I can garuntee you now, if you've never played this game before, you WILL be very disappointed if you do lol. Those of us around in the day waited in anticipation for this game fully expecting it to be even better than it's predecessor Warzone, but sadly the long wait and collecting magazines for months to keep up to date with this game before release was all for nothing when I look back on it. All it managed to do was improve the graphics, add more to the roster and includes whole bunch of new moves etc, but all the work went into the wrestlers, and none into the games atmosphere, meaning the backgrounds, stages, arenas, crowds are terrible. The crowed is not even animated. The current day Attitude era looked nothing like what it does in this game. This game felt like a very closed sandbox, limiting everything, and visually lackluster in any excitement. The game was supposed to have a backstage area, but never saw a release. But even if they had one, I'm not sure it would have been any good? We expected a lot of good things from ACCLAIM having seen their name on some absolute great games of the past, including the great 16 bit era games... but it's apparent now that if Midway are not in conjunction with them, then ACCLAIM aren't the great devs they appeared to be.
I was a dedicated WWF fan in these days, and WCW was the enemy, but after a sale of finding Revenge in the cheapie bin for loose change, I thought I'd buy it just to see what other people where on.about saying it was great and to find excuses why it was inferior to Attitude and Warzone, and I tried to dislike it, but ended up hooked and eventually admitted, yes, it was the better game... However I rejoiced when THQ obtained the WWF licence and where now going to make WWF games and blow Warzone and Attitude into the long forgotten area of the shelf and had we played those two games these days, we wouldn't have played them more than an hour, unlike the hours we played our bought games with no internet access in these days. I can see now my rating of 6 is based on nostalgia, but I'd probably only give it a 4 had I tried it today the first time... and no, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone to play. Not unless you're just curious to know what the games like or how we where doing it in the late 90s?... apart from that, You'll probably dislike every aspect of the game, including the mortal kombat style inputs needed to perform moves... which was a major downfall compared to the THQ titles, I admit... even tho I was a street fighter and mortal kombat master and had no trouble doing the moves in this game, THQs way is much preferred, the simple flow of THQ controls compared to the Acclaim style work much beyter.... plus the compotent controls not punishing you if you spam the same moves, but then again, THQ offered more than a limited arsenal of moves compared to Attitude and Warzone anyway and didn't feel like a grind the more you played it.
