The additional "jobber" characters are loosely based on other ECW or Acclaim staff, or are completely fictional.

The player(s) must win matches to move up the rankings before they can challenge for championship titles at pay-per-view events.

[22] Daniel Erickson of NextGen gave the Dreamcast and Nintendo 64 versions negative reviews in two separate issues, calling the latter "One of the few games to inspire active anger and hate.

Just having to handle the cart with our bare fingers made us feel dirty" (#63, March 2000);[34] and later calling the former "A blatant insult to the intelligence of wrestling fans and Dreamcast owners" (#65, May 2000).

"[37][d] In another review, Lou Gubrious said of the same console version, "For all of you who liked WWF Attitude and wanted to see an ECW game, this was designed for you.

Non-wrestling fans might want to rest their thumbs with a less-complex grappler like WCW Mayhem or the upcoming WWF SmackDown!.

"[38][e] Jake The Snake said in one review that the Nintendo 64 version "is so much like Attitude, you should stick with the latter (or WWF WrestleMania 2000) unless you're a huge ECW fan or [you] must have every wrestling game that comes along.

[citation needed] Players complained about sluggish controls, poor sound effects and graphics and glitches.