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Next Generation On-line WWF Attitude Review:
WWF Attitude boasts the deepest and most varied set of game options American video-wrestlers have ever seen. With over twenty-five different game modes such as Battle Royal, Career Mode, Tag Team Gauntlet, and half a dozen match-specific modifiers including "First Blood," "I Quit," and "Weapons," there are dozens of different configurations that can be selected for each match. Combined with the most complex create-a-wrestler mode ever attempted by an American developer, the game should offer enough variety to please even the most hardcore wrestling fan.

Whoa there. Hold your headlocks, kids. Although Acclaim has made major improvements to the features that made Warzone stand out last year: wrestler skins, ring entrances and announcers, it did little to improve Warzone's weak gameplay. Thus, no matter which combination of options we tried, the matches all felt pretty much the same.

The main problem with Attitude's gameplay is its clunky move system requiring multiple button presses for all but the simplest moves. Since moves don't get executed until all the pad motions have been made, the game quickly becomes a race to see who can remember their entire sequence of button presses first. Most of the time the payoff isn't worth the sprained thumbs. Opponents don't look hurt by your pummeling until they've taken a good amount of damage. Before that, they gleefully hop to their feet even after having their seemingly indestructible heads driven into the canvas under 300 pounds of spandex and muscle. This betrays the very illusions that allow so many wrestling fans to buy into the pageant of the WWF. Simply put: the moves have to at least look really painful.

Perhaps one of the reasons that the wrestlers seem unfazed by all of the punishment dished out in Attitude is that they don't seem connected to the rest of the game world. Sure, the wrestler models look wonderfully lifelike, and during the intros they really take your breath away. But as soon as the bell rings, the animations become extremely wooden and stilted. Wrestlers look like robots as they transition from move to move, lacking the lifelike motions and physical melodrama present in games like WCW/NWO Revenge or New Japan Pro Wrestling. Furthermore, the weapons, ring ropes, and crowds look as if they're in a completely separate world from the wrestlers, like a pixilated cardboard backdrop behind the wrestling action.

It must be said, however, that Attitude's massive collection of features, especially the amazing create-a-wrestler mode, makes this a worthy rental for diehard WWF fans. Truth be told, we spent most of our time creating wrestlers modeled after co-workers and random celebrities, designing their ring introductions, watching them parade around, then quitting out of the game to watch them again. But if you're like us, and have wanted to see a Mary Hart vs. John Tesh death match, this is your game.

The Bottom Line: Amazing options make this game a landmark of sorts, but gameplay has all the authenticity of a tourist trap.

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I just beat Career Mode with Steve Austin and realized you get all cheats unlocked by beating it one time with any wrestler. So, here they are...

Cheats with stars (*) by them are explained below.

Win European Title:
-Sable and Marc Mero Unlocked
-New Custom Stuff*
-Trainer Unlocked*
-Squeak Mode*

Win King of the Ring PPV:
-Kurrgan and Taka Michinoku Unlocked

Win Intercontinental Title:
-Jaqueline and Chyna Unlocked
-Extra Attribute Points*
-Big Head Mode*

Win SummerSlam PPV:
-Sgt. Slaughter and Shawn Michaels Unlocked

Win Royal Rumble PPV:
-Jerry Lawler and Paul Bearer Unlocked

Win WWF Heavyweight Title:
-Beep Mode*
-Ego Cheat*
-Head Unlocked*

*"New Custom Stuff" unlocks more clothes and such in the Create a Wrestler option.

*"Trainer Unlocked" makes Trainer available to choose as a wrestler.

*"Squeak Mode" makes all voices sound squeaky.

*"Extra Attribute Points" adds 3 attribute points to the Creat a Wrestler option.

*"Big Head Mode" gives big heads to all wrestlers.

*"Beep Mode" adds "Bleeped Out" to the Language section under Utilities.

*"Ego Cheat" makes wrestlers' heads get bigger as they start to take over their match.

*"Head Unlocked" makes Al Snow's manequin Head available to choose as a wrestler.

Note: There is an In Your House PPV, but I won the European Title at that event so you might be able to unlock the "Sable and Mero" cheat at that event without winning the Euro Title. Also, I never saw Survivor Series in Career Mode, but it is in the Create a PPV option. I lost 3 matches (all 2 on 1's) throughout Career Mode, so maybe if I had lost more, there would have been a Survivor Series.

Thanks to Austin Long for sending this in to me.

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