Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood Unlockables and Glitches (PS2)

Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood is the second installment in the Backyard Wrestling series and was released on XBox and Playstation 2. The licensed soundtrack includes music by Andrew W.K., Kool Keith, the Insane Clown Posse, Bad Brains, Body Count, Six and Violence and Hoobastank. It was developed by Paradox Development, now owned by Midway Games Inc. and is published by the Eidos Group of Companies as a subsidiary of the UK computer game publisher, SCi Entertainment Group PLC.

The roster of underground wrestlers features more than 20 combatants, including notable hardcore wrestlers, music personalities and a few adult film actresses. The game was greatly improved over its predecessor, including a more in-depth create-a-wrestler mode. Interestingly, the game included a switch for turning the game's blood effects on and off in contrast to the original game's lack of said switch.


Unlockables

Completing Career Mode
Play Career Mode With Any In-Game Wrestlers - Complete Career mode once.

Unlock all videos in Media Room - Complete career mode once

Easter Eggs

Thrill Kill Easter Egg.
As you may or may not know, Paradox made the now infamous never-released-highly-bootlegged game, Thrill Kill. When you create a wrestler, go into the logo creation. Among few logos beneath the Paradox logo is the Thrill Kill Demon logo.

Glitches

Retain Previous Career Stats In A New Career
Complete career mode with your career saved in the first save slot (the top of the list). Now start a new career, saved in the second slot. After you're in career mode, select Exit Career to go back to the career selection screen. The game will autosave your new career as you exit. Now delete your first career, the one you completed.

This will move your new career from the second save slot to the first. Load/Play that career and you'll see that you now have the following stats from your original saved career: Overall Tier 1-3 Win/Loss, Win Percentage and Opponents Seen.

Secrets

Complete Junkyard: Mission: Attack Challenge; The Easy Way
This mission requires you to block 50 consecutive attacks. If you miss one, you have to start over from zero. As you can imagine, this is quite tough. Thanks to a non-obvious fault of the game, there's a really easy (but kind of long) way to complete this task. As soon as the match starts and you can control your character, press the Block button (R2). If done correctly, your character will get into a defensive position and won't be able to move. The computer controlled opponent should start to punch and kick you (if you're lucky, he'll hit you with a weapon). As long as you hold down the Block button, you won't take any damage and you'll start earning your 50 blocks.

As soon as you see your opponent do a move that looks like it's unblockable, quickly pause the game. Check your Block counter at the bottom of the screen to make sure it's not at zero, then quit the match. The game will autosave your progress as it takes you back to the menu. Once you're back at the menu, press X two times to go back into another match. As before, hold down the Block button when you have control of your character and quickly exit to the menu as soon as you see your opponent do a move that might drop your Block counter down to zero.

If your counter accidentally drops down to zero, reboot your PS2 immediately (don't exit to the menu, or let the game end the match, or else it will autosave your zero count). The game will reboot and pull your last saved progress off your memory card. If you keep this up, you'll eventually get to 50 Blocks. This secret trick was successfully tested with the AI Difficulty set to Low. I don't know how well it'll work on Medium and High.

Play as Zandig
To obtain Zandig, defeat him first and then buy his movie in the shop to unlock him as a playable character.

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