Licensed wrestling games are rarely good. They were typically rushed, sloppy productions designed solely to grab a cheap buck based off of the name value of the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment), World Championship Wrestling, and, in the late-1990s, Extreme Championship Wrestling. Sure, there were rare exceptions, such as WCW for the NES or the AKI games (WCW v. NWO World Tour, WCW/NWO Revenge, WWF WrestleMania 2000, and WWF No Mercy), but on the majority, licensed games were usually quite bad and especially frustrating. Fortunately, some companies stepped up to the plate and delivered.
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