WWE WrestleMania XIX


WWE WrestleMania XIX is a professional wrestling video game released exclusively for the GameCube by THQ in 2003. Based on the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment, it is the sequel to WWE WrestleMania X8. The roster consists of around sixty-nine WWE wrestlers between May 6, 2002 and March 31, 2003, as the WWE was beginning to shift its momentum from the Attitude Era into the Ruthless Aggression Era.
Unlike the previous game and other contemporary WWE games, WrestleMania XIX does not feature a conventional story/career mode in which players control a particular wrestler in a series of matches. Instead, the game features "Revenge Mode" a mission-based mode in which players try to achieve certain goals in various locations outside of the ring. Most of the background music of the game were also in both the Xbox game WWE Raw 2 and the PlayStation 2 game, WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain.

Revenge Mode

In Revenge Mode, a player can select any superstar on the roster or a created superstar. The story begins with the player being dragged out of an arena by security guards and being literally tossed on the street. Later, the player encounters Stephanie McMahon. Stephanie notices that the player wants revenge on Vince McMahon for firing them, and the player and Stephanie devise a plan to ruin Vince's flagship pay-per-view: WrestleMania. To do this, the player is sent to various locations and must combat workers and wrestlers hired as security they encounter in each location, with objectives such as disrupting a construction site, sinking a WWE-owned shipment barge, and destroying a mall that was set up for fan festivities.
After the player completes objectives in the perimeter areas, he or she fights Vince at WrestleMania XIX in a match. If the player wins, Stephanie appears to congratulate but immediately reneges on the deal, before being attacked by Goldberg.

Reception

Critic reviews

The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

Accolades

Sequel

WrestleMania XIX was succeeded by WWE Day of Reckoning in 2004.