This game was originally produced, marketed, and advertised as WWF WrestleMania X-8. Around the time the game was released, however, the World Wrestling Federation was forced to change it's name to World Wrestling Entertainment due to a lawsuit by the World Wildlife Fund. Although the game itself remained unchanged, most of the labels, boxart, and other various references to the WWF logo were altered to reflect the change from WWF to WWE.
Many of the belts in the create-a-belt mode are based on WCW, ECW, and NWA belts, as well as some old WWF belts.
In the European and Japanese version, one of the three wrestlers on the cover was the rock, this is because after the north American release, Stone Cold would walk out of the company