Why WWE No Mercy Is The Best Wrestling Game Ever ( & Why It's WWE SmackDown ! Here Comes The Pain )

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As of late , wrestling match-ups have felt like they hit somewhat of a break . While there have been a few indications of something going on under the surface , with WWE possibly splitting away from WWE 2K games , and AEW working with Yukes to make their game , great wrestling match-ups might be coming to fans sooner rather than later . Anyway , most wrestling fans appear to in any case grip to the more established games with a feeling of happy sentimentality .RELATED : 9 Wrestling Video Game Storylines That WWE Should Use On Television Two of the games that are regularly recorded as being fan top choices are WWE : No Mercy , which was delivered solely on the Nintendo 64 , and SmackDown ! Here Comes The Pain , which was delivered on the PlayStation 2 . No Mercy - Quality Roster WWE delivered four games on the Nintendo 64 , remembering WWF No Mercy for November 2000. As No Mercy was the keep going game delivered on the Nintendo 64 , it had the biggest program of each of the four games with a list of 74 grapplers . The program wa stamped increment from past games and incorporated a large number of stars from the Attitude Era and legends from the past including Andre the Giant , British Bulldog , the Dudley Boyz , and the Radicalz . RELATED : 10 Playable Characters You Totally Forgot Were In WWE No Mercy A couple of days after No Mercy was delivered on the N64 , WWE delivered SmackDown 2 : Know Your Role for the Playstation 1 , with a program of 66 playable characters , not exactly No Mercy , which came out before . It was only after SmackDown versus Raw 2011 that a WWE game saw a program over 70 playable characters . Until now , the game is as yet considered to have one of the most outstanding playable programs ever . Here Comes The Pain - New Match Types Since the presentation of the SmackDown series , WWE has tried to incorporate a wide range of match types into the game . WWE staples ,, for example, the Ladder Match , Tables Matches , Steel Cage , Royal Rumble , and Hell in a Cell were at that point playable in prior games , yet SmackDown : Here Comes The Pain presented the First Blood Match , Elimination Chamber , and the Bra and Panty match type into a wrestling computer game interestingly . While First Blood Matches and Bra and Panty matches had been highlighting on WW programming for quite a long time when the game was delivered , the Elimination Chamber was new at that point and fans partook in an opportunity to play in the thrilling new construction that had been acquainted with WWE by Eric Bischoff . No Mercy - Fighting Style No Mercy denoted the main WWE game that AKI utilized in WCW versus NWO : World Tour , and WCW/NWO : Revenge . The battling style permitted players to utilize a blend of various strikes and hook moves to thump their rivals prior to sticking them or compelling them to submit . Players would have to tap a button for lighter strikes and catches and hold the traditional for additional strong strikes and hooks . finisher was likewise empowered for a restricted ...time frame after a player had filled their energy meter , which influenced relying upon which grappler was in charge of the challenge . When a grappler had a finisher , they could play out major areas of strength for an and their rival with their grappler's particular completing move . HCTP-Submission System In past wrestling match-ups , an accommodation move was put on a grappler for a brief period and the grappler in the hold would arrive at the ropes , surrender , or the grappler applying the accommodation would basically deliver the hold . Normally , accommodation moves that were finishers had a marginally higher possibility driving rivals to submit , however even the distinction betw these and ordinary entries was negligible . RELATED : 10 Wrestling Video Games You've Probably Forgotten This was until Here Comes the Pain presented another Submission little - game . When an accommodation was secured , the two players would need to wildly pound the buttons until the accommodation bar either hit escape or submit . No Mercy - Career Mode Both No Mercy and Here Comes the Pain have well known vocation modes in them , where the storyline gets changed relying upon the result of the match being referred to . In later games , story modes have been extremely direct with specific outcomes requiring the player to restart and most matches have specific focuses that the player should finish advancing in the story . This frequently intends that there is little worth in replaying the story mode , as everything feels something similar . RELATED : Every SmackDown versus Crude Game , Ranked From Best To Worst That wasn't true with No Mercy , as the game's storyline could fan out into various headings considering a ton of significant worth in replaying the story mode on numerous occasions with various grapplers to perceive how the various stories work out . HCTP - Damage Meter One of the many new highlights that Here Comes the Pain acquainted with WWE was a harm meter for a grappler . This implied that you could actually target one of your adversary's body parts and dissect them by focusing on a similar region again and again . This likewise assisted with making a more noteworthy accentuation on accommodation moves , which could likewise be utilized to focus on a particular body part . Kurt Angle could carefully focus on his rival's legs , setting them up for the lower leg lock , or Chris Jericho could debilitate his adversary's back prior to securing in the Walls of Jericho to make them tap . No Mercy - Modified Versions It's a demonstration of the prevalence of WWF No Mercy that wrestling fans keep on playing the game . Yet again even now , 20 years la wrestling fans will in any case stack up an emulator to play No Mercy . It wasn't simply the game's well known wrestling style , which has since been supplanted by an excessively confounded framework that no organization has had the option to enhance . The game is likewise well known because of the quantity of changed variants accessible for the game . A portion of the modded variants incorporate a rendition with NXT grapplers , WCW grapplers , and WWE legends . Anyway , the most great modded form of the game purportedly includes a list of very nearly 300 playable characters and elements a wide assortment of both female and male grapplers from different ages . The modded rendition additionally incorporates grapplers from different advancements , including TNA and AEW . HCTP - Fast Gameplay A been seriously A major component that has been seriously missing from the more current WWE games is the interactivity . Here Comes the Pain was the remainder of a famous series that permitted wrestling fans to have speedy charming fights without the game being weighted somewhere near the illustrations redesigns which would come later and frequently delayed down the tomfoolery and quick - paced feel of the previous games . WWE attempted to take back to tumultuous arcade feel of the more seasoned games when they delivered WWE 2K BattleGrounds in 2020 . No Mercy - Retro Nostalgic Feels While numerous old - school wrestling computer games have matured inadequately , WWF No M stands apart as a retro work of art . The lady such an exclusive requirement that out held to such an elevated expectation that even today , many fans grapplers actually highlight it as a benchmark for present day wrestling match-ups to satisfy . While remarking on All Elite Wrestling's initial introduction to the control center computer game market , previous AEW World Champion and Executive Vice President Kenny Omega expressed that the game would take motivation from WWF No Mercy , not terrible for a game that is more than 20 years of age . HCTP - Store Up to 5 Finishers For the last time in a WWE game , a grappler could stockpile to five finishers without a moment's delay , hitting their rivals in a steady progression . Not at all like in other computer games finishers are just accessible through force , the SmackDown game series would give players finishers by performing moves and insults on their adversaries . As the player got more finishers , it became simpler and simpler to open more finishers as the bar topped off quicker . It was basically impossible to lose the headway that you made beside utilizing a finisher on your rival . These finisher tokens likewise empowered you to invert out of your adversary's finisher , and having two finishers permitted you to hit your rival's finisher on them .