Even if your opponent delivers one of their most powerful moves to you, if your spirit meter is high, then there’s a good chance you can still recover and take the fight back to them.Īlong with this your wrestler also has weak and strong strikes, as seen in the N64 games. As you do well in the bout, your spirit metre grows and momentum starts to swing in your favour. For example, the idea of having a “spirit” or “attitude” metre returned. Off all three series, SmackDown was probably the best overall, but the GameCube games were a not too distant second, owing much to the excellent gameplay which payed homage in some areas to the controls seen in the AKI/THQ games. Sony and its PS2 had the “ SmackDown” series of games, Microsoft and its giant brick version of the original Xbox had the “ Raw” series, which left Nintendo and the GameCube with the “ WrestleMania” and later “ Day of Reckoning” releases. But on the whole, until the dawning of the seventh generation, most consoles would have their own version of a WWE game.
There were some crossovers, of course, such as Super WrestleMania and Royal Rumble seeing releases on both the Super Nintendo and Mega Drive/Genesis, with a few tweaks here or there. These days 2K Sports release the same wrestling game across all the major console platforms, but up until the end of the sixth generation, each console would normally see its own unique wrestling games that were made especially for that platform. Thankfully, the friend who owned this GameCube was my long time buddy, Adam, who also happened to be a big wrestling fan, so I got the chance to play on WrestleMania XIX a decent amount, which is good because it’s an exceedingly fun wrestling game, if not without its flaws. Secondly, I only knew one person who actually had one meaning occasions where I would get to play on a GameCube were scarce. Firstly, I could only afford one console and had plumped for Sony’s PS2 machine already. This was down to a combination of two major factors. As I mentioned in the introduction for N3, I didn’t play the GameCube that much while it was still an active console.
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