WWE video games are always a huge attraction for WWE fans who love playing video games. The first WWE video game was released back in 1986, and since then countless number of WWE games have been made by different companies.
One of the most famous video game publishers of WWE had been THQ, which was associated with WWE games since the late 90s. The first WWE game they published was WrestleMania 2000 back in November 1999. Since then they have published some amazing WWE games.
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To name some of the best video games published by THQ include WWF No Mercy and WWE SmackDown Here Comes the Pain. One of the best things about WWE video games of the 90s and 2000 was multiple WWE games every year, every console used to get its own and different game.
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For example, free of the major consoles of the early and mid 2000s, got different video games from. WWE. PlayStation used to have the SmackDown series, Xbox had the RAW series, and Nintendo GameCube had the WrestleMania series. All of these games were published by THQ.
THQ used to publish WWE video games before the takeover of 2K
All of these games were completely different from each other. The Smackdown series of the PlayStation had been favoured by the majority of the fans. Most of the time, THQ used to release multiple games every year. For example, they released Legends of WrestleMania and WWE All Stars despite releasing the SmackDown vs RAW video games in the same years.
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But nowadays you will never get to see more than 1 WWE video game any year. They port one single video game in every major console. As of now, 2K never released more than one WWE game in a single year. The question will always be there, is 2K will ever be as passionate as THQ was?
