For decades, WWE has been included as a staple in the world of sports video games. Each year a new installment of their most traditional wrestling game comes out like WWE 2K20WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, or WWF No Mercy to name a few. But every once in a while, they drop a whole different kind of game.

WWE has been known to try new things with their alternative games. From a Twisted Metal like entry to a side-scrolling fight game to installments with weird storylines, the odd isn't anything new for a WWE video game. We're here to celebrate that and rank the 10 weirdest WWE games.

10 WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game

One of the most popular games in the 1990s was the Mortal Kombat franchise. So it makes sense that others would try to mimic what they were doing. Midway, the company behind Mortal Kombat did it with WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. It combined wrestling with Mortal Kombat style fighting.

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That means some truly weird things happened. The Undertaker would hit you and skulls would fly out. Bret Hart used actual hearts as a weapon. Lex Luger's arms became a wrecking ball. Wrestlers could jump almost out of the screen. It was pure insanity and different from every other wrestling game out there.

9 WWE Aftershock

There actually isn't all that much about WWE Aftershock that is all that weird on its own. It was released in 2005 as your average wrestling video game. Yet it remains such an oddity that it just had to be included on this list.

WWE Aftershock came out for the N-Gage system at a time when that platform was massively struggling. It didn't seem like a ton of effort was put into this. It played awkwardly, looked terrible, and had no career or story mode, yet included a boring survival mode. Just a mess and an anomaly.

8 WWF Attitude

Released in 1999, WWF Attitude took what worked about WWF War Zone and expanded on it. One of the more impressive aspects was the much larger roster featuring a vast majority of the roster. That included a surprise unlockable character. Al Snow's buddy Head.

For those who don't remember, Head was just a mannequin head that Al Snow carried around. The in-game version just had the head, hands, and feet. The rest of the body was invisible, similar to Rayman. To make this game stranger, some codes made everyone into stick figures, gave them giant heads, and more.

7 WWF Raw 2

An Xbox exclusive, WWF Raw 2 was yet another game that wasn't overly unusual at first glance. The concept was straightforward, the roster was quite normal, and there was no reason to think you'd have anything but a typical gameplay experience with it. But then you entered the Create-A-Wrestler mode.

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The options here were almost limitless and certainly the most advanced iteration of that mode to that point. You were able to create some of the most unique and fantastical wrestlers imaginable. That allowed you to do some ridiculous things that seem far-fetched in other games.

6 WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2011

On paper, this was a straightforward wrestling game. The Smackdown vs. Raw series was traditionally an attempt at a realistic simulation of the sport. But this entry tried some wacky things with the story mode it included called "Road to WrestleMania." In it, you took various Superstars through a storyline heading into the big event.

These stories were where things got strange. Edge and Christian searched for a time machine and the fourth wall gets broken at one point. But the weirdest one was the Undertaker's angle. You end up at a show where everything has a purple hue and compete in a Royal Rumble. Your opponents were all druids as were the audience members and everyone backstage.

5 WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009

 

A couple of years before Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 took the "Road to WrestleMania" mode into uncanny places, this game started the trend. Again, this one featured The Undertaker. And things were odder than they were with all the druids. This time, Undertaker's rival heading into WrestleMania was the Boogeyman.

It's weird enough that Boogeyman ran a stable called Nu School alongside Finlay and Santino Marella. Imagine that happening in real life. Finlay and Santino steal Undertaker's urn. When he gets it back and opens it in front of them, it turns them into zombies. Yes, Undertaker could control green, mindless version of two legitimate wrestlers.

4 WWE WrestleMania XIX

This was another game that seemed completely normal at first glance. It had an accurate roster for the era when it was released and featured somewhat realistic gameplay. The place where it got weird was in a special section called "Revenge Mode." It played like a beat 'em up in the style of the Rampage series.

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In this story, Vince McMahon fired you and on your way out, security beat you up. Stephanie McMahon recruited you to undermine her father. To do so, you had to stop WrestleMania from happening by destroying all of the sets and smashing everything in sight.

3 WWF In Your House

Take everything about the previously mentioned WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game and turn it up to eleven. WWF In Your House came out a few years later and expanded on that engine. It was madness. Where one game was set in realistic arenas, this one featured some of the most absurd venues you could imagine.

The moves were even more over the top. Think about the fact that the British Bulldog could morph his head into that of an actual bulldog when he went for a headbutt. Shawn Michaels had a move where he literally dropped his Heartbreak Hotel set onto his opponent. It was wild.

2 WWF Betrayal

Wrestling games rarely did well on the handheld Game Boy systems. In 2001, WWF Betrayal was an attempt to go a different route. This game featured zero wrestling and didn't take place within the confines of a ring. Instead, you took part in a side-scrolling fighting game in the style of Streets of Rage.

The gameplay wasn't anything special, making this a ho-hum effort. To make matters worse, the storyline was outdated. Stephanie McMahon was kidnapped and you had to save her, similar to a plot from 1999. And of course, given the name of the game, you were betrayed as she was never in trouble. It was all a ploy by Vince. And it was weird.

1 WWE Crush Hour

Again, this was a case where WWE tried something different with their games. Instead of a wrestling game, you got a Twisted Metal like battle in an arena with various vehicles. Car combat is quite fun when pulled off right, which is why the Twisted Metal franchise did so well for so long.

However, just doing the same thing with less impressive mechanics and throwing in WWE Superstars wasn't enough. While it was unsuccessful from a commercial and critical standpoint, it did give us something unique. There was no other wrestling game quite like this one.

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