Tits, asses, loose women, loose cannons, 60-year-olds in drag, 77-year-olds giving birth to hands, invading rival companies' turf with tanks, and lots and lots of beer – WWF's Attitude Era had it all. WWF Attitude has none, instead focusing on oily men dancing in a ring.
Who thought that was a good idea?
The game had the misfortune of being in development right around the tragic death of Owen Hart at the Over the Edge PPV. As a result, the game was delayed to a July release of that year, a tribute to Owen is displayed on start up, his Blue Blazer costume (which he wore at the infamous event and was seen in early screenshots of this game) was removed and Owen is treated as a beloved "face" ingame despite being a heel at the time.
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Unused Graphics#
There's nothing in the way of hidden or removed wrestlers, so some unused highlighted diagonals and some HOLD text among the controller pictures will have to suffice.
Present among the weapons are these two masks for something that would shine.
Unused Text#
The main executable of each release contains a build date.
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As could be expected, there's lots of leftovers from WWF War Zone. Game2.bin has these that would be displayed on the Titantron at the end of the match, except that DQs and Draws were removed and extremely one-sided bouts no longer recognized.
Draw By
Disqualification
Blowout
Game modes. Hell in a Cell isn't from War Zone, but it isn't implemented even if hacked into the menu for selection. Hell in a Cell would later debut in WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role.
HYDROGEN WAR
CAREER TAG GAUNTLET
HELL IN A CELL
Cheat strings leftover and unimplemented:
TOGGLE CHEAT15 - TOGGLE CHEAT25
NO_METER_CHEAT
REFLECTION_CHEAT
SHORTY_CHEAT
BURPFART_CHEAT
CHEAT10 - CHEAT25
Not leftovers, but inside SMOS1.bin (the Career Mode data) are strings for up to eight players:
Player 5 Player 6
Player 7 Player 8
A second Career Mode file, smos2.bin, houses defines for some engine actions, indicating they at some point either had support for the PlayStation Mouse or a PC build:
SM_ACCEPT SM_CANCEL
SM_START SM_BACKUP
SM_UP SM_DOWN
SM_LEFT SM_RIGHT
SM_BUTTON_DOWN SM_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE
SM_BUTTON_UP SM_KEY_DOWN
SM_KEY_DEBOUNCE SM_KEY_UP
SM_MOUSE_MOVE SM_GOT_FOCUS
SM_LOST_FOCUS SM_SYSMESSAGE
SM_SAVE_DATA SM_RESTORE_DATA
SM_DESTROY SM_INIT_SYSTEM
SM_KILL_SYSTEM SM_CREATE
SM_INITIAL_UPDATE SM_SYNC
"Decree From Vince McMahon"#
Matches that end without a winner will still declare one, strangely.
Regional Difference#
The German version (SLES-02255), which was separate from the main European release (SLES-01980), defaults to "no blood" and has the option to turn it on removed from the Utilities menu. Despite the blood remaining in the main European version, it and the German release were rated for ages 3+, whereas the identical US release was rated Teen.