WCW games you should be Playing: WCW WRESTLING-nes WCW vs the world- PS1 WCW vs nwo world tour-n64 WCW vs nwo revenge-n64 WCW mayhem-n64 Avoid these games: Superbrawl-snes WCW nitro -ps1 WCW thunder-ps1 WCW backstage assault (Which you are watching now) N64
Someone at EA hated their job. They ruined this as an eff you note To them. pretty much one big middle finger To them. Dang EA who yawl piss off at the Company?
This was my favorite game as a kid because I loved the backstage brawl element of WWF No Mercy, so when a game that was played entirely backstage came out it was so awesome, recently replayed it, and now I get why everyone hates on it so much...
This game is the prime example of WCW, not giving half a sh*t anymore about its product or fanbase, releasing a train wreck this bad and thinking fans would just eat this one up. And to think a few days later, No Mercy would release, and would become a huge success, while WCW would die a few months later. What a way to go out, and what a time to be alive.😂
I tourtured myself playing this game to give my CAW more backstory history and let me just say... I did not have fun it was literally grinding at work. Nothing fun about it. Another game just as bad has to be the prequel Mayhem... And it was the first wrestling video game I ever played so as a 7 yr old it was a blast but as an adult it's inexcusable EA really be making bad games. I DONT KNOW how they got a second chance When ECW hired them to make a game after WCW was gone 😂 it's insane.
@@onigames7309 Its been a minute but this was the only game you could fight a specific licensed wrestler that wasn't in any other wrestling game but this one.
Mayhem is no Revenge, but it plays like a dream in comparison to Backstage Assault. I wouldn't rate it super high, but it's at least a functional wrestling game at the end of the day, it was...okay.
You've covered it already, but Smackdown vs RAW 2008 for the Nintendo DS. How could anyone think a wrestling game that only uses the touchscreen is any good?
Pav you should play legends of wrestling 1 and 2! The roster for those games are legendary but the gameplay is so mid. Would love to see you cover those!
3 would also be cool to cover. In my opinion legends of wrestling 2 was the best one, but you gotta really get good at the controls to get enjoyment out of it
As a kid I LOVED how easy it was to bleed in Legends of Wrestling 2. It felt like all you had to do was breathe in your opponent's direction or flick the poor mf and boom, the whole canvas is covered in red drops everywhere. Also the concept of destroying the cage door to escape in cage matches was funny as hell to me lmaooooooooo
I remember i got this as a kid cause i was buying every n64 wrestling game i could find, and i swore that if u played it for 6 hours straight, it actually started to look good 👀 but it was a disaster.
I wish I had bought something else like WCW/nWo Revenge instead because I had bought this for my n64 back then, because I was a sucker for backstage brawls, but little did I know that the glitches and the graphics, OH BOY THE GRAPHICS, they were the worst kind of stuff available in the 2000s even worse than WWE 2K20’s I hated them then and I hate them now thanks to your video reopening the wounds, but still fun video overall especially you ripping this game to shreds!!!
I was 8 when this came out. I wanted this when I saw the ads for it. I was so excited thinking “we can brawl anywhere oh my god!!!!” Annnnnddd when my parents bought it for me, I had to continually lie that I enjoyed this when in reality, this game haunts my psyche to this day lol. You know it was bad when the very confusing Acclaimed Games put out ECW Anarchy Rulz and THAT was a genuine blast in comparison to Backstage assault. Hell, Crush Hour looks god tier next to this damn game.
Did you upscale the graphics with emulation for this video because those graphics look better than I remember them? I get it though because this game needed all the help it could get. As for games competing for the contender of "worst" wrestling game... 5 Star Wrestling Regenesis is on there. I don't remember if it handles as bad as this one but if Backstage Assault is the No Mercy of bad wrestling games, 5 Star Wrestling Regenesis is the Here Comes the Pain of bad wrestling games.
Can't lie, i played the living hell out of this Game. I was such a WCW kid back in the days and so i played this nearly every day and couldn't get enough of it :D
I hope you play Wrestlemania 21. The only good things about that game was its graphics and soundtrack. Original Xbox users had terrible library to choose from when it came to wrestling games.
Funny how i wondered what happened to you days ago and randomly see you on here reviewing a game that i was also thinking about the same night. This is a banger lol. Seriously good content man
you should do a review on the Legends of Wrestling trilogy made by Acclaim Entertainment someday. can't say if they're as bad as WCW BA, but I can see the content potential from you if you give those games a go.
"What the **** was WCW in 2000?!" You just had to be there, man. And be glad you weren't. To me, the only good things from WCW in 2000 were Lance Storm's push and Booker T winning the World Title. I can't believe that game cost $70. It's a shame Playstation owners never got a great WCW game.
@@TheViper4Life Oh, yeah. I agree. It was decent, but unfortunately not great. Heck, I thought Mayhem was decent too: not great, but not as bad as some people say it is. I can see how WCW vs. The World could have been good for it's time. I remember wanting to buy that game so bad back then, but I couldn't because I didn't have a Playstation. lol.
I played and beat this game a couple weekends ago. I don't know why I decided to do it but I did. I spent a weekend unlocking everything I was so glad when It was over.
Hey how you doing how do you unlock Scott Hall in this game I beat it with Kevin Nash three times and hard difficulty in the n64 and I have not unlocked him yet hopefully you can help me out I would appreciate it
This game may not worth for playing over and over again, But it actually have a good point. -Terrible character graphics and render in this game actually have an advantage. When you create custom characters it actually easier to create anyone without serious about realistic 😆(And the variety of character attires, moveset was 100x better than WCW Mayhem) - Variety weapons to use and bash anyone as you like. If you think it's fighting game than wrestling game it would be more decent. - Lots of Wrestlers to use. But one thing I hated is - Hardcore game without Meng, Terry Funk !!!!!!!! Are you kidding me.
I would’ve said WWF WarZone was a worse game but this wins by virtue of being a product of WCW in 2000. What a train wreck WCW was in that year Edit: WCW Thunder is right up there (or down there) with the worst wrestling games I’ve played.
Never played it because mayhem was so bad and knew this one was going to be worst, wcw was on its death bed around this time, Revenge was the final true wcw game
Them wwf games on the og Nintendo nes were pretty terrible but we played them cuz that was all we had from wwf. The only wrestling game from that console I can still play is Pro Wrestling.
@@acceptable1609 well compared to Pro Wrestling which was released before the wwf games they could of done a little better, lol. Acclaim was always terrible at wrestling games back then but if it had WWF on it, we had to have it and made the best of it.
I think the worst wrestling game I played was wcw/nwo thunder for ps1. I still played it alot because for awhile it was the only wrestling game I ever had. One of my friends had the N64 which had the best wrestling games on it for that time.
WWE 2K20 is the worst wrestling game ever made. WCW Backstage Assault while not perfect was actually playable. I still play it just because you beat the crap out of people in it and just the nostalgia of just playing games that I grew up on. Today's generation will never understand how good people like myself had it back then.
Never played it (skipped SEVERAL consoles), this looks like a 5 star game compared to WWF Wrestlemania on the NES. THAT was the worst of which ranks just behind ECW Hardcore Revolution on the PS1. 2 of the WORST wrestling games I've played.
I hate this game so much, its in my top 5 worst wrestling games, my top 5 5. ECW Anarchy Rulz 4. WWF Attitude 3. ECW Hardcore revolution 2. WCW Backstage assault and the first it backstage assault too
When I was a kid I remember saying this doesn't look half bad. Boy....was I wrong LMAO..but I was young. It was not far off from the best wrestling games had to offer. Only N64 was doing wrestling games justice back then. PlayStation..PC etc.... failed big time on all of them. All NES and SNES games are wack that were real wrestlers in the game....and that's putting it all into context of the time frames they were made and produced... capabilities and which hardware. This game was wack tho fr
I have 2 games in mind (both ain't that bad) 1. Is wrestling empire Mobile wrestling game that To be honest Is very good 2. fire pro wrestling world 8 bit wrestling game with njpw roaster And one of most complicated move making menus But I ain't gona lie It is very good
Shoutout to my boy Lock2k for making the thumbnail, check him out! 🙏
www.youtube.com/@ItsLock2K
He a w no lie
Second
Bruh ok
Can I get a shout out in your next video
I remember getting this game on launch day lol im old
Imagine being a wrestler and this is the only video game you appeared in 😂
😭
Goddamn lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some of those wrestler's will go on
To be in future titles like the WWE
Games.
So not all hope is lost.
more than most can say.
This game really makes you feel like you’re watching Vince Russo era WCW.
I can hear it now “ok bro ever match backstage no crowds bro no rings bro and no teams it’s going to be huge bro!”
WCW games you should be
Playing:
WCW WRESTLING-nes
WCW vs the world- PS1
WCW vs nwo world tour-n64
WCW vs nwo revenge-n64
WCW mayhem-n64
Avoid these games:
Superbrawl-snes
WCW nitro -ps1
WCW thunder-ps1
WCW backstage assault
(Which you are watching now)
N64
Someone at EA hated their job.
They ruined this as an eff you note
To them.
pretty much one big middle finger
To them.
Dang EA who yawl piss off at the
Company?
@@nehemiahpouncey3607Backstage Assault is on both consoles and YOU SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING IT 😂
This was my favorite game as a kid because I loved the backstage brawl element of WWF No Mercy, so when a game that was played entirely backstage came out it was so awesome, recently replayed it, and now I get why everyone hates on it so much...
No offense…you were a dumb kid. So was I? I used to loved Rambo & Friday the 13th on the original NES, two awful games. Lol
If this was your favorite game as a kid
I feel so sorry for you. lol
@@MistahJay7why you gotta feel sorry for him? Some people just knows what HE likes.If you don't like it that's on YOU not him.
This game is the prime example of WCW, not giving half a sh*t anymore about its product or fanbase, releasing a train wreck this bad and thinking fans would just eat this one up. And to think a few days later, No Mercy would release, and would become a huge success, while WCW would die a few months later. What a way to go out, and what a time to be alive.😂
What happened.
They just threw everything from
Mayhem out the window.
WCW games shouldn't have went
Down like this.
Not to mention the last game in
WCW history.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607I actually enjoyed mayhem somewhat.
@@thekingofkingsrp not sure
How EA effed up after mayhem.
Different developers I guess with no
Experience.
@@thekingofkingsrpThere were rumors of AKI making WCW Mayhem 2 on PS2 and then Vince bought WCW
7:57 “So, I played the worst wrestling game of all time… and now I hate myself”
-Pav “WrestlinGifs” 2023😂
I don’t understand why people knock this game for not having a wrestling ring when the title says Backstage Assault.
Honestly, it's called backstage assault for a reason 😂
they could have made backstage fighting the main feature of the game instead of literally the only feature
This is the WCW equivalent to 2K20 😂
At least 2K20 gave us a ring, a story (garbage, but a story nonetheless), weapons that work most of the time, and a good roster 😂😂😂
2k20 is Here Comes The Pain compared to this lol
More like 2k18 on the switch
but much worse
I tourtured myself playing this game to give my CAW more backstory history and let me just say... I did not have fun it was literally grinding at work. Nothing fun about it.
Another game just as bad has to be the prequel Mayhem... And it was the first wrestling video game I ever played so as a 7 yr old it was a blast but as an adult it's inexcusable EA really be making bad games.
I DONT KNOW how they got a second chance When ECW hired them to make a game after WCW was gone 😂 it's insane.
Wait. What does this game have to do with your CAW?
@@onigames7309 Its been a minute but this was the only game you could fight a specific licensed wrestler that wasn't in any other wrestling game but this one.
@@deana6072 That so?
They still make bad games. Every Madden game in the last decade has been awful
Mayhem is no Revenge, but it plays like a dream in comparison to Backstage Assault. I wouldn't rate it super high, but it's at least a functional wrestling game at the end of the day, it was...okay.
6:36 I was not expecting that to ever be a thing in a wrestling game😂
7:57 “So I just played the worst wrestling game of all time.”
ECW Hardcore Revolution: *“Are you sure about that?”*
svr 2006-2011 pure gold
wwf no mercy
smackdown here comes the pain
wwe 2k19
thankfully i got to play half of these games
That intro was wild.....
Love waking up in the morning and seeing WrestlinGifs has uploaded
Never played WCW backstage assault but I did play mayhem and oh god 😂
This game makes 2k20 look like a masterpiece
😂😂😂
So true.
Yeah
I literally just laughed my ass off 🤣 😂 you're too funny man. ❤
new editing style? LOVE IT.
You've covered it already, but Smackdown vs RAW 2008 for the Nintendo DS. How could anyone think a wrestling game that only uses the touchscreen is any good?
Pav you should play legends of wrestling 1 and 2! The roster for those games are legendary but the gameplay is so mid. Would love to see you cover those!
3 would also be cool to cover. In my opinion legends of wrestling 2 was the best one, but you gotta really get good at the controls to get enjoyment out of it
As a kid I LOVED how easy it was to bleed in Legends of Wrestling 2. It felt like all you had to do was breathe in your opponent's direction or flick the poor mf and boom, the whole canvas is covered in red drops everywhere. Also the concept of destroying the cage door to escape in cage matches was funny as hell to me lmaooooooooo
Just coming across this video now. I was having a bad day, but your video and commentary, dude I am rolling right now. Thank you 😂
Def jam vendetta still my favorite wrestling game.
I guess it IS a wrestling game because AKI made it 😂
I remember i got this as a kid cause i was buying every n64 wrestling game i could find, and i swore that if u played it for 6 hours straight, it actually started to look good 👀 but it was a disaster.
This is not the worst one. I actually find Backstage Assault more playable than Nitro and Thunder.
I wish I had bought something else like WCW/nWo Revenge instead because I had bought this for my n64 back then, because I was a sucker for backstage brawls, but little did I know that the glitches and the graphics, OH BOY THE GRAPHICS, they were the worst kind of stuff available in the 2000s even worse than WWE 2K20’s I hated them then and I hate them now thanks to your video reopening the wounds, but still fun video overall especially you ripping this game to shreds!!!
Backyard Wrestling Don't Try This At Home and Backyard Wrestling 2 There Goes The Neighborhood. *drops mic*
I swear to god I love when you roast a wrestler model
wcw nitro or wcw/nwo thunder i have them both and omg i literally have to let the opponent win just to get the match over because it’s so bad
You should do vids on the Def Jam games, WCW Mayhem 2 was cancelled for what would become Def Jam Vendetta
5 star wrestling would like to have a word with you 😂😂
I was 8 when this came out. I wanted this when I saw the ads for it. I was so excited thinking “we can brawl anywhere oh my god!!!!” Annnnnddd when my parents bought it for me, I had to continually lie that I enjoyed this when in reality, this game haunts my psyche to this day lol. You know it was bad when the very confusing Acclaimed Games put out ECW Anarchy Rulz and THAT was a genuine blast in comparison to Backstage assault. Hell, Crush Hour looks god tier next to this damn game.
Did you upscale the graphics with emulation for this video because those graphics look better than I remember them? I get it though because this game needed all the help it could get.
As for games competing for the contender of "worst" wrestling game... 5 Star Wrestling Regenesis is on there. I don't remember if it handles as bad as this one but if Backstage Assault is the No Mercy of bad wrestling games, 5 Star Wrestling Regenesis is the Here Comes the Pain of bad wrestling games.
those mdickie wrestling games on the app store look better than this 😂😂😂
I would still play this over 2k20 idc😭
Nah your insane if so lol
Can't lie, i played the living hell out of this Game. I was such a WCW kid back in the days and so i played this nearly every day and couldn't get enough of it :D
yes, yes suffer or us........and there's a reason we ignore some wrestling games.
I hope you play Wrestlemania 21. The only good things about that game was its graphics and soundtrack. Original Xbox users had terrible library to choose from when it came to wrestling games.
Seeing how bad Wrestlemania 21 was made me grateful I didn’t buy it a few years ago when I saw it at goodwill.
No wonder this game was trash. It was created by EA.
Sir have you explored 2k14s character creator and how truly broken it is?
You think this game is bad?
Wait till you see
The Simpsons Wrestling. 😂
You’ve played the worst wrestling game ever made. 😂😂😂 like hell you did 😂😂😂. Simpsons wrestling exist! Also backstage wrestling exist.
True
This game was a symbol of how WCW itself was doing in the early 2000s.
Funny how i wondered what happened to you days ago and randomly see you on here reviewing a game that i was also thinking about the same night. This is a banger lol. Seriously good content man
Loved the editing
0:14 mmm little boys.
you should do a review on the Legends of Wrestling trilogy made by Acclaim Entertainment someday. can't say if they're as bad as WCW BA, but I can see the content potential from you if you give those games a go.
"What the **** was WCW in 2000?!"
You just had to be there, man. And be glad you weren't. To me, the only good things from WCW in 2000 were Lance Storm's push and Booker T winning the World Title. I can't believe that game cost $70. It's a shame Playstation owners never got a great WCW game.
WCW vs. The World was decent. It's the grandfather of the AKI engine, so you get glimpses of what World Tour and Revenge ended up being.
@@TheViper4Life Oh, yeah. I agree. It was decent, but unfortunately not great. Heck, I thought Mayhem was decent too: not great, but not as bad as some people say it is. I can see how WCW vs. The World could have been good for it's time. I remember wanting to buy that game so bad back then, but I couldn't because I didn't have a Playstation. lol.
I reckon it was all Mike Awesome behind that cheat code..
I played and beat this game a couple weekends ago. I don't know why I decided to do it but I did. I spent a weekend unlocking everything I was so glad when It was over.
Hey how you doing how do you unlock Scott Hall in this game I beat it with Kevin Nash three times and hard difficulty in the n64 and I have not unlocked him yet hopefully you can help me out I would appreciate it
Hardcore wrestling was HUGE at this point. I thought this game was going to be straight hardcore glory. It was bad. Really, really bad........
Nooo wayyy this game was $70 …..
I immediately assumed this was another 2k20 video 😂😂😂
Must’ve not glanced at the thumbnail 😂
Wrestling Gifs you gotta play one of the greatest hardcore wrestling game series of all-time, fire pro wrestling.
Scott Steiner be smoking that Colonel Sanders pack fr 🚬
It looks like the graphics were created with crayons that were broken in half
Every WcW game after WcW|nWo Revenge is greatness...picture perfect. 😂
That dark joke at the start lol
Love your videos
I'm happy I never played this game. It looks like WCW Mayhem without the event arenas.
Forget a ring, forget a crowd, we got fat women!
I also can't wait for the return of storytime with Pav.
Hey man give us a review on how u feel about the world heavyweight championship
This makes wwe2k20 look like svr 09
Nah HCTP
“A console that honestly many of you watching have probably never played.” Bruh… make me feel old why don’t you lol
This game may not worth for playing over and over again, But it actually have a good point.
-Terrible character graphics and render in this game actually have an advantage. When you create custom characters it actually easier to create anyone without serious about realistic 😆(And the variety of character attires, moveset was 100x better than WCW Mayhem)
- Variety weapons to use and bash anyone as you like. If you think it's fighting game than wrestling game it would be more decent.
- Lots of Wrestlers to use.
But one thing I hated is - Hardcore game without Meng, Terry Funk !!!!!!!! Are you kidding me.
Evidently you haven’t played Wrestlemania Challenge for NES
I would’ve said WWF WarZone was a worse game but this wins by virtue of being a product of WCW in 2000. What a train wreck WCW was in that year
Edit: WCW Thunder is right up there (or down there) with the worst wrestling games I’ve played.
Yoooooo please recap WrestleMania 35 and kofis story plz PAV
Every wrestler in this game should sue 😂😂
That WcW Backstage Assault game was damn fun not boring or worse i liked the hardcore matches lol 😂
This game is so bad, that in my opinion, WWE 2K20 Did better than this.
Bro this game literally looks like a MatDickie game but somehow worse
Yo can you make vid playing the mobile games immortals and mayhem
i remember buying that game back in the day,the early wrestling games were all bad
This game summed up WCW in 2000
Never played it because mayhem was so bad and knew this one was going to be worst, wcw was on its death bed around this time, Revenge was the final true wcw game
Them wwf games on the og Nintendo nes were pretty terrible but we played them cuz that was all we had from wwf. The only wrestling game from that console I can still play is Pro Wrestling.
To be completely fair you can’t expect much from a game console that only has 2 buttons. Yes they are bad games but there’s not much they could do.
@@acceptable1609 well compared to Pro Wrestling which was released before the wwf games they could of done a little better, lol. Acclaim was always terrible at wrestling games back then but if it had WWF on it, we had to have it and made the best of it.
i played it back in the day im a retro gamer and collector and refuse to add this game to my collection
Damn, Vince Russo was a playable character and you didn't play as him?
Shame should have buried every single wrestler as Vince.
Imaging if a Wrestler was Only in this game
Your PS1 probs felt like it got Backstage Assaulted after you tortured the poor thing to play the Disc for god knows how long.
I think the worst wrestling game I played was wcw/nwo thunder for ps1. I still played it alot because for awhile it was the only wrestling game I ever had. One of my friends had the N64 which had the best wrestling games on it for that time.
i never knew Booker T was Montez Ford.........
So thats how kenny omega made that deathmatch at that one show
Yea this one wasn't a shining moment for wrestling games, just....yeah
It could be worse.... you could be playing WWF Betrayal on Game Boy... or the Simpsons Wrestling Game.... seriously.
"What even was WCW in 2000?"
...shit?
WWE 2K20 is the worst wrestling game ever made. WCW Backstage Assault while not perfect was actually playable. I still play it just because you beat the crap out of people in it and just the nostalgia of just playing games that I grew up on. Today's generation will never understand how good people like myself had it back then.
Never played it (skipped SEVERAL consoles), this looks like a 5 star game compared to WWF Wrestlemania on the NES. THAT was the worst of which ranks just behind ECW Hardcore Revolution on the PS1. 2 of the WORST wrestling games I've played.
I hate this game so much, its in my top 5 worst wrestling games, my top 5 5. ECW Anarchy Rulz 4. WWF Attitude 3. ECW Hardcore revolution 2. WCW Backstage assault and the first it backstage assault too
You must do wwf raw for the original Xbox
New pav vid=Happiness
When I was a kid I remember saying this doesn't look half bad. Boy....was I wrong LMAO..but I was young. It was not far off from the best wrestling games had to offer. Only N64 was doing wrestling games justice back then. PlayStation..PC etc.... failed big time on all of them. All NES and SNES games are wack that were real wrestlers in the game....and that's putting it all into context of the time frames they were made and produced... capabilities and which hardware. This game was wack tho fr
I have 2 games in mind (both ain't that bad)
1. Is wrestling empire
Mobile wrestling game that
To be honest
Is very good
2. fire pro wrestling world
8 bit wrestling game with njpw roaster
And one of most complicated move making menus
But
I ain't gona lie
It is very good
You should cover simpsons wrestling
Yo Pav you should review Raw on the xbox or pc
Its TERRIBLE
"Large women mode" lmao
4:35 I was the kid that begged my mom for this game 😅
I seriously doubt that this is really the worse one. 2K20 is still the worst ngl
Ay bro review night of champions 2023 for us bro pls