Product Description: In Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home you get to step out of conventional wrestling games and see if you be "The King Of Hardcore"! Fully interactive environments let you destroy more than just your opponent!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Game, Great Price!
This is a good wrestling game, it's worth buying just so you can wrestle someone else in vs. mode. For this price - get it!
Rating: - Could have been better
Now I dont hate this game, but I dont like it either. The game consists of several players that you can choose in multiplayer mode or in the one player mode. The levels themselves are surprisingly small, and even though there are an abundance of weapons, once you use them, they disappear!
That is not how I would have liked to play it. If you hit someone over the head with a chair, would you have liked it to disappear? Some of the levels are also really dark and you either have to squint to see your opponent, or skip it entirely.
The music for the game is the only great thing about it. You have a huge list of bands that can play songs and listen to them while you play the game. The characters are good, yet some can get really annoying with all their taunts.
Another problem would have to be that the moves these guys use looks like they are part superhero or something. Now I dont know if any of you like the fact that these guys can jump 50 feet in the air and throw their opponents on mattresses of fire while they come down, but it just doesn't look real to me. Call me crazy but it just doesn't.
This is a great game to RENT, not to own. There are some laughs in here, and some moves do look cool, but unfortunately not everything is great, and some things should definately change:
For example, if you knock out your opponent and want to finish them off by laying them on a table and climbing to the roof of a house and jumping off right onto them, you have to do it as quickly as possible. I say that because the opponents wake up literally less than 10 seconds after you knock them out, making it seem less fun as it could have been.
There is one level at a gas station in the desert where if you slam an opponent against a gas pump the whole thing will explode and will go flying in the air. Another level is in a backyard where the matress of fire is, and even though it looks cool, again your opponent will just stand up again and run away before you have a chance to light it.
The worst level would have to be where you fight in the club. There is literally nothing to pick up and use as a weapon, plus it's really hard to see any weapons at all.....
If you really want this game then you should buy it, but for those of you who want something a little more like WWE style wreslting, only rent this.
Rating: - alright game
I enjoy the talk show mode and stuff that goes on in it.
Rating: - Backyard Wrestling
NO.....SERIOUSLY DON'Y TRY THIS AT HOME.....Somehow I got stuck reading almost all of these reviews... and I can't believe that their are actually people out there that say this game is great, or even good for that matter. I rented it last week, and returned it 3 days early! I'm sorry you guys... this may be thee most boring game I have ever played for the PS2 console. The game consists of the charactors constantly "running around"... it seems more of a game of tag than anything else. And when you finally engage in actual fighting, you can punch, kick, and when your opponent is down you can body slam him..........Thats it. End of story. I would advise everyone to rent it, and get that backyard wrestling rush out of your system (and it will happen quick), and save your $50.
Rating: - GREAT GAME! LOTS OF LAUGHS
At first when I looked at this game and read the reviews it looked really bad. I thought, im not even going to rent this game and i didnt. But when my friend did i went over to his house and we played it. It was one of the best games i have ever played. It was halarious and great fun. The create a player isnt that great but it doesnt pull the game down. There are so many things you can do. You can go from throwing things and hitting people with car doors or getting burnt or set on fire by a welder. You can jump off water towers and throw people into fish tanks and then for fun throw the fish at them. In each level their are tons of weapons and can be used in different ways. The blood in this game is really fake but looks good.
- Great Game, Great Price!
- Could have been better
- alright game 
- Backyard Wrestling
