Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

Developer(s)	Paradox Development
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive
Designer(s)	Kevin Gill
Series	Backyard Wrestling
Platform(s)	Xbox PlayStation 2
Release date(s)	^NA October 8, 2003 (PS2)^[1] ^NA October 9, 2003 (Xbox)^[2] ^JP April 15, 2004 ^PAL November 7, 2003
Genre(s)	Sports, Fighting
Mode(s)	Single Player Multiplayer

Backyard Wrestling is a video game developed by Paradox Development, and published by Eidos Interactive in 2003 for Xbox and PlayStation 2.

Gameplay

The goal of backyard wrestling is largely to use the environment to defeat an opponent. The gameplay could be better described as a cross between classic pro wrestling video games and 3D platform fighting like Power Stone.

Aside from the standard backyard locations, Backyard Wrestling's arenas include a truck stop, a slaughterhouse, an outdoor parking lot, a talk show set and a strip club. Each environment is littered with barbed wire-laden bats, fluorescent light bulbs, breakable tables, steel chairs and other objects players may use to injure their opponents.

The game had a "Story" like mode, entitled "Talk Show Mode" circling around a show called "Today's Topic", which resembled The Jerry Springer Show. The talk show host, a nameless character that resembled Kevin Gill, one of the game's creators, interviewed different victims and personalities of backyard wrestling. After the interview, your character would be placed where the victim was and you would fight three other backyard wrestlers. You had to face three opponents with one health bar.

Roster

Character	Place or Origin/Occupation
Violent J	rapper (Insane Clown Posse), wrestler (WWF/WCW/JCW)
Shaggy 2 Dope	rapper (Insane Clown Posse), wrestler (WWF/WCW/JCW)
Mad Man Pondo	Independent wrestler, notably JCW
The Rudeboy	Appears in JCW
Josh Prohibition	Appeared in Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
M-Dogg 20	Appeared in Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
JCW's Evil Dead	rapper Jumpsteady, wrestler (JCW)
Jamie Madrox	rapper (Twiztid)
Monoxide Child	rapper (Twiztid)
Sabu	legendary hardcore wrestler (ECW/Japan/TNA/WWE/WCW/JCW)
Tom Dub	employee for Psychopathic Records, wrestler for JCW
Masked Horn Dog	Comedy wrestler from Best of Backyard Wrestling: Backyard Babes
El Drunko	Independent wrestler
Masked Mike Jackson	Appears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
Gupta	Appears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
Karnage	Appears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
Dameon Redd	Appears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2
Da Bone Doctor	Pro Wrestler (Formerly of WWF/WWE)
Tylene Buck	wrestler (WCW), model, host for Best of Backyard Wrestling
Kitana Baker	Model, actress
Josh Asbill	Won a contest to be a playable character in the game.
El Chicharron	unknown
Commissioner	Appears in The Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1 & 2 (The Epic Battle segments)
Sonny D. Chopper	Unknown
Atrocity XXX	Unknown
Ross Lover	Unknown
Sally	Unknown
Jezebel	Unknown
Rosie	Unknown
Adrianne Pain	Unknown
Hernia	Unknown

Reception

Released in 2003, the game went on to sell nearly half a million copies worldwide. Its reception from critics was lukewarm, but player interest was high enough to justify the development of a sequel. Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood was released the following year, including more wrestlers and moves but mostly the same basic gameplay

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