He's Hardcore! He's Hardcore!

Until this week, the thought of taking a weed whacker and running it up and down the chest of a foe never occurred to me. That's precisely one of the weapon-based attacks found in Eidos' Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, however. While playing the game for our features preview, I ran into several things I've never seen before including, among other things, an absolutely gut-wrenching intro movie. The film, which features a string of high risk moves and gory barbed wire bumps, is highlighted by a short clip featuring Vic Grimes taking a fall of at least four stories into a wrestling ring full of stacked tables, and nearly bouncing out of the ring entirely in the process. It's horrific, hilarious, terrifying, and completely awesome all at the same time. If anyone ever doubted that this game is not for kids, this clip alone would set them straight.

The recently announced exclusion of online play for BYW2 is surely disappointing to fans of the series who were hoping to get their hands bloody with friends over the Internet. Now, however, it's up to BYW2's single player mode to take up the slack.