Graphically one of the best games on the console, SvR suffers from only minor clipping and lowered polygon counts. With six combatants in the ring, there's no slowdown either. The repetitive and limited crowd chants seem to be a compromise.

This all comes at a price, and that's the worst loading times the PSP (or practically any console) has ever seen. This is the type of game that loads loading screens (twice usually) before a match. From the opening logos into something as basic as an exhibition match, it can take upwards of five minutes. Getting into the season mode, it can take close to that between matches if the storyline needs to progress. Even during matches, the game sometimes stutters to load referee voices or crowd audio. To say it's far from portable would be an understatement.

While loading with undoubtedly improve in following years, waiting a few minutes to see a detail-intensive wrestling title on a handheld will be worth it for fans of the sport. Smackdown vs. Raw is a nearly flawless port of what many consider to the best wrestling title to date. That alone is worth the price, nearly crippling load times or not.

WWE Smackdown vs. RAW 2006 is rated T (Teen) by the ESRB for Blood, Language, Sexual Themes, Simulated Gambling, Violence. This game can also be found on: Playstation 2