The 3 worst and 2 best WWE video games

#5 Worst WWE game: WCW Backstage Assault

World Championship Wrestling, the rights, and tape library of which are currently owned by WWE, certainly had their fair share of great video games.

Titles like WCW/nWo Revenge, WCW vs. the World, and WCW vs. nWo: World Tour/Virtual Pro Wrestling 64. They overshadowed the games with WWE licenses by a longshot.

However, much like WWE, they've also had their share of stinkers, and this particular title takes the cake when it comes to crummy WCW games.

WCW Backstage Assault was the last game based on the promotion, and they certainly didn't go out gracefully.

Published by Electronic Arts and developed by Kodiak Interactive, this game also had one of the weirdest concepts for a wrestling video game ever. None of the bouts took place in a wrestling ring.

Every match in WCW Backstage Assault takes place backstage in an arena. Different parts of the arena can be unlocked, and players can fight their way through different locations during a match.

Fighting backstage in a wrestling game was nothing new up to this point. Even the previous game, WCW Mayhem, had that feature. This, however, was the first wrestling game to have no wrestling ring at all.

The game's concept alone doesn't put it on this list. After all, while it was certainly an odd idea, at least they were trying something different. A novel approach to a genre doesn't automatically make for a good game.

The controls for this game were awkward, the graphics were subpar even for the time, and most of the main game modes were unnecessarily convoluted.

To its credit, the game did have an impressive roster, allowing players to enter the ring as anybody from Scott Steiner and Diamond Dallas Page to Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo.