Play WWE : Road to WrestleMania X8 Online

WWE: Road to WrestleMania X8 came out for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, developed by Natsume and published by THQ. It was one of the few wrestling games on the handheld, arriving when the GBA library was still growing with a mix of ports and original titles. The game tried to capture the larger than life feel of WWE programming on a small screen, with a roster pulled from that specific era of sports entertainment.

You control a created wrestler or select from established WWE stars, working through a story mode to earn a shot at WrestleMania. The gameplay involves moving your character screen by screen through different backstage areas and arenas, talking to other wrestlers to trigger matches or plot events. Combat relies on timing button presses for grapples, strikes, and signature moves, with a momentum meter that builds toward finishing maneuvers. The pacing can feel slow between fights, and some objectives are vague, requiring a lot of trial and error to figure out where to go next. It feels like a stripped down, slightly clunky interpretation of a wrestling sim that is more about persistence than fluid action.