Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home
Developer(s) Paradox Development
Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive
Designer(s) Kevin Gill
Series Backyard Wrestling
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Xbox
Release
  • NA: October 7, 2003 (PS2)
  • NA: October 9, 2003 (Xbox)
  • EU: November 7, 2003
  • JP: April 15, 2004 (PS2)
Genre(s) Sports, Fighting
Mode(s) Single Player
Multiplayer

Backyard Wrestling is a video game developed by Paradox Development, and published by Eidos Interactive in 2003 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Gameplay

The goal of backyard wrestling is largely to use the environment to defeat an opponent. The gameplay could be better described as a cross between classic pro wrestling video games and 3D platform fighting like Power Stone.

Aside from the standard backyard locations, Backyard Wrestling's arenas include a truck stop, a slaughterhouse, an outdoor parking lot, a talk show set and a strip club. Each environment is littered with barbed wire-laden bats, fluorescent light bulbs, breakable tables, steel chairs and other objects players may use to injure their opponents.

The game has a "Story" like mode, entitled "Talk Show Mode" circling around a show called "Today's Topic", which resembles The Jerry Springer Show. The talk show host, a nameless character that resembles Kevin Gill, one of the game's creators, interviews different victims and personalities of backyard wrestling. After the interview, the character is placed where the victim is and will fight three other backyard wrestlers. They will face three opponents with one health bar.

Roster

Character Place or Origin/Occupation
Violent Jrapper (Insane Clown Posse), wrestler (WWF/WCW/JCW)
Shaggy 2 Doperapper (Insane Clown Posse), wrestler (WWF/WCW/JCW)
Mad Man PondoIndependent wrestler, notably JCW
The RudeboyAppears in JCW
Josh ProhibitionAppeared in Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2, Independent Wrestler
M-Dogg 20Appeared in Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2, Independent Wrestler
JCW's Evil Deadrapper Jumpsteady, wrestler (JCW)
Jamie Madroxrapper (Twiztid)
Monoxide Childrapper (Twiztid)
Sabulegendary hardcore wrestler (ECW/Japan/TNA/WWE/WCW/JCW)
Tom Dubemployee for Psychopathic Records, wrestler for JCW
Masked Horn DogComedy wrestler from Best of Backyard Wrestling: Backyard Babes
El DrunkoIndependent wrestler, Comedy wrestler from Best of Backyard Wrestling: Backyard Babes
Masked Mike JacksonAppears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
GuptaAppears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
KarnageAppears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
Dameon ReddAppears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
Da Bone DoctorPro Wrestler (Formerly of WWF/WWE)
Tylene Buckwrestler (WCW), model, host for Best of Backyard Wrestling
Kitana BakerModel, actress
Josh AsbillWon a contest to be a playable character in the game.
El Chicharronunknown
CommissionerAppears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2 (The Epic Battle segments)
Sonny D. ChopperUnknown
Atrocity XXXUnknown
Ross LoverUnknown
SallyUnknown
JezebelUnknown
RosieUnknown
Adrianne PainUnknown
HerniaUnknown

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
PS2Xbox
EGM5.67/10[1]5.67/10[1]
Famitsu27/40[2]N/A
Game Informer5.5/10[3]5.5/10[4]
GamePro[5]N/A
GameSpot4.7/10[6]4.8/10[7]
GameSpy[8][9]
GameZone7/10[10]6.5/10[11]
IGN6.5/10[12]6.5/10[12]
OPM (US)[13]N/A
OXM (US)N/A5/10[14]
Maxim2/10[15]2/10[15]
Playboy75%[16]75%[16]
Aggregate score
Metacritic51/100[17]50/100[18]

The game received mixed to negative reviews on both platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[17][18] In Japan, Famitsu gave the PlayStation 2 version a score of 27 out of 40.[2]

Sequel

A sequel, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, was released in 2004 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

References

  1. 1 2 EGM staff (December 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home". Electronic Gaming Monthly (173): 194.
  2. 1 2 "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home (PS2)". Famitsu. 801. April 23, 2004.
  3. ↑ Leeper, Justin (December 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home (PS2)". Game Informer (128): 148. Archived from the original on November 18, 2005. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home (Xbox)". Game Informer (128): 174. December 2003.
  5. ↑ The D-Pad Destroyer (October 7, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home Review for PS2 on GamePro.com". GamePro. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Navarro, Alex (October 9, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home Review (PS2)". GameSpot. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Navarro, Alex (October 15, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home Review (Xbox)". GameSpot. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Freeman, Matthew (November 6, 2003). "GameSpy: Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home (PS2)". GameSpy. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ Freeman, Matthew (November 6, 2003). "GameSpy: Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home (Xbox)". GameSpy. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  10. ↑ Aceinet (October 19, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home - PS2 - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on December 30, 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ Zacarias, Eduardo (November 20, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home - XB - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  12. 1 2 Dunham, Jeremy (October 8, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home". IGN. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine: 168. December 2003.
  14. ↑ "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home". Official Xbox Magazine: 106. December 2003.
  15. 1 2 Porter, Alex (October 8, 2003). "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home". Maxim. Archived from the original on December 16, 2003. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  16. 1 2 "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home". Playboy: 37. October 2003.
  17. 1 2 "Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  18. 1 2 "Background Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home for Xbox Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved March 11, 2016.

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