PlayStation 2 User Reviews

Loved this game spent hours playing it! So good. You won't get bored with it and season mode was fun as.

I’ve played many WWE games that are widely considered the best WWF No Mercy, WWE 2K14, WWE All Stars, WWE 2K19, and SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. All of them are excellent in their own ways. However, despite all that, this game stands above the rest for **** gameplay is the biggest reason. It’s incredibly engaging and never feels boring. Every move looks devastating, impactful, and satisfying, which makes every match feel intense and meaningful. There’s a real sense of weight and power behind each action that keeps me coming **** Season Mode may not be perfect, but it’s still fun and enjoyable, offering enough variety to stay entertaining. On top of that, the roster is fantastic—stacked with memorable wrestlers that add even more value to the experience.Overall, I absolutely adore this game. Even today, it remains one of the best WWE games ever made—period.

One of the greatest Wrestling game if not in a-lot of fans perspective the greatest wrestling game with honestly not many besides WWF No Mercy on N64 are keeping up with this game as the gameplay and mechanics are just in my opinion near perfect a perfect entry into the SmackDown! Series and possibly the greatest if not one of the greatest titles THQ and WWE have ever released set such a great standard as future titles like some entries of SmackDown! vs Raw couldn’t even compare to Here Comes The Pain. For the diehard or even casual Wrestling fan gamer this should be in your PS2 catalog.

out of all the wrestling games that released after no mercy the only one that is possibly better then no mercy is this game

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No Wrestling Game can top Here Comes The Pain. It's not just the best Wrestling Game but a great Game.

Best Wrestling game ever created, hands down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easily the greatest wrestling game of all time, and it will never ever be duplicated ever again. I’m giving it a flat out 10 out of 10. 100%.

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Excellent game. The story is so enjoyable, scoring is really great, visual is decent, and the voice is stunning

I've tried to like this game but I can't! It has a very rotten and outdated gameplay unlike the WWE 2009/10/11 which in addition to the beautiful graphics also has a great gameplay. Maybe if I had played this in 2003 I would have liked it better

This is the most fun and epic wrestling game ever! Even today in 2023 i have more fun playing this than the latter sequels. Plus it features all the best wrestlers ever.

Best wrestling game of all time. Roster its full of legendary wrestlers like Kane, The Undertaker, John Cena, Batista, Eddie Guerrero, Rob Van Dam, Edge, Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Ric Flair, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock etc. They din´t waste space on adding characters that nobody misses like Maven or La Resistance and dint flood the roster with unmemorable characters like they did in future games. The gameplay its fast passed and the matches are fire. Royal Rumble Match doesn't last an hour like in every other WWE game and its actually fun to play. Season Mode its re-playable and even in the 3rd o 4th run you can still find something new in the story-lines. The best experience for casual gamers or casual wrestling fans because matches don't last enough to get you bored, the game its still in 2023, 20 years later, the best representation of wrestling in video games.

Great career,roster,so fun and addicting.Really good mechanics, one of the best wrestling games of all time! Suggest you to play that game if you are a wrestling fan, NOW!

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Legendary game great gameplay good graphics and fantastic rostar but the rostar can be batter overall one of the best wrestling video games of all time if not the best

Even today it is still one of the best wrestling games, having the release date, good roster,good season mode and a more entertaining combat system than current games

That graphics were amazingly good at that time, all the children here must have played this game, and at that time we were hype at our place

Still the best wwe games until now. Fluid mechanic, memorable song opening , and tons customizing is amazing

World's best wrestling game. Nobody can oppose this. Different stories each time and they're all really good (okay maybe not all but most). 2K needs to make a MyCareer mode just like the season mode on HCTP. But 2K is a very lazy firm.

Nostalgic game.played it and fell in love with it.best wwe game in ps2 console

This might still be the best wrestling game ever. I thought 2K18 and 19 were worth playing, but I haven't picked them up since they were a few months old. I go back and play HCTP every few years and love it. The lack of commentary is a plus in my opinion, because listening to Michael Cole just reminds me why I stopped watching WWE. The story mode is unbelievably entertaining. It's linear, so you can only play through once unless you want the same exact story to happen again, but they did a great job with it. The gameplay is pretty basic, but very satisfying. If they remastered this game and added the ability to give your wrestler custom music, I would play it every year.

The best WWE game, the sad part is that this a game of 2003 The replayability is just insane

One of the best if not the best wrestling game to the date it have a hectic addictive crazy and fun gameplay it have a great season mode wrestlers finally bleed and take a lot of damage and you can't wrestle even outside the ring in a city and do an insane bunch of stuf

As a kid I used to play all day at this game,it’s mechanics were perfect,pure fun and a must when you just want to play something because it will always entertain you.

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I think this is the best wrestling game of all time. Even better than WWF No Mercy. I can see why people adore this game so much and why they want it to be remastered. The graphics were really impressive and realistic albeit cartoonish but have not really aged well. The soundtrack is perfect. The sound was so flawless. The gameplay is superb. Yuke's went all out on this game. We got the Elimination Chamber and Bra and Panties match types and they were very fun. I liked the revamped controls and move animations. The finishers looked so satisfying and brutal. The roster was near perfect. It was missing many notable wrestlers and divas. So many wrestlers you could play as and the inclusion of legends made it even better to play with friends. The career mode is phenomenal. The create a wrestler and moveset mode was a massive improvement over Shut Your Mouth. There was no commentary which was a great idea as it would detract from the game. The AI was incredible. A absolute must have for wrestling fans and I would definitely recommend it.

Great career,roster,so fun and addicting.Really good mechanics, one of the best wrestling games of all time! Suggest you to play that game if you are a wrestling fan, NOW!

I think 90% of the people start their PS2 experience by this game only. Classic game. Royal rumble system is a little too fast for the liking, but still, it is fun. And also, anything with tornado tag is fun.

WWE SmackDown Here Comes the Pain is the best wrestling game on PS2, not to mention WWE SmackDown VS Raw 2011 . Not really good graphics, but many different wrestlers and one ofthe best gameplay in WWF/WWE Series . This is first WWE Games (WWF not to mention) . On Cover for this game Brock Lesnar . Amazing wrestling game .

We have now 2016-and this games is even now in best 3 wrestling games ever!!!Cool unique modes,best rooster and great atmosphere!!!Great sound,matches,rooster, and modes!!You can have realistic matches or unrealistic matche for example in the middle of the street.

BEST WRESTLING GAME EVER!! not joking its better than any 2k 15,16 i still play it with it on party,s and its **** felling **** good and bought it at very low price.

Already spent about 12 years but this game still manages to be one (of all wrestling games) that gives me more pleasure and nostalgia **** incredibly long , but very cool to play, Season Mode contrasts with the dull General Manage Mode . The Exhibition mode is very simple: choose a wrestler and fight but becomes a lot of fun when played with a friend . The trips to places like behind the scenes , the locker room and abroad and the utilization of virtually all materials that are at our disposal make this a fantastic game.

Probably the best wrestling game ever.Hell, it aged so damn well. Great roster, exciting gameplay. Really an epic and also a revolutionary game at that time. There hasn't been any wrestling game since "Here Comes The Pain" that was better and more fun than that. A difficult wrestling game to top.

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Still the best wrestling game ever created. The character creator & character customization modes are chock-full of content. There are so many battle modes to choose from, and the controls are impeccable, it blows my mind.

This game is the best wwe **** game play **** sound **** music in the background is the best and way better than **** sound is **** only one thing bad about it and most users would have said it.There was no Jeff Hardy or Hulk Hogan.Most of the character overalls were not that **** season mode was the best thing about **** season mode was about 1 year long and it was **** could make your own character and **** could even play season mode with your **** music made in this game was the best.Commentary is **** every wwe game they should make music.I really hope they make another game like this. Thanks Owaisqadri100

KYR was fun, JBI was good, SYM was great, but HCTP was and always will be the Greatest Smackdown! Game of all time. Everything was awesome in this game.

This was like three years of my life, no joke all I played in middle school was this Here comes the pain, Pokemon Gold and that s really it. WWE SmackDown Here comes the pain is the best!!!!! I really do think this is one my favorite games of all times list. Like I easily put in over one million hours into this game and I never knew the whole time I played this game that the wrestlers where real people.....I'm not joking. The music was epic and to this day I still have the whole soundtrack memorized and I also still feel that this game has the best create a wrestler mode out of all other wrestling games I have played. The story mode is awesome but I have to admit after the first time you become the WWE Champion it isn't the same game. Your the best out of over fifty wrestlers and none of them can touch you. Another thing that kinda is broken about this game is that if you spend about fifty hours making a create a character with perfect skill points you can copy him and make a tag team that is perfect and can never lose. My one regret is that I never made my own WWE with perfect wrestlers and had them fight for my honor(that would of been so cool). I will never forget my hundred of hours that I spent hitting half naked dudes with metal chairs and sledgehammers. This is one of my fondest gaming memories and no game other than Pokemon Gold will ever be better.

Without a doubt my favorite WWE game and i played a lot of WWE games across the ps2, ps3 and the psp. This had a big variety of characters a decent creator mode and a big variety of matches, we had even more possibilities of matches in this game than the latest ones (Fight in the back stages, in the car park, etc). I spent long hours playing this game with friends and my sister, this was my second favorite ps2 game (first was GTA: SA). I laughed a lot with this game and will never forget it, and i still play it and enjoy it.

CLASSIC i didnt get this game when i was young so i always saw videos and heard it was the best i thought it might not be ture bcuz i was obsesses with the first sd vs raw but this game is AMAZING great backstage areas, TIMES SQUARE and very addictve gameplay and a great roster overall this is the best wwe game ever!

This game maybe addictive but this game does have some flaws to.Like first of all the CAW part of it is only great if you wanna create an old school wrestler or a cartoon.i tryed creating CM PUNK and tyler black and it didn't work out for me.also the legends don't have there own music so....Your gonna have to go to moveset to get a theme that fits all of **** all tho the game is a fun and really good **** it **** how shut your mouth had commentary and this didn't.Like seriously! Come on THQ.

Wow,lets get right to it and I have to tell you that it's August 2010 and I have yet to find a wrestling game or fighting game as good as this game.I have wwe smackdown vs. raw 2010 and that game is amazing but this game's game play is mind blowing.Especially for how old this game **** lack of commentary is the only reason I'm knocking off a 1/2 of a point,even though the commentary in all the wrestling games is terrible and the games weakest point,but to this day I play it and love it the best of all my wresling games,I give it a 9.5