Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

100 or More Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Old-school"

In the past, during the Attitude era, Get It! was kind of like the WWF's (WWE) slogan, kind of like how Ruthless Aggression was the slogan for the period just after the Attitude era when the WWF had to change their name to the WWE in 2002. As such, Get It! is on the cover as a part of the logo... but do you really want to Get It!?

I got WWF Attitude the same week when it first came out and if this certain store didn't have it, I wouldn't have been able to do just that (Get It!), because this was a time before (I assume) any sort of online purchases for gaming items. At the time I thought it was the greatest Wrestling game to ever be in my presence, but nowadays, while I do still enjoy it, is behind many newer Wrestling titles in terms of my favourite.

First off, the I never really was a fan of the Career/Season mode of WWF Attitude. It was pretty boring, to be honest, especially after WWF Warzone's interesting take on it. Interestingly enough, the Career mode isn't actually THAT different from Warzone's, but at least Warzone made it interesting with promo videos (even if they did get repetitive and frustrating after too many grudge matches (I believe that's what those rematches were called). The Career on Attitude also went on for AGES, and I just never found it fun and so I always just went on Exhibition mode because it was interesting. Sure, Career mode gave you unlockables, such as Superstars and cheats, but not even that was enough to make me want to grind my way through the boring set matchups with no feuds or story behind them whatsoever.

Speaking of Exhibition mode, it was the real gem of the game. Sure, you couldn't defend/win Championship belts, but there were so many match types in the game that you had a lot on your hands to choose from. One thing in particular I found silly though, was the fact that if you turned on "Finisher Only" mode before a match (where you have to win by doing your finishing before your opponent does his), the move list from the pause menu was disabled. So this requries you to have to learn the actual button combination of the finisher.

Yes, WWF Attitude still has the same button combinations from WWF Warzone, rather than a grapple system. Only this time, for some odd reason, I found it more difficult to pull off moves without the aid of the move list more so than I did with Warzone. It does hinder the gameplay if you don't know the moves, but when you learn the basics, it is a fun experience, but not as fun as when you can pull off every move without combinations (see: post-Attitude :- WWF SmackDown!).

There is quite a lot of options to customise the arena, such as rope and ring post colour, apron colour, lighting and so on. Uniquely enough, this was (I believe) the last time they ever had this kind of feature in any Wrestling game... until WWE '12 is released this November, when it debuts a Create A Arena mode, some 12 years after WWF Attitude.

The roster is great, and it features all of the big names from 1999 WWF from Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Mankind and even Chyna. On commentary is (again, unique for a game) Shane McMahon and Jerry "The King" Lawler.

A fun and interesting feature in this game is the fact that if you press different combination of the back buttons on your controller, your chosen superstars will wear alternate attires, still relevant to their real life counterparts, such as Stone Cold's t-shirt.

Create A Wrestler is back (after being featured in WWF Warzone) and better than ever (well, for its time). There are a lot more customisation options for your chosen superstar or diva this time around. But as I stated before in my Warzone review, you still can't really create real people, as it is nearly impossible to make them look like them. But if you are looking to create an original superstar, then it was great for its time.

There is also a Royal Rumble match type this time around (after a Royal Rumble was only featured in the Nintendo 64 version of Warzone). Although it does get a bit repetitive as you have to pick them up in the same animation and just throw them over when they are stunned. I also believe that there can only be 4 wrestlers in the ring at any given time, as with any of the other match types. If I recall correctly, during the Royal Rumble the superstars don't have their entrance music accompany them, which makes it feel a bit empty as they all just slide under the bottom rope, exactly like the last guy, and the guy to come after.

The gameplay still feels slow, and this really comes in to play when you are climbing the top turnbuckle. Apparantly it was sped up slightly in comparison to Warzone, but I never really noticed a difference. Maybe I would if I played both one after the other.

The entrances are fun to watch as they are all based on the superstars' real entrances. They are also featured in Exhibition mode this time, whereas in Warzone they are not. Perhaps my favourite entrances in this game are Gangrel, Edge, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H and The Undertaker.

With that being said, WWF Attitude is still a good game to play, but it's not quite as fun as it was 12 years ago. But if you are an hardcore wrestling fan, as I mentioned about Warzone, then you still may be interested in picking it up. You can get both Warzone and Attitude for the price of an order for fast food, so there's not really much to lose. Out of these two games, I would say that I slightly prefer Warzone, which was released a year earlier, as it feels a bit more fun for some reason.