WWF in Your House was the second of its kind in the "Wrestling Meets Mortal Kombat" genre. The first was that god-awful WWF Wrestlemainia: The Arcade Game. It is safe to say that I didn't like either one. I like the traditional wrestling games where a wrestler comes to the ring, actually wrestles, and wins the match. WWF In Your House was definitely the opposite of that. The coolest thing about WWF In Your House was that it was the last game ever to feature Ultimate Warrior, at least until Legends of Wrestling: Showdown came out.
WWF In Your House was the first game that I ever owned on Playstation and it was bad then. So of course, now, playing it on the computer, it sucks double the amount. First, there is no kind of season mode where you go through storylines in an attempt to become champion. To become champion on WWF In Your House, all a player has to do is beat up ten jackasses that are throwing way more extravagant objects at you than kicks and punches. Not to mention that there is only one belt that you can actually fight for. What about the people who like tag-team wrestling. Anyway, back to the gameplay.
The pace was so fast that the makers of the game actually too the time to inform the players of their combos. This would have been great in Street Fighter, but for a wrestling game, this was not the business. So besides nothing but one on one matches, the game also lacked in roster depth. Their depth chart was seriously depleted. In 1996 I know the WWF had better people than a rookie HHH and Ahmed "why do I suck so bad" Johnson. Out of the forty or so superstars the WWF had on their roster, the creators of the game could have found some more interesting characters for the game. I mean Vader? Let's be real. On the positive side, to say that it was 1996, the graphics were okay. The wack players that they did feature on the game did look very realistic for that era in gaming. I don't think that graphics engine will be used for Smackdown on the PS3 but for the computer and Playstation 1, they were pretty awesome. Yet, still, graphics could not account for the lack of actual wrestling that the game happens to exclude. Overall, if WWF In Your House was not bought with your own hard-earned money, it can easily accidentally fall in the garbage can.
