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great!, but not the best wrestling game ever | | A gamer from coalville(town) leicester (city) England says (3/Sep/2005): | overall i think this game is very good. there are just some miner faults in the game. for one thing there are lots of missing titles in the game, like cruiserweight, tag team and womens. another thing the season mode is far to short. i completed the season within 2 hours of buying the game and they use the same storylines over and over and over again wich makes it boring as u always no what is going to happen, gut its alright the first time - i suppose. also the superstar voice over is rubbish, but i guess because it being the first time they used it... u no so in later titles i expect it to be better. The only other thing i can think of is the commentary. its nice to have it in the game but its is soo rubbish as well. when they talk the only talk about the supsrstars in the match and they talk once about every 5 minuites - and of course when the match starts ans ends.
But there are lots of good things about the game too. like the graphics - amazing! the entrances - cool, could use a bit of work though. i love the ability to create ppvs and title belts, the only thing wrong with that being that you have to pay for the belts and they are really expensive, but worth it. online could be a bit better and i love the gameplay.
the game misses quite a bit of superstars but the could be missing from the game because of a:they came into wwe half way through development or b: legal reasons, but the superstars u have got are very cool indeed and because of the further delevoped create a wrestler system u can create all of them, i have. as well as hulk hogan, stone cold ect. i think its muth more fun to crate them than to just have them like that.
i hope this was entertaining and will encourage u to buy smackdown vs raw. it is a very good game. even if u dont want to just rent it and try it! i no youl buy it the day you give it back. see ya
| This game is so fricken awesome | | Stacy Stanford from West newbury Massachuttes USA says (31/Oct/2005): | This game is the best game on the planet and its just the way you can do anything and get away with it on that game there is. This game is so fricken awesome its just like watching Raw or Smackdown!
If you dont have your head in the clouds youll love this game trust me. The game is so stunning and moving......bull this game is a game you will never foget. This is so sweet and awesome you want a good game look no further. This games graphics are the best they explane why the 2 shows are rated number 1 and 2.
| Not Too Shabby | | Chewy from Drexel Hill, PA -USofA says (14/Dec/2005): | Smack down vs Raw has what we in the gamming industry call "re-playability". It's highly entertaining and can easily be played for hours and hours. Lets face it your room's not clean, the dog isn't fed, and neither are you, why? Because your created superstar is about to have a triple threat cage match for your chance at the heavy weight title!
The Good:
Challenge mode is pretty cool, if you choose wrestlers wisely you can cruise through these.
Create a superstar keeps getting better and better, although I wish the graphics on created superstars were as polished as they are on the other superstars.
The Bad:
The story line is stagnant. Once you complete a season the story looses it's appeal, and you're stuck playing Pay Per Views, and exhibition matches.
No tag team titles?!! Tag team matches are one of my favorite matches to wrestle both in reality and in gamming, What's the point of unlocking Hawk and Animal if you can't cream someone for the tiles? Also no Ladies title, or European title.( but who cares?)
All in All on a scale of 1 to 10 I give Smackdown vs Raw a 8.
Suggestions for improvement:
Instead of buying experiece points to improve your wrester, I suggest you be able to choose a wrester to train under each week. And if you succeed then that wrester's move set will be available for you to choose moves from. You would unlock legend wrestlers and learn moves from them as well. Imagine learning the proper way to DDT someone into a steel chair, by Bubba Ray Dudley.
Any game that has a story mode is in danger of being flat if the story isn't "expandable", for example if there are only two choices to be made in a story, and you play it to the end twice, there is no more reason to play. If you have a story mode that has a lot of twists and possibilities, unlockable suprises and suprise guest appearances, then you have an addictive game that you are not going to want to put down for days on end. (video-crack!)
| I was very dissapointed | | Paul from bulgaria says (15/Dec/2005): | it was very average! i was badly dissapointed and to be honest im even quite dissapointed in smackdwon vs raw 2006 lol. but its better than this one. this game had hardly anything only 4 titles no tag team titles perfect season,hardly any people acutally on the game i mean c'mon wat is goin on!! they seriously need to get there heads together and start improving these games cus it is just not working!! but as i said i am very dissapointed i belive they should make batista and triple h much better! and y would u even think of puttin john cena on the game he is such a twat and i h8 and the only reason the fans like him is because he is a complete suck up to the amercian fans,still at least he is extra person to beat up!!
still the new samckdown games need to be better!
Britain rules america sucks!
| A Good Game That Could Of Been Better | | Matthew B. from Orangeville, Canada says (7/Nov/2004): | I had high expectations of this game for many reasons. After playing through a season of season mode, and countless matches online, as well as doing many challenges I have come to the opinion that while Smackdown vs Raw is a good game, it could have, and should have been better. First lets start with what should have been one of the bright spots of the game, Online mode. I will give THQ and company credit just for finally putting it in, but that's as far as I will extend the praise. The problem is that it has many little things that I can pick apart about the Online mode. There are only 2 match types to choose from, Single and Bra and Panties. I was hoping to have more variety with online mode. The next problem with it was that for a considerable amount of the time, the matches were very laggy and had poor frame rate, at times making play unbearable. This did not happen all of the time, but enough for me to become angry and take notice. The Online mode also has no ranking system, which while it is not a crucial part of an Online game, I still like to have one. I must say that the soundtrack to the game was just awesome, and easily beat any of the soundtracks to previous Smackdowns. CAB and CAPPV were also added for the first time since Smackdown 2 and it is a feature that I and many others really enjoy having. You do need a substantial amount of money to make a belt, but I still feel it is worth it. The storylines in season mode are very interesting so far. I have only played one complete season, but I must say that with the past two Smackdowns the season mode has greatly improved as far as the storylines are concerned. You are sure to find original stories that are not stolen from the real life WWE broadcasts, although there bound to be some real ones thrown in for fun, no harm there. I also like the improvement of the weapon damage because it is now as close to realistic as has been reached in any of the other Smackdown games. I should also mention the addition of the dirty/clean meters that will reflect how you work the match. You fill up either bar and each one gives you something special to do as a result. You can also elect to be “neutral” and work the match any way you want, you just don't get any special thing to do for it. I will now move on to my other big gripe with the game, besides online play, which was the the new “ringout meter”. The point of this meter is when you are in a Royal Rumble instead of being punched or kicked out of the ring so quickly like in previous games, this bar must be emptied before you can be knocked out. It is very simple, you engage in a grapple when the opponent is on the ring apron, and the bar starts to go down, when the bar empties you are knocked off. The problem with this is it doesn't work like it is supposed to. I have played in two royal Rumbles so far and each time I have been punched off of the ring apron when my bar is at full. This angers me because the point of this bar was to prevent these quick exits from occurring any more. I would not be angry in the previous games because this kind of thing in Royal Rumbles was common, but this “ring-out meter” was supposed to change all of that, and it failed. Oh, if I have not mentioned it earlier in this review, the graphics are the best yet in this game and really deserve praise. In conclusion, I really like this game but I feel that it could have been better than it was. Here is my scoring on this game:
Graphics: 9.5
Story (in this case season mode): 9.0
Difficulty: 9.0
Controls: 10.0
Fun Factor: 10.0
Tilt (my personal feeling): 8.5
Total: 56/60
Overall: 9.3
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| | A gamer from sdyney, australia says (26/Nov/2004): | most people have stated that the game needs some improvments, but you shouldn't just focus on the bad things on the game. some of the good things are that the season mode is improved and more exciting, the graphics have been redesign and looks awsoume, the undertaker's enterance in the the game it looks so real just like when he walked out to the ring in wresltemania 20, the create a belt/ppv, the challenge mode which keeps you entertain for hours and the most improved part of the game is the legends. and don't worry there not people you have never heard of they are true legends such as: bret heart, andre the giant, the rock, mankind just to name a few. so smackdown vs raw does need some improvements but overall it has advanced the way we look at wwe games.
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