Raw 2 Might Not Suck!!!
 

I just got back from reading a site that has a current preview of the upcoming sequel to Raw, WWE's XBox franchise.

There were several areas that made me start caring about this frachise again:

1) Career Mode - The last game a had a base championship mode where you just wrestled one after the other until you won the title. This new Career mode has been descibed as a open ended RPG. Let me say that again... an open ended RPG... like Morrowind... cept different:D

You can steal Kurt Angles medals in a match or in a run in if you want, but expect Kurt to come after you on the next show. This may be what the wrestling gamer community has been waiting for in a virtual grappler.

2) More Wrestlers - Meh. As long as they get the proper move lists and charatcer attributes in there, I don't care how many wrestlers they have. In Raw, I spent most of the time playing as Steven Regal because he had the most distinctive move set. He looked like Regal and wrestled like Regal. The only other wrestler they achieved that level of detail with was Tajiri, but you ended up kicking too much.

3) Graphics - They've ipdated the graphics? Raw may not have been that great, but it was DAMN PRETTY. I saw some screens, and yes, they did improve the graphics... just take a look at Hogan. It IS Hogan.

and most importantly, the last 2...

4) Enhanced Create a Wrestler - The backbone of ANY grappler. If the CAW don't cut it, neither does the game.

5) OVERHAULED ENGINE -

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That was me praying to God, thanking him for answering my previous requests to overhaul the Raw engine. Raw will now be a GRAPPLING based wrestler. THANK YOU, JEBUS!!!!

Just hit the link for more goodness...

http://www.gamingring.com/news/0007.shtml

Didn't you post this at FXB? :D

I think this game is our best chance this Gen to get a great WWE game... others have been good, but not great

Well, the article is making it's rounds, it's also at PVG/GSN or whaever it's called now.

The season mode sounds interesting, but I think it may suffer from something SmackDown: Shut Your mouth suffered from. It's interesting, but it sometime uses it's long time mindset. I mean will they actually explain turns and whatnots?

How exactly will a gme handle Scott Steiner's movest? I mean using the same move over and over and over again doesn't work in real life either...

Hmmmmm... I wonder who posted it over there?

:sneaky:

Wow, I expected atleast Strangler or Justin to reply to the article, but eh.

Seems like a pretty well-rounded line-up with slots for like 20 more wrestlers, I just hope there is no Fred Durst in this version...

Well, I never did get the sense of making models and not using them as actual wrestlers, but also found it a waste of space to include such folks that people only really play as a joke. Now beating up the ref and JR and the King sounds cool...

Since the game has been delayed I don't know if the deadline has been changed, but I believe that it was before No Way Out before and that was one of the reasons why Stone Cold wasn't gonna be in the game.

Well they are getting away with something that has always seem odd in wrestling games, I mean technically HIAC is one mode, but you can have a one-on-one HIAC, Triple Threat HIAC and Fatal Fourway HIAC so it counts as three different match types, but eh.
Anyhow, it's good to see they are including a variety of matches this time.

I think this is the games most interesting aspect especially the 4-player option something I don't think that has been attempted since Attitude.

Also an increase in the number of arenas you will be able to play in, even though some of them may be outdated by now, WrestleMania X8 comes to mind, but there are also some others that will appear. According to sources, it will feature all 12 major PPV and the two TV shows set.

It seems to be like WM XIX at the moment, backstage areas made for season mode, but no idea if it will be used in exhibition.

Comments later.

The story mode sonds very good. I have always wanted to play a wrestling "RPG" type of game, where you can create allies and enemies.. I wonder if you like select to steal somebody's like... boots or something, or if you actually go to their lockeroom, beat them up, and steal their boots. LOL..

I don't understand why Jerry Lawler isn't a playable wrestler.

1) He still wrestles from time to time, especially when they're in the Memphis area. And he's still very active on the southern Indy circuit.

2) He's a legitimate legend. His work with Terry Funk and Ric Flair are the stuff that compilation tapes are made of.

3) I've never been able to do his trademark "fist drop off the second tirnbuckle" in any game before... that actually depresses me a little.


As for not playing with JR? Who cares. But I would like to see Coach as a wrestler SO I COULD BEAT THE S**T OUT OF HIM... tool.

lol, I wonder if the recation from wrestlers to your actions are good. Especially beating up announcers, if they hate you they should be bashing you the whole match.

(I wonder this cause I'm gonna get HHH and beat up the announcers constantly)

I also wonder if guys can get in "relationships" with girls on the game...

(I wonder this cause I'm gonna try and hook HHH and Steph back up :p)


But seriously... 10 actions? What types of actions can you chose from? 10 seems like way too many. Also, will the AI wrestlers get 10 options too? Seeing that it's four players I think that they should... or at least get 5 random actions per night. Chances are that I'm going to play 4 player season mode by myself and just take 4 guys in just to add to the replayability.