Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

October 8, 2003 Midway Studios Los Angeles Eidos Interactive
Fighting Sport
XBOX PS2
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Backyard Wrestling allows you to step out of the staleness of the wrestling genre, and into a groundbreaking new world of open ended gameplay. Punish your opponent in highly interactive sprawling environments implementing instruments of pain like thumbtacks, barbed wire, light bulbs, stop signs, baseball bats, tables, fire as well as the environment itself. Prepare yourself to endure inhuman amounts of pain, and take incredible risks, as you leap from breathtaking heights to beat your opponent, and be crowned "The King Of Hardcore".
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Release Date October 8, 2003
Developer Midway Studios Los Angeles
Publisher Eidos Interactive
Game Modes Single player, Split screen
Perspective Bird view / Isometric
Themes Action