10 Insane Wrestling Game Spin-Offs

Wrestling games are one of the hardest games to make full stop in the gaming industry. Having to focus on not only the physics of the game, but the hit detection, the animations for all the different moves, the sound editing, the wrestlers, and that's not even scratching the surface of how much scale this genre of game can have.

The time it takes to make a well-oiled machine takes years to pull off and you only need to look at WWE 2K17 to see what problems are still there. Wrestling fans will gladly pay the money each year to continue the franchise, but sometimes that isn't enough for the greedy wrestling companies. In the words of Shane McMahon: 'Here Comes the Money'.

To make a quick buck wrestling companies will sell their formats to other developers that have something brewing. It's not all about the Slim Jims and the Hulk Hogan Grilling Machines or the Ice Cream Bars. Sometimes it may just be a branding exercise where the game is fully completed and it's just their sticker added on, other times this game is completely made with the company in mind.

Here are 10 wrestling game spin-offs to both astound and horrify you.

Vince McMahon has taken over all the networks and has all the superstars appear on everything in TV land. This is not present day but was foretold by WWE Crush Hour in 2003.

Crush Hour is your basic vehicle with big weapons destruction game, very Twisted Metal, Mario Kart and any other games you can think of at the time of a similar type. It's very forgettable in terms of gameplay, the only likeable aspect is the multiplayer functionality with friends, though if you bought this game chances are you had no friends. The A.I. was pretty forgiving with them being far too easy to defeat.

Completing the game after just 17 battles made this a game you could handily complete in one day, but the commercial cut-scenes in-between are worth it. Commentary is provided from good ol' Jim Ross which is one of the games more redeemable features. What's surprising is in the same year, WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain; one of the best wrestling games ever did not receive any commentary tracks at all, but this shambles of a game did.

The trailer is quite topically relevant as well for WWE as a whole, in fact some of those fake teaser trailers for show would work really well on the WWE Network.