WWE 12 Retail Early Impressions

[jrider99]

Quote: Originally Posted by dochalladay32

Did you look for a wrestler called "Vacant" when you changed titles? Might be what you are looking for, then again, I don't recall if that was an option in 2010. I'll pull it out later and see. I believe there should be an option that outright turns off legends. Making them free agents wouldn't do that. If anything, that means they can be on any show; not exclusive to Raw or Smackdown. And the abundance of titles shouldn't be a problem because you can only have 4 titles on a show I believe: a top tier title, mid-level title, tag titles, and a women's title. One question I did have that I thought of: are there any tournaments in the game now? I remember back in No Mercy being able to do tournaments for titles, but there is no tournament what-so-ever in SVR 2010. Probably couldn't incorporate them into storylines any way (easy to write a storyline so that it appears that way, though), but still fun to do in exhibition mode.

The problem with titles is that while there are only four that are tracked with rankings, etc., the other titles are still in the Universe. Triple H and Kevin Nash were booked in a match on Raw, and Trips came out with the classic WWE championship, was annouced as the WWE champion and the commentary reflected his status as champion.

There has to be something I missed with regard to the titles. But the way they are assigned, I don't recall there being any option to remove a belt from a guy who has it be default. I vacated the titles in the main menu outside of Universe and that didn't help, either.

I will have to look around some more when I get home tonight. I didn't think to check if there was an Options tab in the Universe menu (I don't remember one, but like I said, it was really late.) Also, the lack of an instruction manual isn't helping things, either.

I'll check on the tournaments, too. Don't remember seeing any, but I wasn't really looking, either.

[jrider99]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Have you messed around with the sliders yet to see if it improves the quality of the matches?

Haven't messed with sliders, other than bumping up the Finisher and Weapon sliders a few clicks. I like knowing that if I hit a guy with a finisher, he's not going to bounce right back up.

[etched Chaos]

I've heard that THQ redid the blood system a bit. Did any of your matches have someone bleeding and if so does it look better or different than recent years? I ask, as I like to have my feuds culminate in some truly brutal slobberknockers and effective blood is a must in my feud culminations lol.

[svrkicksass]

Quote: Originally Posted by jrider99

OK, I just got home and WWE 12 is installing on my HDD as I write this. I thought I'd throw out a couple things while I wait to help keep my impressions in perspective.... First, I generally have not liked the Smackdown vs. Raw series. They have gotten better in recent years, but I always felt that important aspects of the game were lacking, like the AI and how guys consistently no-sold moves. Adding sliders to help fix that was one of the biggest additions SvR ever made, as far as I'm concerned. Second, I absolutely loved WWE All Stars. I haven't had that much fun with a wrestling game since the N64 days. My boys and I still play it on a regular basis and it's always a blast. Finally, I know as much about WWE 12 as you guys do. Shoot, some of you probably know more. So if I mark out like a 10-year-old girl who just met John Cena, please cut me some slack. I really, really want this game to be awesome. OK, so the game has installed and I'm going to jump into an exhibition match to get the feel for things. If you guys have any questions, fire away and I'll do my best to answer.

Hi man!

Please can you answer this question . Can you still knock out the referee? Also i understand you can wake him up by pressing "A" when you interfere. Can you wake him up like that in any match?. If you cant thats cool but i hope you can still knock him out .

Cheers!

[bscott14]

To vacate a title I think you go to the superstar edit screen (say HHH) It's the same way that you make a guy the champion. Just go to the attitude era WWE title and press x (on ps3) it should ask you if you want to vacate the belt. Last year. Made batista all the champs I didn't use and then 1 at a time vacated them all. So that should work. Any luck getting a title match n exhibition yet?

[bscott14]

Quote: Originally Posted by bscott14

To vacate a title I think you go to the superstar edit screen (say HHH) It's the same way that you make a guy the champion. Just go to the attitude era WWE title and press x (on ps3) it should ask you if you want to vacate the belt. Last year. Made batista all the champs I didn't use and then 1 at a time vacated them all. So that should work. Any luck getting a title match n exhibition yet?

Also I think if you use brand specific tag titles it should fix the free agent team problems.... Not 100% sure with that though.

[jrider99]

Quote: Originally Posted by bscott14

To vacate a title I think you go to the superstar edit screen (say HHH) It's the same way that you make a guy the champion. Just go to the attitude era WWE title and press x (on ps3) it should ask you if you want to vacate the belt. Last year. Made batista all the champs I didn't use and then 1 at a time vacated them all. So that should work. Any luck getting a title match n exhibition yet?

I tried that and it didn't work. In the main options menu, you are given a list of titles and can assign or vacate whatever ones you want. But on the superstar edit screen in Universe, the titles are displayed by that photo THQ released a few weeks back. You highlight which belt you want and click on it to assign it to that superstar. But when I clicked on it again, it didn't remove it.

I will check on this some more tonight when I get home. I definitely want to figure this out because it's the only real hangup I have with Universe right now, though admittedly I haven't spent much time with it.

[jrider99]

Quote: Originally Posted by svrkicksass

Hi man! Please can you answer this question . Can you still knock out the referee? Also i understand you can wake him up by pressing "A" when you interfere. Can you wake him up like that in any match?. If you cant thats cool but i hope you can still knock him out . Cheers!

I know you can knock out the ref, as I've seen it happen. Don't know about waking him up, though I saw it happen in THQ's Universe video earlier this week.