Customer Reviews

WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 (Bradygames Official Strategy Guide)

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This helped me figure out how to unlock everything in the game. It is a great guide to have and the wrestler bios are an added plus.

A great help for hints and tips on the finer points of this game.

This Guide book is Great when it comes to Knowing their movesets. This also advises you on The trophies and challenge mode. There is no Carrer or GM modes, though.

This strategy guide reminds me of why Brady Games' Mortal Kombat guides used to be good. The layout of the guide is excellent and is printed on sturdy paper. The guide contains all of the wrestlers moves and gives a rating for how much a move impacts a certain spot on the opponent. It even contains match strategy for each wrestler based on their individual strengths/weakness and move sets.

Unfortunately, I didn't see anything about story mode in it. Even though it does say it in the product description above. Same for the gm mode. The guide does though list the rules for all challenges and how to win all the trophies.

Overall, I give it **** out of *****. If your only interested in the move list and strategy I recommend you buy this guide.

I have to agree with the other reviewers of this item. This strategy guide is decent, as far as listing all the movesets, and giving strategy for fighting as, and going up against EVERY wrestler in the game.
However, as others have mentioned, it not only gives no tips about GM mode, but mentions it barely, if at all! Also, they DO list what the various challenges are, but gives no tips about how to complete them, or which wrestler(s) might work best for which challenges.
The quality of the book itself (layout, paper, print quality, etc.) is actually very high, and on that alone, I'd have given this 5 stars. However, the glaring oversight of having left out so much information about features that make Smackdown vs Raw 2006 decently replayable, leaves me a bit more wary of purchasing future guides by Bradygames. That said, I can only justify giving this guide 3 stars.
If you (somehow) can't find enough about the wrestlers' moves online, or just want something in a pretty package, go ahead and buy this. Just take my word for it...don't pay cover price, or anywhere near it. If you need the info in this guide, definitely buy it used.

The previous smackdown guides went into more detail concerning the controls, and also gave some strategies on how to create a wrestler, complete the shopzone challenges, and what to expect in storymode. Now, I don't care about the latter, but the expanded controls listing and the strategies I could have found useful--this is a strategy guide after all--and there were no strategies and the control list was just a rehash of the manual...with pictures. The previous reviewer mentioned that he liked the book because it showed all the wrestlers moves, which body parts they affected, and how strong they affected that body part. To that reviewer, you wasted your money; as will the rest of you who buy this book, because you could have done that in the game. Just go to Create A Mode and choose Create A Move-Set. Choose any of the wrestler' move sets and you can see everything that the strategy guide gives you, with the added addition of seeing an animated sample of the move as opposed to a still photo in the strategy guide.

Oh, and as far as the shopzone challenges go, the guide just mentions what they are. It does have all the challenges for all 4 difficulty levels whereas the game only reveals the challenges from the first two difficulties; However, if you don't complete all the ones the game gives you, than it won't matter because you won't have access to the higher difficulty challenges anyway. The guide doesn't give you any tips on how to complete the challenges; it just lists them all...and that's it.

Again, don't buy this book, it's thicker than most strategy guides I've seen recently, but bradygames was very deceptive. This guide tells you nothing. Bradygames was never my favorite strategy guide publisher, but they've published way better guides than this crap.