If you ask any video gamer about the best wrestling game ever made, you will get to hear two names mostly; one is WWE SmackDown: Here Comes the Pain, and the other one is WWF No Mercy. But most of The Gamers will agree to the fact that No Mercy is the best video game ever made.
Released back in year 2000, Japanese video game developers Aki Corporation made this video game which THQ published. It was not named after any weekly show, neither after the big four pay per view events. No Mercy had mostly been a filler pay per view event. Nobody expected this game to be such a huge success.
The best potential wrestling video game was actually cancelled
Back then, there used to be multiple WWE video games every year for each and every console. Particularly for the year 2000, Playstation had SmackDown 2: Know Your Role, Sega Dreamcast had WWF Royal Rumble, and Nintendo 64 had WWF No Mercy. Let us not talk about the handheld version which were completely different games despite having similar names.
WWF No Mercy is considered the best WWE video game ever made
The two SmackDown games for PlayStation were also quite good, but nothing could match the greatness of No Mercy which is still believed to be the best WWE video game ever. This is the reason this game still being modded by a huge modding community. Hundreds and thousands of gamers still play this game.
According to reports, after seeing the immense success of WWF No Mercy, THQ decided to launch a sequel of this video game by the title WWF Backlash in 2001. Reports also suggest that the game was supposed to portray the invasion angle that went on throughout 2001. This could have been the first ever professional wrestling game where gamers could play as WWE, WCW, and ECW players in one single game officially.
WWF Backlash was supposed to get released in 2001 and it could be the best WWE video game ever
But unfortunately, the game was cancelled as THQ cancelled they are partnership with Aki Corporation and tied up with another Japanese game developer named Yuke's, the company that is also responsible for great games like the continuation of The Smackdown series and SVR series.
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Unfortunately, WWF backlash could never see the daylight, and it was cancelled after 30% of completion. It is widely believed that WWF Backlash would have been better than WWF No Mercy, and it could be remembered as the best WWE video game ever.,
