WCW Backstage Assault is a professional wrestling video game developed by Kodiak Interactive and published by Electronic Arts.

Backstage Assault features commentary by Tony Schiavone and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.

Gameplay takes place outside of a wrestling ring, an approach that was poorly received and resulted in the title selling 200,000 copies.

As in traditional wrestling, one person can win by pinfall (holding the back of the opponent's shoulders to the ground while the referee counts to three), submission, or knock out.

The game takes place in an arena with seven connecting levels, having sixteen rooms in total.

They do this by executing strikes, grapple moves, holds, hitting them with weapons, or causing the opponent to run or fall against a hazard.

Players earn points based on their victories, moves performed and general skill shown.

If the player successfully wins the title, they will be added to the High Score chart if they are in the Top 10.

This match type is limited to the Truck Arena, and requires the winner to set their opponent on fire using the flaming barrel near the exit.

In August 1998, EA and Kodiak Interactive entered into a long-term multi-title development agreement that involved Kodiak developing games for EA based on the World Championship Wrestling license for the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 platforms.

The May 2000 edition of PSM featured a cover story on an upcoming game titled WCW 2000.

[23] Later in the magazine, Stephen Frost writes that WCW's newest game will feature "an extremely high polygon count", take place without a ring, and will be released in Q4 2000.

[26] In January 2025, YouTuber Matt McMuscles revealed with the permission of Dave Lang, one of the game's developers, that there never was a PlayStation 2 version in development as EA had moved on from the title soon after release, and that the purported screenshots were higher-quality renders and PSM assumed, without properly vetting, that the screenshots were from a PlayStation 2 version of the game.