WWF War Zone was the first 3D WWF title to be released, developed by Acclaim Studios Salt Lake and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1998 for the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. As Andrew has noticed, there were some beta screenshots in an issue of Game Informer (?) with Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi on the cover. At the time, the game was simply referred to as WWF ’98. This beta version has no health bars yet, the ropes are red, white, and blue instead of just red, and the arena has American flags. There was a beta video on Youtube but it seems to have disappeared.
Thanks to Andrew McMahon for the contribution!
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7 Responses to WWF War Zone [N64/PSX - Beta]
pcloadletter
September 10th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Been doing some digging I may have to break this post up:
2 pages from Game Informer 10/97, PSX version, WWF 98 mat logo:
http://bit.ly/9nkDH8
http://bit.ly/abgi52
Game Informer 12/97, N64 version, retitled and logo change
http://bit.ly/bDc9hi
pcloadletter
September 10th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Gamepro 1/98, N64 version 30% (close to what is already pictured in the article)
http://bit.ly/bWvHiy
Progressed pretty quickly as you can see.
monokoma
September 11th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Thanks again for the scans pcloadletter :)
Nikki
May 26th, 2011 at 4:29 am
I have a demo disk of this game but no, ours didn’t have Ahmed and Mankind. Ours had only Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels (P.S. Shawn Michaels is my fave WWF wrestler!).
Mike.Hunt
January 20th, 2012 at 2:30 am
I found a beta picture for this game on Neoseeker
http://img.neoseeker.com/view.php?entityid=6709&imageid=36405
This one has debug stuff
Mike.Hunt
January 20th, 2012 at 2:50 am
oh and there is another one i found, it seems you could fight up in the ramp in earlier versions, in the retail version its blocked off
http://www.giantbomb.com/wwf-war-zone/61-18801/all-images/52-164425/warzone/51-404061/
some more beta shots:
http://www.sgn.cc/fighting/wwf_warzone/psx/005a.jpg
http://www.playerschoicegames.com/wwfzonescreen4.JPG
monokoma
January 24th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Thanks Mike! If you want, you can update the page from the “Edit” link :D