If you haven't played WWF Raw or want to try this sports video game, download it now for free! Published in 2002 by THQ Inc., WWF Raw is still a popular wrestling title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 4.2/5 rating.
Wwf Raw Pc Game
If you haven't played WWF Raw or want to try this sports video game, download it now for free! Published in 2002 by THQ Inc., WWF Raw is still a popular wrestling title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 4.2/5 rating.
Wwf Raw Pc Game
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WWF Raw is a professional wrestling video game released on the Xbox and Microsoft Windows by THQ in 2002. It is based on the television series of the same name. It was the first WWF game released on the Xbox and also the last WWF game released on PC until the release of WWE 2K15 12 years later in 2014. It is also the last game released under the WWF name as the World Wrestling Federation changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in May of that year.
The game offers the players a wrestling experience with various matches like singles match, tag team match, triple threat, fatal four-way, battle royal and handicap matches. The players can also play various tournaments such as King of the Ring and several title tournaments. They can create their own character as well as their attire, move set and entrance. The game has a weak/strong grapple system and there are two types of grapples: one which is done with normal opponents and other with groggy opponents. The normal grapples do little harm when compared to grapples done when the opponent is stunned. There is a voltage meter which shows the momentum of the wrestlers. Special move, high flying attacks and taunting boost momentum while repeated attacks cost loss in momentum. Finishers can only be applied when the opponent is stunned and the voltage meter is flashing. Excessive use of finisher also cause loss in momentum.
During development, the game was originally called WWF Raw is War, but the title was changed after the WWF shortened the television show's title in October 2001 due to the end of Monday Night Wars.[1] In Japan, a limited edition was released with a shirt and a figure of the Undertaker or "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan (who does not appear in the game).[2]
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[17][18] In Japan, Famitsu gave the Xbox version an unfavorably low score of 10 out of 40.[5]
WWE RAWDeveloperAnchor Inc.PublisherTHQDate released2002GenreFighting, WrestlingRatingsESRB: T (Teen)ModesSingle player, multiplayerPlatformsXbox, PC, Mobile PhoneWWE Raw (also known as WWF Raw) is a video game released on the Xbox console and the PC by THQ in 2002. All copies of the PC port and later copies of the Xbox original were titled WWE Raw due to the World Wrestling Federation's lawsuit with the World Wildlife Fund, causing the former to change their name to WWE (although the in-game logos still carried the WWF logo). The game was succeeded on the Xbox by WWE RAW 2 in 2003.
Originally intended to be an Xbox launch game, numerous delays pushed back the game's release from November 2001 to February 2002. Due to a recent string of lawsuits directed towards the WWF blaming the company for youth injuries, the game's blood effects were removed. In earlier builds of the game, wrestlers would bleed realistically from different body locations, and drip blood on the mat, which would remain there and darken to a brown color as time passed. In Japan a Limited Edition was released with a T-Shirt and a Undertaker figure
WWE RAW received generally mixed reviews. IGN praised the game giving it a 9.1 while other sites such as GameSpot gave it a 6.5 saying the lack of blood and the superstars' hunched figure gave it more of a UFC feeling.
Complete WWE Raw Roster (also known as WWF Raw or WWF Raw is War, depending on the version). Here you can find the full Roster of the Raw game for Xbox and PC, featuring all the 47 characters profiles of the WWE Wrestlers and Divas available in the game!
THQ's WWF Raw was an attempt to ensure the Xbox had a licensed rasslin' game early in the system's life, but the amount of botches caused by the rushed development proved Anchor Inc. as the Jannetty to HBK of AKI and Yuke's, as Anchor only made one more WWF/E game after this.
It was also the second game where Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and not the WCW/ECW Alliance invaded the promotion, the only game the Kaientai (TAKA Michinoku and Funaki) and Tajiri were together as built-in playable Superstars, and the only WWF/E game (WWF With Authority! excluded) for Windows-based computers until WWE 2K15.
With its outdated roster, overly complicated wrestling system, sluggish controls, decided lack of different match types, and various visual oddities, WWE Raw unfortunately does little to fill the wrestling void in PC gaming. WWE Raw includes a selection of wrestlers from long before the company formerly known as the WWF had to change its name, and as such, you won't see some of the more exciting wrestlers like Rob Van Dam, Booker T, The Hurricane, Brock Lesnar, or even Hulk Hogan here. Instead, you'll be treated to a large portion of WWE talent that hasn't seen a single TV broadcast in months. This also affects individual wrestler entrance themes since quite a few of these wrestlers no longer walk into the arena with the same music or pyrotechnic displays. But beyond the presentation and the character selection, the gameplay is where this game often falls flat.
There are a number of different match types to select from in WWE Raw, including one-on-one, tag team, tornado, triple threat, fatal four-way, battle royal, handicap, and king-of-the-ring tournament matches. Most of these are pretty standard, but some require a little explanation. The triple threat match pits three wrestlers against each other, but you only need to pin one other wrestler to win the match, which can be quite difficult to do since both computer-controlled and human-controlled players will continually knock you out of the pin. A fatal four-way match is somewhat similar except there are four wrestlers in the ring, and when one of the wrestlers is pinned, that wrestler has to leave the ring, but the match will continue until two more wrestlers have been pinned. The handicap match forces you to take on either two or three other wrestlers that will be teaming against you. You won't find some of the more interesting or varied match types in the game, such as ladder, hell in a cell, TLC (tables, ladders, and chairs), or even the good old steel cage match, which is unfortunate because all of the match types in WWE Raw essentially play the same exact way, which can quickly get boring. You can change the rules of some of these matches so that they're hard-core matches--you can use all sorts of weapons and pin your opponent outside the ring--but you can't bring the fight to the backstage area or any other place outside the center of the arena.
The actual wrestling in the game is slow-paced, and it can be pretty difficult to execute even the most basic moves. Essentially, you have to constantly attack your opponent with a variety of moves until your portion of the momentum meter at the bottom of the screen starts flashing. When it does flash, this indicates that you can use your wrestler's finishing maneuver and then go for the pin. However, you can't use the same move repeatedly, because your momentum meter will start to drain, and it's not really possible to simply use a flurry of kicks and punches, because your wrestler's stamina will start to drain, leaving him open for attack. Using different moves is not easy either since the computer tends to escape from grapples quite often. It's also worth noting that the game has some quirks with regard to grappling. For example, when your opponents get tied up in the ropes, you can't grapple them at all, which is pretty ridiculous, considering that grappling is a major element of professional wrestling. However, you can perform a variety of moves when your opponent is up against the turnbuckle.
For the most part, WWE Raw looks as good as the original Xbox version. The wrestlers are detailed and retain all of their unique visual characteristics, such as tattoos and gestures like The Rock's "people's eyebrow." Most of the entrances are pretty well done and mimic what the wrestlers do on TV quite well. However the general walking animation looks very awkward, almost as though the wrestlers are walking on stilts. There's also an overdone motion blur effect that makes the game look a bit washed out when you're fighting in the ring. Even though some people hold up wrestler-specific signs, the crowd in general looks bad, and at some camera angles, it becomes quite apparent that the people are just a series of cardboard cutouts pasted together.
There really isn't all that much to the sound. Most of the entrance music is accurate for the time period in WWE history that this game represents, which is what you'd expect, but there's no commentary in the game. There are some generic tracks that play during the actual match, and they seem to fit in well with the theme of the game, but none of the tracks are particularly noteworthy.
Ultimately, WWE Raw is a pretty disappointing game. It lacks many of the features that its console counterparts have, the roster is missing many key WWE superstars, and the gameplay feels sluggish and unresponsive at times. In addition, once you go through the individual title matches, the only thing that will probably keep your interest is the create-a-wrestler feature that lets you create respectable versions of a few WWE wrestlers not included in the game. Still, there really isn't enough motivation to use these characters in the actual game. If you're incredibly desperate for a PC wrestling game, and you don't own any consoles, then you might want to give Raw a try, but otherwise, you should steer clear of it.
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