Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2401 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2001-03-23
• Platform: PlayStation

Amazon.co.uk Review
Expect Simpsons Wrestling to offer fierce competition for the console wrestling game crown and you¹re going to be in for a disappointment. If you're in the market for a fun, throwaway piece of arcade entertainment, however, this could be just your bag.

Boasting the involvement of 19 characters from the TV series, complete with accompanying sampled sounds and venues lifted from the show, the aim is to take control of a character and battle to be the Springfield Champion. Each character comes with their own taunts and moves (for instance, Barney attacks with a beer pot, while Homer will strike you down with his bowling ball), and although the game perhaps too often descends into a melee of random button hammering, it's fun trying out the different characters (some of which are locked at the start). Each bout is also enlivened by the various power-ups that appear throughout the ring (which serve up extra fighting options), and the taunt mode, which gives you a brief period of invulnerability.

Simpsons Wrestling never has any pretensions about being more than an enjoyable little fighter. That's fortunate, because it's no threat to the current fighting game champions. Yet while this is best described as short-lived entertainment, it's still certainly fun while it lasts. --Simon Brew

DailyRadar.com
This is not wrestling; it's hardly even a game. The sound bites are from the real talent, which is one good thing--the only good thing, in fact. The rest is a button mashing horror, an exercise in frustration made all the worse by just how much we would like to be enjoying ourselves. The Simpsons Wrestling is the worst kind of licensed rubbish, a generic fighting game that uses popular characters but doesn't pay attention to their personalities. Seeing Marge clobbering people and using Maggie as a special weapon is lame. Lisa in a fight is even dumber. Even the characters that might be prone to such violence, such as Groundskeeper Willie and Homer, are incredibly lame, since they have less than a half-dozen moves each. In sum, worst use of a license ever. If for some reason you're not interested in the game because you're a fan of The Simpsons but because you want some crazy arcade fighting action, well, don't bother. The gameplay is the only thing that could be worse than the license use, and that's saying a great deal. There are a dozen characters to choose from and 10 different locales. Each character has a basic attack, a special attack that must be charged up and a grapple. None of them are any fun. Not even for a minute. The graphics are terrible, with low-res characters, abominable collision detection and static backgrounds. The backgrounds are equally low-res and blurry, even though they're 2D and don't move at all. How hard would it have been to just import art from the show? There is no battle royal or any extra fun modes at all. This isn't actually wrestling, remember, so it's all about one-on-one action. Here's how the game works: Each character appears in a corner of the ring and spouts a catch phrase. Then the action begins. Then, less than five seconds later, a disillusioned Simpsons fan turns off the PlayStation in disgust. Repeat ad nauseam. --DailyRadar.com

Manufacturer's Description
D'oh-minate the ring, Simsons-Style! Just when you thought the world of wrestling couldn't get wackier, here comes no-holds-barred, no-burps-barred ring action starring all of your favorite characters from The Simpsons! Get in the Ring with All of Springfield! Fight as over a dozen of your favorite characters, including Homer, Krusty, Bart and Apu! Unleash exclusive character moves and "smack talk" voiceovers done by actors from the show. Battle in 10 locations all over 3-D Springfield-from the Power Plant to the Kwik-E-Mart. Take on friends in Versus (Two-Player) mode, Tournament (Single-Player) mode and Practice Game (Single-Player) mode. Snag numerous power-ups to keep the upper hand, plus unlock secret characters, bosses and an exclusive bonus level!

Customer Reviews

Its not that bad!
True, this game is not as good as some of the new consoles games, e.g. PS2, Gamecube or the Xbox. This game was an early release on the playstation one. At the time it was a pretty good game, and offered a story mode and multiplayer options. It is a challenging game and allows you to choose from a wide range of characters, which all have their own special moves and attacks. Overall this game is worth buying if you want a cheap new challenge.

stunning
The first day i had this game i played it all day on new challenger and could not get past burns, but i managed to in the end,so be warned.The game itself is brill i could not think of a better way to spend...There are lots of different charecters,most of them out of the show are in the game, including my favorite itchy and scratchy.Now i have all the characters i usally just play against my friends as it is a two player game. This game is not at all like wwf as each character has its own different move. You also get a lot of laughs out of the game as it is so funny.I would reccomend this game to any one

Game? FULL Game?! I've seen betas better than this!
Punch, kick. Punnch puuunch kiccck. Atomic bomb.
Death. restart.

So begins another wonderful bout of 'Simpson's Wrestling'. Its bad. you hold down either punch or kick and run wildly at you opponent in the hope to deafeat it. Then you go on to the next stage. Reapeat ad naseum. Suddenly, out of he blue, you come across Mr Burns and Smithers.
And you get nuked, again and again.
and you get bored.
and you hurl your Playstation against the wall.
It is at about this point that you realise that the only real reson that you have been playing the game is its simpsons licence. You see through the wonders of the name and realise that the graphics could have been drawn by your two year old sister, and that the collision detection could have programed by a simian. The final nail in the coffin come when the voice samples begin to grate.
On the plus side, you will get about 3 miniutes of fun from it, and it is OK in multiplayer. Sadly though, the game cannot be made even reasonably aceeptable due its HUGE flaws. Not worth the effort.