I remember changing almost every wrestler's backstage attire to either a Raw or SmackDown-t-shirt, in order to show brand allegiance during the Season mode.
Same. Absolutely loved this game. Without having the option of having a ps2, this was a nice alternative. Here Comes The Pain and all that aside, this is a fun janky game, with plenty to do. Season Mode was awesome. Was always different. Used to wake up and play a full Years Schedule in a Day. And customisation was fantastic. Spent countless hours updating the attires and Entrance music. Definitely wouldn't say a perfect game, but younger me had so much fun with this, regardless of it's various flaws. Fun is fun is fun. 🤷
lol the graphics SUCKED!! Never could figure out how or why anyone can play wrestling games. they are horrible. even todays wrestling games are lousy. I tried the one for the Xbox one and gave it away.
note: The Referee's have different speeds. Mike Chioda is the fastest counting referee lol. Tim White is the slowest. Also there's 2 different sized ladders you can use in WWE RAW 2.
Tim White varies. Nick Patrick is consistently the slowest ref. Whenever he was the ref, my season mode matches would go to a time limit draw bc his count was so slow
Honestly why care, a lot of the games aren't available for newer systems. Not all of the original Xbox games are backwards compatible on the newer X boxes, and you'll have to get a second hand copy anyway in which the original developers won't get a dime too either way. Unless publishers try keep these games available, I don't see the wrong in pirating them.
£25? That is a solid deal since they can still go for two or three times that amount. Always loved Raw 2 as it came out at a time where it was worth owning all three systems for their exclusives and the wrestling games were included in that. It was very far ahead of it's time in what it implemented in it's creation mode and it's slower pace made it feel more simulation than the Yukes games.
Been looking forward to seeing you cover this one, I have cherished memories with this game. Summer of 2005 played season mode for about 3 months for at least 2 hours a day with my aunt and her boyfriend at the time. She's not longer with us, but I can look back on this game with a smile and know that I wasn't the only one that loved it as much as I did for different reasons.
Countless hours playing this one late at night - customization with entrance music, timing the pyro, matching lights and the countless tweaking of move sets. Cheers for the upload - one of my favorites of all time.
I loved being able to edit the attires back then. It was something you couldn't do in the smackdown games. Also, the size of the ring was much larger than the smackdown games, which made it much easier in tornado tag matches.
One of the best wrestling games. Having the ability to have 4 players for Career mode was amazing. The Best Original Xbox WWE game it's not even close.
I made deadman undertaker. I loved that I could do that in this game because of the customization and being able to import music. It wasnt perfect but I think I got pretty close.
@@armaniransom9296He’s not lying. It actually is backwards compatible. I own it and it works on 360. If you don’t believe me, you can look up the 360 backwards compatible games list.
I grew up on ps2 so all the sd games hctp etc .. i was still very jealous of my cousins with the Xbox and Raw 2. It felt like a next gen experience to me at the time
I was Playstation kid too til about 2009. So I missed out on WM 21, Day of Reckoning, and Raw. Crazily enough, I'm just now finding out PS1 had a "In Your House" game. I thought the only "New Generation" Game that Existed was Wrestlemania the Arcade game.
The spot at 17:50 absolutely popped me! That old 6th generation console clunkiness. I had a PS2 so I played the Smackdown games growing up but Raw 2 season mode actually looked very interesting for its time. Compared to WWE Raw which I did have for PC this looked leaps and bounds better with much more variety. Takes you back to a time where you had more than just one central WWE game from different developers instead of 2K being the be all ends all of WWE games.
I absolutely loved Raw 2 back in the day, & I still own it with my original Xbox. I used all all 60-ish CAW slots & pretty much created my own personal wrestling promotion. I even went as far as using the Picture-in-Picture feature on my TV at the time to let me watch Raw every Monday while also doing CPU-only matches with my CAWs, in essence producing my own wrestling program while also watching Raw at the same time! The only thing really missing from this video, though, is a mention regarding just how insane the AI could be in Raw 2. Make a pinfall or submission attempt in a multi-man match, and literally all of them will stop what they're doing to break it up, unless they're already in the middle of performing a move. Even when it's an elimination match the AI will just go insane with breaking up pins & submissions. It was simultaneously hilarious & annoying, admittedly.
@@Bubba__Sawyer Oh yes, if you wanted a serious mode then no, with all the box dropping and stealing and roster mingle. But we liked that kind of goofy trash back then for multiplayer anyway. Single play I would not be happy.
@@Bubba__Sawyer yea it was left unfinished. In fact a lot of the game was because THQ was frustrated with Anchor taking so long. We didn't get the blood system they worked on; they cut off the ramp during matches; a ton of season mode cutscenes left out; unfinished/glitchy AI; online mode removed; etc.
Triple H burried him at Royal rumble and then again at No Way out, and by wrestlemania he was in the midcard till his contract was up after next years wrestlemania. The only real notable thing he did after triple h burried him was that feud he did with Test with Stacy Keibler
I remember playing this at a GameStop in Tempe Arizona where I was going to school at I was so wowed by this game it was a major improvement from raw 1 with a much larger roster and in depth career mode.
I always watched people enjoy this game from afar and was envious of the customisation options When I finally got an Xbox and my copy of RAW 2 time had passed me by and I couldn't get into it I like to point to this game as the start of the advanced entrance suite in SVR amongst other innovations, it deserves the respect its earned in the community
Really and truly loved this game back in the day! The creation suite was fantastic! Current gen could learn a LOT from it! Loved being able to set pyro and lights so precisely!
Such variety is so much better than what we have now. Al 3 series were uniquely different in every way. I really dislike so many aspects of the 2K games. We really need another pick up and play, arcade style wrestling game series.
The Season Mode in this game was amazing. There were so many options to keep it fun for months on end. If the gameplay had been a little less sluggish, It would've been up there with the best of the best. Wrestlemania 21 was such a downgrade in every aspect other than graphics.
My favourite as a kid were the WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest arcade games from the late 80s and early 90s, respectively. Many a 10p was spent on them in the likes of Barry's and Sportsland on my summer holidays lol.
This was a great game during a great time and my very early 20s the nostalgia for this and all the GC WWE games are a period in time I'll cherish forever. I still fire up Raw 2 to this day to be taken back to a simpler time. The old Xbox and GC just seemed to have a charm the PS2 games didn't for me. Great review and retrospective. I even played the hell outa WM21 despite allll it's issues and being meh but Raw 2 WM18,19 DOR 1&2 were 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Glad to see this game get some love. When I first got my Xbox, this was the only game I had for a little while. I had a lot of "stupid fun" with it, especially with the Rumbles and careers. I loved how you could just walk out of the Rumble and not got eliminated, or how people could enter more than once.
I remember having this on my dad's Xbox during my college years, I remember making a wrestling werewolf character that I often created in most wrestling games and with the custom entrance theme feature, I used Anxiety by Black Eyed Peas and Papa Roach for my guy's theme which honestly was a better use of the song than it was in Wrestlemania 21. Also nice job on getting a modded xbox, it's definitely worth it, I was able to play Kakuto Chojin on mine
Loved the season mode of this! It always made you feel like something was happening! I feel like what's missing now that Raw 2 had was a certain attention to details. it's just those little things like being able to slide out of the ropes during a royal rumble and getting weapons in. It just gave you those options that added more of the WWE feel to a regular wrestling game. Sure it was janky but it had its charm because of it.
Sorry, but I don't see the similarity at all. The Wrestlemania/Day of Reckoning games played much more like the Smackdown games. They even used many of the same move animations.
I’m an original Xbox collector and I agree with everything you have said regarding the differences between the 2 Raw games. The action is still really sluggish but it is just a matter of adapting. The graphics for the time are just incredible though. Great video as always mate 🙂
none of the Xbox wrestling games are good, but Wrestlemania 21 is definitely the best. that one feels like they actually tried. i have a super small memory of me and my brother playing that game, (probably 2005 or 2006). i used cena and he used mankind (i think, i was super young so i really can’t remember that well). that’s one of those games that i’ll buy again just because it’s a piece of my gaming history.
Yes now this one was the real deal.. I loved the HIAC matches on this one, could go through any of the top panels, the entrances with the timings on CAW was brilliant, loved this game. Keep up the good work Wrestling Bios.
I was going back and I realized they used they used the same character pictures on this game as Wrestlemania XIX . I thought I was pretty cool considering both came out around the same time .
This game was by far my favorite for the Xbox. As a kid this was the game that I kind of grew up with And I spent a good salad 3 years playing this game
Wishing that Microsoft store gets WWE Raw 2 Xbox game for Xbox one console to be playable on Xbox one console only Since it still showing orginal Star Wars Battlefront games for $9.99 that fans can buy and play.
Never had an OG Xbox growing up/in my teens, so yeah the gravity of this video is sadly lost on me a bit. Seeing it action now though, makes me wanna grab a sweet bundle like Bio-Man got and give this a kickin.
I remember thinking Rey Mysterios default outfit was really weird with the plain blue mask. Then I went to edit him in CAW and found the cross, eagles and everything he usually have on his gear. That was cool to find out.
You sold me on buying this off Amazon with the Season Mode. I'm a huge fan of the season mode in Smackdown KYR and of Universe mode but didn't know this game's season mode was good and had missed out on the OG Xbox games(own a 360). I see I won't be able to do custom music but I should have fun with the roster and Universe mode nevertheless.
My best friend and I loved always setting traps (we would set traps for Hogan everytime), and then we miss the target and Hogan would just look around confused, and then invading the locker room and.... No one's there. Try to steal their gear, and walk away empty handed. Absolutely hilarious every time.
I remember playing armageddon cage matches as a kid, and found it hilarious as as soon as you climbed the cage wall, all the other 5 wrestlers would climb as well and it became this insane button mash-off ending the match within a minute. I spent so many hours in this game and even as a kid, I knew raw 1 was total ass in comparison. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
I always love when you cover wrestling video games on the channel, I missed on this one but I mainly played the n64 wrestling games and day of reckoning 2 when I was a kid. Would you review 2k22? They really stepped it up and its a great wrestling game!
Great video, man! I enjoyed RAW 2. I liked how you can customize superstars attire and I also liked the roster in the game. I spent many hours on this game. The graphics were good, for it's time.
Shawn Michaels not having wrist tape irks me lol. I remember when Yukes released a game that had Sabu with no taped hands and Christian with no wrist tape. Ruined those characters for me lol
I remember when this game was released, that the team knew BEFORE the game came out, they would be fired. On the messages board there was a email circulating, that claimed the team, obviously upset about the news, went back into the game and sabotaged it. They took features out, and left some annoying glitches in the game i.e. the never ending pinning cycle. I remember the smoking gun for these rumors being true, were the raw 2 teaser that was released before the game came out, that showed someone jumping off the ladder (I THINK it was a hardy) and the ladder rocked back and forth after he launched off of it. It was things like this,that were removed from the game, and people at the time thought, if they left the game how it was supposed to be, that it would have easily been the greatest wrestling game at the time.
Can't wait for Wrestlemania 21. I bought it back a few months ago just for nostalagia. Never got to own Raw 2 as it was really rare and costly bakc then (200 can $). Might try and get it some day as I enjoyed Raw
One of my favorite aspects of this game was the ability to use your own music that you ripped to you Xbox hard drive as your created wrestlers entrance music...this game alone is one of the sole reasons I am wanting an original Xbox again!!! LOVE THIS GAME!!!
i enjoyed raw 2 at the time, i never owned raw 1 back then but a friend had it, raw 2 was fun due to all the backstage stuff and weird interactions, i enjoyed it for what it was, but it was not perfect by any means.
I absolutely loved this game. I was able to create some really cool entrances & I thought it was great how you could set up the time the pyro went off & letting you have 2 different pyros. I'd have the camera angles change to best allow the pyro to be seen....then I also liked how you could change the lighting of each piece of the entrance ramp. Anchor did a great job with Pride FC. It's still a game I have & play. I was able to create some solid characters such as Mike Tyson, Ivan Drago, Chong Li, Mr. T & a few more. The combos they let you create are great. One thing that always stood out in Pride FC is that when you land a big strike you like feel it....it makes a loud almost explosion type of noise & you see the character get rocked. Along with that...you are never out of a fight & could land a 1 punch KO that could drain your opponents whole life bar if it's timed correctly. I was getting crushed one time and I forget who it was that was killing me....but then I landed a left hook that ko'd my opponent & my opponent had I'd say 95% of his life bar. I was Igor Volchanchyn. Such a great game & it's cheap I highly recommend it. I still want the 2nd Pride game which was released in Japan only. My modded ps2 still works I can buy it and play it. I forget if it wa Raw 1 or 2 where you can collect tons of different weapons to use during matches....those I remember spending time to get them all. The season mode was a lot of fun & it always worked out differently which I appreciated. The moves & finishers were decent. Some where better than others but it had a solid variety. I've been dying to play this again & also Def Jam Fight for NY. Def Jam is around $60 these days...Raw 2 I haven't looked up. I need to get a modded original Xbox as well. One of my friends has had his for like 20yrs & it still works.
Thank you for covering this game! It was my first and favorite wrestling game to date! I've also appreciated your use of some of the tracks from this game in your Reliving the War series. Great video!
1:40 seriously though despite its flaws, it's one of the best models of HBK I've come across! The attire and hairstyle is wonderful. Some of these models are wonderfully accurate whilst others are damn right nasty to look at it waaay off strangely lol
The best thing about RAW 2 was the storyline mode. It had excellent storylines and the features where you could attack an opponent on the way to the ring was really cool as well
GREATEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WWE Raw 2 Xbox game was ahead of it's time With WWE WrestleMania XIX GameCube game And wwe Here comes the Pain on PS2 I always used my favorite classic Mask Kane 03 with Slow Chemical Kane theme song still number 1 favorite song in WWE wrestling history by THQ and Yukes 10 out 10 A Rank awesome. 2k WWE games real sucked along my career and my risr modes is boring garbage 🗑️ trash Not big fan of online multiplayer co-op and online nodes. Raw 2 game and PS2 Here comes the Pain had the best Season mode ever. I can vote the as the better modes than my career and my rise modes still not worth playing with and wasting too many Achievements GB. The Roster and Create a wrestler mode that THQ era are way better than 2k CAS mode
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I remember changing almost every wrestler's backstage attire to either a Raw or SmackDown-t-shirt, in order to show brand allegiance during the Season mode.
🔥
Played this one daily for years. Giant roster, graphics ahead of it’s time, complete customization in create a wrestler just a perfect game.
Still no smackdown though
*ALMOST perfect.
Same. Absolutely loved this game. Without having the option of having a ps2, this was a nice alternative. Here Comes The Pain and all that aside, this is a fun janky game, with plenty to do.
Season Mode was awesome. Was always different. Used to wake up and play a full Years Schedule in a Day.
And customisation was fantastic. Spent countless hours updating the attires and Entrance music.
Definitely wouldn't say a perfect game, but younger me had so much fun with this, regardless of it's various flaws. Fun is fun is fun. 🤷
This would be considered an all-time classic if it weren't for the clunky gameplay
lol the graphics SUCKED!! Never could figure out how or why anyone can play wrestling games. they are horrible. even todays wrestling games are lousy. I tried the one for the Xbox one and gave it away.
note: The Referee's have different speeds. Mike Chioda is the fastest counting referee lol. Tim White is the slowest. Also there's 2 different sized ladders you can use in WWE RAW 2.
Facts I always picked him.
Tim White varies. Nick Patrick is consistently the slowest ref. Whenever he was the ref, my season mode matches would go to a time limit draw bc his count was so slow
@@terrellhatch8191 It's true*.
That’s actually cool, the level of detail in old games is unmatched
Yet in real life Hebner was the one who fast counted HHH in 2000 and counted HHH down at Summerslam 2002 despite both his shoulders up.
"I'm not condoning piracy here." I just died laughing. 😂
Lol but that was tight, the Xbox had all those games installed on its hard drive already!
The price he paid for it is a steal, tho. I missed out on the OG Xbox games so it'd be cool play them on original hardware. Especially at that price
Honestly why care, a lot of the games aren't available for newer systems. Not all of the original Xbox games are backwards compatible on the newer X boxes, and you'll have to get a second hand copy anyway in which the original developers won't get a dime too either way. Unless publishers try keep these games available, I don't see the wrong in pirating them.
Hard to believe this was almost 20 years ago. Where has the time gone?
RIGHT!
Things like this are starting to make me feel old lol
Fatal frame...shen mue.....whoa.......time has really flown by....
The dates are odd..
£25? That is a solid deal since they can still go for two or three times that amount.
Always loved Raw 2 as it came out at a time where it was worth owning all three systems for their exclusives and the wrestling games were included in that. It was very far ahead of it's time in what it implemented in it's creation mode and it's slower pace made it feel more simulation than the Yukes games.
I can't even find anything when I search, any tips what I should be seaching?
@@cjlhessing "Soft modded xbox"?
Been looking forward to seeing you cover this one, I have cherished memories with this game. Summer of 2005 played season mode for about 3 months for at least 2 hours a day with my aunt and her boyfriend at the time. She's not longer with us, but I can look back on this game with a smile and know that I wasn't the only one that loved it as much as I did for different reasons.
Cool memory👍🏾👍🏾
The best wrestling game on the Xbox. Its definitely one of the greatest wrestling games of all time. I love playing it.
Well, it LOOKED like it was one of the greatest wrestling games of all time... LOL
No wwe Svr 2009 & 2011, 12/13,2k14, 2k17,19 & 2k22 are the best wrestling games
@@kingtreyswrld6442 that's on future consoles not the fat xbox
@@TheOneEyedMac all those games I just mention are on Xbox/ps4/ps5
@@kingtreyswrld6442 I'd say 2K16.
I played this game for THOUSANDS of hours
There was a time where I thought this game was the best wwe experience you could get for a video game. I loved this game
This or wwe 2K20? Choose!
@@mentalphilanthropist35 Raw2
Can’t be better than SYM or hctp but maybe 3rd
Definitely Raw 2@@mentalphilanthropist35
@@Lukemasonmediana, the gamecube games are better than the xbox ones as well
Countless hours playing this one late at night - customization with entrance music, timing the pyro, matching lights and the countless tweaking of move sets. Cheers for the upload - one of my favorites of all time.
I loved being able to edit the attires back then. It was something you couldn't do in the smackdown games. Also, the size of the ring was much larger than the smackdown games, which made it much easier in tornado tag matches.
One of the best wrestling games. Having the ability to have 4 players for Career mode was amazing. The Best Original Xbox WWE game it's not even close.
This game was a HUGE part of my mid teens. Loved playing as Taker in this game!
Me to I miss this game
I made deadman undertaker. I loved that I could do that in this game because of the customization and being able to import music. It wasnt perfect but I think I got pretty close.
loved playing with my own character, got a big feud with rhyno.
man, wish universe mode would have some of the features.
Fun fact: RAW 2 is backwards compatible on the Xbox 360.
No is not stop lying why lie
@@armaniransom9296He’s not lying. It actually is backwards compatible. I own it and it works on 360. If you don’t believe me, you can look up the 360 backwards compatible games list.
I grew up on ps2 so all the sd games hctp etc .. i was still very jealous of my cousins with the Xbox and Raw 2. It felt like a next gen experience to me at the time
I was Playstation kid too til about 2009. So I missed out on WM 21, Day of Reckoning, and Raw.
Crazily enough, I'm just now finding out PS1 had a "In Your House" game. I thought the only "New Generation" Game that Existed was Wrestlemania the Arcade game.
I grew up on ps2 and xbox but played wwf raw is war
Ruthless aggression
Did you review smackdown vs raw games all
The spot at 17:50 absolutely popped me! That old 6th generation console clunkiness. I had a PS2 so I played the Smackdown games growing up but Raw 2 season mode actually looked very interesting for its time. Compared to WWE Raw which I did have for PC this looked leaps and bounds better with much more variety. Takes you back to a time where you had more than just one central WWE game from different developers instead of 2K being the be all ends all of WWE games.
That ruthless aggression Raw theme is one of the best Raw themes ever. Glad you use that one for your Relieving the War series.
I absolutely loved Raw 2 back in the day, & I still own it with my original Xbox. I used all all 60-ish CAW slots & pretty much created my own personal wrestling promotion. I even went as far as using the Picture-in-Picture feature on my TV at the time to let me watch Raw every Monday while also doing CPU-only matches with my CAWs, in essence producing my own wrestling program while also watching Raw at the same time!
The only thing really missing from this video, though, is a mention regarding just how insane the AI could be in Raw 2. Make a pinfall or submission attempt in a multi-man match, and literally all of them will stop what they're doing to break it up, unless they're already in the middle of performing a move. Even when it's an elimination match the AI will just go insane with breaking up pins & submissions. It was simultaneously hilarious & annoying, admittedly.
Season mode on this is VASTLY underappreciated.
It's multiplayer! So cool back then.
Still really flawed though. You could wind up with Spike Dudley as the WHC feuding with Stacy Keibler.
@@Bubba__Sawyer Oh yes, if you wanted a serious mode then no, with all the box dropping and stealing and roster mingle. But we liked that kind of goofy trash back then for multiplayer anyway. Single play I would not be happy.
@@Bubba__Sawyer yea it was left unfinished. In fact a lot of the game was because THQ was frustrated with Anchor taking so long. We didn't get the blood system they worked on; they cut off the ramp during matches; a ton of season mode cutscenes left out; unfinished/glitchy AI; online mode removed; etc.
@@Bubba__Sawyer or even worse when one of the diva’s actually win the heavyweight championship 😂
Raw 2 is a big step up from the first one.
Big Poppa Pump World Heavyweight Championship Title Reign video when????
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Triple H burried him at Royal rumble and then again at No Way out, and by wrestlemania he was in the midcard till his contract was up after next years wrestlemania. The only real notable thing he did after triple h burried him was that feud he did with Test with Stacy Keibler
@@graham.2547 I am talking about his run with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in late 2000-early 2001, my friend, holler if ya hear me
It's all about the peaks and the freaks. Big Poppa pump is your hook up! HOLLA IF YA HEAR ME !!!
@@TXkid the numbers don't lie
I thought this one was gonna suck as much as the first RAW, but I was pleasantly surprised to know that it's an underrated gem.
I love this game
I remember playing this at a GameStop in Tempe Arizona where I was going to school at I was so wowed by this game it was a major improvement from raw 1 with a much larger roster and in depth career mode.
I always watched people enjoy this game from afar and was envious of the customisation options
When I finally got an Xbox and my copy of RAW 2 time had passed me by and I couldn't get into it
I like to point to this game as the start of the advanced entrance suite in SVR amongst other innovations, it deserves the respect its earned in the community
That’s was my first wrestling game I loved it and got me hooked on wrestling games ever since I have not missed a year
Really and truly loved this game back in the day! The creation suite was fantastic! Current gen could learn a LOT from it! Loved being able to set pyro and lights so precisely!
2003 WWE game lineup is the greatest in history !!!
Here comes the pain
WrestleMania XIX
RAW 2
3 Awesome game with different gameplay approaches !!!
Such variety is so much better than what we have now. Al 3 series were uniquely different in every way. I really dislike so many aspects of the 2K games. We really need another pick up and play, arcade style wrestling game series.
One of the first games I bought a few years back when I built my dream game collection for original xbox
8 man Armageddon ladder match, me, my bro, and lil cousins. Legendary...
The Season Mode in this game was amazing. There were so many options to keep it fun for months on end. If the gameplay had been a little less sluggish, It would've been up there with the best of the best. Wrestlemania 21 was such a downgrade in every aspect other than graphics.
My favourite as a kid were the WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest arcade games from the late 80s and early 90s, respectively. Many a 10p was spent on them in the likes of Barry's and Sportsland on my summer holidays lol.
Hell yeah good times wrestlefrst and superstars both classics
@@stingwcw I could never beat Andre and Ted DeBiase on Superstars!! 😤
This was a great game during a great time and my very early 20s the nostalgia for this and all the GC WWE games are a period in time I'll cherish forever. I still fire up Raw 2 to this day to be taken back to a simpler time. The old Xbox and GC just seemed to have a charm the PS2 games didn't for me. Great review and retrospective. I even played the hell outa WM21 despite allll it's issues and being meh but Raw 2 WM18,19 DOR 1&2 were 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Glad to see this game get some love. When I first got my Xbox, this was the only game I had for a little while. I had a lot of "stupid fun" with it, especially with the Rumbles and careers. I loved how you could just walk out of the Rumble and not got eliminated, or how people could enter more than once.
12:40 Lol nice sneak in of Bret hating Goldberg
I remember having this on my dad's Xbox during my college years, I remember making a wrestling werewolf character that I often created in most wrestling games and with the custom entrance theme feature, I used Anxiety by Black Eyed Peas and Papa Roach for my guy's theme which honestly was a better use of the song than it was in Wrestlemania 21.
Also nice job on getting a modded xbox, it's definitely worth it, I was able to play Kakuto Chojin on mine
Wow you got a modded Original Xbox... I can excuse the long wait because you got more then what you expected
Grew up on this game, I would sit on the main menu and just listen to the music
Honestly my only issue was the 10 minute time limit for matches in Season Mode
Loved the season mode of this! It always made you feel like something was happening! I feel like what's missing now that Raw 2 had was a certain attention to details. it's just those little things like being able to slide out of the ropes during a royal rumble and getting weapons in. It just gave you those options that added more of the WWE feel to a regular wrestling game. Sure it was janky but it had its charm because of it.
I have to say the XBOX you have is AMAZING I remember having Raw an Raw 2 agree the sequel was awesome. Great Vid as always
Much better than the prequel
My brother used to hate the voiceover guy saying what sounded like 'elurminated' everytime somebody was eliminated in the Rumble match
one thing i love was that edited attires WON'T FILL UP A CAW SLOT.... damnit 2K!!
This honestly looks a lot like Day of Reckoning with the gameplay. Think some talent bled over to Yuke's?
Sorry, but I don't see the similarity at all. The Wrestlemania/Day of Reckoning games played much more like the Smackdown games. They even used many of the same move animations.
£25 for all of that? damn what a bargain
I love this game. Spent so many hours playing with the crew and family back in the day. Classic for sure.
I’m an original Xbox collector and I agree with everything you have said regarding the differences between the 2 Raw games.
The action is still really sluggish but it is just a matter of adapting. The graphics for the time are just incredible though.
Great video as always mate 🙂
Dude MK Shaolin Monks is super fun!
It's so good with a friend and some of the fatalities in it are BRUTAL!
Thanks for unlocking some memories of friends and myself going for years playing this one
none of the Xbox wrestling games are good, but Wrestlemania 21 is definitely the best. that one feels like they actually tried. i have a super small memory of me and my brother playing that game, (probably 2005 or 2006). i used cena and he used mankind (i think, i was super young so i really can’t remember that well). that’s one of those games that i’ll buy again just because it’s a piece of my gaming history.
If your using a CAS in season mode, make sure to give them a 2nd attire or else you'll get a guy in red trunks doing all your backstage work!
Yes now this one was the real deal.. I loved the HIAC matches on this one, could go through any of the top panels, the entrances with the timings on CAW was brilliant, loved this game. Keep up the good work Wrestling Bios.
The only wwe game where you can exit the ring in a royal rumble. SUPER UNDER RATED
I was going back and I realized they used they used the same character pictures on this game as Wrestlemania XIX . I thought I was pretty cool considering both came out around the same time .
I always pick Crash because his entrance is hilarious
Thanks for uploading this classic. I’m about to fire up my 360 and blast it.
Stumbled across this video and GLAD I DID! Well done. Great footage and deep dive into this game. Really appreciate your work on this.
This game was by far my favorite for the Xbox. As a kid this was the game that I kind of grew up with And I spent a good salad 3 years playing this game
Salad
@@Gorgutsforcongress solid i imagine
@@Gorgutsforcongress A SALAD STEEL CAGE!!! - Bruce Prichard
Wishing that Microsoft store gets WWE Raw 2 Xbox game for Xbox one console to be playable on Xbox one console only
Since it still showing orginal Star Wars Battlefront games for $9.99 that fans can buy and play.
I loved this game
God I miss this game, it will always have a special place with me!
This one was awesome, I remember brother and I continually attacking each other back stage on the season/career. lol
Absolutely loved the season mode in this game.
Never had an OG Xbox growing up/in my teens, so yeah the gravity of this video is sadly lost on me a bit. Seeing it action now though, makes me wanna grab a sweet bundle like Bio-Man got and give this a kickin.
I remember thinking Rey Mysterios default outfit was really weird with the plain blue mask. Then I went to edit him in CAW and found the cross, eagles and everything he usually have on his gear. That was cool to find out.
4:02 Ugly HHH🤢 Vs Good HHH model
Best 25£ I've ever spent, get stuffed you lucky bum! 😊 Will you cover mvc 2 on this channel?
You sold me on buying this off Amazon with the Season Mode. I'm a huge fan of the season mode in Smackdown KYR and of Universe mode but didn't know this game's season mode was good and had missed out on the OG Xbox games(own a 360). I see I won't be able to do custom music but I should have fun with the roster and Universe mode nevertheless.
I spent hours on that game, it was great... Stayed one of my favourite... It got the Jam !!
My best friend and I loved always setting traps (we would set traps for Hogan everytime), and then we miss the target and Hogan would just look around confused, and then invading the locker room and.... No one's there. Try to steal their gear, and walk away empty handed.
Absolutely hilarious every time.
2K needs to put some if those season mode ideas into Universe.
The amount of beef on that cover would make Vince wet his pants lol
I remember playing armageddon cage matches as a kid, and found it hilarious as as soon as you climbed the cage wall, all the other 5 wrestlers would climb as well and it became this insane button mash-off ending the match within a minute. I spent so many hours in this game and even as a kid, I knew raw 1 was total ass in comparison. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
I always love when you cover wrestling video games on the channel, I missed on this one but I mainly played the n64 wrestling games and day of reckoning 2 when I was a kid. Would you review 2k22? They really stepped it up and its a great wrestling game!
the entrance creator was unmatched for real. loved ripping my music for them, timing the pyro with the beat drop. it was awesome.
This game was decent in My opinion. The mistake was launching at the same time when Here comes the pain launched. People completely ignored Raw 2
I actually enjoyed this game for what is was. This was fun for me
The game that began the legend of Christopher Notwinski.
Honestly forgot all about this game. Throwback
Great video, man! I enjoyed RAW 2. I liked how you can customize superstars attire and I also liked the roster in the game. I spent many hours on this game. The graphics were good, for it's time.
A great classic in my home there was an arcade and I always played that game
Shawn Michaels not having wrist tape irks me lol. I remember when Yukes released a game that had Sabu with no taped hands and Christian with no wrist tape. Ruined those characters for me lol
You're like a distant best friend my guy. Keep it up. Wish we were friends.
That main menu looked so good. Raw's redesign in 2002 is still my favourite phase in the show's history.
I remember when this game was released, that the team knew BEFORE the game came out, they would be fired. On the messages board there was a email circulating, that claimed the team, obviously upset about the news, went back into the game and sabotaged it. They took features out, and left some annoying glitches in the game i.e. the never ending pinning cycle.
I remember the smoking gun for these rumors being true, were the raw 2 teaser that was released before the game came out, that showed someone jumping off the ladder (I THINK it was a hardy) and the ladder rocked back and forth after he launched off of it. It was things like this,that were removed from the game, and people at the time thought, if they left the game how it was supposed to be, that it would have easily been the greatest wrestling game at the time.
As a kid I loved how different this game was from smackdown games.
Visually it was on another level
Can't wait for Wrestlemania 21. I bought it back a few months ago just for nostalagia. Never got to own Raw 2 as it was really rare and costly bakc then (200 can $). Might try and get it some day as I enjoyed Raw
One of my favorite aspects of this game was the ability to use your own music that you ripped to you Xbox hard drive as your created wrestlers entrance music...this game alone is one of the sole reasons I am wanting an original Xbox again!!! LOVE THIS GAME!!!
i enjoyed raw 2 at the time, i never owned raw 1 back then but a friend had it, raw 2 was fun due to all the backstage stuff and weird interactions, i enjoyed it for what it was, but it was not perfect by any means.
"It's a daunting task being an absolute thieving bastard."
This needs to be on merch
This is honestly one of my favorites WWE games along with Here Comes the Pain, No Mercy and Shut Your Mouth
I absolutely loved this game. I was able to create some really cool entrances & I thought it was great how you could set up the time the pyro went off & letting you have 2 different pyros. I'd have the camera angles change to best allow the pyro to be seen....then I also liked how you could change the lighting of each piece of the entrance ramp.
Anchor did a great job with Pride FC. It's still a game I have & play. I was able to create some solid characters such as Mike Tyson, Ivan Drago, Chong Li, Mr. T & a few more. The combos they let you create are great. One thing that always stood out in Pride FC is that when you land a big strike you like feel it....it makes a loud almost explosion type of noise & you see the character get rocked. Along with that...you are never out of a fight & could land a 1 punch KO that could drain your opponents whole life bar if it's timed correctly. I was getting crushed one time and I forget who it was that was killing me....but then I landed a left hook that ko'd my opponent & my opponent had I'd say 95% of his life bar. I was Igor Volchanchyn. Such a great game & it's cheap I highly recommend it. I still want the 2nd Pride game which was released in Japan only. My modded ps2 still works I can buy it and play it.
I forget if it wa Raw 1 or 2 where you can collect tons of different weapons to use during matches....those I remember spending time to get them all.
The season mode was a lot of fun & it always worked out differently which I appreciated.
The moves & finishers were decent. Some where better than others but it had a solid variety.
I've been dying to play this again & also Def Jam Fight for NY. Def Jam is around $60 these days...Raw 2 I haven't looked up. I need to get a modded original Xbox as well. One of my friends has had his for like 20yrs & it still works.
Thank you for covering this game! It was my first and favorite wrestling game to date! I've also appreciated your use of some of the tracks from this game in your Reliving the War series. Great video!
Still have the original No original Xbox though!
The damn main menu is so nostalgic 🔥
1:40 seriously though despite its flaws, it's one of the best models of HBK I've come across! The attire and hairstyle is wonderful. Some of these models are wonderfully accurate whilst others are damn right nasty to look at it waaay off strangely lol
The best thing about RAW 2 was the storyline mode. It had excellent storylines and the features where you could attack an opponent on the way to the ring was really cool as well
GREATEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WWE Raw 2 Xbox game was ahead of it's time
With WWE WrestleMania XIX GameCube game
And wwe Here comes the Pain on PS2
I always used my favorite classic Mask Kane 03
with Slow Chemical Kane theme song still number 1 favorite song in WWE wrestling history by THQ and Yukes 10 out 10 A Rank awesome.
2k WWE games real sucked along my career and my risr modes is boring garbage 🗑️ trash
Not big fan of online multiplayer co-op and online nodes.
Raw 2 game and PS2 Here comes the Pain had the best Season mode ever.
I can vote the as the better modes than my career and my rise modes still not worth playing with and wasting too many Achievements GB.
The Roster and Create a wrestler mode that THQ era are way better than 2k CAS mode