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Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

Backyard Wrestling allows you to step out of the staleness of the wrestling genre, and into a groundbreaking new world of open ended gameplay. Punish your opponent in highly interactive sprawling environments…

8 October 2003

Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home is a fighting developed by Midway Studios Los Angeles, released 8 October 2003 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home is

Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home is a fighting game developed by Midway Studios Los Angeles and released in 2003. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Backyard Wrestling allows you to step out of the staleness of the wrestling genre, and into a groundbreaking new world of open ended gameplay. Punish your opponent in highly interactive sprawling environments implementing instruments of pain like thumbtacks, barbed wire, light bulbs, stop signs, baseball bats, tables, fire as well as the environment itself. Prepare yourself to endure inhuman amounts of pain, and take incredible risks, as you leap from breathtaking heights to beat your opponent, and be crowned "The King Of Hardcore".
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

What it launched against

Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home launched on 8 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Jak II and SSX 3.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Jak II, SSX 3.

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Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home was released on 8 October 2003 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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