Time to don the tights, put on the mask, and shine the championship belt. These 20 wrestling games are the absolute best the genre has to offer:. Ad — content continues below. This was also the first WWE title to feature a Universe mode, which has become a staple of the games to this day, although it does feel rather primitive here. SmackDown vs. Further Reading: 15 Underrated Wrestling Games. Thankfully, Nintendo was there to fill the void of quality sports entertainment titles.

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20. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
Hardcore wrestling is a form of professional wrestling where disqualifications, count-outs, and all other different rules do not apply. Taking place in usual or unusual environments, hardcore wrestling matches allow the use of numerous items, including ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, shovels, baseball bats sometimes wrapped in barbed wire , golf clubs, hammers, ax handles, chains, crowbars, wrenches, tongs, and other improvised weapons used as foreign objects. It then became successful in America with Extreme Championship Wrestling. The WWF soon began to turn the matches into comedy skits, illustrating the ridiculousness they involved. Hardcore contrasts with traditional mat-based wrestling, where solid technical skills are preferred over hardcore's stuntworks, blood, sweat, gore, and severe shock value. As professional wrestling entered the mid 20th century, promoters and performers looked for ways to heighten audience excitement. Methods were devised for wrestlers to make themselves bleed purposefully as part of their performance.
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One of the best if not the best ways for wrestling promotions to keep their product fresh is by releasing video games based on their wrestlers. Not only do video games allow for the fans to live out their fantasies of stepping into the squared circle and making the matches they always wanted and deciding who gets to wear the titles. Yet for every great game there are always one or two turds that are likely to end up in the bargain bin of your local used game store in a couple weeks. So in honor of the new Smackdown vs. Raw coming out next month, here is my list for the best and worst of this video game genre.
In the career mode you can unlock a lot of new areas not arenas where you can beat the crap out of your opponent using all things you can find in the area! Another great thing is the fact that the player or CPU can climb on camions,stairs or other things and hit an high flying attack on your opponent! The fact the this game had not got a ring wasn't considerd a good idea by a lot of wrestling fans.