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Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home
PlayStation 2
Released On: Oct 7, 2003
51
5.1
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
51
4% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
46% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
50% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
51
4% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
46% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
50% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
We finally fulfilled our dream of beating guest stars Insane Clown Posse with a baseball bat. [Oct 2003, p.37]
Crappy computer AI, and a very "vanilla" Create-A-Wrestler mode just doesn't put this in the same category as Smackdown, Raw, or Wrestlemania.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
5.1
33% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
33% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
5.1
33% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
33% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
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Backyard wrestling is violent, bloody and mimics everything that makes the 'sport' popular, including the culture, music and even the violence... Unfortunately the game isn’t a whole lot of fun.
This game had serious potential amongst fans of the genre, but Eidos and Paradox have totally sacrificed depth and mechanics and put out true garbage.
The cartoony violence, blood spills and redneck appeal of Backyard Wrestling’s rural locales and colorful cast of characters wears thin quicker than the time it took its equally-shoddy sequel to come out.
This game stinks like raw, untreated, sewage. The gameplay is short lived, repetitive, and poorly balanced.
Sadly, the sloppy controls and graphics make the game about as fun as a blow to the brainpan with a spiked bat.
Summary Backyard Wrestling allows you to step out of the the staleness of the wrestling genre, and into a groundbreaking new world of open ended gameplay. Punish your opponent in highly interactive sprawling environments implementing instruments of pain like thumbtacks, barbed wire, light bulbs, stop signs, baseball bats, tables, fire? as well a...
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PlayStation 2
- Xbox
Initial Release Date: Oct 7, 2003
Developer:
- Paradox Development
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Genres:
