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The box at the end of your energy meter functions as a health indicator, too. But you'll only notice it when you're taking a beating. The faster it blinks the more vulnerable you are to a pin or submission attempt. You want that box to stay solid and not blinking at all.



But that's just the beginning of the fun with items. Anchor's Chief Development Officer, Masahiro Onoguchi says,

    "The team members are all gamers and we'd sit around and say to each other, 'I don't like how all of these wrestling games use items,' so we came up with our own item system that's more like what we think wrestling is like. So you can pick up items, use them in a match or wear them and even break them in some cases. But you can also use these in Create-A-Supersar mode."

And this is really what the Create-A-Wrestler mode in Raw is all about. Well, that and the amount of control you have over your wrestler's entrance. You can of course pick from over a dozen faces, multiple genders, how you want to cover each individual body part and so on. But those items you find during matches can be assigned to your CAW. If you find Stone Cold's camo fishing hat and the Undertaker's shades, you can assign those items for your character to wear. And by wear we mean he or she will come to the ring with that hat and those shades on and should they get knocked off by a vicious punch from your opponent, they become items like any other items on the screen. You can assign stuff to a CAW's head, face, neck, shoulder, waist and hands. There are roughly 120 different items and most of them can be carried to the ring during your entrance. Some items like the broken steel chair pieces can't, but you'll hardly miss 'em with all of the umbrellas, water bottles and whatnot you can carry.

    "Some items are more difficult to get than others. I want to see how many people are able to get Kurt Angle's medals. One is just a medal, the other is his genuine authentic gold medal and it's very carefully hidden. That and the deck of cards, that's a fun one."

Onoguchi added.

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