Customer Reviews
Recommend For Fans of ICP, If Not, Rent First 
2007-04-08
Backyard Wrestling is a nice departure from the typical wrestling games that you see with the WWE releases, even though those are great in their own way as well. The only thing that I was disappointed in was how short the game is, especially compared to some of the others out there. The game itself is fun, but a little difficult until you get your sea legs, then it is just fun. The soundtrack is also really cool, much like the soundtracks you would see on a Tony Hawk game. But, let me be honest, the only real reason I bought the game is because I'm a Juggalo and ICP are playable characters. That is another cool aspect if you are an ICP fan, they have tracks of ICP in the soundtrack as well.
I'd recommend this game to fans of extreme wrestling and ICP. Like I said, the game is fun, but that is just me being biased since I love playing ICP. It is different than any wrestling game you have ever played, so it gets points for originallity. You may like the change and you may not, it is up to you. I'd say you should probably rent this first if you aren't that interested in ICP or this type of no ring wrestling.
THE BACKYARD 
2004-09-27
This game is very fun but, very bloody and gorey lots of weapons like flaming tables, barbed wire bats light tubes, bottles, bricks, bikes, stopsigns, shopping carts etc. one bad thing is no THUMBTACKS everyone says it has it, i never saw it and i had it for a couple of months i dont know wat they mean. anyway, jcw and byw combine with charecters like evil dead, mad man pondo, icp, mdog20, josh probition, josh asbill and SABU!lots of other guys and girls. create a wrestler isnt as good as smackdown! or raw games. pretty hard game, when you get it i suggest you try to do you vs second player to try it out wen you know who your favorite guy is try him out in talk show mode where people try to end bakyard wrestling i beat it with sabu hes my favorite but you have to unlock him. exellent game, hope they come out with a second game.
Okay 2004-07-26
This game is alright. Ignore the title, this has very little to do with wrestling. It's more about picking up something and bashing your opponent over the head with it. There are wrestling moves, but they are way to easy for the A.I. to reverse. Here is the main problem with the game. The A.I. The computer does to many cheap things. You will be in the middle of a combo, and they will just do a grapple move on you, making combos almost obsolete. And the objects that they throw are homing missles. When was the last time you saw a T.V. or bike follow you around in a circle while in midair? Never. Not until this game. And the animation for the moves isn't very good. They try to look exagerated like Def Jam Vendetta. And the game is also wicked fast. There is no way to walk, all you can do is run. And the talk show mode only takes 20-30 minutes to beat. Overall, rent it, see if you like it. Even if you do like it, it is not worth a purchase.
Decent but with quirks that I dislike 2003-12-07
Gameplay is fun, takes a little getting used to, however the game had some quirks that I found very annoying. Now for the die hard fighting game fan, this could quite possibly be right up your alley, it is very challenging.
Like one reviewer wrote, you start out getting your a## beat. And the difficulty settings do not seem to make any impact on how tough the computer plays. If your energy is running low at the end of a fight, then it is guaranteed that you will have your a## handed to you with a supermove by the computer. Annoyingly predictable. Too add insult to injury, after you have worked hard to beat an opponent and then get beat by the next opponent, gameplay gets reset to the beginning of the level where you have to play against the person you just beat again.
Had potential, a worthy renter, but definitely not a keeper.
i hate you 
2003-11-13
this game sucks can i have my money back
Best Wrestling/Fighting Game Available 2003-11-06
Prepare yourself toendure inhuman amounts of pain, and take incredible risks! / For XBOX / Rated M: Mature For the Microsoft XBOX Game Console
THIS GAME RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2003-11-03
If you like blood and to beat the crap out of other players with sticks, lawn chares, ect this game is for you! any ICP fan should play this game. You get to play as saggy and vilent j. the music is awsem. I reccomend this game to everyone!
ONLY LISTEN TO THIS REVIEW 2003-11-02
DON'T LISTEN TO ANY OTHER REVIEWS THAN THIS. The people who gave this game bad reviews said they played it for about 5-10 minutes. Everyone knows that games have to be played for at least an hour to get a slight feel for them. This game is a great example. This game is crashing through like 5 frontiers on it's way to glorified perfection. Everything that people mentioned was great. Soundtrack, gameplay, everything. THe create-a-wrestler is pretty bad, I must admit, but this isn't a game you bought to customize a guy getting hsi ass kicked. The part about the computer having perfect accuracy when throwing objects...he throws them to anticipate where you are going, if you have the brains to change direction after he throws it...he will never hit you. Also, you throw just as accurate as he does. The difficulty level is 3 step...like most fighting games. It is normal, hard, and porn star. It would be just the same if they called it easy, normal, and hard, or hard, superhard, and extremly hard. The first level is for beginners. This game also includes use of XBox soundtracks, and it is just amazing. Personally, I hate wrestling games. This one is jsut great beyond words. Show me a game where you can smash a lightbulb across Violent J's head, or throw a flaming bottle across a stripclub, at a fat cowboy, and I'll show yoyu a man with his mouth shut. This game earns 10 stars, the best and first of it's genre.
WAY BETTER ON THE X-BOX TRUST ME 2003-10-30
PS2 SUCKS NOW AND THATS ALL I GOT TO SAY TRUST ME IT HAVES SWEET GRAPHICS AND DVD AND ALL THAT BUT X-BOX OVER LAPS IT PS2 BLOW COME ON WITH ME PS2 BLOWS PS2 BLOWS HAAAA!!HAA!!! BUT ANYWAYS BACK YARD WRESTLING DTTAH IS GONNA PROBALY BE AWESOME BOUT I DONT THINK ITS AS GOOD AS A WWE GAME THO BECAUSE I LOVE WWE!!! YEAH WHATS UP LITA!!
Garbage Beyond Words Can Describe 2003-10-24
This game's a pile garbage! The developers claimed that they wanted to create a game that lived up to the true innovation of real-life backyard wrestling. Well if this game's any indication of what backyard wrestling's really like, forget it. I rented this game the other day from my local video store. After playing about 5 minutes horrendous gameplay, I soon felt that I was ripped off out of the money I paid to rent this garbage (thank goodness for rentals). Here are some major downfalls of BW:
The character models are poor.
When characters talk, the mouths don't even move.
Computer AI is extremely cheap.
Computer has almost 99% perfect accuracy when picking up & throwing weapons from a distance at you, they almost never miss.
Create-Character-Mode is cheap beyond cheapness.
Replay value isn't great (after unlocking all the characters after one sitting, what's the point?).
Especially creating characters. The worst part of the game. Fans of WWE Create-a-character modes will be woefully disappointed. The player can't even create a character from scratch, all they can do is select a pre-made character and mobilize their stats and fighting style. You can't even develope the character's costume. All you do is choose a costume that has already been made (imagine playing a fighting game as your favorite character and choosing a different costume for them to fight in, that's technically all you can do). There aren't even many move to choose from for your character. Yes the game does have it's strong points such as taking full advantage of the X-box's custom soundtracks system, and there are some nice videos to watch in the media room (some of which have to be unlocked). However, is it really worth playing through, just for videos? What's worst is that the game doesn't even play like a wrestling game. It plays more so of that as a button-mashing fightng game. Take it from me, there are plenty of better wrestling games out there (I really feel for those who poured out their fifty bucks of hard earned cash on this title). And to those considering buying BW, avoid this title at all costs. Even WWF RAW is better!
