The growing popularity of wrestling has created its own genre and subgenre, and so along comes Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home for the PS2 and Xbox. Carrying a Tony Hawk influenced mission based gameplay system, the game adds a much more open-ended gameplay system to the world of wrestling. Mixing in with the grapples and attacks, players can naturally get some help from near any nearby househould object, whether that be pipes, chairs, tables, light bulbs, or torches. Levels are multi-tiered giving a large degree of freedom from the typical ring based format of professional wrestling games, so players can, as demonstrated in one example, have a player light a table on fire with a torch, have another stand on it, and then climb a nearby stage set up all the way up along the metal sidelining, and then execute a body slam straight onto the player and the flaming table, thereby destroying the table and a good chunk of your opponent's ego and face. Like Midway's Ready 2 Rumble boxing series, characters do take visual damage, so expect plenty of cuts and bruises piled on with the foul language and Insane Clown Posse cameos.

The game is due out this fall for the PS2 adn Xbox.