I've always enjoyed playing wrestling video games with friends. Serving as the equivalent of video game junk food, they're fun to throw into a console for a few minutes of over the top, smack-talking, button-mashing mayhem. Also, for whatever reason, pinning a buddy for a three count satisfies something in my martial spirit that a Street Fighter or Tekken k.o. just can't, which is odd because other than the occasional online Sumo Wrestling, I don't ever watch wrestling of any kind.

Anyway... What wrestling games kick ass and which ones suck ass for the 3rd and the 4th generation of gaming? Are there cult classics, guilty pleasures, or abominations that are so bad that they're worth checking out?