It is the summer of 1999. Nintendo 64 and the Sony PlayStation are the current generation of gaming consoles and WWF War Zone came out last year. WWF War Zone received positive reviews and the sequel to WWF War Zone was WWF Attitude which came out for the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation. WWF Attitude was also released for the Sega Dreamcast and Game Boy Color later in the year. Did WWF Attitude improve on the problems that WWF War Zone had or did WWF Attitude bring more issues to the table?
There are many more options in WWF Attitude than WWF War Zone when it comes to matches that you can play by yourself. In WWF War Zone, you could only play a Tornado Tag Team match if two human players were playing. Did you want to play a 3-way or 4-way dance? In WWF War Zone, you needed 3 or 4 human players. In WWF Attitude, you could play any of those match types against computer-controlled opponents if you didn’t have anybody to play those matches with.
When it comes to the match types available in WWF Attitude, you have many more to choose from. You have over a dozen match types to choose from like Singles and tag, to more interesting types like the Stable match then you could add stipulations to these match types like making it a Hardcore Match or making an” I Quit” match. You could combine stipulations like having an “I Quit” match inside a cage.
The gameplay doesn’t just add more match types. There is create a pay-per-view where you can book up to eight matches on a card. You also get to name the event and modify the arena to give the feel you want. You have a few different arenas to choose from, whether it’s a house show set-up, a TV taping set-up, or a Pay-Per-View set-up and you can choose whatever color lights you want for the ring and entranceway. You can choose the rope color and you can also pick from options what the event signs would say and what the ring apron will read.
You can also do a King Of The Ring tournament or create a wrestler especially if you want to create wrestlers that were not included in the game like Ivory & Shane McMahon. Utilities are the options menu and the cheat menu is if you want to turn on certain cheats once you unlock them in Career Mode.
During the matches, you don’t have the stun and pin meters that appeared in WWF War Zone. As wrestlers take damage, their health bar decreases and changes from dark green to light green, to yellow, to orange to red. If an opponent’s health is in yellow, orange, or red then you can hit that wrestler with your signature move. If an opponent’s health is in red then you can hit that opponent with your finisher.
The difficulty of the gameplay is the same as WWF War Zone. Matches are pretty easy to win in the easy diffculty setting but the harder difficulties will provide a challenge.
The controls are similar to WWF War Zone. While they still do the same kind of button combinations, they are simpler than WWF War Zone. This is an improvement because if you look at the moves list, while your opponent’s health i yellow or worse, then the moves list will tell you how to do your wrestler’s signature move. The moves list will also tell you how to do your finisher if your opponent’s health is in red. The only drawback is a couple of match types like Survivor Series lock out the move list so you can’t look at it in the middle of a match.
There is a career mode where you can earn unlockables including wrestlers and Create-A-Wrestler points. You start off going after the European Championship and you begin at #20. You have to work your way to #1 to get a title match. You start off competing at untelevised home shows. If you pick up wins, then you will start getting matches on Shotgun Saturday Night and Sunday Night Heat. If you continue to win then you will get matches on Monday Night RAW and then Pay-Per-Views. When you win the European Championship, you have to defend it five times then you get moved to the Intercontinental Championship and you start at rank #15. When you win the Intercontinental Championship and defend it successfully five times, you go after the WWF Championship starting at ranking #10.
The graphics are not that good. While the shows look different, some wrestlers limp out to the ring like Stone Cold Steve Austin, seem to phase through the ropes if they stand on the apron like The Rock and all wrestlers have their hands locked in karate chop position.
The sound is great. Wrestlers sound like you would expect them when they speak before their match. Everyone has their appropriate theme song. Jerry “The King” Lawler and Shane McMahon call the action and their commentary can be funny. So I don’t have any problems with the sound.
Career Mode will take a few days to finish if you play it all day. After that, you can create pay-per-views if you want to fantasy book and the game is fun to play with friends. So there is a lot of replayability once you finish Career Mode.
WWF Attitude is a lot of fun to play and it’s easy to play on the easy difficulty setting. The controls are similar to WWF War Zone but they seem simpler than WWF War Zone. The Career Mode takes a while to complete which is their story mode. The graphics are not that great but the sound should satisfy any WWF fan. so I give WWF Attitude on the PlayStation a 9 out of 10. While this game may not have aged well today when WWF Attitude came out, it would have satisfied any WWF fan
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