The essentially failed gameplay concept means that the effort that's been put into building the environments is rather wasted, too. There are a great many different rooms, all with many interactive objects and bits of furniture you can crash about or use as weapons, but in the end they're not enough pretty scenery to make up for the game's other failings. In case I forgot to ram the point home earlier, Schiavone and Heenan are an assault on the ears after too much exposure. Add that to the soundtrack, typical droning metallic rock, and you have a game that isn't much fun to listen to. The crash and bang of barrels and pop machines is pretty funny early on, but like the rest of Backstage Assault's geek-show atmosphere, it just gets old after a while.
Comments Just say no.
Hopefully, one of these days WCW will dry up and go away and we'll never have to deal with games like this again, to say nothing of the promotion's wretched in-ring product. WWF Smackdown 2 features an equally impressive collection of backstage areas, AND a proper ring, AND more game modes, AND wrestlers that don't look like refugees from WCW Versus the World, AND better animation, AND a solid gameplay system, AND more wrestlers, AND four-player support, AND far stronger presentation trappings all around, AND no Jeff Jarrett. Smith Presentation Commentary and good FMV, but that's all, really. The atmosphere doesn't compare to Smackdown or Wrestlemania. 4.0 Graphics Ugly as hell, overall.