WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009: One Man's Opinion

[countryboy]

after last year's fiasco, I can say that I will not pick this up on release day and may not pick it up at all. I got so bored with SvR '08 too quick for me to shell out $60 for a game that is only moderately improved. The create-a-finisher sounds cool and all, but its limitation to only stunned opponents is a big downer as I love to create crusierweights, since I feel its a division that lacks top tier wrestlers.

The tag team storyline and new match antics are again a good idea but long overdue. Especially since tag team wrestling in the "sport" itself have fallen by the wasteside.

Inferno match sounds as boring as a standard cage match or table match. Sounds good and could've been better than what it appears its going to be.

No, I won't be picking this up on release day and will wait for reviews from diehard wrestling fanatics here at OS to see what they say. Until then, its HCTP for me.

[raptors773]

I hope the story mode be better this year cause it was hell of boring in svr 2008

[goh]

Quote: Originally Posted by CarryTheWeight

On second thought, though, it's still a damn shame. Every point you made is valid. At the very least, we should have more slots for creations. 30 is fine, but 64 would be better. Why can't we have the limit be our own hard drive (or memory card) capacity? And about women bleeding, I think it's more of a rating issue than anything else...if they were to include it, up comes the M rating. Which isn't a bad thing per se, but we'd have to deal with the endless groups of angry kids complaining about why "gamestop won't let me get the game".

Yes slots too. Older games have more,even Soul Caliber has 50. I don't know how 08 was handled on PS3 but if they made them their own save file you'd be able to have tons and they'd be even easier to share.

War Zone/Attitude and FPR disagree with your M rating theory,especially Attitude.

[PlayaHataSupreme]

As for Created Wrestlers, they need to get with the program with............

Smackdown! Locker feature!!!

With the ability to share wrestlers online in a Locker-type feature, I'm convinced that is what the people really want in that regard.

2K Sports and EA have implemented this feature, and 2K has it set up so you can DL individual players as opposed to a whole file. Don't see why THQ can't implement the same thing........

Obviously, remove the restrictions of logos and other things that disable online capabilities and other juvenile issues such as the "crotch blur"........... you'd have yourself a heck of a feature and many people geeked up to play with classic wrestlers or simply wrestlers that didn't make the cut, and with much more user friendliness than buying a cumbersome transfer kit.

I wonder if there's some legal issues holding this back from happening......... even then, don't see how EA and 2K can "get away with it" and not THQ. Am I missing something here?

If by chance it's to "protect the kids".......... then shucks, there's not near enough "protection" from the 12 year old potty mouths who would surely be rampant with a game such as this.......... even the ESRB thingie for Madden (rated E) states that the content may vary when you go online............

If that and the ability to place created wrestlers in a season mode (even if it's not the story mode) comes to the game, the out-of-the-ring portion would be EPIC.

Am I missing something as to why these features can't be put in game, especially with the squad's supposed focus to make the game more like a traditional sports game with the addition of overall ratings, game sliders, commentary, and tacking the year on the title like other traditional sports games. Also in said sports games, you can generally make whatever attribute changes you want to existing and created players. Puzzling why they don't want to act like a traditional sports title in that aspect by enabling us to give whatever attribute we want for created and existing characters.

[CarryTheWeight]

Here's why divas won't bleed (from the "THQ&A" at IGN.com):

Quote:

Pedrolovesdivas: Why can't divas participate in all matches? Cory Ledesma: The WWE does not want their Divas to bleed or be put in extreme matches that you would not normally find them in when watching WWE programming. This is why we have put this restriction in our game. We apologize to our fans who are interested in this possibility. However, we feel it is important to keep the authenticity of the WWE brand in tact.

[CWood2]

Quote: Originally Posted by CarryTheWeight

The best thing about the SVR series is the CAW mode. Probably the best one out there and the only one out there worth a damn. Hell, I run a CAW league on SVR just because of that reason. SVR, by far, has the best customizability (is that even a word?) of any sports game out there, even if games like Fire Pro and No Mercy had more flexibility.

On the CAW topic, I loved '07 for all the hacked saves that got put out that year. But on the PS3, you can't hack and I sorta lost all interest in the game since the created wrestlers were the main draw for me too.

Did they finally do away with some of the glitches like the crotch blur and the inability to put logos and whatnot down the entire leg, etc?

EDIT: Just read your posts on page 2 ... that's a bummer. Thank God for the japanese imports.

[CarryTheWeight]

Crotch blur is still there but you can put logos down a wrestler's legs if you wanted to...you'd just need to split the logo or text in half where the "torso" body part ends and where the "legs" body part begins...

...thinking about it more in detail, I don't like it one bit. The entire body should be fair game and not "split".

"Blurring" has annoyed me a lot in SVR, especially since the PS2 version removed it a few years back. It's pointless, even with attire, since a lot of WWE wrestlers have designs in those areas. Hopefully 2009 will address these issues. Hopefully. Knowing THQ, though, it'll probably take four more years.