10 Best Non-WWE Wrestling Video Games Ever

3. Total Extreme Warfare (PC)

TEW 2013
TEW

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.

Advertisement
 
First Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.