The 3 worst and 2 best WWE video games

#3 Worst WWE game: WWF Steel Cage Challenge

As far as WWE games go, the original WWF WrestleMania wasn't much to write home about. The controls were weird, it didn't look particularly good (even for the time), and it opened with a graphic of Hulk Hogan looking like a drunk, angry homeless guy on a bus.

The introductory visual to the WWF Wrestlemania Game

But it also had a charm to it (as well as some pretty cool 8-bit renditions of wrestler theme songs), and it's still kind of fun even today.

Its follow-up, WWF Steel Cage Challenge, on the other hand, had none of those qualities.

The developers, Sculpted Software (NES version) and Teeny Weeny Software (Sega Master System & Game Gear), went with a top-down, isometric look which made the action in the ring a lot easier to see in actual steel cage matches.

That's the only positive thing to say about this game, other than it won't explode while you play it.

There are a number of changes to the roster between the Nintendo and Sega versions of the game. Not that anyone would notice, as the graphics are so bad it's really hard to tell who is who in this game.

Every wrestler in the game has the exact same moveset and no finishers. Not that that matters, as the controls are so bad, you'll probably not be able to pull any of the moves off anyway.

There's one character on the roster that is designed to represent the player, named "Yourself." It's about as generic-looking as a character in a game like this can get, but then again, every other character in the game looks pretty generic.

Baffling to us and for reasons we'll probably never understand, this game was released as a plug-and-play TV game, renamed WWE WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge. Other than changing "WWF" to "WWE," the only major change was the removal of Hulk Hogan and The Mountie and was replaced with Razor Ramon and the Ultimate Warrior.