5 retro WWE video games worth revisiting while in lockdown

#4. WWE All-Stars

If there's been one title that's captured the arcade-like bliss that was the aforementioned WWF WrestleFest, it would have to be THQ's WWE All-Stars. Yeah, you're gonna hear THQ mentioned a lot in this piece. Just a head's up.

Released in 2001, THQ put out a WWE title that was in stark contrast to their usual simulation-based WWE Smackdown vs RAW games they currently had going. While All-Stars had plenty of the top guys in the company at the time - John Cena, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, and more - it also included a lot of WWE legends, at that. Roddy Piper, Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin were just a few names included in this really, really fun title.

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What set this game apart for the SvR games THQ was putting out at the time as the arcade presentation. Not only were the moves easy to pull off - it was a simplified control scheme, similar to ones you'd find... well... in an arcade game - but the moves themselves were presented in such an over-the-top fashion that it bordered on ridiculous. Here, look.

And one more historic note about this game. As part of the promotion of this title, THQ brought in the one and only Macho Man Randy Savage - also featured in the game - in the game's ads. This was one of the very last appearances Savage did for anything related to WWE before his death.

If you have - or can get your hands on - this title for the PS3, Xbox 360, or Wii (as well as the portable systems from that generation), take some time to lose yourself in some arcade action. This game is awesome.

Edited by Akhilesh Tirumala