Story modes were relatively new in American wrestling games when WWF No Mercy was released in 2000. How did the game turn out? Was it more of the same, or truly revolutionary? More importantly, is it still even worth playing today, much less the greatest wrestling game ever made? Read on, fellow gamers, for the answers!
Over the next 3 years, AKI produced wrestling games for both American and Japanese wrestling promotions, which all led up to No Mercy, their most ambitious and extensive wrestling title to date. Though their first game was Virtual Pro Wrestling for the Sony PlayStation, it was the N64 edition of VPW which saw the creation of the famous AKI grappling engine. They were the second company, the first being Yukes Media Creations, to ever make a 3D wrestling game. AKI had a storied past on the Nintendo 64 when it came to making wrestling games. Released in the fall of 2000 for the Nintendo 64, No Mercy was unexpectedly the last AKI made wrestling game released under the WWF - now WWE - banner. The first game which I have decided to review is one often heralded as the greatest of all 3D wrestling games by the so called internet wrestling community: WWF No Mercy. Needless to say, I have a strong like for old things, and so when Aaron offered me the chance to write reviews for old wrestling games, I jumped at the chance.
I’m a Classics major at the University of Michigan, so that means I spend a lot of my time digging into old, obscure, and unfortunately forgotten pieces of literature. Now, having taken a short shower so as to clean myself from all that shilling, I’ll get into the nitty-gritty. I was introduced to this site by Pulse Glazer, who writes the very interesting, albeit often misguided, opinion column A Modest Response for Pulse Wrestling, as well as The Most Dangerous Gamer for the Not A True Ending channel and East of Gotham for The Nexus. AndreLeGeant on most message boards, and this is my first time writing for Inside Pulse. First off I had ought to introduce myself.
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