Almost a decade later and I don't think I'll ever get pass Silver. Whether on console or laptop, I'm not good with the "sound queues", and guess I am more used to the "no tactics" Call of Duty type games. Even if I was good though, not a game for me. Very repetitive.

A game I was excited to try again as an adult using my PCSX2 emulator, still haven't found the right time to explore everything in-game, but I do remember having this regarded as top 3 WWE games of all time, up there with "WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw" from the year prior; having grown up during the Ruthless Aggression Era, I fell out of the WWE stuff around the return of ECW.

Another game I have saved to my PCSX2 emulator, definitely a downgrade from the PC version but that's to be expected.

Currently got a ROM of this saved to my PCSX2 emulator. Haven't played around with it enough to get an opinion on the vision cones, but the graphics and music are definitely nostalgia inducing.

I started with the Xbox 360 port during Christmas of 2009, or February 2010. I have played on and off up until Autumn of 2023. I'm now a PC gamer and can say that the game objectively has more Quality of Life improvements even without the ability to mod. This is a game I'll be able to see myself playing two decades after its release; a simple formula that hasn't gone stale for me.