Episode 138: Revisiting WWF Wrestlemania 2000 WWF WrestleMania 2000 is a professional wrestling video game originally released in 1999 on the Nintendo 64 (N64) console.
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A game that kinda gets lost in the shuffle -- doesn't get nearly enough credit for being the first great WWF game post-Acclaim. Also a *great* create mode.
Me and my brother had an epic journey scouring stores in NYC pre internet for this game; we stopped at any electronics store we saw from 125th to 56th coming up empty handed. Two weeks later at the Bradlee’s on 14th street.
2000 and No Mercy were and remain the gold standard. Shame they never made Backlash. These games hold up because of gameplay and of course the awesome roster. Good old days right here.
N64 was dying at the time and the 6th gen was already underway with the Dreamcast out and the ps2 just coming out when no mercy was released. I believe the sales would’ve been low for the game since it would’ve most likely been released mid 2001
That cover is iconic AF. The amount of hours i spent on this game in the CAW mode alone. Setting moves on my CAW is how i learned the name of every wrestling move
What's funny is how almost every wrestler on the cover of the WWF WrestleMania 2000 game (except for The Undertaker), participated in the same match at the real WrestleMania 2000 pay per view : The Rock, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Triple H.
I remember when my uncle got this game when it came out, We were marking out when we were playing it. I still have this game and play it from time to time. Wrestlemania 2000 was way ahead of it's time.
Bro, so good to see WM2000 getting some love... I've always called it the forgotten classic, because, well... No Mercy, but in 99 this was my jam. Still play my original cart to this day
I prefer this game over No Mercy for these reasons: full entrances, better faces, no slowdown during matches, all wrestlers have their entrance music, and better roster.
I actually preferred this one to no mercy. A huge jump from revenge, adding the entrances music and titantrons, other match types and create a wrestler and ppv. Def an under appreciated game!
Me too. I dont know why. I guess I just love the roster of 99 corporation, corporate ministry, Dx. Rock with side burns. I like no mercy. But the feel of this game just feels good to me
I was one of the unfortunate kids to receive the bugged WWF No Mercy cartridge that occasionally erased all of my save data, so WWF 2000 was my go-to wrestling game up until Day of Reckoning on GameCube.
Let’s go! The legend is back! Man, this game is super fun! The AKI games are always endless fun no matter what. I feel like this game is underrated as more people talk about WCW/nWo Revenge and No Mercy more, but this is just as fun too. I also love hearing your stories on how you were introduced to these gems as a kid. I hope you never forget these memories. Glad you’re back, homie, and I hope you can revisit No Mercy soon. Peace.✌️❤️
Hey Nikateen. I heard Scott Hall passed away today and I want to say that I’m so sorry because I know he’s your favorite wrestler of all time. One things for sure, I’m happy he’s free from his pain and he’ll always be remembered. Rest Easy Scott Hall.
I got this game at a flea market back in 2013 or 14 where I also got my Nintendo 64 which was $30 what a steal, I also got other games like Super Smash Bros, Super Mario 64, and WCW Mayhem but with WWF Wrestlemania 2000 I never gave it a chance. Until 2019 I decided to play it and I fell in love with the game. I played as a created Goldberg against Triple H in a steel cage match and that lasted almost an hour since I was having a blast playing the game. The controls were incredible, then I saw people talk about WCW/NWO World Tour, Revenge and WWF No Mercy which I found out they were also developed by AKI so I just had to get them. I got both WCW/NWO World Tour, also Revenge on Ebay for $15 again what a steal and then got WWF No Mercy at a retro video game store for about $20 although I wish I got the version that was patched but it's still an amazing game just like all the wrestling games AKI made they never made one bad wrestling game.
I adore the intro videos that play in the AKI wcw/wwf games. They capture so many iconic wrestling images in 64 bit graphics. The clip of Stone Cold stunnering The Undertaker is my favourite bit.
As much as everyone loves No Mercy I was always drawn back to this game mostly for ministry Undertaker and this being the middle of the attitude era where as no mercy was closer to the end
Road To Wrestlemania mode was nuts if you pay attention to how long matches sometimes ran, like episodes of Heat were like 5 hours overall. like Droz vs Road Dogg goes 57 minutes and ends in a double countout, Steve Blackman beats Test in 52 minutes by submission, Stone Cold vs Undertaker vs The Rock goes 1 hour time limit draw....its crazy. I never took note of that before and then recently did a play through of the mode again and noticed ALOT of matches going at least 50 minutes.
Fun fact before Mania 2000 if you create a wrestling in previous games before 2000 the create an entrances had few to no entrance parts that referenced other wrestlers both non-featured/none WWF roster wrestlers
@@PETEYTHECLOWN most or all wrestling games before Wrestlemania 2000, create an entrance was generic. Whereas in this game, it has everyone's mannerisms, taunts, music, etc.
I got this on launch day and my friend didnt believe me so i called him over my house phone and played The Big Show theme song on command......still remember that like it was yesterday
My childhood friends and I used to play this game all the time, even after No Mercy came out. Our belt info is still saved and though we dont see each other as much since we moved around, we always bust this game out when we meet up and defends our belts.
One of my favourite aspects of the Road to WrestleMania mode was that not only could you use it with a CAW, when you completed it you were given the option of continuing for another year as a different character. Choose a new CAW and your original one stays on the roster (replacing one of the actual WWE wrestlers). Continue doing this and you can (eventually) have a roster packed with your own CAW characters.
I just recently brought out my Nintendo 64 from storage and started playing this game again. Such great memories. Such amazing games. Great video as always!
Mate, I was JUST thinking about hooking up my N64 for a session of this game! I have loved it for over 20 years and honestly think it is my favourite game from the 64 era (Zeldas and Mario's included). Thanks for putting this together!
Dude, I appreciate all this time and dedication you've put in wrestling games. Just watching some of the older games that I've played in my childhood and teens brings back memories, especially since I've hardly played any wrestling games from 2009 up to 2022.
The animated in these games is nothing short of an incredible feat. The animations are better than a lot of video games in our present day. It almost doesn't even make sense how far ahead of its time the animations actually were.
Loved the inclusion of Steiner math - the numbers don't lie! For real though, this is a great review. I especially liked learning about the background of the development and how WWE came to be developed by THQ. Hard to believe WCW would've moved away from a literal award winning formula.
Thanks! Yea, it’s a trip to think that they would walk away from THQ who signed with them before they were hot, just to join up with EA based on their status as a mega power in the gaming industry. All to backfire in their face and send one of the best wrestling game developers running to the competition.
Fantastic recap of one of my all-time sentimental favorites. I was about 10 when this one dropped and have so many fond memories of playing for hours on end at my friend's house. This game actually got me into wrestling which is a love I still have to this day. Keep up the great work man, your videos are such top quality.
This is my favorite wrestling game of all time it came out at the beginning of my senior year. And I’m a huge street fighter fan and they had create a wrestler options and moves to create Ryu, Ken, & Akuma even down to Akuma’s hair prayer beads and rope belt. I @40 still plays this game to this day. Hell they had the shoryuken as a move and hadoken movement as a taunt.
I would have loved to see what this game would look like if it were ported onto the PlayStation One. Hell, someone made a sick looking PS1 fan port of Bloodborne and released that a few weeks ago. Add a few exclusive modes like Hell in a Cell, the wrestlers that were cut out from the game, CD quality entrance themes, and full FMV titantrons into it and you pretty much got it going on.
Word Up! The Bloodborne DMake is great too! The sane guy & a couple others have "D-makes" of a few games! Some are just technical demos but some are fully functional! This def would be great to DMake!
Just heard the news about Scott Hall and wanted to come here and give my condolences, I know you're not family to him or anything but I know he was your favorite wrestler of all time and this news must hit you pretty hard. Maybe do a top 10 Scott Hall matches as a tribute? Take care bud..
I love the fact that there was never a wait for load time on a cartridge. It’s pretty annoying to wait for loading all the time. N64 was and is still an awesome console. Loved it. Still love it. I feel like overall game quality was better back then. In my opinion N64 probably had the lowest percentage of lousy games of all the consoles.
ROM cartridges usually loaded fast because most of the assets could be accessed directly from the cartridge, unlike more modern mass storage devices. They did still load though: Banjo Tooie N64's infamous frame rate is due to it constantly loading.
Dude.. I legitimately still play this game nightly on a handheld device... I play this, wcw revenge and vpw2 as if it's a 1998 universe. I'm pushing 40 and still living the dream that it's 1998! 😳
I only had a PlayStation at the time, and was enjoying WWF Warzone and Attitude, but Mania 2000 was almost the perfect wrestling game! That game was the only reason I regretted not getting an N64. Luckily my best friend/Sisters Boyfriend had one and I was able to borrow his to play it!Another good video bro!
Thanks a lot! We didn’t have a lot of money at the time but thanks to some well off family members of mine I was lucky enough to have all 3 consoles from this generation, with the N64 and PS1 being absolutely game changing regarding wrestling games.
Totally. My cousin had N64 and I had PS1 back then. I had fun with the Acclaim games and later Smackdown 1 and 2, but clearly the N64 ones were better as a whole. I eventually bought an N64 only for the wrestling games. We would play Revenge for hours, and later the Smackdown games on PS2. Great times from my childhood. Glad I still have all these old games.
Ken Shamrock is like the wrestling equivalent of Johan Cruyff. He may not have won the biggest prize in his respective sport, but he did something way more important: he completely changed the way it was played for years to come.
I absolutely loved this game undertaker felt like the undertaker there was a clear difference between fighting stone cold compared to go crash holly awesome career moder great create side of things overlooked for fir sure
One of the main things that I love about this game going back to it, & what makes it really stand out when compared to the Smackdown games, is that certain wrestlers that you fight will actually wrestle you like the person that they're playing as. I wrestled some of the lower card in RTW mode & I usually managed to squash them in 1-2 minutes. However when going into the mid card where I was being put against guys like Ken Shamrock, he was way harder to beat & I had to change my momentum strategy to counter the way he wrestles. Yes, Ken Shamrock will actually fight you like he is Ken Shamrock. Every time he had me on the floor, he kept trying to put me in the ankle lock & had a way more aggressive striking strategy to take advantage. Going against the Hardy Boyz found me having to counter a lot of faster high flying moves as well. The developers definitely did their research when programming the AI for this game. Just because you're on a certain difficulty, doesn't mean that it will remain consistent against multiple wrestlers. It's one of the reasons why I always went off the Smackdown games when I took off my nostalgia goggles. Take HCTP for example. If you play on the hardest difficulty, every single wrestler will have the same AI strategy against you (besides move sets & attributes) no matter who you're facing & their reversals against you will just be down to a role of the dice, rather than momentum. You could be kicking a guys butt & he'll still manage to reverse almost all of your moves in HCTP. In the AKI games, having higher momentum or a higher attitude meter will give an advantage & vice versa, giving the player a decent wrestling strategy to achieve when facing different opponents. The AKI games are amazing & I always go back to them haha. It's amazing to see people give the credit they deserve when reviewing them & seeing younger people experience them.
Oh yeah, great to see your reviews back on YT. The video has a really great editing compared to your older reviews, keep up the good work and dedication.
N64's WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy wrestling video games are the best and still is the best my top 2 favorites WWF No Mercy and WWF Wrestlemania 2000 THE GOAT 👑💯
I remember when I bought this game! I would play it until 6 a.m. almost every day. Recreating my favorite wrestlers that weren't included in the roster and even coming up with my own original wrestlers. I think I still have a replay recorded on one of my old VHS tape of the ending of one of my matches somewhere :p This game and the follow up WWF No Mercy are without a shadow of a doubt the greatest wrestling games ever created. Those years were amazing for wrestling fans! What a great time to be alive :)
So thankful you decided to revisit these undeniable classics... I tell ya brother I still remember the hours of playing this one at the afterschool youth Christian center with friends...In that gritty dingey sports room with the TV on the stand with the n64 man and having so much fun and that was in like 2004-2005!!
Right on! I was in a after school church program back in the early 90s in 3rd grade and they had a Genesis with Green Dog, Strider, and Streets of Rage 2. Great memories!
Great video on WrestleMania 2000. WCW NWO World Tour was the first game i got for N64 for Christmas as a kid. I loved it and enjoyed how much better each wrestling game from Aki got. I was baffled at first when they dropped WCW, considering how excellent WCW/NWO Revenge was (and i was still more a wcw fan at the time). But i gave WrestleMania 2000 a chance and was blown away. I loved the deep customization and Road to Wrestlemania mode. It also made me appreciate how much more interesting the WWF attitude era wrestlers were than what i was seeing on wcw.
Although the WCW games did feature a better roster. The game play evolved with each new THQ release. I remember playing WCW VS NWO World Tour, for the first time too. I was blown away and spent countless hours on the game. It was light years ahead of any wrestling game I had owned or played before. Which were mostly on the 16 bit consoles.
WWF No Mercy built on every great aspect of WM2000, but it was also slower. Because of this, I tend to play WM2000 more often. This, and I prefer the weekly structure for the season mode
I was 6 years old when this came out, my older brother and his friends would place this for hours in my living room, the graphics looked so real at the time😂
I remember when this wm2000 came out it played well and looked cool and was a blast to play royal rumble and other modes with friends. It remains a fixture on my RetroPie setup.
I was so excited for this game as a kid. I remember going to toys r us with my dad to buy it when it came out and I played so many hours on it. I played all the wrestling games on n64 favorite console ever. Great vid.
I was also a Freshman in high school when WWF WrestleMania 2000 was released in late 1999 but I was playing WWF Attitude PSX and I brought WWF Attitude PSX again after not owning it in over 20 years
The homie with another upload! I've been playing this recently too along with Day Of Reckoning 2. Both dope games. Idk if it's cause I'm old af now, but the Wrestlemania 2000 story mode is hard as hell. I get reversed every other move. It's still a damn good game.
Man I remember when I first got this game Christmas of 99, me and my older cousin played it for hours every weekend. Spending hours creating a wrestler, and playing the Royal Rumble match, this was my favorite game over no mercy because of the Undertaker had his ministry of darkness gimmick. It’s a shame that No Mercy stole its thunder because this was a great that doesn’t get mentioned a lot.
I always dug the 1999 era of WM 2000 vs the 2000 era of No Mercy. I wasn't watching the WWF in 99 so I was really intrigued by characters like Ministry Taker, the Blue Meanie, Gangrel and the Brood, Prince Albert, Al Snow and Droz. Going back, I love that shortlived stables like the Union and the Corporate Ministry have their theme and titantrons.
This game was very special to me, have amazing memories playing it! When I found out that iconic main menu theme was heavily inspired by Pantera's Psycho Holiday I was like "no wonder I liked it so much" (during that time I started to notice I loved guitar based music, mainly rock and metal) and the fact you could create wrestlers in the AKI engine, man I always ended up doing many headcanon stories with my creations! To me this game is part of the holy tetralogy of AKI engine games alongside No Mercy, Revenge and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2
The Legend is Back! WWF WrestleMania 2000 is still an EPIC game. Although I personally think that VPW2 and VPW64 are my favorite AKI Wrestling Games, WM 2000 is still a legendary game 👌
Running grapples debuted in Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 which came out January 2000. No Mercy came out November 2000 as Nik mentioned in his recent VPW2 review.
This was the first game I bought with my own money when it first came out. I always loved making WCW wrestlers and some old school one to. Watching this video brings back a lot of memories.
Of all of the N64 wrestling games, my fondest memories are still of Wrestlemania 2000. Thank you for this review. I really enjoyed your inclusion of the THQ/AKI history, as they are an integral element of pro wrestling's popularity for the following decades.
This was a groundbreaker, mainly for the CAW. Every single wrestler you created looked like they belonged next to in-game wrestlers. It took the Smackdown games a decade to accomplish that.
20:16 had such an occurrence in No Mercy. Had a First Blood match as part of whatever storyline I was following, and the first thing I did once the bell rang was to go and look for a weapon to try to do the deed quickly. Match was over in 52 seconds after connecting the first blow... 🤷♂
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THE, you hear me.......THE BEST n64 wrestling game on the console.....seeing that this is a re-skin of the 2nd best wrestling game of all time......
I had all 4 games
I enjoyed the championship mode because the story changed on whether you won or lost
Was this the games that you could go online and find out how to create wrestlers or celebrates not in the game
When I think about it I wish they would use the 80s cage sometime .
A game that kinda gets lost in the shuffle -- doesn't get nearly enough credit for being the first great WWF game post-Acclaim. Also a *great* create mode.
Me and my brother had an epic journey scouring stores in NYC pre internet for this game; we stopped at any electronics store we saw from 125th to 56th coming up empty handed. Two weeks later at the Bradlee’s on 14th street.
It was after Acclaim.
@@dryzenhawk4251 that's what they said
MF DOOM 🙏🤴
First great wwf game in general ! This blew anything they previous made out the waters
2000 and No Mercy were and remain the gold standard. Shame they never made Backlash. These games hold up because of gameplay and of course the awesome roster. Good old days right here.
Gameplay? Eh.
@@FreshPrincex4 The game play is the claim to immortal fame for these THQ games. It has never been beaten to this day.
@@burntvirtue I always rave about WWF/E SmackDown and WWE SmackDown Vs Raw to WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2011 PS2
Backlash was made and produced but scrapped
N64 was dying at the time and the 6th gen was already underway with the Dreamcast out and the ps2 just coming out when no mercy was released. I believe the sales would’ve been low for the game since it would’ve most likely been released mid 2001
The THQ N64 wrestling games are still a blast to play.
Me and my friends used to binge play this game on weekends.
That cover is iconic AF. The amount of hours i spent on this game in the CAW mode alone. Setting moves on my CAW is how i learned the name of every wrestling move
What's funny is how almost every wrestler on the cover of the WWF WrestleMania 2000 game (except for The Undertaker), participated in the same match at the real WrestleMania 2000 pay per view : The Rock, Mick Foley, Big Show, and Triple H.
@@jerelminter Right That's honestly great about It😁
I remember when my uncle got this game when it came out, We were marking out when we were playing it. I still have this game and play it from time to time. Wrestlemania 2000 was way ahead of it's time.
@Autistic_Reject ☣️ Hell naw! 🤣🤣🤣
Bro, so good to see WM2000 getting some love... I've always called it the forgotten classic, because, well... No Mercy, but in 99 this was my jam. Still play my original cart to this day
Right on man, mine is the original cart as well!
Intro in this game was amazing and full entrance for every wrestler.
I prefer this game over No Mercy for these reasons: full entrances, better faces, no slowdown during matches, all wrestlers have their entrance music, and better roster.
And the rock music in this is better then the music in No Mercy
@@Mike-t5r9q Agreed.
@@Mike-t5r9q Facts💯👍🏾
Same here still like this one moreb
@@superdaygh Agreed💯Only OG's know Wassup.
I actually preferred this one to no mercy. A huge jump from revenge, adding the entrances music and titantrons, other match types and create a wrestler and ppv. Def an under appreciated game!
Me too. I dont know why. I guess I just love the roster of 99 corporation, corporate ministry, Dx. Rock with side burns. I like no mercy. But the feel of this game just feels good to me
Me three
Same here. Mania 2000 I liked more than no mercy
Me too after the wcw games i logged more hours on this one. By no mercy I was burnt out and moved on....
I was one of the unfortunate kids to receive the bugged WWF No Mercy cartridge that occasionally erased all of my save data, so WWF 2000 was my go-to wrestling game up until Day of Reckoning on GameCube.
I adore that Summerslam Entrance animation with the gates opening
So many amazing memories with ALL the AKI titles
Let’s go! The legend is back! Man, this game is super fun! The AKI games are always endless fun no matter what. I feel like this game is underrated as more people talk about WCW/nWo Revenge and No Mercy more, but this is just as fun too. I also love hearing your stories on how you were introduced to these gems as a kid. I hope you never forget these memories. Glad you’re back, homie, and I hope you can revisit No Mercy soon. Peace.✌️❤️
As always, thanks for the support Alec!
@@NikateeN
Of course, my friend. You deserve it.👍
Hey Nikateen. I heard Scott Hall passed away today and I want to say that I’m so sorry because I know he’s your favorite wrestler of all time. One things for sure, I’m happy he’s free from his pain and he’ll always be remembered. Rest Easy Scott Hall.
I got this game at a flea market back in 2013 or 14 where I also got my Nintendo 64 which was $30 what a steal, I also got other games like Super Smash Bros, Super Mario 64, and WCW Mayhem but with WWF Wrestlemania 2000 I never gave it a chance. Until 2019 I decided to play it and I fell in love with the game. I played as a created Goldberg against Triple H in a steel cage match and that lasted almost an hour since I was having a blast playing the game. The controls were incredible, then I saw people talk about WCW/NWO World Tour, Revenge and WWF No Mercy which I found out they were also developed by AKI so I just had to get them. I got both WCW/NWO World Tour, also Revenge on Ebay for $15 again what a steal and then got WWF No Mercy at a retro video game store for about $20 although I wish I got the version that was patched but it's still an amazing game just like all the wrestling games AKI made they never made one bad wrestling game.
I adore the intro videos that play in the AKI wcw/wwf games. They capture so many iconic wrestling images in 64 bit graphics. The clip of Stone Cold stunnering The Undertaker is my favourite bit.
As much as everyone loves No Mercy I was always drawn back to this game mostly for ministry Undertaker and this being the middle of the attitude era where as no mercy was closer to the end
2000 is my goat so many memories with this game😭
WCW/NWO Revenge,
WWF WrestleMania 2000 and
WWF No Mercy are goated.
Road To Wrestlemania mode was nuts if you pay attention to how long matches sometimes ran, like episodes of Heat were like 5 hours overall. like Droz vs Road Dogg goes 57 minutes and ends in a double countout, Steve Blackman beats Test in 52 minutes by submission, Stone Cold vs Undertaker vs The Rock goes 1 hour time limit draw....its crazy. I never took note of that before and then recently did a play through of the mode again and noticed ALOT of matches going at least 50 minutes.
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Forreal? Damn that's pretty in depth.
Fun fact before Mania 2000 if you create a wrestling in previous games before 2000 the create an entrances had few to no entrance parts that referenced other wrestlers both non-featured/none WWF roster wrestlers
What? 🤔 I'm trying to get my head around this statement
@@PETEYTHECLOWN Same i am really confuse ?
@@PETEYTHECLOWN most or all wrestling games before Wrestlemania 2000, create an entrance was generic. Whereas in this game, it has everyone's mannerisms, taunts, music, etc.
@@EmmettXIV damn you must be a codebreaker to understand what THEANIMEFANZ said lmfao
I got this on launch day and my friend didnt believe me so i called him over my house phone and played The Big Show theme song on command......still remember that like it was yesterday
Haha, that’s awesome!
My childhood friends and I used to play this game all the time, even after No Mercy came out. Our belt info is still saved and though we dont see each other as much since we moved around, we always bust this game out when we meet up and defends our belts.
Great to see you back here! Thanks for the comment dude!
@@NikateeN Always here for your content, that's what OG fans of yours do!
Had an absolute blast on this game back in the day. My friend and I changed the entire roster and we made our own company . Great times
The level of creativity was amazing!
One of my favourite aspects of the Road to WrestleMania mode was that not only could you use it with a CAW, when you completed it you were given the option of continuing for another year as a different character. Choose a new CAW and your original one stays on the roster (replacing one of the actual WWE wrestlers). Continue doing this and you can (eventually) have a roster packed with your own CAW characters.
Yes! I'm still playing my career mode from 23 years ago.
I just recently brought out my Nintendo 64 from storage and started playing this game again. Such great memories. Such amazing games. Great video as always!
Thanks a lot! I love to hear how many others have such fond memories of this one.
Mate, I was JUST thinking about hooking up my N64 for a session of this game! I have loved it for over 20 years and honestly think it is my favourite game from the 64 era (Zeldas and Mario's included).
Thanks for putting this together!
Dude, I appreciate all this time and dedication you've put in wrestling games. Just watching some of the older games that I've played in my childhood and teens brings back memories, especially since I've hardly played any wrestling games from 2009 up to 2022.
Who could forget the 59:57 Count Out wins between Thrasher and Mideon in the story mode
Haha!
This has my favourite roster of any wrestling game.
I will always look back at this game fondly. It's the first wrestling game I've ever played and was my introduction to WWE in general
I still play this game to this very day.
The animated in these games is nothing short of an incredible feat. The animations are better than a lot of video games in our present day. It almost doesn't even make sense how far ahead of its time the animations actually were.
Dope video, I liked this format. Keep it up, man
Thanks!
This game is my childhood. Hints my name. So many memories tied with this. Thanks for the video fam
I spent a good amount of time playing wrestlemania 2000 as a young 7 year old. Great times I'll always cherish.
Loved the inclusion of Steiner math - the numbers don't lie! For real though, this is a great review. I especially liked learning about the background of the development and how WWE came to be developed by THQ. Hard to believe WCW would've moved away from a literal award winning formula.
Thanks! Yea, it’s a trip to think that they would walk away from THQ who signed with them before they were hot, just to join up with EA based on their status as a mega power in the gaming industry. All to backfire in their face and send one of the best wrestling game developers running to the competition.
Fantastic recap of one of my all-time sentimental favorites. I was about 10 when this one dropped and have so many fond memories of playing for hours on end at my friend's house. This game actually got me into wrestling which is a love I still have to this day. Keep up the great work man, your videos are such top quality.
Thanks!
One of my favorite games I had so much fun with all four of my friends playing simultaneously
This is my favorite wrestling game of all time it came out at the beginning of my senior year. And I’m a huge street fighter fan and they had create a wrestler options and moves to create Ryu, Ken, & Akuma even down to Akuma’s hair prayer beads and rope belt. I @40 still plays this game to this day. Hell they had the shoryuken as a move and hadoken movement as a taunt.
I always thought wrestlemania 2000 was better than no mercy
Me too!
We would get along as friends. Awesome video. 😎✌️
Thanks a lot!
Had no recollection of the Razors Edge being referred to as "The Insiders Edge" fucking hilarious
I would have loved to see what this game would look like if it were ported onto the PlayStation One. Hell, someone made a sick looking PS1 fan port of Bloodborne and released that a few weeks ago. Add a few exclusive modes like Hell in a Cell, the wrestlers that were cut out from the game, CD quality entrance themes, and full FMV titantrons into it and you pretty much got it going on.
Word Up! The Bloodborne DMake is great too! The sane guy & a couple others have "D-makes" of a few games! Some are just technical demos but some are fully functional! This def would be great to DMake!
Uploaded just in time for work. Thanks, Nick! You could review this game a dozen times and I'd watch every time.
Thanks for your continued support Jon!
Just heard the news about Scott Hall and wanted to come here and give my condolences, I know you're not family to him or anything but I know he was your favorite wrestler of all time and this news must hit you pretty hard. Maybe do a top 10 Scott Hall matches as a tribute? Take care bud..
Dude, I just commented basicaly the same thing. I just remembered about Nik right away. RIP the greatest bad guy ever
I love the fact that there was never a wait for load time on a cartridge. It’s pretty annoying to wait for loading all the time. N64 was and is still an awesome console. Loved it. Still love it. I feel like overall game quality was better back then. In my opinion N64 probably had the lowest percentage of lousy games of all the consoles.
ROM cartridges usually loaded fast because most of the assets could be accessed directly from the cartridge, unlike more modern mass storage devices.
They did still load though: Banjo Tooie N64's infamous frame rate is due to it constantly loading.
Kane's "burnt" face 🤣 NEVER gets old
Dude.. I legitimately still play this game nightly on a handheld device... I play this, wcw revenge and vpw2 as if it's a 1998 universe.
I'm pushing 40 and still living the dream that it's 1998! 😳
More power to you man! Keep the dream alive!
@@NikateeN nWo 4 life 🤘
Hell yeah 🔥🔥 thanks man 😎 one of my favorite games of all time!!
Great taste my dude!
I only had a PlayStation at the time, and was enjoying WWF Warzone and Attitude, but Mania 2000 was almost the perfect wrestling game! That game was the only reason I regretted not getting an N64. Luckily my best friend/Sisters Boyfriend had one and I was able to borrow his to play it!Another good video bro!
Thanks a lot! We didn’t have a lot of money at the time but thanks to some well off family members of mine I was lucky enough to have all 3 consoles from this generation, with the N64 and PS1 being absolutely game changing regarding wrestling games.
Totally. My cousin had N64 and I had PS1 back then. I had fun with the Acclaim games and later Smackdown 1 and 2, but clearly the N64 ones were better as a whole. I eventually bought an N64 only for the wrestling games.
We would play Revenge for hours, and later the Smackdown games on PS2. Great times from my childhood. Glad I still have all these old games.
Ken Shamrock is like the wrestling equivalent of Johan Cruyff. He may not have won the biggest prize in his respective sport, but he did something way more important: he completely changed the way it was played for years to come.
I absolutely loved this game undertaker felt like the undertaker there was a clear difference between fighting stone cold compared to go crash holly awesome career moder great create side of things overlooked for fir sure
One of the main things that I love about this game going back to it, & what makes it really stand out when compared to the Smackdown games, is that certain wrestlers that you fight will actually wrestle you like the person that they're playing as. I wrestled some of the lower card in RTW mode & I usually managed to squash them in 1-2 minutes. However when going into the mid card where I was being put against guys like Ken Shamrock, he was way harder to beat & I had to change my momentum strategy to counter the way he wrestles. Yes, Ken Shamrock will actually fight you like he is Ken Shamrock. Every time he had me on the floor, he kept trying to put me in the ankle lock & had a way more aggressive striking strategy to take advantage. Going against the Hardy Boyz found me having to counter a lot of faster high flying moves as well. The developers definitely did their research when programming the AI for this game. Just because you're on a certain difficulty, doesn't mean that it will remain consistent against multiple wrestlers. It's one of the reasons why I always went off the Smackdown games when I took off my nostalgia goggles. Take HCTP for example. If you play on the hardest difficulty, every single wrestler will have the same AI strategy against you (besides move sets & attributes) no matter who you're facing & their reversals against you will just be down to a role of the dice, rather than momentum. You could be kicking a guys butt & he'll still manage to reverse almost all of your moves in HCTP. In the AKI games, having higher momentum or a higher attitude meter will give an advantage & vice versa, giving the player a decent wrestling strategy to achieve when facing different opponents.
The AKI games are amazing & I always go back to them haha. It's amazing to see people give the credit they deserve when reviewing them & seeing younger people experience them.
I love that game man! Still would play it to this day.
The characters twitching after finishers was so dope
Oh yeah, great to see your reviews back on YT. The video has a really great editing compared to your older reviews, keep up the good work and dedication.
N64's WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy wrestling video games are the best and still is the best my top 2 favorites WWF No Mercy and WWF Wrestlemania 2000 THE GOAT 👑💯
When I finally got my own I was on it all night. My first wrestling game that I didn't have to share. I loved it
if no mercy never existed then this would be a contender for the GOAT
I remember when I bought this game! I would play it until 6 a.m. almost every day. Recreating my favorite wrestlers that weren't included in the roster and even coming up with my own original wrestlers. I think I still have a replay recorded on one of my old VHS tape of the ending of one of my matches somewhere :p This game and the follow up WWF No Mercy are without a shadow of a doubt the greatest wrestling games ever created.
Those years were amazing for wrestling fans! What a great time to be alive :)
So thankful you decided to revisit these undeniable classics...
I tell ya brother I still remember the hours of playing this one at the afterschool youth Christian center with friends...In that gritty dingey sports room with the TV on the stand with the n64 man and having so much fun and that was in like 2004-2005!!
Right on! I was in a after school church program back in the early 90s in 3rd grade and they had a Genesis with Green Dog, Strider, and Streets of Rage 2. Great memories!
Back again with another classic
I used to imitate Mankind's walk cycle from this game when I was 4 and my Mum would ask 'why are you walking around like you've been shot?! XD
Lol! I used to walk into rooms imitating Scott Hall’s entrance. Only the real ones knew what I was doing, while others just thought I was crazy.
Harry Cox was always my favorite wrestler. He is a for sure future Hall of famer.
Great video on WrestleMania 2000.
WCW NWO World Tour was the first game i got for N64 for Christmas as a kid. I loved it and enjoyed how much better each wrestling game from Aki got. I was baffled at first when they dropped WCW, considering how excellent WCW/NWO Revenge was (and i was still more a wcw fan at the time).
But i gave WrestleMania 2000 a chance and was blown away. I loved the deep customization and Road to Wrestlemania mode. It also made me appreciate how much more interesting the WWF attitude era wrestlers were than what i was seeing on wcw.
Although the WCW games did feature a better roster. The game play evolved with each new THQ release.
I remember playing WCW VS NWO World Tour, for the first time too. I was blown away and spent countless hours on the game. It was light years ahead of any wrestling game I had owned or played before. Which were mostly on the 16 bit consoles.
WWF No Mercy built on every great aspect of WM2000, but it was also slower. Because of this, I tend to play WM2000 more often. This, and I prefer the weekly structure for the season mode
I was 6 years old when this came out, my older brother and his friends would place this for hours in my living room, the graphics looked so real at the time😂
Watching this on my Lunch break at work
Right on Tim! I can always count on seeing you in the comments section, thanks a lot dude!
@@NikateeN
No problem dude
this was my favorite! hours upon hours ...I still remember winning the Royal Rumble to finally unlock HBK!
90s babies UNITE!!!! If you ain't have the fondest memories with this Game, I don't know what to say but : Mid tier childhood
Man I remember 99 when WM2000 came out that was a good X-Mas..
I remember when this wm2000 came out it played well and looked cool and was a blast to play royal rumble and other modes with friends. It remains a fixture on my RetroPie setup.
I was so excited for this game as a kid. I remember going to toys r us with my dad to buy it when it came out and I played so many hours on it. I played all the wrestling games on n64 favorite console ever. Great vid.
Thanks! I remember buying so many games at Toys R Us and KayBee Toys. Both gone, but many memories remain.
You mentioned the best of the best in classic wrestling gaming in my opinion!
I was also a Freshman in high school when WWF WrestleMania 2000 was released in late 1999 but I was playing WWF Attitude PSX and I brought WWF Attitude PSX again after not owning it in over 20 years
The homie with another upload! I've been playing this recently too along with Day Of Reckoning 2. Both dope games. Idk if it's cause I'm old af now, but the Wrestlemania 2000 story mode is hard as hell. I get reversed every other move. It's still a damn good game.
The Road to WrestleMania mode definitely amps up the difficulty when it comes to the AI countering. Sometimes it’s borderline ridiculous!
@NikateeN Aight, I thought I was bugging 🤣 I know my reflexes went down over the years, but damn I was getting my ass kicked.
I had this for my birthday in 2000. I played it constantly
Babe wake up, Nikateen uploaded a new video… oh wait I don’t have a babe! Oh well
used to play 4 players with my friends with these wrestling games. Loved how the N64 had 4 controller ports
Man I remember when I first got this game Christmas of 99, me and my older cousin played it for hours every weekend. Spending hours creating a wrestler, and playing the Royal Rumble match, this was my favorite game over no mercy because of the Undertaker had his ministry of darkness gimmick. It’s a shame that No Mercy stole its thunder because this was a great that doesn’t get mentioned a lot.
Agreed! This game was straight up epic.
Well done video! It was a great trip down memory lane for such a splendid game which from world tour to no mercy I spent far to much time on.
I played this game solidly for about two years when I was 15 and only today I have learned about the cartoon mini Earl Hebner. 😮
I remember getting this game for Christmas 🎄 back in 1999 I was so excited that year
Bro love this new revisiting series, keep ‘em coming!
Thanks! Will do!
I always dug the 1999 era of WM 2000 vs the 2000 era of No Mercy. I wasn't watching the WWF in 99 so I was really intrigued by characters like Ministry Taker, the Blue Meanie, Gangrel and the Brood, Prince Albert, Al Snow and Droz.
Going back, I love that shortlived stables like the Union and the Corporate Ministry have their theme and titantrons.
I love this ERA , so many memories makes me😢😊
I feel it!
My dream would be an ECW version
I’ve been binge watching your reviews. These are awesome! Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much!
This channel is the best of the best thanks again NikateeN!
Thanks!
This game was very special to me, have amazing memories playing it! When I found out that iconic main menu theme was heavily inspired by Pantera's Psycho Holiday I was like "no wonder I liked it so much" (during that time I started to notice I loved guitar based music, mainly rock and metal) and the fact you could create wrestlers in the AKI engine, man I always ended up doing many headcanon stories with my creations! To me this game is part of the holy tetralogy of AKI engine games alongside No Mercy, Revenge and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2
Wrestlemania 2000 was the best wrestling game of all time. No question.
The Legend is Back!
WWF WrestleMania 2000 is still an EPIC game.
Although I personally think that VPW2 and VPW64 are my favorite AKI Wrestling Games, WM 2000 is still a legendary game 👌
Running grapples debuted in Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 which came out January 2000. No Mercy came out November 2000 as Nik mentioned in his recent VPW2 review.
This was the first game I bought with my own money when it first came out. I always loved making WCW wrestlers and some old school one to. Watching this video brings back a lot of memories.
This, “No Mercy” and nothing else. The two best wrestling games EVER.
Here comes the pain my man
Of all of the N64 wrestling games, my fondest memories are still of Wrestlemania 2000. Thank you for this review. I really enjoyed your inclusion of the THQ/AKI history, as they are an integral element of pro wrestling's popularity for the following decades.
This was a groundbreaker, mainly for the CAW. Every single wrestler you created looked like they belonged next to in-game wrestlers. It took the Smackdown games a decade to accomplish that.
20:16 had such an occurrence in No Mercy. Had a First Blood match as part of whatever storyline I was following, and the first thing I did once the bell rang was to go and look for a weapon to try to do the deed quickly. Match was over in 52 seconds after connecting the first blow... 🤷♂