Raw 2 is the king of visuals

[TheGame]

I guess the plastic screenshots do the game no justice in action... I think the game simply looks better than SD4, and it makes WM XIX's animation look like a complete joke.

http://sports.ign.com/articles/436/436820p1.html

You should be able to find the videos from that link, and um, just as a warning, when I tried to play some on WMP it would stop pre-maturely, on a 5mbit connection that isn't supposed to happen... so if you have insider watch the QT videos instead of the WMP ones.

it's a bit slower than SD and WM XIX, but that's a good thing imo... I can't wait to play it to pass final judgement.

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Oh, and Penguin, you can interfere with intros still

Check out eddie's intro

and pay close attention to the corner where it says press A to skip, it will change for a second.

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Raw 2 is set to release on the 16th (ships the 15th)

[The Duggler]

I agree. I think that Anchor really did a good job this time, and it certainly looks a lot better than Yukes crap!

[TheGame]

I think SD looks really good now... but it's simply not at Raw's level, not yet at least. XIX well, judge for yourself

here

[nWoCHRISnWo]

Ahh, so much talk about wrestling game's graphics/animations. Am I the only one who doesn't care what the game LOOKS like really? No amount of screenshots or videos can tell me how good/bad a wrestling game will be. I mean (I have to bring up No Mercy in every single wrestling game thread) if you saw a video of someone playing No Mercy, you probably wouldn't be too impressed. It's the feel of the game, the awesome controls, psychology you can incorporate into the game, and the straight out fun factor that makes No Mercy what it is. All the next gen wrestling games have good graphics, animations, entrances, etc. IMO, but that's just the little extras that don't matter much to me (well animation is different but I don't think the animation has gotten any better from old N64 games anyways) at all.

[TheGame]

Well, I'm looking at the flow of the match too in the videos... not only does it look the best, it looks like it may play the best... imo

I mean, in the N64/Psx days, SD looked more realistic, but it didn't look like it played as good, same with th acclaim games. No Mercy's flow of matches was perfect, and the animation was better than SD's too

But we'll see, I doubt any of the new 3 will do to this generation what No Mercy did to last generation, but out of the three I can see Raw coming the closest.

(even though it could end up being awful, in that case I would go with SD because they are consistant with that game )

[Null]

its because of the flexibility of the models,

when they have stiff models they are slow and have no 'flow' as you put it.
the old SD games had stiff models and while the N64 ones had very loose flexible ones. game flows more because of it.


I think they should make a wrestling game using the Soul Calibur 2 engine.