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By XXX Jerichol



Welcome to my review of a WWF classic video game and
without a doubt the best wrestling has ever produced,
WWF No Mercy. If your a wrestling fan who has the
money to shell out 75 bucks for a Nintendo 64 and a
copy of No Mercy then I would defiantly recommend this
game for you. Or if that's not available then you can
go to your local "dealer" and get the N64, WWF No
Mercy, WWF Wrestlemania 2000, Resident Evil 2, and a
memory card and get it all for the low price of 50
dollars, much like I did.


Quite simply even the smart's will love this game, it
has everything. Respectable graphics, an excellent
career mode, and a CAW that could make you crap your
pants!. So if you aren't already rushing out the door
to buy this game by now then you might as well hear
the praise that I'm going to give it.


The career mode on this thing is absolutely
astonishing. An even the fact that you have to wrestle
a lot of handicap matches which makes you want to put
your fist through the goddamn screen doesn't tarnish
the fact that this is the best career mode of any
wrestling game, EVER. I know your sitting at home and
saying "but XXX Jericho, that isn't saying much" and
you'd be correct. Smackdown JBI's career mode would've
been decent if it didn't take you fifteen minutes to
complete it and Smackdown Know Your Role's would've
been better if it hadn't had so many random,
repetitive storylines, I mean how many of you actually
yelled out in excitement "OH MY GOD!, TAKA MICHONOKU
JUST SHOWED UP AT THE ARENA!, MY LIFE HAS BEEN
MEANINGLESS SINCE THIS!", I thought so. Well No Mercy
offers storylines which revolves around your wrestler
and who he gets into a feud with. For example, I was
wrestling with my created guy (Abraham the Amish
Assassin) in the European title career mode, I beat
Eddie Guerrero in my first match for the European
title so the following weeks he and his buddies ambush
me and then the bastard steals my title. So I jump his
buddy's in the back and a couple losses in handicap
matches later and the games over. Never mind that its
sort of difficult, this is what wrestling fans have
been waiting for ever since "WWF Warzone" and they got
it now.


Now onto the game play and graphics. The graphics are
excellent for Nintendo 64 which makes playing the game
much more enjoyable. The controlling is by far the
easiest ever for any wrestling game. This is probably
the only game were you put someone through a table and
they don't fall off in mid-move making the thing
looked fucked up. And you say your tired of having to
beat the living shit out of your opponent just to nail
your finisher once?, well in No Mercy you just beat
them up till your momentum meter goes up and when it
says special you can hit them as many times as you can
with your finisher in the 20 to 25 seconds your
allowed. But No Mercy isn't without its flaws either,
the facial features can be really bad (Triple H looks
like he suffered some really bad burns when he was a
kid) and everyone, even Taka Michonoku looks their on
juice. If you can ignore these flaws then more power
to you, but I'm having nightmares about HHH's face.


The sound on this game is pretty good and can make you
wince and almost feel someone's bones breaking. Like
once I had HHH in the Liontamer and when he tapped out
the sound coming from his body made me weak in the
knees. But the game also has flaws in this area too.
The entrance music sounds extremely boxed in and
there's no commentary. Now if you played Smackdown JBI
then you would think that's not a bad thing, but it
really takes away from the game.


Now onto what can make or break a game, the extras.
I'm talking about CAW, match options and some other
stuff. The CAW in this game is average and could use
some improvement but in some strange way it seems
better then the other games. What its lacking in match
options it makes up for in match quality. You can have
your fancy Hell In A Cell match on Smackdown JBI where
you run on top and fall through the hole WITHOUT BEING
HURT!, THAT GUY MUST HAVE LEGS OF STEEL!. I'll take
the No Mercy Ladder match over that any day, because
not only is it not choppy but it actually looks
realistic, THERES A CONCEPT. Take Smackdown JBI for
example, your on the ladder, your opponent kicks it,
the ladder flops to the ground in an anticlimactic
fashion and so do you, but in No Mercy it takes more
then a kick to knock it down and when they finally do
knock it down it slowly tumbles over with you on it
and you hit the ground with a satisfying THUMP and a
good bounce. Then that bastard HHH goes up the ladder
while your Chris Jericho, lying on the ground because
THE GAME DOESN'T JOB TO MIDCARDERS!.


Another interesting feature is Smackdown mall. Where
you can add cool moves to an already packed move
arsenal, or you could buy some new clothes or unlock
some hidden characters, the choices are endless on No
Mercy.


Overall, this is the best wrestling game EVER. With
Wrestlemania 2000 coming in at second. The THQ engine
produces great wrestling and I'm looking forward to
renting a Gamecube and playing Wrestlemania X-8 for
the first time. If your a wrestling fan sick of all
these mediocre games and companies refusing to listen
to what the fan wants I would buy this game and enjoy
it as much as it can because it might be the last of
the good wrestling games, until Smackdown 4 comes out,
which I heard is looking good.


Overall: 9.5
Gameplay: 9.5
Graphics: 9.0
Sound: 7.5
Extras: 9.5 (Would've given it a ten if it had a
little bit more variety in match types.)


Recommendation: If you own a 64 its a must buy!. Hell,
even if you don’t have the 64, buy it!, the games that good!.