Mark Henry is still signed to the WWE (though he’s been out of action for the last six months), so you’d imagine he’ll appear in WWE 2K17. In fairness, there’s a good chance that three of them may still make it there next year. If you reckon it’s an honour for the wrestlers who appeared in the above list, spare a thought for the four poor chaps who are narrowly short of making it to the ’20 Club’, with 19 appearances each. The numbers in brackets are the number of character slots they’ve had: in other words, it includes multiple appearances in the same game (like when you can choose either the Deadman or American Badass versions of The Undertaker).ħ) Stone Cold Steve Austin – 31 games (36 slots)Ģ0) Vince McMahon – 20 games Ah, WWF No Mercy, the glory days. Here’s a list counting down the superstars who have featured most. In fact, a total of 23 wrestlers have appeared in at least 20 games over the years.
The Undertaker isn’t the only one who’s been a regular fixture in WWE gaming. If only there was some sort of list so you could see who the runners-up were.
WWF WRESTLEFEST GAME CHARACTERS INDIVIDUAL FULL
Since Taker’s 25-year career at the company spans almost the full history of WWE video games, it should come as no surprise to find that he’s appeared in more games than anyone else.
WWE 2K16 marks the 50th video game appearance of The Undertaker. Well, here’s a lovely wee coincidental milestone. You’d also really need to sleep pretty badly. If you were to go through every game and play a 5-minute match with every wrestler in each (not counting loading times), it would take you 7 days, 19 hours and 10 minutes to get through them all. In fact, if you take every single WWE game and count up all the character slots in every one, you’d have a grand total of 2,246 playable characters. While 385 wrestlers have featured in a WWE game, obviously many of them have appeared numerous times. Which of the women has appeared more times than anyone else, though? Try and have a guess, and I’ll tell you later. This may seem like a low number but given that we’re counting games from as far back as the late ’80s, and that before the turn of the millennium you could count the number of female wrestlers in the WWE at any one time on one hand, it isn’t too bad going. Of these 385 wrestlers who have starred in WWE games, 58 of them (15%) are women. If you want to get massively nerdy, 38 of the wrestlers who have appeared in video game form have names that begin with ‘S’, so if you’ve got an odd fetish for that letter you’ll have a 1 in 10 chance of playing as someone with that initial. The original WWF Wrestlemania on NES offered a mere six (Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, Bam Bam Bigelow and The Honky Tonk Man.įast forward 26 years and you have WWE 2K16, which will feature a massive 155 wrestlers once all the DLC packs are released. A grand total of 385 wrestlers have been playable in WWE games.
It’s going to be the nerdiest thing to happen to wrestling games since someone created Dragon Ball and Avengers characters in WWE 2K15.
Yes friends, I’m about to take you on a tour of WWE game history using nothing but stats and numbers. It’s the 57th WWE video game released, and if that stat excites you a little then grab some tissues, because that’s the tip of the iceberg. There isn’t a WWE (formerly WWF) game that I haven’t played. Of course, given my lifetime passion for WWE, it’s the games based on that particular promotion that I love the most. W orld Wrestling Championship on PS2? Okay, not that one. WCW Backstage Assault on the PlayStation? Love it.
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