ECW Hardcore Revolution (Dreamcast)
107ECW Hardcore Revolution was the first game based on the now defunct wrestling league Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It was also the very first wrestling game to receive a Mature rating from Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) in the US and Canada.
ECW Hardcore Revolution was released for the Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast, and Game Boy Color in the first months of 2000.
Acclaim Entertainment had more or less a monopoly on professional wrestling game in the late 90s and early 00s and they knew it. They put out several wrestling game based on the same engine and the games shared much of the code and even GUI. So ECW Hardcore Revolution is more or less based on WWF War Zone (a game only released on Game Boy, Playstation and N64 in the summer of 1998) and WWF Attitude that came out only 6 months before ECW Hardcore Revolution. Elements as wrestlers and sound/samples were changed to replace WWE owned material with ECW based material. The similarities between the two games are so strong that match rules from WWF are still in the ECW Hardcore Revolution.
As an example we can mention that Triple Threat match from WWF Attitude appear in ECW Hardcore Revolution as 3 Way Dance.
The reception from critics was fairly bad. The Dreamcast version received 5.6/10 from GameSpot, 2/10 from GameSpy and an ok 6.9 from IGN.
Most of the critique came from that it was basically the same game as WWF Attitude and WWF War Zone for full price.
But nowadays this game come cheap and if you're a wrestling fan and if you have 2-3 like minded friends, go for it. It could possibly be a nice 4-player experience. But if you can't get a hold of ECW Hardcore Revolution, get WWF Attitude, or WWF Anarchy Rulz. They are the same game...
If you want to know more about IRL ECW you can use the below link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling
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