It's amazing how much fun you can eke out of a bad game when you're young and desperate. I played the heck out of Attitude as a kid; it was my first wrestling game and I was a WWF fanatic. The create-a-wrestler mode offered an endless amount of entertainment and the full wrestler entrances, soundbites and snarky commentary by Shane McMahon and Jerry Lawler made the game feel like the closest I could get to booking and playing my own episode of Monday Night Raw.
Revisiting Attitude recently might have been a mistake though. The wrestlers move so stiffly and slowly, as if they've been stitched together by Dr. Frankenstein, and pulling off even a simple suplex requires memorising a string of silly inputs. These are dehabilitating faults but they're ones I wilfully ignored in 1999. Despite it's massive flaws I've got some great memories playing this game and that alone allows for a slightly generous star rating I think.
Revisiting Attitude recently might have been a mistake though. The wrestlers move so stiffly and slowly, as if they've been stitched together by Dr. Frankenstein, and pulling off even a simple suplex requires memorising a string of silly inputs. These are dehabilitating faults but they're ones I wilfully ignored in 1999. Despite it's massive flaws I've got some great memories playing this game and that alone allows for a slightly generous star rating I think.