10 Best Non-WWE Wrestling Video Games Ever
3. Total Extreme Warfare (PC)
This is Extreme Warfare Revenge on steroids. Released in 2004, this Total Extreme Warfare separated the men from the boys when it came to booking simulators, allowing would-be creatives to go deeper than ever before when booking that generation-defining Christopher Daniels vs. Monty Brown feud.
This was well and truly a worldwide game, with players able to take over promotions in the US, UK, Japan, Mexico and even Australia, with wrestlers being over at different levels around the world. It was a statistician’s dream, building on the relatively primitive set-up of EWR and turning it into a real rabbit hole of a game. More feuds, more options, more wrestlers, everything about this was ‘more’.
That ‘more’ meant it could be incredibly time-consuming. Where it was easy to run through a year in EWR in next to no time, TEW took attention and planning. That inevitably led to a lot of abandoned feuds and promotions, but this was a game for the committed. It takes a lot to book a promotion, after all.