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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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Did you play no mercy around the time it released or awhile after?
I can understand complaints to gameplay as it was very much a grappler but that's also part of what made it great. I wish games brought back the week and strong grapple styles.
I was mainly a playstation gamer back then myself. The acclaim games commonly get pooped on but, at the time, I thought they were great. Wwf attitude was great when it released. I remember being able to make opponents bleed from nearly any part of their body (head, arm, back, etc). The CAW system was also great, especially for the time.
The smackdown games were some of most played games. I actually strongly disliked the first game. Caw was terrible and the gameplay was just way to arcadey and fast paced. Felt more like a fighting game and not a wreslting game. Smackdown 2 was worlds better and the match types were awesome, first time table and ladder matches appeared on playstation. Me and my brother had a blast with the game. My favorite, however, would have to be Here Comes the Pain. No Mercy and Here Comes the Pain are my two favorite wreslting games of all time.