One of the greatest wrestling games of all time. The peak of AKI wrestling on the N64. Universally praised, and rightfully so. Just as fun now as it was in 2000.
Even though I was a playstation fan and had the likes of the smackdown series. I enjoyed whenever I gathered with friends to play a few games of no mercy.
My older half brother has this game and I remember as a kid watching him play it 16 years ago. I witnessed by far one of the greatest wrestling games of all time that day.
Truly one of the greatest wrestling games of all time. Exceptional roster, fantastic soundtrack, massive attention to detail, multitude of match types and solid gameplay. Wish the collision detection and ai wasn't as annoying at times though.
@@sandercameau6510 I’ll take branching paths and numerous stories with promos etc over a bog standard play your match then play your next match mode which 2000 was. It was good but No Mercy ate it alive!
@Tim Warburton it was unpredictable I'm wrestlemania right now and no mercy. No mercy was too redundant. They just had more moves like turnbuckle specials
I remember my first interaction with this game. I was 5 years old, and I ran up to my older brothers room where he and our brother were playing it. I was freaking out cause I already played Wrestlemania 2000, so seeing this was so insane to see. Ended up getting it myself 2 years later for my own system and played the hell out of it. I thought it was the best till I played WCW/NWO Revenge. I'm torn between both. Childhood was great when experiencing these wonderful games.
I’m not a hardcore gamer by any stretch but there have been certain select games that I had to get day of release and couldn’t wait unwrap and play. This is one. No Mercy is like the perfect storm. It was the culmination of everything that had been slowly building through the THQ N64 games. Then, add in the fact that this was the hottest the WWF has ever been and you’ve got magic. Yes, many wrestling games since look better, have larger rosters and have greater options. But No Mercy just has something about it, a feeling, a time and a place, that can’t be replicated.
When i purchased WWF no mercy 2000 a few years ago for 16 bucks someone had created rapper DJ quick. As he was still hugely popular in November 2000 around the time of games release
I still have my N64 Console,WCW/WWF Games right now along with 007 GoldenEye/NBA Games and more. I need the Japan games on N64 as well. Awesome Gameplay,Smooth Controls,Good Graphics,WWF No Mercy was the Hot Pockets of the World of Professional Wrestling
This game not only became one of the best Wrestling games of all time, it birthed another one of the best Wrestling series of all time Def Jam Vendetta/Fight For New York.
@@thehotboywalking yeah, Def Jam Vendetta was made from a Cancelled WCW Game (Mayhem 2), which used the AKI engine. -FFNY was made with the same engine but drastically improved into a Brawler game more than Wrestling. It’s the best version of the engine to date
Best wrestling game ever, all those countless days and nights on this game you can’t compare especially when it was in the era off the best wwf era. Unfortunately todays games and fans won’t have what we got
Shunsuke Katsumata who did 3D animation on AKI N64 classics like No Mercy with Takumi Kon who was identified by Sanders Keel on Retro Wrestling Game Review Podcast,, were both lead designers on Yuke's WWE GameCube games and Wrestle Kingdom games on PS2. Either one or both are credit in lead game design all of those.
Hideyuki Iwashita aka Geta-san is working on AEW Fight Forever as a development advisor at Kenny Omega's request. From what I understand from Kenny's past interviews, every decision on that game goes through Geta with the edict of how would approach design and implementation. Geta was the director on he director of Revenge, WM 2000, VPW2, No Mercy and Def Jam Vendetta. He might have been on others but weird nicknames eeee used on earlier titles. He was also Supervisor on Fight for New York and the Ultimate Muscle games.
What trip down memory lane. This IS the BEST wrestling game ever! As I was a late teen just out of high school into the world as an adult. A group of 5 of us friends would spend whole weekends playing this game. Each with 2 of our own created wrestlers, we did a draft and all the wrestlers were split into 5 sanctions. We would set up Raw and Smackdown events followed by a PPV. We even had a replica WWF championship belt that the player that owned the wrestler in the game with tht belt kept. Man! Feel so old, I’m starting to get a case of the feels. Lol. Funny enough, I can even remember the longest reign as champion, it was on of my sanctions wrestlers and even one I can’t believe to this day. But Test held tht belt for over 5 months at one time. Lol. Oh, and a little known trick, if u swapped the wrestlers order in their selection menu you could replace Stone Cold in the intro video of the game. We created a very fat disparaging, feminine male wrestler call Gay Dad and put him in this spot. We were so juvenile. Lol. Anyway thanks again for the nostalgic trip into the past, some of the most fun times of my youth.
2000 may not be the best WWE year in terms of quality, but for me is the most exciting year of all (specially from Royal Rumble 2000 to WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001). Watching a weekly show or a PPV from that year today feels so great and very fun, even if I watched so many times. So glad for been watched that product at it's time, even when in my country (Chile) the broadcast was delayed for 5 or 6 months haha PS: props for the F-Zero X ost on the background 👏
All the Aki games were so good. WCW vs NWO revenge was my favorite just because I have the most memories but I still played a ton of no mercy. Such good times
Gonna say No Mercy is my favorite N64 game. I love Paper Mario, Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie, but even tho Paper Mario comes close, just everything about No Mercy brings back so many good memories, the gameplay, the editing, the music, everything about the game is great…except for that stupid glitch that can randomly deletes your saved data. But regardless the game’s greatness makes up for that to an extent
I miss those old days. Going on old internet to look up a text file with a bunch of custom characters with each move listed to going through every No Mercy move in order to make the perfect overpowered broken wrestler. I loved how those old games that half of the experiences what in your imagination. I'll take fun over pixels count any day.
Got damn. Talk about a trip down memory lane. This was a day 1 purchase in our house, still remember when my older brothers brought this home. We couldn’t believe some of the things you could do in this game. The Dudley bros combo truly blew my mind.
Wow, so many memories playing this game. There will never be anything like it again. Playing the best wrestling game while watching the greatest wrestling performances of all time.
Oh yes! I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. I’ll never forget my introduction to this beloved classic and how it quickly became my favorite wrestling game next to the SVR series and HCTP. Back in 2018, when I was brought back into WWE and wrestling as a whole, I decided to get every classic wrestling game I can get, and when I got WrestleMania 2000 and No Mercy, I was taken it back when I discovered how amazing these games were in terms of gameplay and all of that. I know these games came first, but when I discovered how similar they were to the Day of Reckoning games the ones I grew up with, I fell in love with them as the engine used really is my favorite for wrestling games. When I got No Mercy at first, it was sadly the broken save version and it was hard for me to enjoy it because I can’t save my progress, but to my absolute shock and surprise, my family somehow found a fixed cartridge in brand new condition with the box as well and gave it to me for my birthday later that year. And it was the greatest day ever! I played the ever living HECK out of this cartridge and within a week, I unlocked everything. All the characters, arenas, weapons, moves, everything. I can’t stress how much I love this game. Thank you for this video, homie. Truly one of your all time best.👍
I was a huge huge wrestling fan at this time and bought the N64 just to play this game,I don't think I ever bought more than one other game for the system and didn't even play it.
Also after I got home from buying it I remember being so excited to play it only to find out you had to buy some other rumble pack like thing to play it.i had to go all the way back to funcoland to buy it and then go home before I was able to play it,it was worth the wait though
This game is so good! I think the best part is I can create pretty accurate wrestlers in just a few minutes! The graphics allow much more room for error than the newer wrestling games because nowadays every detail has to be carefully crafted or it looks odd.
The fluid animations and solid feel is what separated this series from it's competitors. The fact that No Mercy boasted an updated roster at the time is what separated it from it's predecessors. Plain and simple.
I remember when I got it for Christmas in 2000, I couldn’t stop playing. Although I was really bummed that Big Show wasn’t in it because he was on of my favorites growing up.
Sanders Keel stated that the bug was Nintendo's fault on Insiders Edge podcast. I think Nintendo gave THQ a bad batch of cartridges or something. I returned mine to THQ in.. probably early 2001. I lost the letter they sent with the new copy once I returned mine tho.
As a kid I loved the previous titles create a belt mode! I had one for my me vs my dad and me vs my friends. Made a whole bunch of belts. Literally the most nostalgic part of this video was looking at the create a belt menu haah
My friends and I used King of the Ring a lot. The most memorable use was a first blood tag team tournament for the titles. I’ll never forget how Andre busted my CAW open in five seconds with a headbutt.
I remember the night i first played. My mother was laid off from work and we were struggling but she knew i had wanted to play it badly so we borrowed our neighbors Blockbuster member card and rented it. I remember being mindblown playing as Rikishi that after you win theres a cutscene with him dancing with Too Cool. That kinda stuff was so innovative back then. 😊
Your reviews are better and better with every video you make. Shows your level of maturity and hard work. Can’t wait to see more brother . Also this game deserves its flowers of being one of the greats
One of my favorite glitches was doing a swanton bomb from the ladder to the announcer table and going through the floor and being able to go and fight on the stage
I bought this a few years ago and found out the one I was used to was my buddy's where he unlocked everything, starting from scratch was a bit of an undertaking
Been waiting for this one! I'm an entrance mark from WAY back, so I prefer WM 2000 based on it's full entrances alone. But I do wish we had running grapples in WM 2000, and at least a few members of the updated roster, like Tazz, The Dudleys, Benoit, Guerrero, and Angle, though. And ladders
@@BrianAwesome Yes! I actually like the roster of "WM 2000" more than I like the roster in "No Mercy", too. But WM 2000 is definitely lacking a few features that make No Mercy and VPW2 more fun to play, that's for sure.
To answer your question about King of the Ring, me and my best friend used to use our creator wrestlers as a tag team and play King of the Ring tournaments all the time against whatever teams we would come up with. Most fun I ever had playing a wrestling game.
How does it benefit from nostalgia? Nostalgia aside, this game is so good that if it were released today with an updated roster and graphics, it’d be a hit. There were many match types, a storyline that split off into different directions which was contingent on certain things happening in matches, many playable characters, and a whole bunch of different stories depending on the championship you went for. Wrestling games today can barely replicate that. This game doesn’t benefit from nostalgia. It benefits from being a game ahead of its time that can’t seem to be replicated over 20 years later.
Excellent revisit, and spot on with the Hot Pocket reference (we've all been there) the only thing missing was a clip of the Too Cool dancing cut scene, puts a smile on my face every time
This was a good $70 dollars Spent at Toys R Us back in late 2000! Only thing I didn't like was that the cartridge kept resetting when I would create The Three Faces of Foley...
Jesus Christ I guess I never really got a chance to see these expensive ass games. The only game I remember being more expensive than most was this PS1 Yu-Gi-Oh game that came with a red eyes black dragon. I mainly remember buying PS2 games that were all 49.99
Since AEW: FIght Forever is taking inspiration from not only this game, but some of the other beloved wrestling games, there is hope that it could be just as good as those games. But hey, only time will tell.
Oh man, I WISH they would make another wrestling game wit the No Mercy mechanics. Just upgraded graphics, updated roster, etc etc. It would be the best wrestling game ever.
Great video brutha. My brothers and I played the hell out of this game. Truly one of the best games from my childhood. You definitely have a new follower my man. Keep up the great work.
I love all the AKI games on the N64 but because of my glitchy cartridge it was a love/hate feeling for WWF No Mercy. I now have a reproduction cartridge of the Revision-A rom that doesn't have the glitch problem and still has the blood effects in the game. I always enjoy hearing people talk about WWF No Mercy not just for the game but how it easily takes me back to that magical time in pro wrestling because of how well it represents it for it's time like a time capsule. Great review 👍
No Mercy is the GOAT! Great retrospective!! -Bradshaw's Clothesline from Hell is a reused animation of Kenta Kobashi's Burning Lariat but it's damage power has been nerfed! -No original theme with gong for Taker?! -Love the edition of techno and hip hop but I know some metalheads who turn the music off because they preferred the older AKI games BGM. -It's possible to catch thrown weapons by blocking and newer games sorely miss doing moves on weapons with that satisfying crunch!
Did you know that the front cover of No Mercy when Triple H Is doing the Pedigree, It's Al Snow when him and HHH had a match on WWF Smackdown in 99⚒️Awesome🔵
I remember getting this game as a kid only to start playing the Championship Mode and then turning it on the next day to see all my saved info being deleted. I had to contact THQ and send my cartridge back and have them send me a new one.This cost THQ TONS of money for this bug.
I remember the first time I saw this game. We owned a PlayStation with Smackdown 2 within our games, and a friend of my brother brought his Nintendo 64 with No Mercy to play together. The fact it was slower in pace and it has "real" entrances for me (compared to the "green screen" entrances) captived my atention.
I grew up playing smackdown games on the ps2 and xbox, especially SVR 2011, and still I've put more hours into No Mercy. The gameplay is so addictive and no others can be modded like No Mercy.
What a fantastic review. You pretty much covered everything. I used to do the same thing as you, updating all the attires of the roster, and spent a lot of time making CAWs. I remember actually winning Survival years after the game's release. I actually wanted to believe that Raven was an unlockable character, and there were so many rumors that you had to beat it to get him, and of course it was false. lol
It’s said that the new AEW: Fight Forever game is being made by the same team from AKI that did the n64 wrestling games. I am very interested to see how that particular game turns out and if it’ll play like a modern day version of No Mercy. Obviously, the graphics will be better than what No Mercy had but I do question if the gameplay will be at least as good. That’s a tough act to follow but Yukes are very good game developers so I’m staying positive and keeping an open mind on it. After what happened with WWE 2k20 & to a lesser degree, 2k22 with glitches and bugs, I think the AEW game could be exactly what us fans of wrestling games needed.
I don't gave very high hopes for the AEW game. I want it to be good, but so many different conflicting reports are coming out that I don't have much confidence. One day Kenny Omega and the crew making the game are on great terms, one day later Kenny says they're hard to work with. I don't know what to believe. I want nothing but the best for the game, but I'm gonna set my expectations accordingly.
