WWE: Smackdown v Raw 2008
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Had the ps3 version delivered this morning. It seems fun and they've done away with the stamina meter so it's more playable.
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haven't played it yet but looking forward to playing it over the weekend 
Stamina was in 06 iirc I used to turn it off cause it just made the matches drag tbh It was fun in its own way I suppose.
Its not actually so bad, its almost like a limited stamina system, too much running around/too many moves in a row, will tire you to a point where you move slower, but the recovery isn't as drastic as it was in previous games.
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I heard the game only had 8 months development due to its numerous platform releases. Anyways not enough has changed for me to reward the developers for minimal effort.
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When they stop half assing these wrestling games I might actually get into them again. No wrestling game has came close to those that came out on the N64.
When i game gets updated every year with a few updates its not really a new game. Its not even an add on. Its insane how people are fine paying full price for games that come out year after year with hardly any big changes.
When i game gets updated every year with a few updates its not really a new game. Its not even an add on. Its insane how people are fine paying full price for games that come out year after year with hardly any big changes.
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New season mode storylines = good enough to warrant a purchase for me.
Cool thing is you can put chairs underneith someones head and do a con-chair-to on them can you do this on the 360 and PS3 versions also?
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Got my copy this morning... Started playing it about 6:30pm and came off just now.. I haven't played a Tournament or 24/7 mode yet.
I've had about 10 matches from exibition.. last one i played was 2006 and this is just amazing... worth every penny. Very happy with it.
I've had about 10 matches from exibition.. last one i played was 2006 and this is just amazing... worth every penny. Very happy with it.
This has to be the worst incarnation of the game in a few years. They even managed to mess up the mp3 system, in wwe raw 2 on the xbox you could just access the hard drive and select any mp3, in this however you have to make each song you rip onto the drive into a seperate playlist which is a pain in the ass if you've a lot of custom themes going on.
The game itself does feel pretty funky, the new animations are nice for the most part but the new walking animations make the wrestlers look like theyve got a stick shoved up their ass. Theres numerous collision detection issues, ive lost count of the amount of times ive hit someone witha bin only for it to slide off him and do no damage. Grappling is also dodgy, i tried an ultimate control grapple with khali, the opponent was outside of the grapple range and khali missed the grapple but somehow ended up with him grappled anyway. Ive also been standing behind opponents who have just got off the mat and tried a quick grapple with my arm clipping through their head but the grapple refused to connect.
Ai also seems pretty stupid, in hardcore matches they just go for random walks around the ring, one time masters had me in an ultimate control move for a frontslam or a fallaway slam, instead of doing anything he just stood with me for maybe 15 seconds then dropped me due to exhaustion.
I was trying out a fatal fourway match and it seemed like i couldn't choose who to fight, the back button didn't seem to do anything and your focus would randomly change when you got close to someone..which sounds good but its a pain in the ass if theres a few people bunched together.
Also theres a lot of random hitching going on in the game, they've reduced the load times so i'll asume they done that by streaming the commentary during the match, on occasion you'll be doing a move or something and get a split second freeze in the gameplay. Thought it might be a disc problem but a friend of mine with a 360 has the same issue so i have to assume its more widespread than just 2 consoles.
The game itself does feel pretty funky, the new animations are nice for the most part but the new walking animations make the wrestlers look like theyve got a stick shoved up their ass. Theres numerous collision detection issues, ive lost count of the amount of times ive hit someone witha bin only for it to slide off him and do no damage. Grappling is also dodgy, i tried an ultimate control grapple with khali, the opponent was outside of the grapple range and khali missed the grapple but somehow ended up with him grappled anyway. Ive also been standing behind opponents who have just got off the mat and tried a quick grapple with my arm clipping through their head but the grapple refused to connect.
Ai also seems pretty stupid, in hardcore matches they just go for random walks around the ring, one time masters had me in an ultimate control move for a frontslam or a fallaway slam, instead of doing anything he just stood with me for maybe 15 seconds then dropped me due to exhaustion.
I was trying out a fatal fourway match and it seemed like i couldn't choose who to fight, the back button didn't seem to do anything and your focus would randomly change when you got close to someone..which sounds good but its a pain in the ass if theres a few people bunched together.
Also theres a lot of random hitching going on in the game, they've reduced the load times so i'll asume they done that by streaming the commentary during the match, on occasion you'll be doing a move or something and get a split second freeze in the gameplay. Thought it might be a disc problem but a friend of mine with a 360 has the same issue so i have to assume its more widespread than just 2 consoles.