Episode 138: Revisiting WWF Wrestlemania 2000 WWF WrestleMania 2000 is a professional wrestling video game originally released in 1999 on the Nintendo 64 (N64) console.
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A game that kinda gets lost in the shuffle -- doesn't get nearly enough credit for being the first great WWF game post-Acclaim. Also a *great* create mode.
Me and my brother had an epic journey scouring stores in NYC pre internet for this game; we stopped at any electronics store we saw from 125th to 56th coming up empty handed. Two weeks later at the Bradlee’s on 14th street.
2000 and No Mercy were and remain the gold standard. Shame they never made Backlash. These games hold up because of gameplay and of course the awesome roster. Good old days right here.
N64 was dying at the time and the 6th gen was already underway with the Dreamcast out and the ps2 just coming out when no mercy was released. I believe the sales would’ve been low for the game since it would’ve most likely been released mid 2001
That cover is iconic AF. The amount of hours i spent on this game in the CAW mode alone. Setting moves on my CAW is how i learned the name of every wrestling move
What's funny is how almost every wrestler on the cover of the WWF WrestleMania 2000 game (except for The Undertaker), participated in the same match at the real WrestleMania 2000 pay per view : The Rock, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Triple H.
I was one of the unfortunate kids to receive the bugged WWF No Mercy cartridge that occasionally erased all of my save data, so WWF 2000 was my go-to wrestling game up until Day of Reckoning on GameCube.
I remember when my uncle got this game when it came out, We were marking out when we were playing it. I still have this game and play it from time to time. Wrestlemania 2000 was way ahead of it's time.
I got this on launch day and my friend didnt believe me so i called him over my house phone and played The Big Show theme song on command......still remember that like it was yesterday
I got this game at a flea market back in 2013 or 14 where I also got my Nintendo 64 which was $30 what a steal, I also got other games like Super Smash Bros, Super Mario 64, and WCW Mayhem but with WWF Wrestlemania 2000 I never gave it a chance. Until 2019 I decided to play it and I fell in love with the game. I played as a created Goldberg against Triple H in a steel cage match and that lasted almost an hour since I was having a blast playing the game. The controls were incredible, then I saw people talk about WCW/NWO World Tour, Revenge and WWF No Mercy which I found out they were also developed by AKI so I just had to get them. I got both WCW/NWO World Tour, also Revenge on Ebay for $15 again what a steal and then got WWF No Mercy at a retro video game store for about $20 although I wish I got the version that was patched but it's still an amazing game just like all the wrestling games AKI made they never made one bad wrestling game.
Bro, so good to see WM2000 getting some love... I've always called it the forgotten classic, because, well... No Mercy, but in 99 this was my jam. Still play my original cart to this day
As much as everyone loves No Mercy I was always drawn back to this game mostly for ministry Undertaker and this being the middle of the attitude era where as no mercy was closer to the end
I prefer this game over No Mercy for these reasons: full entrances, better faces, no slowdown during matches, all wrestlers have their entrance music, and better roster.
Road To Wrestlemania mode was nuts if you pay attention to how long matches sometimes ran, like episodes of Heat were like 5 hours overall. like Droz vs Road Dogg goes 57 minutes and ends in a double countout, Steve Blackman beats Test in 52 minutes by submission, Stone Cold vs Undertaker vs The Rock goes 1 hour time limit draw....its crazy. I never took note of that before and then recently did a play through of the mode again and noticed ALOT of matches going at least 50 minutes.
Hey Nikateen. I heard Scott Hall passed away today and I want to say that I’m so sorry because I know he’s your favorite wrestler of all time. One things for sure, I’m happy he’s free from his pain and he’ll always be remembered. Rest Easy Scott Hall.
I actually preferred this one to no mercy. A huge jump from revenge, adding the entrances music and titantrons, other match types and create a wrestler and ppv. Def an under appreciated game!
Me too. I dont know why. I guess I just love the roster of 99 corporation, corporate ministry, Dx. Rock with side burns. I like no mercy. But the feel of this game just feels good to me
Fun fact before Mania 2000 if you create a wrestling in previous games before 2000 the create an entrances had few to no entrance parts that referenced other wrestlers both non-featured/none WWF roster wrestlers
@@PETEYTHECLOWN most or all wrestling games before Wrestlemania 2000, create an entrance was generic. Whereas in this game, it has everyone's mannerisms, taunts, music, etc.
One of my favourite aspects of the Road to WrestleMania mode was that not only could you use it with a CAW, when you completed it you were given the option of continuing for another year as a different character. Choose a new CAW and your original one stays on the roster (replacing one of the actual WWE wrestlers). Continue doing this and you can (eventually) have a roster packed with your own CAW characters.
I adore the intro videos that play in the AKI wcw/wwf games. They capture so many iconic wrestling images in 64 bit graphics. The clip of Stone Cold stunnering The Undertaker is my favourite bit.
My childhood friends and I used to play this game all the time, even after No Mercy came out. Our belt info is still saved and though we dont see each other as much since we moved around, we always bust this game out when we meet up and defends our belts.
The animated in these games is nothing short of an incredible feat. The animations are better than a lot of video games in our present day. It almost doesn't even make sense how far ahead of its time the animations actually were.
I would have loved to see what this game would look like if it were ported onto the PlayStation One. Hell, someone made a sick looking PS1 fan port of Bloodborne and released that a few weeks ago. Add a few exclusive modes like Hell in a Cell, the wrestlers that were cut out from the game, CD quality entrance themes, and full FMV titantrons into it and you pretty much got it going on.
Word Up! The Bloodborne DMake is great too! The sane guy & a couple others have "D-makes" of a few games! Some are just technical demos but some are fully functional! This def would be great to DMake!
Loved the inclusion of Steiner math - the numbers don't lie! For real though, this is a great review. I especially liked learning about the background of the development and how WWE came to be developed by THQ. Hard to believe WCW would've moved away from a literal award winning formula.
Thanks! Yea, it’s a trip to think that they would walk away from THQ who signed with them before they were hot, just to join up with EA based on their status as a mega power in the gaming industry. All to backfire in their face and send one of the best wrestling game developers running to the competition.
This is my favorite wrestling game of all time it came out at the beginning of my senior year. And I’m a huge street fighter fan and they had create a wrestler options and moves to create Ryu, Ken, & Akuma even down to Akuma’s hair prayer beads and rope belt. I @40 still plays this game to this day. Hell they had the shoryuken as a move and hadoken movement as a taunt.
I love the fact that there was never a wait for load time on a cartridge. It’s pretty annoying to wait for loading all the time. N64 was and is still an awesome console. Loved it. Still love it. I feel like overall game quality was better back then. In my opinion N64 probably had the lowest percentage of lousy games of all the consoles.
ROM cartridges usually loaded fast because most of the assets could be accessed directly from the cartridge, unlike more modern mass storage devices. They did still load though: Banjo Tooie N64's infamous frame rate is due to it constantly loading.
Let’s go! The legend is back! Man, this game is super fun! The AKI games are always endless fun no matter what. I feel like this game is underrated as more people talk about WCW/nWo Revenge and No Mercy more, but this is just as fun too. I also love hearing your stories on how you were introduced to these gems as a kid. I hope you never forget these memories. Glad you’re back, homie, and I hope you can revisit No Mercy soon. Peace.✌️❤️
Just heard the news about Scott Hall and wanted to come here and give my condolences, I know you're not family to him or anything but I know he was your favorite wrestler of all time and this news must hit you pretty hard. Maybe do a top 10 Scott Hall matches as a tribute? Take care bud..
I absolutely loved this game undertaker felt like the undertaker there was a clear difference between fighting stone cold compared to go crash holly awesome career moder great create side of things overlooked for fir sure
WWF No Mercy built on every great aspect of WM2000, but it was also slower. Because of this, I tend to play WM2000 more often. This, and I prefer the weekly structure for the season mode
Man I remember when I first got this game Christmas of 99, me and my older cousin played it for hours every weekend. Spending hours creating a wrestler, and playing the Royal Rumble match, this was my favorite game over no mercy because of the Undertaker had his ministry of darkness gimmick. It’s a shame that No Mercy stole its thunder because this was a great that doesn’t get mentioned a lot.
Mate, I was JUST thinking about hooking up my N64 for a session of this game! I have loved it for over 20 years and honestly think it is my favourite game from the 64 era (Zeldas and Mario's included). Thanks for putting this together!
I only had a PlayStation at the time, and was enjoying WWF Warzone and Attitude, but Mania 2000 was almost the perfect wrestling game! That game was the only reason I regretted not getting an N64. Luckily my best friend/Sisters Boyfriend had one and I was able to borrow his to play it!Another good video bro!
Thanks a lot! We didn’t have a lot of money at the time but thanks to some well off family members of mine I was lucky enough to have all 3 consoles from this generation, with the N64 and PS1 being absolutely game changing regarding wrestling games.
Totally. My cousin had N64 and I had PS1 back then. I had fun with the Acclaim games and later Smackdown 1 and 2, but clearly the N64 ones were better as a whole. I eventually bought an N64 only for the wrestling games. We would play Revenge for hours, and later the Smackdown games on PS2. Great times from my childhood. Glad I still have all these old games.
I remember when I bought this game! I would play it until 6 a.m. almost every day. Recreating my favorite wrestlers that weren't included in the roster and even coming up with my own original wrestlers. I think I still have a replay recorded on one of my old VHS tape of the ending of one of my matches somewhere :p This game and the follow up WWF No Mercy are without a shadow of a doubt the greatest wrestling games ever created. Those years were amazing for wrestling fans! What a great time to be alive :)
I remember when this wm2000 came out it played well and looked cool and was a blast to play royal rumble and other modes with friends. It remains a fixture on my RetroPie setup.
Ken Shamrock is like the wrestling equivalent of Johan Cruyff. He may not have won the biggest prize in his respective sport, but he did something way more important: he completely changed the way it was played for years to come.
20:16 had such an occurrence in No Mercy. Had a First Blood match as part of whatever storyline I was following, and the first thing I did once the bell rang was to go and look for a weapon to try to do the deed quickly. Match was over in 52 seconds after connecting the first blow... 🤷♂
Yes Nikateen has done it again with WrestleMania 2000 I actually got my copy of WrestleMania 2000 on the N64 last Christmas and I also have a Game Boy Colour copy of the game also hey are u ever going to be doing a ReReview of WWF No Mercy by any chance as well as a review of WWF Games from the NES SNES and Sega Genesis by any chance as well as WCW games on the NES and SNES and will there be more content later on next time
I just recently brought out my Nintendo 64 from storage and started playing this game again. Such great memories. Such amazing games. Great video as always!
This game & NO MERCY I think hit the perfect sweet spot for how to successfully have a CAW system that's both pretty expansive but also not overwhelming. Yeah, there aren't a 1,001 options for how your superstar climbs into the ring or individually paint each fingernail a custom color, but IMO the absurd amount of customization becomes a slog when it takes an entire day to create your guy before even starting a career mode. That ridiculous amount of customization is also an excuse by publishers to make the high-end suplexes/superkicks/top rope moves/taunts/etc pay to play with microtransactions or loot boxes, it just sucks compared to the simplicity of WRESTLEMANIA 2K or NO MERCY.
One of the main things that I love about this game going back to it, & what makes it really stand out when compared to the Smackdown games, is that certain wrestlers that you fight will actually wrestle you like the person that they're playing as. I wrestled some of the lower card in RTW mode & I usually managed to squash them in 1-2 minutes. However when going into the mid card where I was being put against guys like Ken Shamrock, he was way harder to beat & I had to change my momentum strategy to counter the way he wrestles. Yes, Ken Shamrock will actually fight you like he is Ken Shamrock. Every time he had me on the floor, he kept trying to put me in the ankle lock & had a way more aggressive striking strategy to take advantage. Going against the Hardy Boyz found me having to counter a lot of faster high flying moves as well. The developers definitely did their research when programming the AI for this game. Just because you're on a certain difficulty, doesn't mean that it will remain consistent against multiple wrestlers. It's one of the reasons why I always went off the Smackdown games when I took off my nostalgia goggles. Take HCTP for example. If you play on the hardest difficulty, every single wrestler will have the same AI strategy against you (besides move sets & attributes) no matter who you're facing & their reversals against you will just be down to a role of the dice, rather than momentum. You could be kicking a guys butt & he'll still manage to reverse almost all of your moves in HCTP. In the AKI games, having higher momentum or a higher attitude meter will give an advantage & vice versa, giving the player a decent wrestling strategy to achieve when facing different opponents. The AKI games are amazing & I always go back to them haha. It's amazing to see people give the credit they deserve when reviewing them & seeing younger people experience them.
I was 6 years old when this came out, my older brother and his friends would place this for hours in my living room, the graphics looked so real at the time😂
I was also a Freshman in high school when WWF WrestleMania 2000 was released in late 1999 but I was playing WWF Attitude PSX and I brought WWF Attitude PSX again after not owning it in over 20 years
I always dug the 1999 era of WM 2000 vs the 2000 era of No Mercy. I wasn't watching the WWF in 99 so I was really intrigued by characters like Ministry Taker, the Blue Meanie, Gangrel and the Brood, Prince Albert, Al Snow and Droz. Going back, I love that shortlived stables like the Union and the Corporate Ministry have their theme and titantrons.
N64's WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy wrestling video games are the best and still is the best my top 2 favorites WWF No Mercy and WWF Wrestlemania 2000 THE GOAT 👑💯
Great video on WrestleMania 2000. WCW NWO World Tour was the first game i got for N64 for Christmas as a kid. I loved it and enjoyed how much better each wrestling game from Aki got. I was baffled at first when they dropped WCW, considering how excellent WCW/NWO Revenge was (and i was still more a wcw fan at the time). But i gave WrestleMania 2000 a chance and was blown away. I loved the deep customization and Road to Wrestlemania mode. It also made me appreciate how much more interesting the WWF attitude era wrestlers were than what i was seeing on wcw.
Although the WCW games did feature a better roster. The game play evolved with each new THQ release. I remember playing WCW VS NWO World Tour, for the first time too. I was blown away and spent countless hours on the game. It was light years ahead of any wrestling game I had owned or played before. Which were mostly on the 16 bit consoles.
I bought my N64 with birthday money in 2000, got the DK edition on sale. First thing I did was go to blockbuster and rent WM2000. When I took the rental back, I used the rest of my birthday money to buy it. Six months later No Mercy came out and blew my mind.
This game was very special to me, have amazing memories playing it! When I found out that iconic main menu theme was heavily inspired by Pantera's Psycho Holiday I was like "no wonder I liked it so much" (during that time I started to notice I loved guitar based music, mainly rock and metal) and the fact you could create wrestlers in the AKI engine, man I always ended up doing many headcanon stories with my creations! To me this game is part of the holy tetralogy of AKI engine games alongside No Mercy, Revenge and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2
Dude.. I legitimately still play this game nightly on a handheld device... I play this, wcw revenge and vpw2 as if it's a 1998 universe. I'm pushing 40 and still living the dream that it's 1998! 😳
I'm sure its just nostalgia but this is my favorite of the THQ AKI games, with Revenge not far behind. WCW vs The World and World Tour have their place as a foundation but are dated. No Mercy had some nice quality of life stuff but I freaking hate the appearance of that game, although I did play the ever loving shit out of it when it was new. But WM 2000 is the one I go back to today. I just love it.
I preferred WM2000 to No Mercy, too. U spent more time playing WM and unfortunately I had the glitched version of No Mercy, where all saved files would get deleted at random times.
So thankful you decided to revisit these undeniable classics... I tell ya brother I still remember the hours of playing this one at the afterschool youth Christian center with friends...In that gritty dingey sports room with the TV on the stand with the n64 man and having so much fun and that was in like 2004-2005!!
Right on! I was in a after school church program back in the early 90s in 3rd grade and they had a Genesis with Green Dog, Strider, and Streets of Rage 2. Great memories!
Running grapples debuted in Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 which came out January 2000. No Mercy came out November 2000 as Nik mentioned in his recent VPW2 review.
this game was a blast, I remember playing it as a freshman in college. My friends and I had a running gag, because we all made versions of ourselves and one of our friends used to go out of his way to claim he had a big dong so every once in a while I'd change his finisher to the small package lol
Fantastic recap of one of my all-time sentimental favorites. I was about 10 when this one dropped and have so many fond memories of playing for hours on end at my friend's house. This game actually got me into wrestling which is a love I still have to this day. Keep up the great work man, your videos are such top quality.
This was a groundbreaker, mainly for the CAW. Every single wrestler you created looked like they belonged next to in-game wrestlers. It took the Smackdown games a decade to accomplish that.
This game was a dream come true. Revenge was the best wrestling game at the time. Warzone & attitude didn’t come close to revenge. Getting a wwf game with the aki engine was everything we could’ve asked for. The first great wwf game was born with this entry
Love this game. If you have a house full of people, Do not do CAW mode because everyone else will just be sitting there for hours while you spend at least 2 hours making one wrestler. But We loved to do Pay Per View mode and basically become Vince McMahon and make our favorite Raw/Heat/PPV events. We loved the Royal Rumble because we never knew who was gonna come out next. element of surprise.
No mercy was the first new game I can remember buying myself, these games work because they felt like a actual arcade game with deep pools of individualism and editing gamers and wrestling fans cared about
The homie with another upload! I've been playing this recently too along with Day Of Reckoning 2. Both dope games. Idk if it's cause I'm old af now, but the Wrestlemania 2000 story mode is hard as hell. I get reversed every other move. It's still a damn good game.
How lucky were we back then that World Tour and Revenge both came out when WCW was on fire and dominating the ratings war. Then when THQ switched to WWF we had Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy when the WWF was on fire. It couldn't have been any better. THQ Switched right when WCW started floundering.
I don't have it in my top-3 best wrestling games ever, but it was mind blowing at the time how quickly it was put together after WWF was done with Akklaim. It was the equivalent of SYM on PS2, where it was a very, very good start for the following game. Me and my friends would spend entire holiday breaks playing this, Revenge and Def Jam Vendetta years later.
You could literally play this ALL DAY on Saturday until you went to bed.....and then the same thing on Sunday.....throw in a GameShark and it was a wrap.....talk about being glued to the TV
Totally! I remember wasting full summer days playing this from the moment I would wake up, to my eventual sleep, sometimes past midnight. It’s crazy how long I could play a great game back then. These days I’m bored with a game after an hour or so. 😂
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THE, you hear me.......THE BEST n64 wrestling game on the console.....seeing that this is a re-skin of the 2nd best wrestling game of all time......
I had all 4 games
I enjoyed the championship mode because the story changed on whether you won or lost
Was this the games that you could go online and find out how to create wrestlers or celebrates not in the game
When I think about it I wish they would use the 80s cage sometime .
A game that kinda gets lost in the shuffle -- doesn't get nearly enough credit for being the first great WWF game post-Acclaim. Also a *great* create mode.
Me and my brother had an epic journey scouring stores in NYC pre internet for this game; we stopped at any electronics store we saw from 125th to 56th coming up empty handed. Two weeks later at the Bradlee’s on 14th street.
It was after Acclaim.
@@dryzenhawk4251 that's what they said
MF DOOM 🙏🤴
First great wwf game in general ! This blew anything they previous made out the waters
2000 and No Mercy were and remain the gold standard. Shame they never made Backlash. These games hold up because of gameplay and of course the awesome roster. Good old days right here.
Gameplay? Eh.
@@FreshPrincex4 The game play is the claim to immortal fame for these THQ games. It has never been beaten to this day.
@@burntvirtue I always rave about WWF/E SmackDown and WWE SmackDown Vs Raw to WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2011 PS2
Backlash was made and produced but scrapped
N64 was dying at the time and the 6th gen was already underway with the Dreamcast out and the ps2 just coming out when no mercy was released. I believe the sales would’ve been low for the game since it would’ve most likely been released mid 2001
The THQ N64 wrestling games are still a blast to play.
That cover is iconic AF. The amount of hours i spent on this game in the CAW mode alone. Setting moves on my CAW is how i learned the name of every wrestling move
What's funny is how almost every wrestler on the cover of the WWF WrestleMania 2000 game (except for The Undertaker), participated in the same match at the real WrestleMania 2000 pay per view : The Rock, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Triple H.
@@jerelminter Right That's honestly great about It😁
Me and my friends used to binge play this game on weekends.
I was one of the unfortunate kids to receive the bugged WWF No Mercy cartridge that occasionally erased all of my save data, so WWF 2000 was my go-to wrestling game up until Day of Reckoning on GameCube.
I remember when my uncle got this game when it came out, We were marking out when we were playing it. I still have this game and play it from time to time. Wrestlemania 2000 was way ahead of it's time.
@Autistic_Reject ☣️ Hell naw! 🤣🤣🤣
I got this on launch day and my friend didnt believe me so i called him over my house phone and played The Big Show theme song on command......still remember that like it was yesterday
Haha, that’s awesome!
I got this game at a flea market back in 2013 or 14 where I also got my Nintendo 64 which was $30 what a steal, I also got other games like Super Smash Bros, Super Mario 64, and WCW Mayhem but with WWF Wrestlemania 2000 I never gave it a chance. Until 2019 I decided to play it and I fell in love with the game. I played as a created Goldberg against Triple H in a steel cage match and that lasted almost an hour since I was having a blast playing the game. The controls were incredible, then I saw people talk about WCW/NWO World Tour, Revenge and WWF No Mercy which I found out they were also developed by AKI so I just had to get them. I got both WCW/NWO World Tour, also Revenge on Ebay for $15 again what a steal and then got WWF No Mercy at a retro video game store for about $20 although I wish I got the version that was patched but it's still an amazing game just like all the wrestling games AKI made they never made one bad wrestling game.
Bro, so good to see WM2000 getting some love... I've always called it the forgotten classic, because, well... No Mercy, but in 99 this was my jam. Still play my original cart to this day
Right on man, mine is the original cart as well!
As much as everyone loves No Mercy I was always drawn back to this game mostly for ministry Undertaker and this being the middle of the attitude era where as no mercy was closer to the end
I prefer this game over No Mercy for these reasons: full entrances, better faces, no slowdown during matches, all wrestlers have their entrance music, and better roster.
And the rock music in this is better then the music in No Mercy
@@ChemicalCorpse91 Agreed.
@@ChemicalCorpse91 Facts💯👍🏾
Same here still like this one moreb
@@superdaygh Agreed💯Only OG's know Wassup.
Road To Wrestlemania mode was nuts if you pay attention to how long matches sometimes ran, like episodes of Heat were like 5 hours overall. like Droz vs Road Dogg goes 57 minutes and ends in a double countout, Steve Blackman beats Test in 52 minutes by submission, Stone Cold vs Undertaker vs The Rock goes 1 hour time limit draw....its crazy. I never took note of that before and then recently did a play through of the mode again and noticed ALOT of matches going at least 50 minutes.
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Forreal? Damn that's pretty in depth.
Hey Nikateen. I heard Scott Hall passed away today and I want to say that I’m so sorry because I know he’s your favorite wrestler of all time. One things for sure, I’m happy he’s free from his pain and he’ll always be remembered. Rest Easy Scott Hall.
Intro in this game was amazing and full entrance for every wrestler.
WCW/NWO Revenge,
WWF WrestleMania 2000 and
WWF No Mercy are goated.
Who could forget the 59:57 Count Out wins between Thrasher and Mideon in the story mode
Haha!
So many amazing memories with ALL the AKI titles
I actually preferred this one to no mercy. A huge jump from revenge, adding the entrances music and titantrons, other match types and create a wrestler and ppv. Def an under appreciated game!
Me too. I dont know why. I guess I just love the roster of 99 corporation, corporate ministry, Dx. Rock with side burns. I like no mercy. But the feel of this game just feels good to me
Me three
Same here. Mania 2000 I liked more than no mercy
Me too after the wcw games i logged more hours on this one. By no mercy I was burnt out and moved on....
I adore that Summerslam Entrance animation with the gates opening
Fun fact before Mania 2000 if you create a wrestling in previous games before 2000 the create an entrances had few to no entrance parts that referenced other wrestlers both non-featured/none WWF roster wrestlers
What? 🤔 I'm trying to get my head around this statement
@@PETEYTHECLOWN Same i am really confuse ?
@@PETEYTHECLOWN most or all wrestling games before Wrestlemania 2000, create an entrance was generic. Whereas in this game, it has everyone's mannerisms, taunts, music, etc.
@@EmmettXIV damn you must be a codebreaker to understand what THEANIMEFANZ said lmfao
2000 is my goat so many memories with this game😭
One of my favourite aspects of the Road to WrestleMania mode was that not only could you use it with a CAW, when you completed it you were given the option of continuing for another year as a different character. Choose a new CAW and your original one stays on the roster (replacing one of the actual WWE wrestlers). Continue doing this and you can (eventually) have a roster packed with your own CAW characters.
Yes! I'm still playing my career mode from 23 years ago.
I adore the intro videos that play in the AKI wcw/wwf games. They capture so many iconic wrestling images in 64 bit graphics. The clip of Stone Cold stunnering The Undertaker is my favourite bit.
I still play this game to this very day.
This has my favourite roster of any wrestling game.
My childhood friends and I used to play this game all the time, even after No Mercy came out. Our belt info is still saved and though we dont see each other as much since we moved around, we always bust this game out when we meet up and defends our belts.
Great to see you back here! Thanks for the comment dude!
@@NikateeN Always here for your content, that's what OG fans of yours do!
The animated in these games is nothing short of an incredible feat. The animations are better than a lot of video games in our present day. It almost doesn't even make sense how far ahead of its time the animations actually were.
I spent a good amount of time playing wrestlemania 2000 as a young 7 year old. Great times I'll always cherish.
I would have loved to see what this game would look like if it were ported onto the PlayStation One. Hell, someone made a sick looking PS1 fan port of Bloodborne and released that a few weeks ago. Add a few exclusive modes like Hell in a Cell, the wrestlers that were cut out from the game, CD quality entrance themes, and full FMV titantrons into it and you pretty much got it going on.
Word Up! The Bloodborne DMake is great too! The sane guy & a couple others have "D-makes" of a few games! Some are just technical demos but some are fully functional! This def would be great to DMake!
Had an absolute blast on this game back in the day. My friend and I changed the entire roster and we made our own company . Great times
The level of creativity was amazing!
Loved the inclusion of Steiner math - the numbers don't lie! For real though, this is a great review. I especially liked learning about the background of the development and how WWE came to be developed by THQ. Hard to believe WCW would've moved away from a literal award winning formula.
Thanks! Yea, it’s a trip to think that they would walk away from THQ who signed with them before they were hot, just to join up with EA based on their status as a mega power in the gaming industry. All to backfire in their face and send one of the best wrestling game developers running to the competition.
This is my favorite wrestling game of all time it came out at the beginning of my senior year. And I’m a huge street fighter fan and they had create a wrestler options and moves to create Ryu, Ken, & Akuma even down to Akuma’s hair prayer beads and rope belt. I @40 still plays this game to this day. Hell they had the shoryuken as a move and hadoken movement as a taunt.
I love the fact that there was never a wait for load time on a cartridge. It’s pretty annoying to wait for loading all the time. N64 was and is still an awesome console. Loved it. Still love it. I feel like overall game quality was better back then. In my opinion N64 probably had the lowest percentage of lousy games of all the consoles.
ROM cartridges usually loaded fast because most of the assets could be accessed directly from the cartridge, unlike more modern mass storage devices.
They did still load though: Banjo Tooie N64's infamous frame rate is due to it constantly loading.
Let’s go! The legend is back! Man, this game is super fun! The AKI games are always endless fun no matter what. I feel like this game is underrated as more people talk about WCW/nWo Revenge and No Mercy more, but this is just as fun too. I also love hearing your stories on how you were introduced to these gems as a kid. I hope you never forget these memories. Glad you’re back, homie, and I hope you can revisit No Mercy soon. Peace.✌️❤️
As always, thanks for the support Alec!
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Of course, my friend. You deserve it.👍
I always thought wrestlemania 2000 was better than no mercy
Me too!
I will always look back at this game fondly. It's the first wrestling game I've ever played and was my introduction to WWE in general
Just heard the news about Scott Hall and wanted to come here and give my condolences, I know you're not family to him or anything but I know he was your favorite wrestler of all time and this news must hit you pretty hard. Maybe do a top 10 Scott Hall matches as a tribute? Take care bud..
Dude, I just commented basicaly the same thing. I just remembered about Nik right away. RIP the greatest bad guy ever
I absolutely loved this game undertaker felt like the undertaker there was a clear difference between fighting stone cold compared to go crash holly awesome career moder great create side of things overlooked for fir sure
We would get along as friends. Awesome video. 😎✌️
Thanks a lot!
Kane's "burnt" face 🤣 NEVER gets old
WWF No Mercy built on every great aspect of WM2000, but it was also slower. Because of this, I tend to play WM2000 more often. This, and I prefer the weekly structure for the season mode
Man I remember when I first got this game Christmas of 99, me and my older cousin played it for hours every weekend. Spending hours creating a wrestler, and playing the Royal Rumble match, this was my favorite game over no mercy because of the Undertaker had his ministry of darkness gimmick. It’s a shame that No Mercy stole its thunder because this was a great that doesn’t get mentioned a lot.
Agreed! This game was straight up epic.
Mate, I was JUST thinking about hooking up my N64 for a session of this game! I have loved it for over 20 years and honestly think it is my favourite game from the 64 era (Zeldas and Mario's included).
Thanks for putting this together!
Had no recollection of the Razors Edge being referred to as "The Insiders Edge" fucking hilarious
I only had a PlayStation at the time, and was enjoying WWF Warzone and Attitude, but Mania 2000 was almost the perfect wrestling game! That game was the only reason I regretted not getting an N64. Luckily my best friend/Sisters Boyfriend had one and I was able to borrow his to play it!Another good video bro!
Thanks a lot! We didn’t have a lot of money at the time but thanks to some well off family members of mine I was lucky enough to have all 3 consoles from this generation, with the N64 and PS1 being absolutely game changing regarding wrestling games.
Totally. My cousin had N64 and I had PS1 back then. I had fun with the Acclaim games and later Smackdown 1 and 2, but clearly the N64 ones were better as a whole. I eventually bought an N64 only for the wrestling games.
We would play Revenge for hours, and later the Smackdown games on PS2. Great times from my childhood. Glad I still have all these old games.
I remember when I bought this game! I would play it until 6 a.m. almost every day. Recreating my favorite wrestlers that weren't included in the roster and even coming up with my own original wrestlers. I think I still have a replay recorded on one of my old VHS tape of the ending of one of my matches somewhere :p This game and the follow up WWF No Mercy are without a shadow of a doubt the greatest wrestling games ever created.
Those years were amazing for wrestling fans! What a great time to be alive :)
I remember when this wm2000 came out it played well and looked cool and was a blast to play royal rumble and other modes with friends. It remains a fixture on my RetroPie setup.
Harry Cox was always my favorite wrestler. He is a for sure future Hall of famer.
if no mercy never existed then this would be a contender for the GOAT
Ken Shamrock is like the wrestling equivalent of Johan Cruyff. He may not have won the biggest prize in his respective sport, but he did something way more important: he completely changed the way it was played for years to come.
20:16 had such an occurrence in No Mercy. Had a First Blood match as part of whatever storyline I was following, and the first thing I did once the bell rang was to go and look for a weapon to try to do the deed quickly. Match was over in 52 seconds after connecting the first blow... 🤷♂
Yes Nikateen has done it again with WrestleMania 2000 I actually got my copy of WrestleMania 2000 on the N64 last Christmas and I also have a Game Boy Colour copy of the game also hey are u ever going to be doing a ReReview of WWF No Mercy by any chance as well as a review of WWF Games from the NES SNES and Sega Genesis by any chance as well as WCW games on the NES and SNES and will there be more content later on next time
I just recently brought out my Nintendo 64 from storage and started playing this game again. Such great memories. Such amazing games. Great video as always!
Thanks a lot! I love to hear how many others have such fond memories of this one.
I used to imitate Mankind's walk cycle from this game when I was 4 and my Mum would ask 'why are you walking around like you've been shot?! XD
Lol! I used to walk into rooms imitating Scott Hall’s entrance. Only the real ones knew what I was doing, while others just thought I was crazy.
This game & NO MERCY I think hit the perfect sweet spot for how to successfully have a CAW system that's both pretty expansive but also not overwhelming.
Yeah, there aren't a 1,001 options for how your superstar climbs into the ring or individually paint each fingernail a custom color, but IMO the absurd amount of customization becomes a slog when it takes an entire day to create your guy before even starting a career mode. That ridiculous amount of customization is also an excuse by publishers to make the high-end suplexes/superkicks/top rope moves/taunts/etc pay to play with microtransactions or loot boxes, it just sucks compared to the simplicity of WRESTLEMANIA 2K or NO MERCY.
Man I remember 99 when WM2000 came out that was a good X-Mas..
Uploaded just in time for work. Thanks, Nick! You could review this game a dozen times and I'd watch every time.
Thanks for your continued support Jon!
One of my favorite games I had so much fun with all four of my friends playing simultaneously
I played this game solidly for about two years when I was 15 and only today I have learned about the cartoon mini Earl Hebner. 😮
One of the main things that I love about this game going back to it, & what makes it really stand out when compared to the Smackdown games, is that certain wrestlers that you fight will actually wrestle you like the person that they're playing as. I wrestled some of the lower card in RTW mode & I usually managed to squash them in 1-2 minutes. However when going into the mid card where I was being put against guys like Ken Shamrock, he was way harder to beat & I had to change my momentum strategy to counter the way he wrestles. Yes, Ken Shamrock will actually fight you like he is Ken Shamrock. Every time he had me on the floor, he kept trying to put me in the ankle lock & had a way more aggressive striking strategy to take advantage. Going against the Hardy Boyz found me having to counter a lot of faster high flying moves as well. The developers definitely did their research when programming the AI for this game. Just because you're on a certain difficulty, doesn't mean that it will remain consistent against multiple wrestlers. It's one of the reasons why I always went off the Smackdown games when I took off my nostalgia goggles. Take HCTP for example. If you play on the hardest difficulty, every single wrestler will have the same AI strategy against you (besides move sets & attributes) no matter who you're facing & their reversals against you will just be down to a role of the dice, rather than momentum. You could be kicking a guys butt & he'll still manage to reverse almost all of your moves in HCTP. In the AKI games, having higher momentum or a higher attitude meter will give an advantage & vice versa, giving the player a decent wrestling strategy to achieve when facing different opponents.
The AKI games are amazing & I always go back to them haha. It's amazing to see people give the credit they deserve when reviewing them & seeing younger people experience them.
HES FINALLY BACK
I was 6 years old when this came out, my older brother and his friends would place this for hours in my living room, the graphics looked so real at the time😂
I was also a Freshman in high school when WWF WrestleMania 2000 was released in late 1999 but I was playing WWF Attitude PSX and I brought WWF Attitude PSX again after not owning it in over 20 years
I love that game man! Still would play it to this day.
Back again with another classic
When I finally got my own I was on it all night. My first wrestling game that I didn't have to share. I loved it
this was my favorite! hours upon hours ...I still remember winning the Royal Rumble to finally unlock HBK!
90s babies UNITE!!!! If you ain't have the fondest memories with this Game, I don't know what to say but : Mid tier childhood
I always dug the 1999 era of WM 2000 vs the 2000 era of No Mercy. I wasn't watching the WWF in 99 so I was really intrigued by characters like Ministry Taker, the Blue Meanie, Gangrel and the Brood, Prince Albert, Al Snow and Droz.
Going back, I love that shortlived stables like the Union and the Corporate Ministry have their theme and titantrons.
N64's WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy wrestling video games are the best and still is the best my top 2 favorites WWF No Mercy and WWF Wrestlemania 2000 THE GOAT 👑💯
Great video on WrestleMania 2000.
WCW NWO World Tour was the first game i got for N64 for Christmas as a kid. I loved it and enjoyed how much better each wrestling game from Aki got. I was baffled at first when they dropped WCW, considering how excellent WCW/NWO Revenge was (and i was still more a wcw fan at the time).
But i gave WrestleMania 2000 a chance and was blown away. I loved the deep customization and Road to Wrestlemania mode. It also made me appreciate how much more interesting the WWF attitude era wrestlers were than what i was seeing on wcw.
Although the WCW games did feature a better roster. The game play evolved with each new THQ release.
I remember playing WCW VS NWO World Tour, for the first time too. I was blown away and spent countless hours on the game. It was light years ahead of any wrestling game I had owned or played before. Which were mostly on the 16 bit consoles.
I’ll always prefer this to No Mercy simply because I could never find a copy that didn’t have that bug that deletes all your game data.
Hell yeah 🔥🔥 thanks man 😎 one of my favorite games of all time!!
Great taste my dude!
I bought my N64 with birthday money in 2000, got the DK edition on sale. First thing I did was go to blockbuster and rent WM2000. When I took the rental back, I used the rest of my birthday money to buy it. Six months later No Mercy came out and blew my mind.
The characters twitching after finishers was so dope
This game was very special to me, have amazing memories playing it! When I found out that iconic main menu theme was heavily inspired by Pantera's Psycho Holiday I was like "no wonder I liked it so much" (during that time I started to notice I loved guitar based music, mainly rock and metal) and the fact you could create wrestlers in the AKI engine, man I always ended up doing many headcanon stories with my creations! To me this game is part of the holy tetralogy of AKI engine games alongside No Mercy, Revenge and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2
Dude.. I legitimately still play this game nightly on a handheld device... I play this, wcw revenge and vpw2 as if it's a 1998 universe.
I'm pushing 40 and still living the dream that it's 1998! 😳
More power to you man! Keep the dream alive!
@@NikateeN nWo 4 life 🤘
I'm sure its just nostalgia but this is my favorite of the THQ AKI games, with Revenge not far behind. WCW vs The World and World Tour have their place as a foundation but are dated. No Mercy had some nice quality of life stuff but I freaking hate the appearance of that game, although I did play the ever loving shit out of it when it was new. But WM 2000 is the one I go back to today. I just love it.
I preferred WM2000 to No Mercy, too. U spent more time playing WM and unfortunately I had the glitched version of No Mercy, where all saved files would get deleted at random times.
@@martynodonnell8467 so would wm2000 out of nowhere
Dope video, I liked this format. Keep it up, man
Thanks!
I had this for my birthday in 2000. I played it constantly
So thankful you decided to revisit these undeniable classics...
I tell ya brother I still remember the hours of playing this one at the afterschool youth Christian center with friends...In that gritty dingey sports room with the TV on the stand with the n64 man and having so much fun and that was in like 2004-2005!!
Right on! I was in a after school church program back in the early 90s in 3rd grade and they had a Genesis with Green Dog, Strider, and Streets of Rage 2. Great memories!
Running grapples debuted in Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 which came out January 2000. No Mercy came out November 2000 as Nik mentioned in his recent VPW2 review.
this game was a blast, I remember playing it as a freshman in college. My friends and I had a running gag, because we all made versions of ourselves and one of our friends used to go out of his way to claim he had a big dong so every once in a while I'd change his finisher to the small package lol
Fantastic recap of one of my all-time sentimental favorites. I was about 10 when this one dropped and have so many fond memories of playing for hours on end at my friend's house. This game actually got me into wrestling which is a love I still have to this day. Keep up the great work man, your videos are such top quality.
Thanks!
This was a groundbreaker, mainly for the CAW. Every single wrestler you created looked like they belonged next to in-game wrestlers. It took the Smackdown games a decade to accomplish that.
used to play 4 players with my friends with these wrestling games. Loved how the N64 had 4 controller ports
This game was a dream come true. Revenge was the best wrestling game at the time. Warzone & attitude didn’t come close to revenge. Getting a wwf game with the aki engine was everything we could’ve asked for. The first great wwf game was born with this entry
Love this game. If you have a house full of people, Do not do CAW mode because everyone else will just be sitting there for hours while you spend at least 2 hours making one wrestler. But We loved to do Pay Per View mode and basically become Vince McMahon and make our favorite Raw/Heat/PPV events. We loved the Royal Rumble because we never knew who was gonna come out next. element of surprise.
No mercy was the first new game I can remember buying myself, these games work because they felt like a actual arcade game with deep pools of individualism and editing gamers and wrestling fans cared about
The homie with another upload! I've been playing this recently too along with Day Of Reckoning 2. Both dope games. Idk if it's cause I'm old af now, but the Wrestlemania 2000 story mode is hard as hell. I get reversed every other move. It's still a damn good game.
The Road to WrestleMania mode definitely amps up the difficulty when it comes to the AI countering. Sometimes it’s borderline ridiculous!
@NikateeN Aight, I thought I was bugging 🤣 I know my reflexes went down over the years, but damn I was getting my ass kicked.
How lucky were we back then that World Tour and Revenge both came out when WCW was on fire and dominating the ratings war. Then when THQ switched to WWF we had Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy when the WWF was on fire.
It couldn't have been any better. THQ Switched right when WCW started floundering.
R.I.P. Scott Hall.
That Al Snow entrance song that keeps looping is creepy ASF, sounds like it's looping the word Satan
Lol, the fact you pulled out NASCAR 2000, I remember playing that and making it my mission to beat every season and career record.
I remember getting my n64 and this game for xmas in 99... it was so awesome!!!
I don't have it in my top-3 best wrestling games ever, but it was mind blowing at the time how quickly it was put together after WWF was done with Akklaim. It was the equivalent of SYM on PS2, where it was a very, very good start for the following game. Me and my friends would spend entire holiday breaks playing this, Revenge and Def Jam Vendetta years later.
Sym was a very good start? Lol best game of all time is just a start? 🤣 And you put it in WM 2000 level with barely any features? Lol
@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject uuummm HCTP is widely regarded as the better game over SYM. So yeah!
You could literally play this ALL DAY on Saturday until you went to bed.....and then the same thing on Sunday.....throw in a GameShark and it was a wrap.....talk about being glued to the TV
Totally! I remember wasting full summer days playing this from the moment I would wake up, to my eventual sleep, sometimes past midnight. It’s crazy how long I could play a great game back then. These days I’m bored with a game after an hour or so. 😂
This game is my childhood. Hints my name. So many memories tied with this. Thanks for the video fam