One big jump came from the game’s presentation.

Counters also became a more prominent aspect of the game, giving players more opportunities to defend themselves. This opens the doors for new moves and more realistic ways of engaging with other fighters.

There are more positions that wrestlers can get tangled in, such as being dropped on all fours, or chest-first into the turnbuckles. Thankfully, AKI was never one to rest on its laurels. Being able to fight in that engine with Stone Cold Steve Austin and clean house with a round of Stunners still sounds like a great time. AKI’s wrestling engine is the stuff of legend, making for a wrestling title that gave players access to a ton of moves and a level of tactics and strategy that hadn’t been seen in the genre up to that point. If that were the case, that would be just fine. On the surface, Wrestlemania 2000 is just WCW vs.

Playing the game again served as a great reminder for what makes it enjoyable to this day, but also why it faded into obscurity. Quite frankly, I have largely blocked out the existence of Wrestlemania 2000 from my mind until the opportunity arose to stream it on the eve of Wrestlemania 35. The former is…the precursor everyone forgot about in the shadow of the greatest wrestling video game of all time. The latter is widely recognized by many – including me – as the single greatest wrestling video game of all-time. During AKI’s legendary run of producing some of the best wrestling games ever made, they made two for the WWF: WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy.

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