bit-tech Shopping: THQ WWE Raw 2: Ruthless Aggression (Xbox)

Rating: 8

Time with product: 5 Weeks

Strengths: Many Wrestling Superstars,Brilliant graphics

Weaknesses: Extremely boring carreer mode,Bad grappling system

Summary: There are many new superstars than in raw 2 than raw 1,but there is a very very unatractive carreer mode that is very boring.Perhaps if you check other websites you may think the game is nice,but there is slightly a change if you play it.Let me introduce some of the superstars for those of you who dont know.You have Randy Orton there,Scott Steiner and there are 100 MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 4

Time with product: 5 Days

Strengths: made by a good company

Weaknesses: no back stage borin match types

Summary: i would rathers buy smack down here comes the pain but this is a good game witch u should try out u might like it or hate it this gane is up to u to decide but the game has good graphics and is worth £30

Rating: 10

Time with product: 7 Days

Strengths: Awesome, and i mean awesome create a player mode, and you can design superstars costumes, like HHH, and the Rock, and other great wrestlers. Warning The Season Mode can get you addicted....

Weaknesses: This game only has 1 weakness, and its the season, even tho its addictive, and everything it get's kinda boring, in smack down you always had pictures of the king, and jr talking but this has nothing..

Summary: I think to improve this, they would have to stick with the graphics and all the create a wrestle design, and just fix up season so you can do a lil more....

Rating: 4

Time with product: 2 Days

Strengths: Graphics,Create Options,and deep career mode

Weaknesses: no X-Box Live and poor AI

Summary: RAW 2 has the potential to be a great game. You can really get indepth with the create a character by editing just about every aspect of you wrestlers appearance. You can even edit you intro options(pyro,lights,fog). You can also import you songs off your X-box hard drive for your theme music. O.K. here's the problems. On occasion in matches your opponent will repeatedly attempt to pin you over and over (up to 7 or 8 times). Why? The animation sequence for your pin recovery is longer than the opponents anime seq. for him to stand allowing him to pin again before you have a chance to recover (hence the poor AI). You also get sore forearms mashing the buttons repeatedly to kick out. ow here's what really got my goat. In career mode when you enemys interfere THEY ATTACK YOUR OPPONENT and not you, and that alone to me makes this a rental and not a purchase. Everything else is great but those two problems alone are crucial to give the game authenticity. Go rent the game spend 4 hours making a character go to career mode and see just how annoying this problems can be. P.S. If your only in it for multi play is great all-round.

Rating: 6

Time with product: 1 Days

Strengths: Graphics, Animation, Season Mode

Weaknesses: Feels incomplete, missing CAW features, bad grappling system

Summary: In brief, WWE RAW 2 does not live up to the hype. It promises numerous features, and while better than Raw 1, it feels incomplete. In the Create-a-Superstar option, you get many interesting features. However, you only get 8 faces, limited number of haircuts, accessories, etc.The grappling system is not very good at all. It's your basic Weak/Strong grapple system, but doesn't feel right and you can pretty much just use your strong grapples as it doesn't seem to matter.The manual is the worst ever for any game. Aside from button assignments, it give you no information about the numberous features in the game.This game is worth maybe two rentals. It is not worth $50. If you want to play a great wrestling game on the Xbox, choose Legends of Wrestling 2.After the first 20 minutes of playing around, watching the cool graphics, wrestler entrances, getting a feel for the features, it's time to wrestle. Gameplay becomes the most important thing after that first 20 minutes of watching the jaw dropping graphics. WWE Raw 2 just comes up short on some huge potential. If THQ/Anchor actually finished this game and worked harder on the gameplay (grappling system, etc) you would have yourself the best wrestling game in history. However, you now just have an OK wrestling game that looks really neat.