WWF WrestleMania X8 was released in 2002. The game was released shortly after the lawsuit against the World Wrestling Federation by the World Wildlife Fund. As a result the WWF was rebranded WWE however copies of WrestleMania X8 in North America were released before this took place and so carried the WWF name along with Stone Cold Steve Austin who had walked out on the WWF a few months earlier. In the United Kingdom and Europe, Steve Austin was replaced by The Rock, and the the WWF logo was replaced with the WWE logo. The game itself however still carries the WWF name and logo. For the Nintendo Gamecube, WMX8 had a lot to live up to due to THQ's success with N64 wrestling games. Many were expecting a No Mercy beater. What they got was an arcade style game, with poor sound and graphics, a basic create-a-wrestler mode and a very poor story mode. One feature that fans were looking forward to was the return of the creat-a-belt mode last seen of WWF WrestleMania 2000. However the mode didn't allow the freedom that was allowed on WrestleMania 2000, leaving many fans annoyed at what many perceived the be a half-hearted effort by THQ to build on No Mercy's success. In 2003 THQ released WWE WrestleMania XIX.