First off, I wanna say these are totally legitimate.
I know this because they guy who provided these on his Youtube also has full video of the Wade, Bulldog, Luger, Layla, and other DLC entrances.
So, here's the Nitro arena:
I have to say, I'm extremly disappointed in this. Actually, i'm gonna go out on a limb and say what I really think. It's TERRIBLE.
...It's just a lazy texture hack re-skin of the Raw arena in the game.
They just threw on an entrance set, and painted the exact same Raw set to look like Nitro, and called it done.
The real WCW Nitro looked nothing like this, and I really thought they'd try to build the actual recreation from Nitro, but no.
First off, the Nitro arena was much, much, much, much smaller.
They didn't have these Raw and Smackdown guard rails. They had fence rails, that were much closer in on the ring. The floor pads... also, completely wrong. Literally everything is wrong, here aside from the ring logo and the entrance set which vagely recalls Nitro.
I mean, look at that entrance set. What the hell? Those black curtains, behind the tron and wall scrolls... what the hell is that black curtain even connected to? Just floating up there on their own power?
Also, the seating of the Nitro arena was scrunched up much closer to the ring, because if you see any old footage of Nitro it's immediatly apparent that the crowd is usually in the way of the ring apron, because again, the venue was completely different and smaller, and I thought they'd bother to recreate that, especially if they can build separate PPV arenas in the game from the ground up, like Tribute To The Troops.
So, They can build an outside arena from scratch, but the Nitro arena is a lazy texture hack of Raw? Wow. This is the kind of work I expect from a texture rom hacker, not an official development team.
The announce section was set up by the entrance, where Shivione, Tenay, and Heenan used to sit, and it's completely absent. It's just the same Raw announce tables with WCW thrown on it.
Also, again... this is Raw's crowd, Raw's ramp, Raw's guard rail, Raw's crowd, Raw's announce table, this is the Raw set.
The Nitro set looks like this from several angles:
Size, scale, floor mats, announcer set, the building, crowd. Not even close to accurate.
I have to say, this is an incredibly lazy effort all around, and barely even worth it. This is seriously the best that Yukes could come up with?
Very poorly done, I think. I'll get it... because I already pre-payed for it. But I can be totally honest when I say that I'll barely ever use this, if at all. Not nearly as much as I initially planned to.
Maybe it's my own expectations that were too high.
But then again, my expectations
were simply that the Nitro set would
look like the Nitro set, and not look like Raw's, so... then again, maybe they weren't too high. I dunno. I just can't help but feel gypped by this.