For the first time ever, players have the opportunity to assault opponents on their way to the ring. Collision detection is the most advanced we've seen in this genre, allowing you to break up moves in progress or take out two or three guys with a single haymaker. Those shortcomings aside, developer Anchor (of Ultimate Fighting Championship fame) has created a robust, realistic (if that word can be used with a straight face in reference to pro wrestling) game. The game's 45-character roster is a bit bizarre, too, populated with such scrubs as K-Kwik and Haku instead of recent WWF invaders DDP, Ric Flair and Billy Kidman. More exotic gimmick matches, such as Ladder, Table and Hell in a Cell, are nowhere to be found. It has no Season or Story modes, and there aren't many match types. If Just Bring It is a fully loaded Cadillac, Raw is more like a stripped-down Honda Civic. You also have Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, Bedlam, and much, much more.īecause it's a brand-new game for a brand-new system, Raw is a bit short on extras. These are great, but the ending is horrible, it is just plain white text. You have your WWF Championship mode where you pick your wrestler and try to beat the whole roster, you also have a tag team championship mode. It is worth noting that this was also the first four-player WWF game! Once again the game is designed for a 6-button controller so if you are playing on a 3-button controller it can be annoying. Each wrestler also had a Mayhem Move which was an over the top move that was very amusing. WWF RAW also gave each wrestler their special move, but they went a step further than this. It added in a new way to pin, you could submit your opponent, you could jump off the bottom turnbuckles, and more! It was staggering just how much more content they packed into this game. Razor Ramon would do a fallaway slam, Shawn Michaels would do a face slam, and so on. Here Undertaker would do a big boot, but Bret Hart would do a clothesline. What I loved about this game was that different wrestlers had different moves! In the previous games, apart from their finishing move, every wrestler did the same moves. You have to grapple, where you hit the button as fast as you can to do a move. The gameplay of WWF RAW is largely unchanged from Royal Rumble. The animations are well done and the game is fun to play. We played this game for hours and didn't get tired of it. It is not that hard at all to time the super drop kick so that they land on the chin of your opponent. I may have lost against the Iceman, but I got some damaging moves in. It's good to know that the high-flying wrestlers can climb on any one of the four top ropes then drop onto unsuspecting opponents. He used a variety of tactics in his decisive victory including smashing the referee in the head with a chair.Ī totally cheesy move on his part, but at least he got the win. He played as the gruesome Undertaker and I chose to play as Yokozuna. The Iceman and I went off the top rope and he pummeled me. Everyone will want to go out and grab this cart. New character animations, backgrounds, and a configured ring with the WWF RAW logo add to the enjoyment of this fast-action wrestling cart. You can pick up items around the ring to smack your unsuspecting opponents with when the referee is not looking, or is unconscious or incapacitated. If stepping into the ring is what you like to do best, then WWF RAW has what it takes to toss you off of your couch and into the ring.Īnother cool feature of this game is activated when you step out of the ring. TAKE TO THE RING WITH FOUR OF YOUR WRESTLING PALS So, invite your friends over and get some rope action as you join in the brawl. It's also the first four-player wrestling game that can see you and up to four others take to the ring using the Super Multitap on the Super Nintendo system. In this latest version you can do cannon balls off of the turnbuckles, perform the super fast clothesline, and even field-goal kick your opponent out of the ring. If you are so inclined, you can put the boots to the referee and knock him senseless. The Piledriver, Atomic Drop, the Suplex Slam, Flying Elbow Smash, the Super Drop Kick, and all-new pins and submission holds are in this one. They come complete with their own signature moves and high-flying wrestling maneuvers. The other wrestlers featured in this game are: The 1-2-3-Kid, Bam Bam Bigelow, Owen Hart and his other brother Bret Hart, Razor Ramon, Diesel, Dolnk, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Lex Luger, and Yokozuna. Luna can come off the top rope with the best of them. You've read it correctly, this is the first wrestling game of its kind featuring a female grappler named Luna Vachon.īut don't think that she is an unworthy adversary. FEATURING YOUR FAVORITE WRESTLERS FROM WWF
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