I played WM2K before this. When I looked at it, the barbed wire ring seemed nice, so I rented it.I wish I hadn't.It's got many features WM2K has, including Create-A-PPV, Career Mode and more. Throw in configurable matches, many known wrestlers and it seems this game is as good as WM2K. Right? Wrong. There were many things which irritated me a lot. Among the foremost were the impossibility of executing certain moves, like the Irish Whip (I wish I could just whip the enemy into the barbed wire). Another thing is that the commentator sometimes referred to the two wrestlers as "Player 1" and "Player 2", which annoyed me. The difficulty of a great deal more things, which could have been done with one mere button press in WM2K, served only to aggravate me (the manual doesn't even explain how to read the moves list found in-game). Overall, matching up fights and designing wrestlers is good for this game, but the core of it, the actual gaming, is lacking terribly. Don't buy it.