[quote name='007']Ah, I was under the impression that the reason that the contract expiration was even being brought up was because it had already been sort of determined that WWE wasn't going with them again. I hate to say it, but if there's a chance of staying with them, I'd be all for it. Innovation is great and all, but a newly minted 'lack of features cause we were building an engine' game is not something I'd look forward to.[/quote]
TNA Impact comes to mind, and that game was syphilis on a disc.
I'm curious to see where a series would go, though. We've done 1-15. 15-25? We're starting to just make a Smackdown game. The logical thing would be to take it up to WM20, but I have no idea how they'd deal with that, since neither main event is viable for use (Benoit and Angle). While a series is interesting in concept, re-doing 1-15 over and over isn't going to work, unless they add HUGE guys each time. With the DVD release forthcoming, though, I'd almost guarantee if we got a sequel, we'd get Savage. That's your selling point right there.
Less storyline nonsense, more roster. I don't think that this series will be, by any stretch, and annual thing. But, like the WWE's immensely underutilized video library, there are hundreds of wrestlers that could make another disc. Von Erichs, Stings, Funks, Mutas, the ECW roster (the ECW we enjoyed, I mean)...it's endless. And, of course *cough*savagerazordieseldemolition*cough*
As if that hasn't been said.
The problem isn't the lack of talent to go from here; it's (1) how much pull such a game would sell if it was solely non-Hogan, non-Warrior, non-Andre talent, and (2) how willing the WWE would be to release a game that features talent who made names for themselves outside, primarily, the WWF/WWE. Which is slightly less probable than Bret/Shawn WMXII rematch headlining this year's Wrestlemania.
Regardless, getting a demo is exciting. It'll basically answer all questions, since most of like the concept, but are afraid of the execution.
Yep.