WWE Raw 2: Ruthless Aggression

THE BAD:
Character animations. Entrance animations. Controls. I mean hell, almost everything in this game is bad!

SUMMARY:
You're a wrestling fan. You only own an Xbox. Well, that's the only reasons why I'd get Raw 2. If you're a wrestling fan but own another console, get Smackdown for PS2 or Wrestlemania for GameCube. This game totally misses why wrestling games are fun. It tries to make up all of the losses with graphics, but totally misses. The multiplayer is alright, though. The match options, such as Hell in the Cell, etc. are alright. No elimination chamer, though. The season mode is pretty weak, too. I seriously would look pass this game if I were you.

THE BAD:
naff season, no blood, in season it makes HBK best friends with rikishi, no draft, trish could become wwe champ

SUMMARY:
the game is good i exhibition and has amazing CAW mode, but the season is the big thing we all like, but this season is dull, nice touches, but very dull, there is no story, you just have a match then go home there is no backstage and you cant even go up the ramp, RAW 1 is far far better, so stick to that still worth a play, borrow dont buy.

THE BAD:
The control really sucks!! I barely tolerate wrestling games with very bad controls. Also, when you grab or get grabbed, the action is slow. Sometimes the matches get boring, the computer most of the time counter your moves. When your wreslter is layed down, you try to tap any buttons rapidly to stand up, but the computer doesn't seem to respond, sometimes it takes more than 15 seconds for your wrestler to stand up. There isn't a story in the season mode, there are not dialogues or voices. How could the computer puts Lita with Steven Richard against the Dudleys? That doesn't make any senses.

SUMMARY:
RAW2 is the first wrestling game on Xbox that i've tried until now and I was very disapointed. I think SD is one of the decent wrestling games that i've played. I feel very sad to see how come XBox is lacking fun, attractive, and decent games. Most of the games XBoX has, the PS2 already has it. I hope that the next RAW would have some major improvement in the controls!! The game would be more fun to play if the controls were like in SD or Wrestlemania.

THE BAD:
How long does a suplex take?
Control works against you.
Unplayable.

SUMMARY:
Yes. I just got an Xbox. As my 3rd Xbox game, WWE Raw 2 just seems like a step down from the series. Well, not much. The game has a ton of wrestlers-over 40-and has good graphics. And they throw in the best Create-a-thing you'll ever see. But, it also has a terrible flaw that makes this game virtually unplayable. In order to win a match with your created superstar, you have to play the Season mode to get more ability points. But the game has the worst controls I have seen in a wrestling title to date. Movement is handled by the D-Pad and the left analog stick is used for sprinting. This makes manuvering around the ring harder than it should be. Also, when you perform a grapple, the animation occurs in painfully slow motion. In fact, all of the other attack animations are in slow mo as well. The thing that makes the game unplayable is its "reversed" control scheme. When fall onto the ground, you have to rapidly press a button until you get back up. It seems the game is not listening to your rapid button presses because IT TAKES NEARLY 15 SECONDS TO GET BACK UP AGAIN!!! SOMTIMES, IT TAKES EVEN LONGER THAN THAT!!! Also, when you perform a grapple, THERE IS A 50-50 CHANCE THAT YOUR OPPONENT WILL GRAPPLE YOU INSTEAD!!! So this game is basically a failure because you can never participate well in wrestling matches. I don't even know if it should be called a game. It's more like a lesson in what game to buy.
Note to person's review above mine: DID YOU COPY MY REVIEW????!!!!

THE BAD:
Everything not mentioned in the good(above).

SUMMARY:
There isn't a nice way to say it, THQ you suck at wrestling games,(except for the (playstation 2 whats up with that?!?

Another dissappointing wrestling game, period. The a.i. isn't to bad but really needed improvment. The season mode was nice, but executed VERY POORLY. You get the option to do bactstage assualts and ambushes, steals and complain, but they only work 20% of the time, and when you interfere in a match, its only for a minute or two then the computer takes over your guy/girl and attacks who they want to.
They still can't get those damn table matches right, when u go to put your opponent through the table, you both fall off and sometimes it just breaks all by itself. Ladder matches suck bad too, to win one you have to kill your oppenent and grab the belt. But to get it down you have to press the A and X button, but they dont tell you that in the manual.

The good though is the create a player. Letting you pick your wrestling attire and backstage attire is fun, becuause there is so much to choose from. They get brownie points for letting you create you own entrance to the ring by letting you rip your own music and setting up ur fire works and when they come on or go off.


Overall Raw 2 is just rental that instead of keeping it for 5days you would keep for maybe 2 or 3 days then return it. Those looking for a more serious wrestling franchise should turn no further then smackdown: here comes the pain.

THE BAD:
i heard the a.i is not as good but then i hear sum people the a.i is better when playing on hard.
another bad thing is in season when you have a enemy and he interferes in your matches he attacks your opponent not you.
cant go on the ramp or backstage. i cant think of any more at the moment but i will update my review when i played the game

SUMMARY:
raw2 is in my opinion going to be the best wrestling game ever this year. i liked it since december januari , then i searched google for info about the game and it ended up here at neo . i'm still waiting for this game but it should be here around 22 october. i cant wait and if you want further info read other reviews or look in the forum.
thanks for reading

THE BAD:
The season kinda suxed for me. When you call out people it wasnt that great but the attacks were ok.
Damn this was slow. I never played Raw so this is the first time playing a raw game. HBK's entrance was great and by far the best entrance in this game. O ther entrances were poor like Brocks, WTF was he doing.

SUMMARY:
This was a dissapointment to me. I thought this would come out to be a great game but it wasnt that great. The Season suxed, the gameplay suxed, it was so damn slow. I dont think there is blood but i might be wrong. Jhon cenas intro suxed aswell as Eddie's. Alot of Entrances that i saw looked stupid.

Lowest Rating i ever gave

THE BAD:
man oh man is this game slow boring hard to get into slow handles bad slow annoying slow and slow

SUMMARY:
very very poor effort frm thq maybe im spoilt by every single smackdown that was better thtan thtis rubbish buut if thq make smackdown surely they can improve this poor excuse for a game better. take my advice and leave it on the shelf and wait for hctp. even game spot gave it a 6 out of 10.

a huge step sideways for the raw series

but in saying that designing ur entrance is the only good thing i hope hctp has this feature but hey its ur call just cos i didnt like it u mite. if ur into being bored buy it but my advice is wait for hctp or raw 3

THIS GAME IS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!