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| Sean from Burlington, Ontario, Canada says (11/Nov/2003): |
First of all it's not one of the best wrestling games out there. It is a good game, but not ranking up with the best. And by the way, the last person said that it has almost every wrestler in the game that they have heard about, you must not be that big of a wrestling fan if thats all you know about. I personally like the new smackdown a lot more than RAW 2, even know i'm a huge Xbox fan. I still say that wrestling today is pure crap. They talk to much and wrestle like $#< remove me > at !. Go back to the mid 90's when wwf and wcw were at war and when wrestlers were not complete sellouts.
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I think that Raw 2 is one of my favorite video games!!! |
| Mike from USA-NY says (8/Nov/2003): |
I play WWE RAW 2 every singal day! I just can't get enough of it! I think that the graphics are great and it has just about every wrestler I ever heard about! The theme songs and sounds are very real. I love wrestling and I am a huge fan of it. I thought I should get RAW 2 is because I loved RAW 1. I love all of the match types including Hell in a Cell, Cage, and Tables, Ladders and chairs! Everytime I get a chance I use my created superstar in the life-like season mode. My favorite part of the whole game is Kane's entrance. Its so cool! This game is awesome BUT, the ONE thing I don't like is that there is no evalution unless you make it (which I think is hard to do).
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People who don't know games! |
| turmoiltech from Biddeford, Maine, USA says (7/Nov/2003): |
OK listen up all you button mashing 12 yr olds! RAW2 is one of the best wrestling games on the market today. Granted there are a lot of things missing but when you got a couple of friends over (if you have them) you tend to forget about all that stuff, and thats exactly what THQ was aiming for. A game to play with your buddies and have fun with. I would also like to say to those of you who are complaining about the lack of story in the season mode. Get it. Season mode. Not story mode like the smackdown games. THQ also did a good job making the SEASON mode which they aimed for. Come on whats better then making up your own story to follow! Season mode allows you to do that.(in your own mind that is) And thats all part of the fun. I personally think that it sucks when you have to follow a story line prefabricated by Vince McMahon and his team of writers. Most of the time a story mode just rehashes crap I've already seen on TV. Now I'll give a list of the pros and cons of this game in my own opinion.
PROS
1)awsome graphics
2)in-depth create a superstar mode
3)PHENOMINAL create an entrance mode
4)customized entrance music
5)tons of choices to pick from during a match
6)up to six people in the ring (not including the ref)
7)up to 4-player season mode!
8)able to have over 64 people in a royal rumble
9)easy finisher moves (more real to life)
CONS
1)poor A.I.
2)no xbox live support
3)no downloadable content
4)cannot fight backstage
5)only up to 3 people in a team (that means no nWo, four horsemen, D-X, ravens flock, or up to date Evolution)
6)weak selection of moves in create a superstar
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Amazing |
| Jd from England says (6/Nov/2003): |
In my opinion i thought WWE Raw 2 was better than smackdown 4. When Smackdown 5 comes out i think that even though it is newer it will still have a hard time to beat Raw 2. I am not picking sides here because i own both a PS2 and an X-Box so i can play on both games. But Raw 2 has it all. The graphics live up to what everyone would expect to see on an X-box, The season is excellent such as when you can surprise attck or set a trap etc. The matches are excellent such as the Hell in the Cell not only can you knock them out when you knock them off the cell but you can put them through four different places. Unlike smackdown 4 where they went through one section and you didn't even get to see the whole move you saw half of it, next thing you know you're hanging from the cell getting beck in th e ring?!?! The Create a Superstar is what i liked most though on Raw 2 because you had everything you wanted. You could combine up to 4 callnames and say where you came from. The entrances are without a doubt the best thing ever on the game though. Such as having music from your x-box hard drive, choosing your Pyros with starting times, the entrance lights and my favourite feature was the fact that you could put words on the titantron with your created superstar performing a wrestling move. The roster on this game is also very up to date. Sure you don't have an eliminatiopn chamber but i'm okay with that because all the other matches are great enough. This game easily deserves a 10/10 score.
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very fun wrestling game |
| A gamer from houston tx says (4/Nov/2003): |
ok,people, raw 2 is very good way better than the first one and yall that gave this game a bad review really are clueless because the graphics are wonderfull and the wrestlers move like real people detail is xbox's high side where on playstation the game play is ok but the wrestlers move like cartoon characters until you go into a cut scene detail is what the game player looks for and another thing this is the first console for microsoft and it has come a very long way but on a game note raw is the bomb get it play it ennjoy
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IT's a very good game but it needs to be checked over! |
| Here Comes the PAIN from Toronto, Canada says (4/Nov/2003): |
I got this game a month ago and I think it is a really great game. The graphics, the season mode, the create-a-superstar mode and also the gameplay of this game were successful in part from THQ. Since I also have PS2, and Gamecube and for those consoles I also bought XIX and Smackdown HTCP. Those games are also very great and they rival Raw 2 pretty good. Both have good features.
The first thing we need to see in Raw 2 is that they started making it a yeat ago so people might have complaints about the things that are not up-to-date. This is one of the things THQ had to look over but I don't blame them, they might have had to change the whole configuaration of the game to do that. Another big thing that is not acceptable is the A1 in this game. I can fully say that it sucks like s***. I try to ignore it but its stupidity is just alarming. Thq has to be told to think about the A1. Although it is not a big thing overall but in a normal brawl it can be annoying.
The last thing that I don't like about this game is that you cannot toggle the main controls of this game for example you can't turn off give up and turn on ko and stuff like disqualification. It may not bother many people but it bothers me.
Overall I think this game is one of the best wrestling games of all, competing the old No Mercy for N64. THe rating for this game over HCTP and XIX i think that this game Equals XIX because of many of the good features both of them have in them. But in no offence to any people who like Raw2 or XIX I think that Smackdown 5 Here Comes The Pain is the game that is a wrestling lovers dream. It is the best game for WWE that ever happened to PS2 and everthing else.
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RAW 2 is one of the best wrestling games ever |
| Heath Rushing from Louisiana USA says (3/Nov/2003): |
This is the probably the best wrestling i've played since no mercy it's much better than the wwf raw and all smackdown games on PS2 excluding here comes the pain since i am yet to play it. To start, this game has an awesome roster except the fact it has Goldberg in it which is gay he shouldn't be in ne game...ever!!! and i hate that jafe hardy isn't in it but than again he was fired before this game so that's understandable. And it don't have elimination chamber but THQ didn't havee time to add it, unless they delayed it another month or 2. This game is really awesome like the hiac is awesome since you can bust out 4 sections on the top of the cell, un like raw where you can only bust one, and you can chokeslame someone off of it onto the announcer table which is awesome if you haven,t done/attempted it yet. And the TLC is nice accept the CPU only goes for the belt, and the CAS is awesome you can do so much with a character, i've spent hours creating one character and never got bored with it. The entrances are awesome how you can customize nearly everything in it form music to titantron to pyros to the lighting. The Graphics are much better than any other wrestling game around and the fact that you can use your own music for themes. The game also has several things that need fixed
1. Bill Goldberg is in the game
2. no blood
3. no Jeff Hardy
4. no announcers
5. your enemy interferes and attackes your opponent
6. I heard that your enemy can get the title if he interferes i haven't had this happen but if yall say so.
7. to many interferences, i think there should be 2 people allowed to interfere one to help you and one to attack you and none if the match has more then 2 people unless it's a tag match
8. you rarely do what you want in season
9. some wrestlers don't have their same music
10. kane has his mask on in game but off on titantron
11. no shane mcmahon
12. no rodney mack, theodore long
13. no wheight sensibility, unless your standing on a table
14. table breaks if you stand on it, unless it's a table match.
15. not enough match types, last man standing, iron man, casket, first blood(couldn't have one though because there's no blood) etc
16. can't go up the ramp
17. lacks AI
18. in ladder matches CPU only goes for belt, they hardly go after you.
19. no backstage:(
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Raw 2 Pins SD5 |
| Harry Ballzonya from Ohio, USA says (2/Nov/2003): |
C'mon be honest and lets thing about this here people, Raw 2 may lack matches like the Elimination Chamber and Bra & Panies matches but for one the Elimination Chamber happened to be created well after the game was actually created and when the game is created does anyone else know what happens, it gets the flaws out and gets it ready to be released, then all you do is wait for a release date that will get alot of sells for you're company, so use a bit of common sense and thought before posting, and lets get down to more of it. Would you prefer a game that looks real like Raw 2 or a game that looks like it just came out of you're little sisters coloring book like Smackdown, you get hit on Smackdown and you flop around like paper on a windy day. I prefer reality anyday. Before I dare go on let me explain to everyone before they reply to my post that I own both PS2 and Xbox and I'm not choosing the system I have because I own both. I also own both games but I never play SD because it completly sucks but some of my friends decide to play it sometimes, So lets put it like this overall Raw 2 and SD equal out in ratings, SD has more matches and so on where as Raw 2 comes in with reality and better graphics and etc. The Season modes i'd say that there both good but Raw 2 is better because it gives more overall but then since the superstars dont talk thats where Smackdown's would come in and equal it out. Backstage area, first of all when you have hell in a cell and other matches like that who needs backstage but if thats what gets you're jollies goin then Smackdowns got it but if you think about it, its worth nothing because who honestly has seen a human being thrown into a car and it explode (occured in SD4) Who are we trying to excite with that our 2 year old brothers and sisters. Its a teen game so alot of teens likly will have it and mature younger kids, aswell as some cool parents so give something more real like glass breaking when you throw them into the car or something dont make it explode because last time I checked the terminator was not a wrestler. So like I said Reality is Raw 2 and The Coloring Book is SD
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This game is by far the best |
| A gamer from Louisiana, USA says (28/Oct/2003): |
This game is so awesome it smokes smackdown 1-4 (i haven't played 5) it is 20 times better than the first one. It has a few down falls. Like the fact that there aren't announcers, and your the characters don't speak and kane has his mask on but his video has it off, and the fact that goldberg was even put in the game. The game is awesome as far a match type like HIAC and tlc, table, and ladder. The create a superstar is better and it has better pyro effects. The graphics are much improved and it has a bunch fo awesome moves. except the fact that you can't do a swanton bomb over the rope, or do a suicide dive through the ropes, oh yea and spike dudley's famous flyind headbutt, but the matches are awesome and the wrestlers are not so "fast pased" like in smackdown, and it's more realistic. I hate that there isn't any blood and no elimination chamber, but thq had a set date for the game and making a elimination chamber would add a few months. I love that you can rip your own music for entrances that's a great detail and the halfway custamizable titantron video is awesome, i hated coming out with someone like big show or someone else on my entrance video. Oh yea and the only other problem is that when your in a match your enemy's interfere and attack your opponent, and you can't turn off interference, and when they do interfere it's a pain in the ass especially when you want to put someone through the announcer table and someone keeps messing you up, oh yea and you can't change the time for season mode so all matches are 10 min. from what i can tell any way. All in all I give this game a 10. It's the best game for Xbox, until The Next Halo, or Halo 2 (not sure what they're gunna call it)
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I Would Rent it First |
| Danny from Modesto, California US says (27/Oct/2003): |
I bought this game the first day it was released thinking that it would be the coolest game of the year; I was wrong. The game play in season mode is just too easy to beat. Frankly, I can't play the season mode for more than 30 minutes before I just get frustrated at how slow it is. Furthermore, for a game that has great graphics and realistic looking faces, you think THQ would have spent more time on the entrances of the superstars and on the Create a Superstar mode. The only cool thing about it is the fact that you can use your own music, but you cannot time when you want the superstar to enter or how long you want the entrance to be. Another thing that really bites about this game, is that fact that you cannot add a championship belt to your superstar after he/she has become the champion. The only way you even know you are the champion is the cheezy little cutscreen that plays before a chapionship match. I have a lot more nasty stuff to say about this game but I will not waste my time. It just seems that THQ spent tons of time on some aspects of the game while on others they just rushed it out the door to try to make a buck. They should have spent more time on the game to make many improvements; it would have been worth the wait.
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This game is awesome |
| Rey Mysterio Fan 1 from st.pete , fl says (26/Oct/2003): |
This game is the best wrestling game for xbox it has almost every kind of match a good season mode match im a rey mysterio fan and his entrance is the same as real life it is awesome you can to any move you have ever heard of you can be anyone and do any move this is the best game i have ever played im already the wwe champ the world champ the cruserweight champ and royal rumble and king of the ring winner with rey mysterio this game was definitly worth 50 $
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Smackdown is better |
| Casey cook from Gastonia N.C. says (26/Oct/2003): |
Raw2 was a mistake let me list them for you#1 Not the correct music for Los Guerreros, victoria,lita's,Matt Hardy,Kane etc#2 Kane still has his mask on but in his video he has it off.#3 Story Mode sucks it can't top smackdowns.Smackdown5 is a better game because of old school wreslers plus the old school undertaker,First Blood match Bra&panties and chamber match.So do the right thing dump Raw2 and get Smackdown Here Comes the Pain.
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WWE Raw 2 - just a little bit . . . |
| Robert from England, UK says (25/Oct/2003): |
I bought this game and it is the best wrestling game on the X-Box. However, there is no competition at the moment (legends of wrestling 2 anyone?)which is why I feel the developers have held back (perhaps tweaking everything up in the next installment of Raw). The presentation of the game is excellent and the graphics, in my opinion, can't be faulted. The game-play is great(especially regarding reversing moves) and I found the speed setting to be a realistic pace (unlike the amphetamine driven Smackdown series).
There are a good selection of matches but because there doesn't seem to be a blood option, some of them seem fairly pointless. However, the interactive use with foreign objects is fairly comprehensive and the create a wrestler option is pretty good, giving a wide selection of options to choose from (including the excellent customise pyrotechnics and music entrance options). The season mode is nice and gives plenty of scope(reminiscent of Smackdown 2 with a few bells and whistles thrown in) but you have to work hard to get those 4 way hardcore matches and that. There is not much variety in what you can do though (steal, call out, encourage etc)
My big gripes are that tables are too easy to break. Often you walk into them and they fall apart. The AI system (which has been improved) is still ropey and each wrestler has the same problem in that the weight logic has not been recognised. What I mean is that Rey Misterio Jnr can slam The Big Show or eliminate him from a Royal Rumble! The Royal Rumble itself is pitiful. Why is it that the screen can hold at least 7 people (I've done it) yet a Royal Rumble can only contain 4 wrestlers on the screen at one time? Why do 4 start in the ring at a Royal Rumble? Every wrestling fan knows that 2 men start in the Royal Rumble until the timer runs out and another joins in. That is a cheap way out for THQ and have not really improved on older games in this instance for some reason!
Despite those gripes, they shouldn't be enough to deter anybody from buying the game but I think THQ should tighten everything up and include more new features for the next game. Stuff like Elimination Chamber,old style Survivor Series 8 man elimination tags and the three stages of hell style match (2-3 falls - with or without stipulations). Blood should be optional and the AI system needs to be more intelligent. This series has the potential to beat Smackdown fairly easily - providing THQ pull their finger out.
I've gone on so I thank anybody that has read to the end.
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better than smackdown, but so is watching paint dry |
| Eric from Mountain View CA says (23/Oct/2003): |
It a good game, but i would rent it first. One there no blood you can beat them with a chair and the never seem to knock the guy out. There no KO only submission and pins. In the hell in the cell match you can even knock the off the cage (like undertaker vs mankind) Come one I been waiting for a good wrestling game and so far I'm still waiting, maybe I need to buy the game cube to get a good wrestling game. So do buy or wait till it goes down to 29 or 19 dollars. Please save you money, I wish i did
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You Don't Realize! |
| Stephen Heller from USA says (23/Oct/2003): |
Raw 2 was indeed made before the Elimination Chamber was even made a match. Look at the names as you can see many of the names are in caps. What does that tell you? It tells you that Raw 2 was in production way before everything. Everyone was updated from the previous Raw 2 game. Because in the old version of the game. Jeff Hardy was doing a Swanton Bomb off the ladder on Rob Van Dam. They held it back for new people, and also new matches. It to me is a perfect game. I love that fact that their added a few wrestlers. And the fact that if their did do a Elimination Chamber. It itself would take aleast over 2 months more to complete. You shouldn't cry over that. You should be grateful that it has what it has. And do your homework look at the old version of the game. There are tons of old images out there from the Raw 2. Because Raw 2 is a great WWE game. I would tell people to buy it more then Smackdown 5. No matter what Smackdown 5 has.
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Raw2 over Smackdown SYM |
| A gamer from Corpus Christi ,Texas says (22/Oct/2003): |
ok, its my second day with RAW2, first of all when i saw the first entrence with Goldberg, i knew right away that the rest of em were gonna be good, the graphics are better then the smackdown series. The finish moves are cool, the create a wrestler is much better then raw1,1 thing i didnt like was it dont have the elimination chamber, or bra and panties matches, the best thing i like about raw2, is the entrence videos, you can actually jam to em and watch the movies while your at it..something the other games didnt have ( but raw1). whoever says RAW2 " sucks" is either to much of a ps2 lover to admit a xbox game is good, or something is just plain wrong with them. Now if you excuse me, i got to get back to the game.
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Raw 2 is a complete dissapointment |
| A gamer from Chicago, USA says (21/Oct/2003): |
The first Raw was terrible and Raw 2 isn't much better.
There are no I quitt, Ironman or any other matches like that and there is no Elimination Chamber!!!
Its gameplay hasn't improved one bit and the new career mode doesn't have any storylines and you can't hear the caracters speak you can only watch them move their mouth.
It has good graphycs and create a superstar mode, but all the characters are stupid and there are lots of things that need to be worked on in career mode so if you're looking for a good wrestling game Raw 2 just isn't the right one.
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I love it...but there are just a few minor problems.... |
| kanenite/info guy from ohio USA says (21/Oct/2003): |
Raw 2 is the best game that has ever happened to xbox!!!!!!!
BUT.............................there are a few errors in the game as well. for example, here are the parts in catergory : EXHIBITION MATCH TYPES - good - tlc (new), hell in a cell(new), table(new)!!! battle royal!!!!!!!!! ladder! cage, armageddon (new feature), 6 man tag (new feature), etc.... bad - no elimination chamber,8 man tag,stable,gauntlet ROYAL RUMBLE - good - everything!!!!! bad - nothing!!!!!!!!!! KING OF THE RING - good - not much....just the concept... bad - youll know when you play (tournament is better) TOURNAMENT - 10x better than k.o.r. (more options) SEASON - (this is huge!!!) good - agenda,allies and enemies,and LOTS MORE!!!!!!!!!! bad - there should be more options in the agenda,more allies and enemies,and a few other things (im the info guy, so ill be back with another review.) CREATE A SUPERSTAR good - most bad - profile could be improved (details,alignment,etc) , appearence could have more options, entrance should have more details (it rules but it still needs more) OTHER problems - if your doing a move, it can easily be stopped,NO backstage areas,and i think thats about it......i love the game, and i think wwe raw 3 will have all the problems fixed. GOOD LUCK THQ!!!!!!!
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great game |
| A gamer from Virginia says (20/Oct/2003): |
you know after reding some of these lame ass reviews I realized about half have to be from children because people can't even spell correctly. and anyone that has any thing bad to say about raw 2 all I have to say is stop bitching and get your fat lazy ass out and learn how to make video games instead of sitting at home berating others for their hard work. THQ and all of the other companies making this game are trying NOT to make it like Smackdown! I agree that the smackdown! games are better but as for X-Box games raw is thier good wrestling title.
I enjoyed it cause it took me back to the days of WCW revenge and No Mwrcy. Smackdown! has yet to change its grapling system and it's too fast. some people seem to be missing the fact that they're not making a fighting game but a Professional wrestling game. most wrasslin is'nt that fast unless it involves cruiserweights. Hell whens the last time you saw hogan do any real wrestling. He talks, he stalls looks his opponent over and then hits some of the most simple wrestling moves and then wins. some of you people should think before speaking. plus they put a lot into the arena's hell wrestlemania got good reviews and all but had only a few arenas.
this game was good that's why I give it a 10.
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Pretty good |
| John Markowsky from NJ USA says (20/Oct/2003): |
So yeah i got a 1200 check in the mail from our wonderful us government and i figured i should finally listen to people and buy an xbox. was a great purchase, my first games were RAW 2 and Ghost Recon... now Raw 2 where to begin, the game play in itself is pretty decent, the controls once your learn them are easy to master and on the hard difficulty setting the game is a challange. but my problems are with the bugs and the non existan story lines..... My least favorite bug of all time is the "Interference in a title match you win they give belt to the interferer" now about 10 minutes before i sat down to write this, i was battling for the World Championship at the Vengeance Pay Per View im kicking the crap out of the rock with my CAW and my enemy goldberg rushes the ring to beat the hell out of me... i mean the rock.... (thats another horrible bug, MY ENEMIES ATTACK MY OPPONENT WHATS UP WITH THAT!) so yeah, i let goldberg do his two special moves, i do mine and i pin, hooray i win the title right!? WRONG after all the victory animation and "congratulations your the champion" go to the "title holders" tab in the menu and guess what! Chances are you aren't the champion (this has happened 2 out of 3 times i've had interference in a title match, not good odds but it doesn't happen everytime but it is QUITE frustrating when it does) now... season mode.... i mean useless linking of exhibition matches with the occasional pretty cut scene mode..... is anyone else bothered by the fact that there is NO point to it at all? So you can attack superstars.... WHY!? so they can "hate you" and interfer to help in matches? There's no INCENTIVE to attack people.... if you need to do so because you can't beat them 1 on 1 then you just need to turn it on easy..... Getting a manager? sucking up to some superstar so much wasting time so they can lead you to the ring? WHATS THE ADVANTAGE! Especially when the game automatically selects a random one if you dont have one set..... The "Date/Trust" etc cut scenes? Sure they're fun to watch the first time you see them... but they dont do anything! they dont forward the "story" and they dont help/hurt your guy at all. This game had so much potential... The Graphics are amazing the animations are beautiful i mean there are some graphical flaws (Carry a weapon in your entrance and you wave yoru arms the weapon goes through you etc etc) because all games have stuff like that. That's okay i can deal with that. It just frustrates me that the deveolopers left in such OBVIOUS flaws.... why couldn't you spend 3 days and fix them beforey ou shipped it out. THQ I have so much faith in you... WCW World Tour... WCW NWO REVENGE Wrestlemania 2000 WWF No Mercy! are my favorite wrestling games of all time.... All brought to me by THQ.... Amazing games... Simple yet fun and addictive. Then there is the Smackdown Series... if anyone badmouths this series needs to go play Smackdown 2 and 4 again... I own every smackdown game. 1 was amazing ebcause it was the first non n64 wwe wrestling game that didn't suck.... You could NAME YOUR OWN MOVES. Sure the graphics were bad... (come on it was ps1) Then smackdown too, first wrestling game to have ladder matches and table matches and tlc and hell in a cell.... besides an AMAZING season mode.... Smackdown 3.... should be shot in the face.... Abysmal Story mode no new game types.... and then smackdown 4, AMAZING SEASON MODE. THQ really hsould havej ust souped up the smackdown season mode and slapped it on xbox.... then raw2 would be jesus in video game form. Now it's only a week till smackdown 5 and more then not my raw 2 will gain dust... wlel thanks for taking the time to read this. As much as i did bad mouth raw 2. i am happy i bought it.
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