WWF Road to WrestleMania
First WWF game on Game Boy Advance, with season mode.
WWF Road to WrestleMania is a video game for the Game Boy Advance, based on the World Wrestling Federation's pay-per-view of the same name. Released in 2001 by THQ, it was the first WWF game on the handheld and the only one released under the WWF name before the promotion's 2002 rebranding. The game's season mode tasks players with winning matches to earn a heavyweight championship title match.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Natsume Co., Ltd.
- Publisher
- THQ
- Composer
- Iku Mizutani; Tetsuari Watanabe
- Programmer
- Daisuke Tanabe; Naoki Tomosada
- Artist
- Shuuya Takaoka; Shinji Kyogoku
- Director
- Shinji Kyogoku
- Producer
- Sanders Keel; Iku Mizutani
- Released
- November 16, 2001 (EU); November 19, 2001 (NA)
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Gameplay
The game includes single-player and multiplayer modes, the latter via the Game Boy Advance Gamelink cable. Single-player modes are Exhibition, Gauntlet, Season, King of the Ring, Royal Rumble, Iron Man, and Pay Per View. The Royal Rumble mode is limited to 24 participants due to memory and roster restrictions. Season mode resembles career modes in other sports and wrestling games, where the player selects a wrestler and builds a career aiming to reach WrestleMania, with weekly matches against other roster members.
Reception
According to Metacritic, the game received mixed reviews with an average score of 62 out of 100 from seven critics. Computer and Video Games staff rated it 6/10, criticizing the 2D graphics and awkward controls but praising the cheesy intros and content, calling it better than Fire Pro Wrestling but inferior to the SmackDown games. Nintendo Power gave a collective score of 3.2/5. IGN's Nix gave a 3/10, calling it a rehash of a Game Boy Color game and noting the graphics as minimal.
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