Ecw Hardcore Revolution

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10 original ECW wrestlers 4 gameplay modes 3 difficulty settings save passwords 2 player simultaneous gameplayProduct Description After a couple hours with this game, you're going to want your own theme song! ECW--also known as the Extreme Championship Wrestling Federation--has come to the Game Boy Color in ECW: Hardcore Revolution. You get access to all the no-holds-barred action through the game's three play modes: exhibition, career, and training. Play as any of your favorite ECW wrestlers, including Raven, Sabu, and Balls Mahoney. ECW: Hardcore Revolution even lets you take them on in the notorious barbed-wire match. Simple game controls allow you to quickly pull off a number of combination attacks as well as individual finishing moves for each wrestler. You can set three difficulty levels and match lengths from 20 seconds to as long as you want. The password save feature will let you take some much needed rest along your way to the title. Review Game companies are known for taking last year's game engine, updating it with a few minor features, and releasing the end result as a new product. A fine example of this is Acclaim's ECW Hardcore Revolution for the Game Boy Color. Take last year's WWF Attitude, strip out the WWF license, insert the ECW characters, and voila - a new game to release in 2000. To Acclaim's credit, ECW Hardcore Revolution's gameplay has been refined a little from the company's prior release - now, holds and take downs are even easier to pull off. In addition, Attitude's perpetual "behind-the-back grapple" situation is now a thing of the past. Honestly, there are no problems to be found with the gameplay. Kicks and backhands come out easily, movement is responsive, and going for the pin is as easy as tapping the A button. However, all of this was just as easy accomplish in last year's WWF Attitude. The more sweeping changes to ECW Hardcore Revolution lie in the game modes. Gone are Attitude's king of the ring, tag team, and cage matches. In their place rests one new mode, a barbed-wire match. While it's gleefully fun to throw an opponent into a barbed-wire ring, the removal of tag and cage options is not something that can be overlooked. On a positive note, Acclaim did see fit to include the use of nonsanctioned ring objects, such as chairs and tables. However, while this option to use "illegal" objects is amusing, the subtraction of useful game modes detracts from the overall value of the product. Just as with last year's product, ECW Hardcore Revolution continues the tradition of well-drawn, fluidly animated wrestlers. While some may scoff at how a few of the wrestlers resemble touched-up WWF stars, it's pretty clear that Crawfish set out to distance the character artwork in ECW from that of last year's game. Rings and arena designs are also similar to the previous effort, which is to say they look sufficient and don't detract from the gameplay. Though the graphics may not detract, the game's sound sure does. The same single music track repeats over and over throughout, while two or three sound effects serve to convey the sound of every hit, grapple, toss, and move in the game. Few gamers are going to want to keep the volume turned up for this one. Frankly, this game isn't much more than a rehashed WWF Attitude, just like its console brethren. While it may be the best wrestling game on the Game Boy Color, it's not a must-have. If you've already got Attitude, you pretty much own this game. If you don't own either, ECW Hardcore Revolution might be worth a look.--Frank Provo--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited. -- GameSpot Review

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