[2.0] "Ok Raven-Jericho, passable matches with Disco, Sting-Bret way under the potential, that shitfest with Hogan and Warrior, embarassing burial of Scott Steiner and The Giant, Nash and Hall with a squash match, three matches in the card barely good for Nitro, in general non-sense overbooking and too many Nitro girls dance segments, the only nice thing of the show was the main even and they managed to go off air before it, your usual trash WCW PPV"

[4.0] "Such a stupid show that kind spells the inevitable end for the company. Like most WCW PPVs the opening matches are the better crops of matches but even the good ones struggle to be anything memorable and for some reason they're interspersed with throwaway matches like Wrath vs Meng and Lodi vs Perry Saturn. We've also been punished for some unknown reason because there's two Disco Inferno matches on this card, both crushingly mediocre. The Steiner Brothers feud meets more embarrassing plot points as Rick Steiner gets tricked by Buff Bagwell and wins the tag titles anyway and then beats his brother Scott in less than 5 minutes which makes Scott look pathetic. Scott Hall vs Kevin Nash and Bret Hart vs Sting are two matches that should write themselves but are so fucking boring and both have fucked finishes, one good and one bad but you'll never guess which one had the ending that wasn't pitiful. Hogan and Warrior have their Worst Match of the Year winning match which is definitely up there for worst Hogan matches I've seen next to The Doomsday Cage. Thankfully they save the best for last as DDP brings infamously overrated Goldberg to a pretty good almost great match which in true WCW fashion didn't play live on PPV because they didn't say they were going long to the provider. I would say this is a comical error of a show but to be honest it's just painfully boring. This isn't fun bad it's just bad"

[6.0] "I watched this event due to the Halloween season and I gotta say that some of it was better than I remembered and some was maybe slightly worse. The Goldberg DDP match was one of the better performances from Goldberg. Sad to hear that it was cut short on tv when the PPV aired back in the days. The Hogan and warrior match was what it was and I have nothing to add to what people have already said. Halloween Havoc '98 = Nice nostalgic PPV for me."

[4.0] "A long slog of a PPV. The length was excessive. The undercard works out much better than the upper. Tough call between Jericho/Raven and Disco/Kidman for my match of the night. Disco/Juventud was also very good, and the main event saw some good work from Goldberg. Warrior/Hogan is one of the worst matches I have seen and Nash/Hall is not worth it and just poor. Staging for this one great however."

[6.0] "There is good here but a lot of bad decisions. Opening on a TV title match was great and I'm really into this downward spiral Raven is going on storyline. Wrath vs. Meng no one really cared until Wrath hit the meltdown on Meng which was pretty cool. Disco vs Juventud was a fun match, Disco is no way a cruiserweight though. Alex Wright vs Fit Finlay was random (unless the build was on WCW Saturday Night which I'm not watching) and boring. Lodi gets beaten by Saturn not surprised but confused why this happened on ppv. Disco has a way better match with Kidman. Gotta give Disco props for tonight. The Steiners storyline was so bad please make it end. Scott Hall vs Kevin Nash started really strong but fell apart after a few minutes. Bret Hart vs. Sting was fine compared to everything else I just experienced. What is there to say to the Warrior/Hogan match that hasn't been said? Neither man is in their prime and one is working injured. I know this wouldn't make much difference but maybe wait until the Warrior recovered from his injury then have the match. Luckily they didn't make that the end because Goldberg and DDP put on a classic. DDP had a 10 minute match and Goldberg looked great. Gotta give a extra point for the Halloween set."

[4.0] "What a chore of a PPV. It was over 3 hours for some reason, but they still had to have lots of pointless matches ending in about 5 minutes. Wrath vs Meng, Wright vs Finlay, Saturn vs Lodi... What are we even doing here? They had some decent ones at the beginning, as Jericho with Raven had a good bout with a great pace and Disco Inferno of all people did a nice double duty, delivering two fine matches, but after that it went downhill with the main eventers and upper mid-carders. The Steiners' feud has been absolutely butchered and they made such a fool out of Rick, that even his win didn't save him in the fans' eyes. Hall vs Nash had this ridiculous angle of Scott's drinking problems, Bret and Sting clearly didn't care about their contest and Hogan vs Warrior was a disgrace of a match in terms of work, booking and structure. But thank God for the main event, as DDP and Goldberg put on a classic. Page knew how this match between two babyfaces should look and he made Goldberg look like million bucks, as both guys delivered probably their best match up to date. A fantastic way to end the show, but it was a struggle to get there."

[6.0] "Halloween Havoc '98 suffers from a famously long matchcard that results in timing problems. The majority of the card's mediocrity doesn't help either as a lot of the matches scream wasted potential and the bright spots are few and far between. Hogan v. Warrior almost brings the PPV to its knees, but thankfully the Main Event pretty much saves it from disaster. Once again, commentary is pretty good, keeping a balance between informative and entertaining. MOTN goes to Goldberg v. DDP."

[1.0] "Goldberg Vs DDP is amazing, Jericho Vs Raven is good and both Disco matches are fine for what they were, but just about every other match on the show is either just bland, underwhelming, short nothing squashes or just flat out filler with both matches involving the Steiner bros and and Nash Vs Hall being complete duds and Hogan Vs Warrior being an utter disaster and one of the all time worst. Overall WCW Halloween Havoc (1998) is a horrible and bland show and a true testament of how fast WCW will be going downhill."

[5.0] "This show exists as proof that less is more, as it would have been a much tighter and more enjoyable show if theyd cut out the majority of the filler and just run a traditional 2 hour and 45 minute pay per view event. The extra 30 minutes we got on this show was mostly unnecessary and made the show feel like it was dragging. I could live with the Steiner Bros promo segments as they actually told a story throughout the night that was paid off in a match later on, so they served a purpose. Its not like there has to be 3 hours of just wrestling on one of these things, you can have promos and angles too, but they need to be used in moderation and they have to actually contribute to the show overall, otherwise theyre just flotsam in the ocean. The Nitro Girls dancing, Hogan yakking about whatever, Konnans music video (which was cut from the Network/Peacock version), the commentary team waffling on during multiple lulls in the action and some moments of just outright dead air at points didnt add anything of any real usefulness to the show and served only to drag things out so that WCW could get to a 3 hour plus run-time, as that was apparently so important to them. I can only assume that they thought that it represented giving the fans their moneys worth or something, but really all it did was take away from the show itself. Its a shame, as there was genuinely some good wrestling here. Raven and Jericho tore it up in the opener. Disco gave two creditable performances. The crowd might not have cared, but Wright Vs Finlay was a snug well-worked affair. The Steiner Brother melodrama was an entertaining Dog and Pony Show. Hall/Nash and Hart/Sting were hardly classics, but they werent terrible either, and the Main Event was an absolutely cracking outing. Yeah, Hogan Vs Warrior II was utter cow dung, but it was the only really awful match here, with everything else being either okay or great. Had WCW presented a leaner more focused show, then Halloween Havoc 1998 could have been a genuine thumbs up, even with the infamous Hogan/Warrior debacle. As it is though, the show only gets a thumbs in the middle from me. Theres some good stuff here, but the show as a whole has too many problems for me to give it a recommendation. Still though, at least it isnt as bad as Road Wild 98, Fall Brawl 98 and World War 3 98, so it broke the streak of misery if nothing else!"

[1.0] "Only the main event was worthwhile on this show - everyone remembers the Warrior/Hogan disaster, but it's also worth noting the undercard was bland. That's often the theme of Attitude Era shows, especially for WCW. We remember the great cruiserweights for their very best work, but all those 5.0 or ** matches have melted away in our minds. Jericho/Raven is okay, but for most of the competitors the work is truly only functional enough to get by, as by this point in WCW's run everyone knew the company was going to go downhill fast."

[3.0] "Surprisingly the Goldberg match is the one that sorta saved this PPV and not ruined it for once. The mid card definitely holds up to the name, and the Hogan Warrior match was dreadful. The Hall Nash match wasn't much better, the entrances might've been my favorite thing on the show"

"As sometimes happens with WCW's official VHS releases, there's stuff missing to save time, unfortunately for my case it's 3 matches! (no doubt cut to bizarrely keep in all the Nitro Girls segments), so for that reason I'm not giving a show rating, and I'm only commenting on the matches I saw. TV title match was fast paced and epic, with lots of cool counters, this was probably Raven's best work in WCW. The Cruiserweight #1 contender & title matches were both good, but can't pick out any highlights, I just have always found winners who win a #1 contender's match and lose in the title match in the same night really strange, don't know why they don't leave that for the next night/PPV or something? The long winded Steiner feud ended in a whimper, as did The Outsider's fallout. Hart/Sting was underwhelming, Hogan/Warrior definitely wasn't good, but I also don't think it's as bad as some make it out to be. And finally the Main Event really is exceptional for a Goldberg match, and for a WCW main event for that matter. Clearly fans who bought the VHS were cheated like the fans on PPV were, unbelievable."

[4.0] "A pretty passable PPV, it would have been better if some of the matches had lasted longer, and the two matches before the Main Event weren't so bad. Fortunately the Cruiserweight Title match and the Main Event raised the level."

[6.0] "This PPV is very contrasting. There are some good matches here and a pretty good main event, but ALOT of crap you have to wade through to get there! This PPV should be used as an example in wrestling show production 101 and the dangers of trying to put so much content on the card. WCW booked so many matches for this 3 hour time slot, and then they thought it was a good idea to stick in a bunch of Nitro Girls dance segments to fill up time along with a crappy Konnan music video that the people who were watching this live on PPV missed out on the DDP/Goldberg match because of the cut off time and WCW wound up giving the main event for free the following night on Nitro. Meng/Wrath Wright/Finlay, and Saturn/Lodi had no place on the card. This card looks like an overloaded WrestleMania when they really could have trimmed the fat. Stillm the best WCW PPV going back to Great American Bash 98. Probably the last good WCW PPV of 98."

[3.0] "It has THAT match, which is as bad if not worse than it's reputation, also two Disco Inferno matches, and a bunch of bad and tasteless storylines. It also has a bunch of pointless 5 minute matches that do nothing but bloat the card. There's a couple of watchable matches, but apart from that it's mostly a dull slog - when the best match is a Goldberg match you know it's going to be bad. It doesn't help that there's continual confusion as to whether matches are no-DQ or not, and twice the bell rings but the matches appear to continue. WCW had been bad before, but rarely this sloppy."

[3.0] "The infamous Hogan/Warrior match, Hall with the drunk gimmick and TWO Disco Inferno matches. It had two ok matches and a load of trash"

[3.0] "Right, so there's two solid matches, to average matches, and a whole bunch of awful matches. The PPV is legendary for the infamous Hogan v Warrior match, where Hogan somehow gets busted open and an attempt at a fireball goes awry, before Horace, of all people, comes in to interfere and give Hogan a win with one of the worst endings in wrestling history. Can't believe they built this feud up for MONTHS. The main main event was actually good for once, which is rare from WCW PPVs of this era. Goldberg and DDP put on a good show, with DDP trying to find an edge using his smarts and quickness while Goldberg actually sells stuff. How crazy is that? The opener between Raven and Jericho is also damn good, maybe even too good for an opener as they easily could've put Disco Inferno v Juvie at the start, but I'm still puzzled by the whole Raven tapping out quickly thing. Other than those highlights though, this was a shitshow. There's also Hall v Nash, which would be awful on its own but Nash gets busted open so we get the long-distance treatment for a while. I guess the big pumpkin and skeleton monster thing at the entrance was pretty neat."

[1.0] "I've got to say, apart from the main event there is almost nothing worth checking out on this card. Jericho/Raven is good-ish, I suppose, though it's entirely unclear who the face is and the crowd isn't really sure how to react. Hogan comes out to cut a pointless promo, followed by a Meng/Wrath match which is not exactly bad but the crowd couldn't possibly care less. Juvi/Disco is decent but nothing notable, and certainly the wrong man won. Finlay/Wright is probably the 2nd best match of the night honestly, it's pretty good but extremely short. Saturn/Lodi is a squash, and Kidman/Disco is just bad, lots of Disco working on top where he is phenomenally boring. The Steiner stuff is just AWFUL. Rick Steiner looks catastrophically stupid for trusting Bagwell AGAIN, and then Rick wins the tag titles by himself? Who would push Rick Steiner this hard in 1998? ! ? And then there's a SECOND Bagwell swerve IN THE SAME SEGMENT. Just insanely bad. Hall/Nash is a horrible match filled with references to Hall's real life debilitating alcoholism. I'm amazed Hall is alive. The match is long and boring and then Nash just leaves. Horrible. Bret/Sting is incredibly dull, a testament to how bad Sting was by this time and how demotivated Bret was, a terrible boring match. Hogan/Warrior is famously bad and deserves to be, just awful. The main event is, finally, actually very good, a super fun match that the crowd just LOVES, but most of this show is pure crap."

[5.0] "A show not without its highlights, including a main event between Goldberg and DDP that was one of Goldberg's career-best matches, a good opener between Raven and Jericho, and Disco Inferno proving his worth through two good performances against Juvi and Kidman. By this point, though the NWO (and its offshoots) had moved into overkill territory, and it really showed all over the upper card, such as in what should have been a dream match between Bret Hart and Sting but ended up as an example of Bret's overall lackluster WCW run, the Nash-Hall stuff (which ran into discomfort as a big part of Hall's story played on his real-life personal issues), and, of course, the legendarily-awful Hogan-Warrior rematch. A mixed bag to be sure."

[8.0] "Really solid PPV. Sure this event featured many pointless lackluster matches like Hogan VS. Warrior, Wrath VS. Meng or Wright VS. Finlay and too much Nitro Girls performances but there were also couple of classics like Raven VS. Jericho opener worth rating of ****, blockbuster main-event between Dallas Page & Goldberg, which really interested me with it's intensity, crowd being into match and great underdog role played By DDP. **** rating for that match. Also this card had couple of watchable midcard bouts like Bret Hart VS. Sting, Bagwell & Steiner VS. Giant & Steiner, which could had been worth more than ** 1/2 rating. But luckily there were cruiserweight matches between Inferno & Guerrera and Inferno & Kidman. Huge props to Inferno for being able to wrestle two matches worth *** 1/2 rating in the same night. Then there was this Hall VS. Nash showdown, which could had delivered more, if only WCW hadn't been so lazy about this feud and tried to make something out of this. The match itself wasn't worth more than **. Hogan VS. Warrior was something I barely wanted to watch or make rating about. But it went something like this: handtwisting, Hogan irishwhipping Warrior and running to wrong ring-rope, ref-bump, Hogan whipping Warrior with weight-belt, Hogan botching that fireball-spot and then comes the unclean finish. That was it. All that just to massage Hogan's ego. Really terrible and awkward match not even worth rating of *. Despite this, I still managed enjoy the event with it's ups and downs, so I recommend it for others to watch."