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WCW Nitro (PC) ReviewRelease Date: Fall 1998 Background Info
Presentation/Graphics : 50
Time for the bad things. WCW Nitro supposedly supports hardware acceleration in the form of Direct 3D. The game gave me the sense that I was playing in 400x300 resolution.
The crowd seems to be made of blocks. Yes, blocks of squares. The frame rate is absolutely obscene. It gets even worse playing a mode in which more than two wrestlers are on the screen. For instance, the Battle Royal mode and Tag Team mode are unplayable. The wrestlers move in super slow-mo. The arenas in WCW Nitro also is a painful sight to look at. The people in the crowd are in 2D.
Presentation/Audio : 45
Interface/Options : 55
The button response is horrible. It takes approximately 2 seconds for the game to perform the action decided by the button pressed. However it could be the frame rate that is causing this problem, but either way, a game should not be released the way it was.
Customizable controls are a big plus. Just select options from the startup screen, then select customize keys. After that, press enter and press a button on your joystick. I could not figure out how to use two controllers. I tried going to second player controls, but it would only let me enter in keyboard buttons.
Gameplay : 50
WCW Nitro also did not allow any type of reversal moves. A weird thing is that when I took my wrestler to the outside and perform some sort of a body slam, the wrestler got right back up in less than a second. However when I go back into the ring and do the exact same move, my opponent stays down for almost 10 seconds.
There are a few things I like about WCW Nitro, believe it or not. Wrestlers can come running out to either double team your opponent or double team you. Give me a second, I can come up with something else. Oh yes, the wrestlers have the same finishing moves as they do in real life.
THQ marketed WCW Nitro as having over 60 WCW/NWO wrestlers in the game. Well, the game came with 16 wrestlers. People have to win 1 on 1 tournaments to unlock the hidden characters. I unlocked one wrestler and that was it. I could not take anymore of WCW Nitro.
WCW Nitro does include an internet feature. I did not test this feature simply because the game ran slow 1 on 1 on my computer, and I can imagine how fast the game would be playing over the net.
Difficulty : 70
The computer control wrestler will randomly go to the top rope even when their opponent is standing. After that, all I needed to do was to walk towards the wrestler on the top rope and press a button, which made my wrestler toss the computer wrestler on the top rope to the mat.
Winning a match is relatively easy. Keep on hitting the Punch and Kick button in that order and your wrestler will perform the power bomb. For those of you know familiar with wrestling, the power bomb is when a wrestler grabs their opponent, puts their head between their legs(both wrestlers are standing still) and then lifts him up and drops him onto the mat. I kept on doing the power bomb on the computer and I usually won the match with almost none of my energy gone.
Overall : 54
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