WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007 OUT NOW!!!

[quote name='guyver2077']man that hardcore title looks ridiculous on mick foley[/quote]

Yeah, it looks like a goddamned intertube.

I'm not sure if it's just me or whatever, but it looks like Umaga's upper torso and tights aren't connected, and I can see straight through the middle of him during his entrance!
 
Anybody have an answer to my question? I'm just about 20 or so matches into it so it's not like it's gonna ruin the entire story mode.
 
[quote name='TheRock88']Anybody have an answer to my question? I'm just about 20 or so matches into it so it's not like it's gonna ruin the entire story mode.[/QUOTE]

I'm wondering this too because I somehow missed Survivor Series and didn't get the chance to buy Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart.
 
[quote name='TheRock88']Anybody have an answer to my question? I'm just about 20 or so matches into it so it's not like it's gonna ruin the entire story mode.[/quote]

I'm not sure, I think you should have gone to Backlash by now, but that sounds like it could be an error in the game or something.

And I officially love the game now because they put the Harlem Hangover in it. All it needs now is the spin-a-roonie. Which brings me to this question, how do you do taunts??
 
[quote name='2Fast']I'm not sure, I think you should have gone to Backlash by now, but that sounds like it could be an error in the game or something.

And I officially love the game now because they put the Harlem Hangover in it. All it needs now is the spin-a-roonie. Which brings me to this question, how do you do taunts??[/QUOTE]

D-Pad.
 
[quote name='guyver2077']omfg!!!! taz has his ecw song!!!!! i didnt expect that!!!!! awesome!![/QUOTE]

I'm assuming you mean the War Machine ripoff he used later on and not actually War Machine. If it was actually War Machine I'd probably shit my pants right now and be fired for bowel misconduct.

Still, that is pretty cool. Almost makes up for the lack of Hassan's theme for Daivari.

Too bad Masked Kane doesn't have Kane's old theme.
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']I'm assuming you mean the War Machine ripoff he used later on and not actually War Machine. If it was actually War Machine I'd probably shit my pants right now and be fired for bowel misconduct.

Still, that is pretty cool. Almost makes up for the lack of Hassan's theme for Daivari.

Too bad Masked Kane doesn't have Kane's old theme.[/quote]

yea its his custom ecw theme... man im still psyched about that.. im dying to get the ecw arena.... i also like how the commentery mentions him being an ecw legend.. it would have been cool if on the wrestler select screen it said ecw legend and not wwe legend..

Im so glad they decided to put the ecw taz in the game.. i dont know why i expected the wwe tazz music

also daivari just took back the hassan theme when jumping to ecw.. im certain he was using a different one on smackdown
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']
Too bad Masked Kane doesn't have Kane's old theme.[/QUOTE]

This is one thing I can't let go, now that I've semi sort of adapted to the gameplay, is why they don't put alternate costumes in for almost everybody? It would add to the replay value and actually give more of a use for shop coins, and cmon, it's the WWE, everyone changes their clothes once a month it seems.

Just kinda pissed three alternate outfits was the best they could come up with.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']This is one thing I can't let go, now that I've semi sort of adapted to the gameplay, is why they don't put alternate costumes in for almost everybody? It would add to the replay value and actually give more of a use for shop coins, and cmon, it's the WWE, everyone changes their clothes once a month it seems.

Just kinda pissed three alternate outfits was the best they could come up with.[/quote]

It's been like that for the past couple of Smackdown games. I think SYM was the only game where more then 25% of the roster had an alternate outfit.
 
[quote name='guyver2077']also daivari just took back the hassan theme when jumping to ecw.. im certain he was using a different one on smackdown[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know...I guess he didn't really have a theme while he was with Khali because....he always came out with Khali. When he was doing the Angle manager gig a while back he did use the Hassan theme.

It's not that big of a deal, I was just hoping for it because I wanted to make a custom Hassan to use for YTMNDs.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']This is one thing I can't let go, now that I've semi sort of adapted to the gameplay, is why they don't put alternate costumes in for almost everybody? It would add to the replay value and actually give more of a use for shop coins, and cmon, it's the WWE, everyone changes their clothes once a month it seems.

Just kinda pissed three alternate outfits was the best they could come up with.[/quote]

Why include them for free when you can buy them over marketplace?

Watch. It'll happen. DX costumes as alternates, 10 MS Points. Not expensive at all but enough to make you a bit angry.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']This is one thing I can't let go, now that I've semi sort of adapted to the gameplay, is why they don't put alternate costumes in for almost everybody? It would add to the replay value and actually give more of a use for shop coins, and cmon, it's the WWE, everyone changes their clothes once a month it seems.

Just kinda pissed three alternate outfits was the best they could come up with.[/QUOTE]

I really think it's an issue of resources. They obviously worked really hard on the costumes, and probably felt it's better to have one kick-ass one that three half-assed ones. However, doing something like changing Mr. Kennedy's colored tights should've have been too tough.
 
Question: How do you do start the matches in Challenge Mode? I can scroll through them and I see a dollar amount for each match but there isn't an option to let me select the match.
 
Challenges I believe are done through regular matches. It's just like a checklist. You can do exhibition matches if you want to try for them, but you have to set them up.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee']Challenges I believe are done through regular matches. It's just like a checklist. You can do exhibition matches if you want to try for them, but you have to set them up.[/QUOTE]

The only way to do them is through "Direct Challenge" in the Challenge menu, I'm fairly certain.

It was available for me, from the main menu go to the locker room, and then to the challenges television on the bar and it will say "Start --> Direct Challenge". Just press Start and the challenge starts automatically.
 
[quote name='thamaster24']Ok, great game, but how do I unlock the Rock, Stone Cold, etc.[/QUOTE]

play through the story. I think you have to enter and win the rumble to unlock stone cold though, because story mode did not unlock him for me.
 
Why is Create-a-Superstar so limited, compared to previous titles?
 
[quote name='Brak']Why is Create-a-Superstar so limited, compared to previous titles?[/QUOTE]

Beats me... I don't know why Yukes took out stuff.

The 20 person limit on a roster in GM mode kind of sucks too... should at least make it 25 or 30. I feel too limited with just 20 =/
 
[quote name='Roufuss']I'm wondering this too because I somehow missed Survivor Series and didn't get the chance to buy Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart.[/QUOTE]

Also, did anyone (2Fast?) figure this out? I'm wondering why my season mode skipped survivor series, either that or I didn't get a trophy for it and I've won all of my PPV matches so far.

Unless it comes AFTER Wrestlemania. So far I've done the first story with the big show and then Wrestlemania.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Beats me... I don't know why Yukes took out stuff.[/QUOTE]
Because Yukes sucks, and AKI should be making WWE titles.
 
Yet we keep buying their games :(

I'll be honest, I only bought Smackdown because there is nothing else available for the WWE... I wish they would drop Yukes though, their quality has been slipping imo, and they seem to be out of major ideas for the series.

I say give the license to someone new and see what a fresh perspective can bring us. In the meantime though, I guess it's just more Smackdown.

GM mode is really awesome though, it saves me from dumping this game for now... I don't like the new Season mode at all, for some reason, I'm just going through the motions because I want the legends.

I wish I could get a Season mode where I'm completely in charge, like I can walk around backstage, make alliances, start my own storyline's, interfere in people's matches, jump ship to the other show, all that sort of stuff.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Yet we keep buying their games :(

I'll be honest, I only bought Smackdown because there is nothing else available for the WWE... I wish they would drop Yukes though, their quality has been slipping imo, and they seem to be out of major ideas for the series.

I say give the license to someone new and see what a fresh perspective can bring us. In the meantime though, I guess it's just more Smackdown.[/QUOTE]
We have a bit of hope with the TNA game, assuming it doesn't fuckin' suck.
 
I mean, if there is one thing I'd want from a Smackdown game, is for maybe Yukes to take a year off and take the time to polish what they have or maybe rebuild from the ground up.

I think most Smackdown games are cutting things or not really adding alot has to be time constraints... this yearly output of Smackdown games has to be hurting what they can do.

So take a year off, bring us a new Smackdown with a ton of legends (I mean, no Andre The Giant? wtf?), alternate costumes, a bitchin season mode that you control, and a ton of bells and whistles.

In other news, in my GM mode, RVD is pissed because he wants a title shot but I'm not going to give him one... just like what really happened on Raw! Sorry Rob, you've hit the glass ceiling in my fed.
 
[quote name='Brak']We have a bit of hope with the TNA game, assuming it doesn't fuckin' suck.[/QUOTE]


Well AJ and Joe have been on them to try and make it like No Mercy so hopefully it does end up decent. Midway has been doing better in the quality department so I have some hope.

As far as SD taking a year off, I think once they ditch the PS2 and go next gen things will get better. Load times should disappear and gameplay should get better. Honestly I just want a wrestling game where I can have good quality matches that last about as long as a real wrestling match should. I could care less about intros and commentary. I could care less about presentation. Just give me a good quality fighting engine and I will be happy.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Also, did anyone (2Fast?) figure this out? I'm wondering why my season mode skipped survivor series, either that or I didn't get a trophy for it and I've won all of my PPV matches so far.

Unless it comes AFTER Wrestlemania. So far I've done the first story with the big show and then Wrestlemania.[/quote]
Survivor Series is after Wrestlemania. I think everything may depend on who you play as. I'm currently playing as Booker T in story mode (which started at No Mercy IIRC), so since I've retained the WHC I'm in every PPV.

Thanks for the heads up about the Royal Rumble, I think it may be too late though since I think I have to face Benoit, and I'm not in the Rumble.

I should have dropped the title so I could win the Rumble and switch to Raw, I'm so fucking tired of Taz and Michael Cole. I wish they would have at least updated the commentary from last years'. They keep rambling about how Booker T is a 5x, 5x, etc. WCW champion, yet he's never won the big one...

.....
 
[quote name='2Fast']
I should have dropped the title so I could win the Rumble and switch to Raw, I'm so fucking tired of Taz and Michael Cole. I wish they would have at least updated the commentary from last years'. They keep rambling about how Booker T is a 5x, 5x, etc. WCW champion, yet he's never won the big one...

.....[/QUOTE]

Cole and Tazz keep saying how Cena is the champion, you have to respect the champion, but in my game Cena isn't the champion of anything.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Cole and Tazz keep saying how Cena is the champion, you have to respect the champion, but in my game Cena isn't the champion of anything.[/quote]

Yeah, isn't Edge the WWE Champion from the outset? This game reeks of "no attention to detail."
 
[quote name='2Fast']Yeah, isn't Edge the WWE Champion from the outset? This game reeks of "no attention to detail."[/QUOTE]

Yea, that's the best part, he is.

And there is some stuff I hear EVERY SINGLE TIME I wrestle...

- J.R says something about a house of cards, or fire, or something.

- J.R asks Lawler who will win, Lawler says J.R has never cared before, than J.R says something like "whoever you pick is always the loser!"

- Explanation of J.R's sayings

- Kane is a monster

- We should all be quiet during a Chris Masters match (good to see that one has come back from SvR 06)

- Cole and Tazz talk about training and the army or some bullshit
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Yea, that's the best part, he is.

And there is some stuff I hear EVERY SINGLE TIME I wrestle...

- J.R says something about a house of cards, or fire, or something.

- J.R asks Lawler who will win, Lawler says J.R has never cared before, than J.R says something like "whoever you pick is always the loser!"

- Explanation of J.R's sayings

- Kane is a monster

- We should all be quiet during a Chris Masters match (good to see that one has come back from SvR 06)

- Cole and Tazz talk about training and the army or some bullshit[/QUOTE]

Yeah I'm getting pretty tired of the commentary. I got so tired of the same 10-12 songs that the soundtrack has that I had to turn it off.
 
[quote name='2Fast']If there is a hell, all you will hear is the commentary from this game.[/QUOTE]

If you want to talk about a house of fire, we're seeing it here tonight!!

What I want from the commentary is for them to you know, acknowledge who is in the ring, like "I think Cena might have a good chance at beating Kane tonight!".

Also, play as someone like Big Show and Kane in a tag team match and win, and then listen to Lillian announcer the winners. She'll go "Your winners are..... THE BIG SHOW...... andkane" but the way she says Kane sounds completely odd and it's like it belongs in the middle of a sentence instead of the end.

Oh wait, I forgot about how Lawler always calls the fans stupid, and J.R is like "Wow King, shouldn't insult the people who watch us!", and about how the Big Show is stupid but J.R says you shouldn't insult a giant like him.

Also they say some goofy shit about Nitro every time I play as him.
 
[quote name='TheRock88']"If if, if wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean by now"

The dumbest quote in the game.[/QUOTE]

:rofl: :rofl:

I don't even know why he says that, I just know I hear it EVERY match, randomly. I'll be hammering someones head into the steel steps and he'll start in about wishes and fishes.

"That's a hold I've been in many times!!!" - Lawler while Masters was giving me the Masterlock.. I'm not sure when Lawler was in the Masterlock "many times".
 
[quote name='Roufuss']"That's a hold I've been in many times!!!" - Lawler while Masters was giving me the Masterlock.. I'm not sure when Lawler was in the Masterlock "many times".[/quote]

You DO realize that the Masterlock is basically a full nelson, right?
 
[quote name='Scorch']You DO realize that the Masterlock is basically a full nelson, right?[/QUOTE]

Yea, but the way the game makes it sound is that he was referring to the Masterlock espically, and not just the generic hold... I probably understood it wrong.

Shit, I just thought of the fact I've almost never played on the Smackdown set, so I don't know if Cole or Tazz have better commentary... all I know is that Tazz trains people harder than the military does, but those people are just going to war and Tazz is training the wrestlers to do...something, I don't know, I stopped paying attention.

Oh yeah, also "I'll never understand why they put so many WEAPONS under the RING!!!" The fire extinguisher is definitely my favorite. I also like when you're holding the chair and push the right analog stick and you get this wicked looking chair shot.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']If you want to talk about a house of fire, we're seeing it here tonight!![/quote]

:rofl:

I really hate what both sets of announcers say about Booker T.

Tazz rambles on about how Booker T sucks because he's "never won the big one," which is stupid for two reasons: 1) he has, and 2) Tazz hasn't won shit; sure he beat some meth addict for the ECW title, but who gives a damn?

Then on Raw Jerry Lawler talks about how Booker T is a criminal (he did do time when he was young for knocking off a few Wendy's I think), which hasn't been relevant (or mentioned on TV) since Wrestlemania XIX.

I wish they would have at least not recycled the past few years worth of commentary.
 
Some of the voices in this game had me snickering in the back of clayuss. "Benoit's" voice, especially.
 
[quote name='2Fast']:rofl:

I really hate what both sets of announcers say about Booker T.

Tazz rambles on about how Booker T sucks because he's "never won the big one," which is stupid for two reasons: 1) he has, and 2) Tazz hasn't won shit; sure he beat some meth addict for the ECW title, but who gives a damn?

Then on Raw Jerry Lawler talks about how Booker T is a criminal (he did do time when he was young for knocking off a few Wendy's I think), which hasn't been relevant (or mentioned on TV) since Wrestlemania XIX.
[/QUOTE]

:rofl:

I haven't played as Booker T yet... this really makes me want to, just to hear the stuff about him being a criminal. Shit, that is hilarious, I can just picture them talking about it now. I like the shit Lawler says about Cena everytime too, something about how rappers shouldn't be in the WWE but I don't think Cena has used the "Rapper" gimmick in quite some time... certainly not when I've seen him on television.

Tommorrow, 2fast, and Scorch, we need definitely need to play online, I can't wait to recite this great commentary as we play.

J.R gets so pissed when you taunt too.

I wish they would have at least not recycled the past few years worth of commentary.

- Shhh... I almost feel like we have to be quiet when watching Chris Masters, and admire him!

- Well, you can be quiet if you want King, but I'm going to commentate on this awesome match!

Yea, I don't know the exact wording, but it's close... I hated the comment in 06, and I hate it in 07.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Well, you can be quiet if you want King, but I'm going to commentate on this awesome match![/quote]

That's funny for so many reasons :D

I think it's possible that Cole and Tazz have less to say than JR and the King.

- He's posturing to the crowd!

- Nice grip counter! (what the hell is that anyway?)

- Then they go back and forth about how your character would do anything for these fans. You're playing favorites! (Nice grip counter!) These fans are exercising their first amendment rights. Oh no Tazz, you'll never catch me in the ring! And the like.

- And my personal favorite bit of wisdom from Michael Cole: "I think whoever executes their finishing move first will win the match!"

If you really want a laugh, play through story mode as the Undertaker. It's funny to think about the Undertaker checking his voice mail from Teddy Long (Hey playa!) and getting into all sorts hijinks backstage.
 
[quote name='2Fast']
- And my personal favorite bit of wisdom from Michael Cole: "I think whoever executes their finishing move first will win the match!"
.[/QUOTE]

Oh man, you missed the best part - "Just because it's called a finisher, dosen't mean it's going to finish a match!"

Yea, the very first match I had in season mode against Big Show I fought against this weird stable of people not from the US - Carlito, Daivari, and Chavo. It was really weird.

:rofl: Grip Counter. Man I love this game, flaws and all, it's provided me with so much laughter. Tommorrow we HAVE to play it on Live.
 
[quote name='CaseyRyback']Well AJ and Joe have been on them to try and make it like No Mercy so hopefully it does end up decent. Midway has been doing better in the quality department so I have some hope.[/QUOTE]
Sweet.

(Didn't see this, originally.)
 
[quote name='Roufuss']:rofl: Grip Counter. Man I love this game, flaws and all, it's provided me with so much laughter. Tommorrow we HAVE to play it on Live.[/quote]

I'll be there. Get ready to be beaten like a government mule.

What's a government mule you ask?

It's what you get beat like in a slobberknocker.
 
[quote name='2Fast']I'll be there. Get ready to be beaten like a government mule.

What's a government mule you ask?

It's what you get beat like in a slobberknocker.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:
 
does anyone know how you do challenge mode? Do I go to the exhibition mode to do the challenge matches because it won't let me fight them while I am in the locker room.
 
[quote name='CaseyRyback']does anyone know how you do challenge mode? Do I go to the exhibition mode to do the challenge matches because it won't let me fight them while I am in the locker room.[/QUOTE]

Are you going straight to the locker room from the main menu? This is what I do and I can directly challenge them all, I've already done 8 or 9 of them.

I don't think the locker room in season mode lets you do it.
 
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