EmoStoner
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.
2006
2005
2009
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.