WWE Raw Critic Reviews

It is just the "Total Package" (yeah I know, I am embarrassed of myself for that one), combining great gameplay with fantastic visuals to create one of the finest sports game ever.

The fun factor in this game is through the roof.

The hardcore fans will get plenty of enjoyment out of the difficult AI, the awesome multiplayer modes and the super deep Create-A-Wrestler mode.

From the time you start playing to the point where you stop, you feel like your watching a match on TV. The lack of match types and gameplay modes does hurt the game some, but Raw's outstanding gameplay and graphics more then make up for that.

Gameplay can frustrate some, but for all that spend the time to learn the nuances and to learn the feel of the game will not be disappointed.

Features terrific graphics, sound, and a presentation that does what WWF fans really want a game to do -- recreate the whole experience in their living room!

WWF fans will go ape with RAW, the whole wrestling experience has never been so faithfully recreated and there’s a wide selection of wrestlers to choose from plus the extensive Create-A-Wrestler mode to play with.

Just when you want to like a wrestling game, and there are a lot of things to like about WWF Raw, the cheap AI makes the game difficult and frustrating to play.

Graphically, this is a remarkable program...The action can be very unrealistic, just in terms of physical reality, and that is a major drawback.

Despite its various shortcomings, including inconsistent gameplay, a lack of commentary and absent features, WWF Raw is a fun and challenging game.

It's not terrible, by any means. It's just that, considering the degree of expectation surrounding it and the power of Xbox itself (Halo, anyone?), it should - and could - have offered so much more.

Some things I would like to see are announcers (preferably seated by the ring), fully-functional tables, ladders, and chairs,a Royal Rumble, a tag-team title, more match variety, a story mode, more items and created character goodies, and some seriously tweaked gameplay.

While the released version is a competent wrestling game, it plays very much like one of the old N64 releases with a major facelift.

Raw has all the pomp and circumstance of the WWF without all the good gameplay and fun that drove older WWF titles.

What's important in the first wrestling game of a series is solid gameplay, graphics, and presentation, and Raw excels in all of those areas...Raw doesn't do much, but what it does, it does very well.

Multiplayer is a bit more enjoyable than just playing the game yourself since you don't have to deal with the moronic AI.

It captures the electricity of the sport and is quite amazing graphically, but it's low in the substance department, and not quite as endearing...The only source of enjoyment was collecting the obscure items and weapons.

The overall lack of supplementary features isn't a major drawback, however, since what's important to a modern wrestling game, aside from the graphics, is solid multiplayer action and challenging CPU AI. Disappointingly, these areas don't fare much better.

I think the X-box magic is starting to wear off.

This brings me to the combat system, the primary reason the game falls apart. A chunk of the blame belongs to the button configuration.