Graphics: 8: Exactly the same as the SNES and Geneseis version, but touched up a little bit. There is a new wrestler select screen, which is a whole lot easier to use. All the wrestlers look excellent, as do the ring and the audience also. Sound: 8: The game featured each wrestlers entrance music. The game did a great job on the sound effects with all the kicks and punches to choking the life out of your opponent. Gameplay: 8: There are 12 wrestlers in the game: Lex Luger, Bam Bam Bigelow, Luna Vachon, Owen Hart, 1-2-3 Kid, Razor Ramon, Diesel, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Bret "Hitman" Hart, Doink, and Yokozuna. Gameplay featured the infamous Grapple meter where you had to mash the buttons really hard to pull off a move, but it was even harder when you pumped up the difficulty, unless you had a turbo controller. There was a nice variety of gameplay modes: Singles, Singles Championship, Tag Team, Tag Team Championship, Bedlam, Royal Rumble, RAW mode, and Survivor Series. All the wrestlers performed there own signature finishing moves, along with the wacky megamoves that were accessed with a certain button combination. Acclaim went around saying that the 32X version of RAW will have A LOT of bonuses the SNES and Geneseis versions of RAW didn't, but all you got was a hidden wrestler, Kwang, the new wrestler selection screen, and, when battling outside the ring, you now got two weapons to use which were the regular old chair, plus the brand new RAW sign. Those features were kinda neat, but I wish there could've been a lot more. Replay Value: 8: The game can be played by up to 4-players (With a multi-player adaptor). The Royal Rumble, Bedlam, and Survivor series mode were the funnest to play. I guess the couple of bonus features helped the game as well. The megamoves definatelt added a new twist to the game. Overall: 8: The game is a lot of fun all together. It'll take a little while getting use to grapple meter. I reccommend this copy of RAW to all wrestling fans, because it was simply the best home version, unless you have the SNES and Geneseis versions, which were just about the same as the 32X version.
