WCW Nitro
Go for the gold, as you take on the Superstars of WCW and the NWO in Singles, Tag Team or Battle Royale competition! Set the stage - Fight in arenas from WCW's biggest events, including WCW Monday Nitro…
WCW Nitro is a fighting developed by Inland Productions, released 1 January 1997 on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What WCW Nitro is
WCW Nitro is a fighting game developed by Inland Productions and released in 1997. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Go for the gold, as you take on the Superstars of WCW and the NWO in Singles, Tag Team or Battle Royale competition! Set the stage - Fight in arenas from WCW's biggest events, including WCW Monday Nitro, Starrcade, and Halloween Havoc. Plus, TONS of hidden arenas, secret "run-in" characters, Nitro theme music, and brawling in and out of the ring! Who's next? You are, when you step into the ring with WCW Nitro, the fastest wrestling game to hit your N64! Take control of over 60 WCW and NWO Superstars! Dozens of devastating moves per wrestler, including trademark maneuvers, taunts, and finishers!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the WCW series
WCW Nitro is the third of 18 entries we hold in the WCW series. It arrived 2 years after WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling. The next entry was WCW vs. nWo: World Tour in 1997.
How it was received
WCW Nitro holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
WCW Nitro launched on 1 January 1997, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8 and Money Puzzle Exchanger. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8, Money Puzzle Exchanger.
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