Those were the days, when they were unknown and hard-core back then. A friend of mine in high school told me to check out ECW and to watch them on the public access channel. Miss those 90s wrestling days
Another thing that always bothered me about the Acclaim games was how nobody had actual hands, they were more like paws. Every punch was an open-hand slap.
@@hitek9too255 Attitude had ugly models and clunky gameplay. WrestleMania 2000 had blocky models and awesome gameplay. Again, I was a sucker for both back in the day, but the N64 THQ/AKI games blew these Acclaim titles out of the water. No contest.
Yeah, I think once THQ took over the games, there really wasn't much competition. On another thread, I said I feel funny looking back on it because my friends with a PS1 had *WWF Attitude* and the *WCW Nitro* and *Thunder* games. I had an N64 and always had this sort of jealousy because the PS1 could play full videos of the wrestlers' entrances, their titantron videos, them talking trash, etc. Little did I know that I was actually playing far superior games with *WCW vs. nWo: Revenge, WWF - Wrestlemania 2000,* and *WWF - No Mercy.*
It's pretty messed up that we never got an actual good ECW game. WCW had their runs, of course the WWE/F games are the staple, but ECW never had a great game...
Like the acclaim WWF games before them, the ECW games suffered the same fate and they didn't age well. They came out at a time when wrestling games were evolving and with WM 2000 on N64 and WWF Smackdown on PS1, the ECW games couldn't compete. It was also around the time when the promotion itself was gonna go bankrupt soon.
The problem is, unlike the Acclaim WWF games, the ECW games were born already old. By the time Hardcore Revolution came up, we had WCW Mayhem (which, while not even close to being as fun as the AKI games, were still a step forward compared to the Acclaim games) and WWF SmackDown was right behind the corner. If you had a PS1, you had a lot more choice than you did in '98.
All I can really remember is playing these back when I had them on the Playstation. During the time, I was a huge wrestling fan and I would buy every wrestling game that came out on the PS1. A lot of times after they had been out for a minute, but I would eventually get them. I really enjoyed Hardcore Revolution. And yeah, it was just the WWE War Zone and Attitude engine. But you have to remember what WCW was putting out at the time. Next to Nitro, Thunder, Mayhem, and Backstage Brawl, the War Zone engine was awesome. I had gotten Smackdown by this time and it was definitely superior. But just for a quick pick it up and unlock a character, Hardcore Revolution was passable. And I enjoyed the ECW roster. I didn't buy Anarchy Rulz until 2011 and boy was that disappointing! By that time, I hadn't messed with any of these games in a while, so I could really tell how clunky the engine was. And I just didn't feel like doing the grinds anymore. But I still have some good memories of playing the first one. Hardcore Revolution just felt like taking my "Build a Character" into a new company.
The new finishers they put in were pretty good. I have never seen the acid drop put into any other game yet. The Nutcracker Sweet, 5 star, Evenflow, and even the really weird cradle piledriver were good.
It's kinda sad to realize that Dawn Marie was in both ECW video games but only managed to appear in ONE WWE game (GC's WrestleMania XIX) despite being part of WWE's personnel for years and being pretty much Torrie Wilson's main rival.
Even others like Joy Giovanni and Amy Weber who were on screen for maybe a year were on SVR (05) not like it was a deal breaker but it is odd for sure.
I remember reading in gaming magazines at the time that Joey Styles had a Shooting Star Press because Styles himself allegedly did the motion capture for it himself. Not sure how true that ever was, though I guess if Styles was ever in any shape to actually perform an SSP it'd be around this time.
I may be wrong, but I just feel like with WWF being a national heading towards global brand and WCW being at their hottest and literally funded by a billionaire, any type of video game for ECW, which was as Indie as it gets(being silently aided by WWF aside) would be a miracle.
So, a few points as i admittedly am about to play the video. Warzone was so much worse than all of em, you couldnt even select your opponent and the finishers werent even in the pause menu. But we didnt know any better so we had a ton of fun. Attitude was an improvement but much of the same. By the time ecw came out 1.) it was cheap compared to other wrestling games. 2.) it helped fans who had no way of watching the product learn about ecw and the wrestlers/moves. 3.) Anarchy Rulz finally fixed the control scheme and made it as simplified as it always shouldve been
I don't think I ever knew about the move list in this or War Zone/Attitude. I just bought the strategy guides because they had each wrestlers' move set.
I imagine Rockstar would have paid for the songs and more since they were including licensed music in games before GTA3 was a thing (see Thrasher: Skate & Destroy for one example).
Like how new jacks attire still holds Up today. Guessing he told Acclaim not to Screw it up or he'll find them.😂 Acclaim:okay okay we...we...will Uh um do it right.😓
The best part about Acclaim's laziness is that the "New" match modes in Anarchy Rulz were literally matches meant for the next WWF game that never came. The Brimstone match was their attempt at Inferno Matches. The Dumpster Match was from WM 14. Rage In The Cage was the Lion's Den.
Loved these games but preferred Anarchy Rulz. Spent a lot of time playing the WWF Acclaim games with my cousin so it was easy to pick up and play. I just couldn't get into the Smackdown engine until Know Your Role.
I bought Anarchy and Medal of Honor the same time. I never thought the ww2 game would be less frustrating and challenging. Rubber band a.i. and I didn't hate it, I just wanted to use the guys. It was fun having all the promotions to be like a wrestling god controlling all 3 though. I feel like video games decided the Monday night wars more than the tv though. Wrestle mania 2000 Wcw mayhem Ecw hardcore. Then No mercy Backstage assault Anarchy Rulz. They were pretty reflective of the promotions of whose names they had.
I have fond memories of this game on Ps1 been on sale at a indie wrestling show that came to my hometown as Sabu was in the main event. (it was those weird PS1 not for sale ones with the plastic cases and b/w discs) come Sunday, they were all onsale down the local carboot. absolute grind of a game to get thru. looking back anarchy rulz was no better either. i think the only highlight was the unedited sweary rants some of the wrestlers had as their opening speeches, especially Rhino's lol
The only fun I had with these games was the occasional break from WM2000/No Mercy to turn people into bloody messes in barbed wire matches. War Zone and Attitude were practically unplayable for me, so these were huge letdowns.
Wow, flashbacks to the grind! I was a huge ecw fan so certainly would have claimed to enjoy at the time. Only thing I remember truly enjoying was Dope - Debonaire from the Anarchy Rulez menu and having a CAW who had every available groin attack in his move set.
I remember owning Revolution. It was ok to a youngin' like me at the time. Played WCW Thunder much more and Smackdiwn until the disc died, but by the next one was out by then to be a fantastic replacement. I can smelllll the greatness cookin'!
15:23 Oh my god that one venue in Anarchy Rulz having its TNN sign replaced with just a second ECW sign because Raw moved to that channel in 2000 is so sad
Not sure about early 00's Rockstar producing an ECW game that'd be known through the ages.... I can only remember the first 2 GTA games, and thinking they were fun, but not what the franchise would become... but if ECW survived a few more years around the time that Rockstar started getting better at making great brawler-style games, that'd be an absolute dream team!
Well, GTA 3 arrived the following year :P While some of their games had promise (Bounty Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley on N64 come to mind), they definately did some contract work to pay the bills/finance the games they actually wanted to work on. The fact that Rockstar wanted to work with ECW, prpbably meant the game might've got a little extra care. Definately more care than what Acclaim did :(
@@metalninjajesus1580 Hard to say since we don't know which of their development studios would have lead development on it and in 1999-2000 they had several studios internally through Take-Two and others they frequently partnered with. Z-Axis might have probably gotten a shot at it since RS/Take-Two published Skate and Destroy which was a solid 7/10 game. Tarantula Studios at the time were just port monkeys for RS/TT games but were itching to create a game too. Those are just two examples.
Awesome Vid yea I got both ECW games back in the day I enjoyed Warzone an Attitude but when ECW HR came out I was hoping for some more but I still played it a lot. The Sequel added more stuff an once again I played it a lot. But man we can image if RockStar would have made the games.
One of my biggest complaints about Attitude/Hardcore Revolution is that they don't use the move set style that War Zone did. In War Zone pretty much any two directional buttons will result in a move. Presses like Up, Down, B or Left, Right, A would do a decent and sometimes signature move (Down, Down, B was a chokeslam for example) But when they releases Attitude they left A LOT of button commands blank so if you tried to guess at a combo then pretty much without fail you'd just end up doing an armbar or a wristlock... completely killed the flow of matches. The only time I ever had fun with Attitude and ECW games was when I made create-a-wrestlers with custom movesets based on War Zone's button inputs.
It probably would have been better for ECW to take a worse agreement to have Rockstar make the game. I expect there was a lot of overlap in their fanbases at the time.
4:15 not only that, in the SmackDown game, you could ACTUALLY do hard-core things in matches. In the ECW game, you couldn’t do anything fun. The ECW video game from acclaim played like WWE’s version of ECW on TV. 🤢🤮
The best games to feature ECW was the WWE games svr 2008-2011 although as the WWE ECW brand there was good storylines you could create I did one where Tommy dreamer was WWE champion after cashing in MITB and then John cena wins the ECW championship at the royal rumble after beating my created wrestler who just defended the WWE title on the same night. Also rocks return on the ECW brand and JBL getting annoyed rock is payed more.
I was a teenager when Warzone came out, and me and my friend bought one for each of us. Now that I think about it, it looks like a game that you can play on Newgrounds.
I remember being so excited to get Anarchy Rulz. I didn’t have Revolution but I had WWF Raw Zone and when I realized it was the same game I was sooooo pissed. I wasted like 2 months of allowance and I hated War Zone for the controls and pausing to figure out the tough combos
Had the Dreamcast version of what I think was the first game. Got Fire Pro D like 6 months later and never thought of it again. I might actually still have the disc somewhere.
I still play this sometimes...ECW Hardcore Revolution -have had it since it came out. I love the crowd in this one which seems minor but the crowd reactions, name calling and such is IMO better than any other N64 wrestling game. It's a better game than Nitro, Mayhem and World Tour, IMO
When I was a kid a friend brought over a copy of the first ECW game and I didn't know who the hell any of the characters were because we didn't get ECW in our area.
I know you probably want a break after finishing reliving the war. However a look back on ECW week by week from Shane Douglas throwing down the belt till closure would be interesting. As I think there is a big discrepancy on how it is remembered and how it actually was.
My cousin and I played WWF Attitude after playing Smackdown 1 and 2, and we were blown away by the blood in WWF Attitude. We spent all day playing hardcore handicapped matches and destroyed our opponent.
The 1998-2000 Rockstar Games would have been a good fit, but they didn't have an amazing track record just yet. They had a string of hits and misses at that time until GTA3 released in October 2001. Which practically catapulted them into the stratosphere overnight and the rest, as they say, is history.
I was actually excited that ECW was getting a game, even though I had an idea of what was going to happen, and was majorly disappointed when Acclaim microwaved last night's slop.
The first ECW game was just Warzone reskinned Edit: I typed this from personal experience before starting the video 😂. I was so upset when I popped that disc in
Id of loved to seen what rockstar woulda done with making a ECW game. Woulda been potentially thr best wrestling game bringing in extra fans to the company.
Man, on one hand, A Rockstar developed ECW game would have been interesting. On the other hand, anything Rockstar non-GTA (especially in the late 90s) wasn't really that great IMO (think State of Emergency). I guess it all becomes "be careful what you wish for" type of hypothetical.
Nice man, this was a great game. If you used ravens ddt as a regular move for your created character you could get a guaranteed pin fall when the health bar was at yellow 💪😂
I went to the NYC ECW signing at Gamestop or Electrics Boutique for the first game and met RVD and Dreamer. Have pics on my IG of it and some pics of them arriving This game was definitely a major disappointment but it was cause i was a huge ECW fan that i let it slide for a little
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Rock Star would've been perfect to create ECW Video Game
They were dma at the time.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 He's referring to Rockstar the publisher, not Rockstar North. Rockstar existed since 1998.
Taz and Raven were the two coolest people on earth after I discovered ECW at 4am on my local public access channel in 1996...
Yeah that never happened...
@@Pine_Hill_Prophit I know right. Lol
Hell yea brotha! I thought the human suplex machine was the baddest mf walking
@@Pine_Hill_Prophit Raven & Taz were both in ECW in '96 so idk wtf you're talking about but great comment...
Those were the days, when they were unknown and hard-core back then. A friend of mine in high school told me to check out ECW and to watch them on the public access channel. Miss those 90s wrestling days
Another thing that always bothered me about the Acclaim games was how nobody had actual hands, they were more like paws. Every punch was an open-hand slap.
Limitations.
They didn't have what we got today.
Back in the day we thought this was
Cool.
I remember saying to a friend that it looked like they were wearing mittens
And WrestleMania 2000 had úgly blocky models and terrible faces
@@hitek9too255 Attitude had ugly models and clunky gameplay. WrestleMania 2000 had blocky models and awesome gameplay.
Again, I was a sucker for both back in the day, but the N64 THQ/AKI games blew these Acclaim titles out of the water. No contest.
After playing THQ's Smackdown!, the Acclaim games felt absolutely ancient. So clunky - the wrestlers moved like action figures
Smackdown on PS1 is no selling, overpriced Arcade junk. I'll rather play Attitude.
@@hitek9too255now that’s a wild take but okay
Yeah, I think once THQ took over the games, there really wasn't much competition. On another thread, I said I feel funny looking back on it because my friends with a PS1 had *WWF Attitude* and the *WCW Nitro* and *Thunder* games. I had an N64 and always had this sort of jealousy because the PS1 could play full videos of the wrestlers' entrances, their titantron videos, them talking trash, etc. Little did I know that I was actually playing far superior games with *WCW vs. nWo: Revenge, WWF - Wrestlemania 2000,* and *WWF - No Mercy.*
15:13 Lance Storm no-selling the table spot, the absolute mad lad.
When I seen that part I immediately remembered this comment cause I seen the comment early in the video
A must-buy video game title. It's like saying Undertaker vs. Goldberg is a must-watch wrestling match.
Maybe for morbid curiosity but that's about it lol
It's pretty messed up that we never got an actual good ECW game. WCW had their runs, of course the WWE/F games are the staple, but ECW never had a great game...
Those poor ECW fans.
Got garbage for Christmas.
Welp Merry Christmas.🤣
Acclaim:duh we don't how ECW
Work.🫨
Half to admit that new jack attire
Still hold up today.
Must have threatened Acclaim not
To ruin it.😂
With community creations you actually can make a decent ecw game roster. Small, but decent 👍😁👍
Acclaim really liked their Warzone game engine... 🙄
Like the acclaim WWF games before them, the ECW games suffered the same fate and they didn't age well. They came out at a time when wrestling games were evolving and with WM 2000 on N64 and WWF Smackdown on PS1, the ECW games couldn't compete. It was also around the time when the promotion itself was gonna go bankrupt soon.
The problem is, unlike the Acclaim WWF games, the ECW games were born already old. By the time Hardcore Revolution came up, we had WCW Mayhem (which, while not even close to being as fun as the AKI games, were still a step forward compared to the Acclaim games) and WWF SmackDown was right behind the corner. If you had a PS1, you had a lot more choice than you did in '98.
All I can really remember is playing these back when I had them on the Playstation. During the time, I was a huge wrestling fan and I would buy every wrestling game that came out on the PS1. A lot of times after they had been out for a minute, but I would eventually get them. I really enjoyed Hardcore Revolution. And yeah, it was just the WWE War Zone and Attitude engine. But you have to remember what WCW was putting out at the time. Next to Nitro, Thunder, Mayhem, and Backstage Brawl, the War Zone engine was awesome. I had gotten Smackdown by this time and it was definitely superior. But just for a quick pick it up and unlock a character, Hardcore Revolution was passable. And I enjoyed the ECW roster. I didn't buy Anarchy Rulz until 2011 and boy was that disappointing! By that time, I hadn't messed with any of these games in a while, so I could really tell how clunky the engine was. And I just didn't feel like doing the grinds anymore. But I still have some good memories of playing the first one. Hardcore Revolution just felt like taking my "Build a Character" into a new company.
The new finishers they put in were pretty good. I have never seen the acid drop put into any other game yet. The Nutcracker Sweet, 5 star, Evenflow, and even the really weird cradle piledriver were good.
It's kinda sad to realize that Dawn Marie was in both ECW video games but only managed to appear in ONE WWE game (GC's WrestleMania XIX) despite being part of WWE's personnel for years and being pretty much Torrie Wilson's main rival.
Nobody care about her in a game 😂
Even others like Joy Giovanni and Amy Weber who were on screen for maybe a year were on SVR (05) not like it was a deal breaker but it is odd for sure.
@@robertl.wilson1199 Exactly!
Wrestling games on handheld systems didn't really get good until the early to mid 2000's with Fire Pro on the GBA and Smackdown vs Raw on PSP.
Still don't Like hand held games
@@sweetpetergedagood for you lol
I remember reading in gaming magazines at the time that Joey Styles had a Shooting Star Press because Styles himself allegedly did the motion capture for it himself. Not sure how true that ever was, though I guess if Styles was ever in any shape to actually perform an SSP it'd be around this time.
No no no, Joey Styles has a Styles Clash and he invented the One Wing Angle
I may be wrong, but I just feel like with WWF being a national heading towards global brand and WCW being at their hottest and literally funded by a billionaire, any type of video game for ECW, which was as Indie as it gets(being silently aided by WWF aside) would be a miracle.
I rented these once back then and never again.
So, a few points as i admittedly am about to play the video. Warzone was so much worse than all of em, you couldnt even select your opponent and the finishers werent even in the pause menu. But we didnt know any better so we had a ton of fun. Attitude was an improvement but much of the same. By the time ecw came out 1.) it was cheap compared to other wrestling games. 2.) it helped fans who had no way of watching the product learn about ecw and the wrestlers/moves. 3.) Anarchy Rulz finally fixed the control scheme and made it as simplified as it always shouldve been
I don't think I ever knew about the move list in this or War Zone/Attitude. I just bought the strategy guides because they had each wrestlers' move set.
I wanted Anarchy Rulz for what felt like months. I finally rented it. I was quite happy to return it
That standing armbar animation gives me Nam flashbacks
I imagine Rockstar would have paid for the songs and more since they were including licensed music in games before GTA3 was a thing (see Thrasher: Skate & Destroy for one example).
I remember buying this as a youngin' and thinking how much better it looked on the cover than in-game 😅
It's great that you've covered ECW console games to go alongside your excellent collection of all the other games you've looked at
As an ECW fan I'll be pissed off seeing
This.
Like how new jacks attire still holds
Up today.
Guessing he told Acclaim not to
Screw it up or he'll find them.😂
Acclaim:okay okay we...we...will
Uh um do it right.😓
The ECW games after this where the Svr series
i forgot all about these games they just felt like WWF attitude with the ECW license awesome video.
I've still got this game on the Dreamcast. Great video as always
Man I was just looking for a review of these the other day, great timing.
Tomorrow is my birthday 🎉 thank you for your time and work Wrestling Bios
The best part about Acclaim's laziness is that the "New" match modes in Anarchy Rulz were literally matches meant for the next WWF game that never came. The Brimstone match was their attempt at Inferno Matches. The Dumpster Match was from WM 14. Rage In The Cage was the Lion's Den.
Got this for Christmas one year and probably played it twice
Loved these games but preferred Anarchy Rulz. Spent a lot of time playing the WWF Acclaim games with my cousin so it was easy to pick up and play. I just couldn't get into the Smackdown engine until Know Your Role.
I still have my copy of Hardcore Revolution on the 64.......... I have not intentions on ever playing it again. 😂
I bought mine just to have it not to play it. I couldn’t pass up 99 cents
@@shawn9753 🤣🤣🤣
I'm never playing mine either. But I stole mine from Hollywood video back in 2002. I did them a favor
Cant wait for your review on WWF Crush Hour LOL
I bought Anarchy and Medal of Honor the same time. I never thought the ww2 game would be less frustrating and challenging. Rubber band a.i. and I didn't hate it, I just wanted to use the guys. It was fun having all the promotions to be like a wrestling god controlling all 3 though. I feel like video games decided the Monday night wars more than the tv though.
Wrestle mania 2000
Wcw mayhem
Ecw hardcore.
Then
No mercy
Backstage assault
Anarchy Rulz.
They were pretty reflective of the promotions of whose names they had.
I have fond memories of this game on Ps1 been on sale at a indie wrestling show that came to my hometown as Sabu was in the main event. (it was those weird PS1 not for sale ones with the plastic cases and b/w discs) come Sunday, they were all onsale down the local carboot. absolute grind of a game to get thru. looking back anarchy rulz was no better either. i think the only highlight was the unedited sweary rants some of the wrestlers had as their opening speeches, especially Rhino's lol
ty for puting the effort for this video. it must hurt playing these. lol
The worst part is, these are bar none the best pro wrestling games on the Dreamcast.
Still an ECW fan
I love smackdown 1&2 the best, so easy to play
The only fun I had with these games was the occasional break from WM2000/No Mercy to turn people into bloody messes in barbed wire matches. War Zone and Attitude were practically unplayable for me, so these were huge letdowns.
Wow, flashbacks to the grind! I was a huge ecw fan so certainly would have claimed to enjoy at the time. Only thing I remember truly enjoying was Dope - Debonaire from the Anarchy Rulez menu and having a CAW who had every available groin attack in his move set.
I remember owning Revolution. It was ok to a youngin' like me at the time. Played WCW Thunder much more and Smackdiwn until the disc died, but by the next one was out by then to be a fantastic replacement. I can smelllll the greatness cookin'!
Elbows Pads|Knee Pads|Taped Wrists|MMA Style Gloves Past Present Future
15:23 Oh my god that one venue in Anarchy Rulz having its TNN sign replaced with just a second ECW sign because Raw moved to that channel in 2000 is so sad
I remember a mate if mine got Hardcore revolution and was so buzzed to play it, within 30 mins we went back to the wwf AKI games
This was one of my first games as a kid on 64. I wish I could find both right now as a adult
Not sure about early 00's Rockstar producing an ECW game that'd be known through the ages.... I can only remember the first 2 GTA games, and thinking they were fun, but not what the franchise would become... but if ECW survived a few more years around the time that Rockstar started getting better at making great brawler-style games, that'd be an absolute dream team!
Well, GTA 3 arrived the following year :P
While some of their games had promise (Bounty Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley on N64 come to mind), they definately did some contract work to pay the bills/finance the games they actually wanted to work on. The fact that Rockstar wanted to work with ECW, prpbably meant the game might've got a little extra care. Definately more care than what Acclaim did :(
@@metalninjajesus1580 Hard to say since we don't know which of their development studios would have lead development on it and in 1999-2000 they had several studios internally through Take-Two and others they frequently partnered with. Z-Axis might have probably gotten a shot at it since RS/Take-Two published Skate and Destroy which was a solid 7/10 game. Tarantula Studios at the time were just port monkeys for RS/TT games but were itching to create a game too. Those are just two examples.
I still have both these games, and I enjoyed them then and do still play today. I play on the original Playstation.
Awesome Vid yea I got both ECW games back in the day I enjoyed Warzone an Attitude but when ECW HR came out I was hoping for some more but I still played it a lot. The Sequel added more stuff an once again I played it a lot. But man we can image if RockStar would have made the games.
Smack down on ps1 was the most played wrestling game by me 😅
One of my biggest complaints about Attitude/Hardcore Revolution is that they don't use the move set style that War Zone did. In War Zone pretty much any two directional buttons will result in a move. Presses like Up, Down, B or Left, Right, A would do a decent and sometimes signature move (Down, Down, B was a chokeslam for example)
But when they releases Attitude they left A LOT of button commands blank so if you tried to guess at a combo then pretty much without fail you'd just end up doing an armbar or a wristlock... completely killed the flow of matches.
The only time I ever had fun with Attitude and ECW games was when I made create-a-wrestlers with custom movesets based on War Zone's button inputs.
Create-a-wrestler is usually one of the best parts of a wrestling game
Acclaim love their warzone engine.
please keep doing videos as often as you do . Its really helping me out in hard times.
ECW was also featured in SVR games
But didn't catch the spirit of ECW.😂
It probably would have been better for ECW to take a worse agreement to have Rockstar make the game. I expect there was a lot of overlap in their fanbases at the time.
I loved Hardcore Revolution! I played it so much on my Dreamcast!
My two favorite things wrestling and comic books. JK Simmons aka Omni Man also J Jonah, Jameson vs WWE John Cena
Lame
4:15 not only that, in the SmackDown game, you could ACTUALLY do hard-core things in matches. In the ECW game, you couldn’t do anything fun. The ECW video game from acclaim played like WWE’s version of ECW on TV. 🤢🤮
Huge shoutout for saying “Aki” and not “A-K-I.”
Smack down came out I never looked back.
These games were ass I'm glad your covering them!!!
Ass? 🤔
@@partypoppers1988 Yep A S S.
I'm a huge ECW fan, but when I tell you that these games almost ruined my fandom.... man, that's Hard Time's
The best games to feature ECW was the WWE games svr 2008-2011 although as the WWE ECW brand there was good storylines you could create I did one where Tommy dreamer was WWE champion after cashing in MITB and then John cena wins the ECW championship at the royal rumble after beating my created wrestler who just defended the WWE title on the same night. Also rocks return on the ECW brand and JBL getting annoyed rock is payed more.
I was a teenager when Warzone came out, and me and my friend bought one for each of us. Now that I think about it, it looks like a game that you can play on Newgrounds.
I remember being so excited to get Anarchy Rulz. I didn’t have Revolution but I had WWF Raw Zone and when I realized it was the same game I was sooooo pissed. I wasted like 2 months of allowance and I hated War Zone for the controls and pausing to figure out the tough combos
Bought the first ecw game on PS1 at Walmart 2 weeks after it came out, just wanted to play as RVD
I had an ECW game it was funny i think it was hardcore i Liked it but damm it was really low level
I remember in the N64 version of Hardcore Revolution the mic still has the WWF logo on it.
The memory remains
Had the Dreamcast version of what I think was the first game. Got Fire Pro D like 6 months later and never thought of it again. I might actually still have the disc somewhere.
I still play this sometimes...ECW Hardcore Revolution -have had it since it came out. I love the crowd in this one which seems minor but the crowd reactions, name calling and such is IMO better than any other N64 wrestling game. It's a better game than Nitro, Mayhem and World Tour, IMO
My brother in law got Raven to sign his copy of ECW Hardcore Revolution at a show in Salt Lake. He also signed my copy of WCW/nWo Revenge.
When I was a kid a friend brought over a copy of the first ECW game and I didn't know who the hell any of the characters were because we didn't get ECW in our area.
The Main Menu theme for Anarchy Rulz is pretty good
I know you probably want a break after finishing reliving the war. However a look back on ECW week by week from Shane Douglas throwing down the belt till closure would be interesting. As I think there is a big discrepancy on how it is remembered and how it actually was.
My cousin and I played WWF Attitude after playing Smackdown 1 and 2, and we were blown away by the blood in WWF Attitude. We spent all day playing hardcore handicapped matches and destroyed our opponent.
I’ve had Hardcore Revolution sat in a cupboard for about 10 years and never played it…it’s good to know that was the right choice.
The 1998-2000 Rockstar Games would have been a good fit, but they didn't have an amazing track record just yet. They had a string of hits and misses at that time until GTA3 released in October 2001. Which practically catapulted them into the stratosphere overnight and the rest, as they say, is history.
I was actually excited that ECW was getting a game, even though I had an idea of what was going to happen, and was majorly disappointed when Acclaim microwaved last night's slop.
In a perfect world Thq/Aki woulda stayed making games, for wCw, Wwf AND Ecw 🔥
I had ecw hardcore revolution on dreamcast and i loved it as a kid 😂
The first ECW game was just Warzone reskinned
Edit: I typed this from personal experience before starting the video 😂. I was so upset when I popped that disc in
I remember being excited with all the match types
3:45 LMFAO
You should do more videos on ECW. ECW 4 LIFE🤘🤘🤘
Id of loved to seen what rockstar woulda done with making a ECW game. Woulda been potentially thr best wrestling game bringing in extra fans to the company.
4:16 Because we want to played as Booger, The Kid and William F 😄
ECW getting WWF's sloppy seconds lol
So many empty seats in the Acclaim wrestling games on Game Boy...
Who knew Acclaim would predict AEW?
I loved these games. I dug how they bled everywhere
Shoulda been Rockstar
Pretty cool that the first game has The Sheik in it. That’s gotta be the only video game he was ever in.
Great video mate.
Man, on one hand, A Rockstar developed ECW game would have been interesting. On the other hand, anything Rockstar non-GTA (especially in the late 90s) wasn't really that great IMO (think State of Emergency). I guess it all becomes "be careful what you wish for" type of hypothetical.
an ECW game by Rockstar would have been amazing and superior to what we got and also the 2008 smackdown vs raw. DAMN!
Would love to see you review RetroMania!!! PLEASE!
Nice man, this was a great game. If you used ravens ddt as a regular move for your created character you could get a guaranteed pin fall when the health bar was at yellow 💪😂
I abused that so much. lol
@@TheIceAnt it was always a great failsafe haha
I went to the NYC ECW signing at Gamestop or Electrics Boutique for the first game and met RVD and Dreamer. Have pics on my IG of it and some pics of them arriving
This game was definitely a major disappointment but it was cause i was a huge ECW fan that i let it slide for a little
What's your IG account ?
Been a fan for years now, I can’t wait for the Ryan heel turn.
Great video.
For a change of pace i recommend playing wwf betrayal for the game boy next
Tajiri was doing his Jake the Snake walk out, and not the one where he had the black bag over his head vs the Model.