern wreslting games (worse is purchasing the accelerator dlc to unlock everything.)Comment
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I did not like No Mercy whatsoever and have never quite understood the appeal.
It always looked and felt clunky to me, the N64 controller was awful (not something in the game's control but a negative to my experience nevertheless), and the music sounded bad (another limitation of the N64 hardware). The creation suite was strong, absolutely - especially compared to the first WWF Smackdown game, which had a rather awful creation tool - but that wasn't nearly enough to keep me coming back.
At the time I preferred THQ's WWF Smackdown series by a large margin, especially Smackdown 2: Know Your Role which basically lived in my PSX as my friends and I vied for all the titles against each other (SD!2:KYR is what I would consider as a classic). Heck, I even liked Acclaim's WWF games with their right-right-down-right body slams over the AKI-style grapplers (be it WCW-nWo Revenge, WCW vs The World, or whatever else I tried back in the day).
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I've played wrestling games since Pro Wrestling on NES, and this will always be in my top 2 or 3.Comment
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No Mercy was a great game no doubt, and I put MANY hours into it back it the day, but the main gripe I had with it and what kept it from being near perfect for its time was the choppiness when several wrestlers were on the screen at once. Nonetheless, it was still a GREAT game.
That being said, my choice for best wrestling video game is the very underrated Day of Reckoning 2. Such a great but forgotten wrestling game!Comment
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