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WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011

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THQ has made this last series installment for the Playstation 2. But as to be expected THQ waters it down and some features are not available for this version. But I'm not complaining, at least we get one more PS2 title. Here are the games features and my verdict.

WWE UNIVERSE MODE: This is a cool new addition. It combines exhibition and career mode together. You or the com can set up matches to either play or simulate. If you do play matches the game will start keeping track and respond to everything you do. Rivalries can be set up depending on your actions in a match. Also it can unpredictable. You might suddenly get attacked on your way to the ring, or Vince Mcmahon could come out and talk to you. It's never ending and you will be very entertained for sure.

ROAD TO WRESTLEMANIA- This mode once again returns with 5 stories, Chris Jericho, Christian, John Cena, Rey Mysterio, and Undertaker's where you try to break his streak. The Undertaker story is the best in my opinion.

CREATE A STORY MODE- Returns with even better fashion! Lots more new things to choose from! 2010 experimented with this idea, but 2011 takes it to another level.

SUPERSTAR ABILITIES- These are still here, but some changes have been made. Remember the huge list of 21 to choose from? Now it's been scaled down to only 11. Some abilities are now assigned to all superstars while some of course have been taken out...

Removed:

Evasive Dodge

Lock Pick

Ref Shield

Taunt Thief

Hardcore Resurrection

Possum Pin

Fan Favorite

Assigned To All:

Object specialist

Exploder Turnbuckle Attack

Pull Back Attacks

Strong Strikes

List: Remember in 2010 some were already available, while some you had to work for? Well in 2011 all of them are already available.

Dirty Pin

Move Thief

Hammer Throw

Resiliency

Durability

Kip-Up

Fired Up

Ring Escape

Springboard Dives

Outside Dives

Leverage Pin (NEW!) (You can reverse a groggy grapple or running attack into a pin of your own!)

SUPERSTAR ATTRIBUTES- THQ finally brings something new to the table on this one. Everytime you created a superstar you had to jump through a million matches to build up your attributes. 2010 you had the level up system which wasn't too bad. But now you can set up all your caw attributes right out of the box. This time they are only in 5 point incriments. You can even go and edit attributes on WWE superstars. But this time THQ forces you to stick with realistic skill levels depending on weight class. (glad this returned)

ROSTER- Better than ever. Offering 70 superstars. Legends have returned! Jimmy Superfly Snuka, Terry Funk, The Rock, Steve Austin, AND WE FINALLY GET JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS! (none of that 2006 crap!)

CREATE A FINISHER- Returns once again with more new options for crazy cool moves!

MATCH CREATOR- Another new addition from THQ all you do is select the type of ring, and the list of rules. But for some reason I've tried this and it doesn't feel real special. But it's also there when you go to a regular match on the versus screen.

Although there are things about this game I'm happy with, I have a few cons as well...

Bret Hart- Is not availbale unless you pre order from Best Buy! Why in the world is Bret Hart an exclusive? It's rather pointless because Bret has been available in past Svr games. If you wanna make somebody an exclusive how bout people that were never in the game like Doink The Clown or something!

CREATE A SUPERSTAR- Nothing Special and very disapointing. The same stuff from the last 2 years. Wouldn't of hurt THQ to at least add some new parts. They really dropped the ball here.

VERDICT: All in all this game is very solid and keeps taking things up a notch.But this version is only worth getting if you don't have any other system. The new Gen stytems obviously offer a lot more like graphics,better blood animations, new caw parts etc. A Svr game will never be perfect and will always have flaws, but you know you're going to get entertained none the less.

I have every game in the entire series and this is the best svr game there is! The graphics are great. The Road to WrestleMania is alot of fun! I love the free-roaming idea and you can start a fight with almost anybody to increase your stamina, momentum, etc. further. The Time Machine is a awesome feature. The WWE Universe Mode is kinda disappointing cause I expected a whole bunch of different cutscenes, but I ended up seeing the same ones over and over again. The Story Designer's pretty cool. The Match Creator is a good feature, but it could've been better. Overall, it's great game and it's very enjoyable to play.

I was jonesing to play a wrestling game when I came to realize that my brother (also previously my roommate) took the XBox360 when he left, leaving me with my trusty ol' PS2 that's definitely a few years old. I was resigned to finding an older version of the game when I came across this and was like "A 2011 wrestling game for PS2? LOL it must be watered down but I'll play it anyway..."

Turns out I would end up being thoroughly impressed with just about everything. The gameplay was relatively easy to get the hang of (it took some time figuring out how Ladder and Table matches worked but the controls for the regular matches were simple to figure out). The WWE Universe allows you follow week-by-week process of either your favorite or created wrestlers while allowing you to control or simulate whichever matches you wish (though in terms of title defenses, you have to win a Number 1 Contender Match and then a title bout instead of just receiving the belt). Wanna be your "favorite" superstar? Play as them on your road to Wrestlmania. With a bunch of hidden wrestlers and secrets, it's worth playing in simply to see all the sweetness you can find.

So considering that the gameplay was excellent and the 7th-Gen type experience was brought down to this platform, will this indeed be the last WWE game for PS2? Considering the minor success this game is, some scuttlebutt around the internet seems to indicate that it may be in THQ's better interests to continue into the 2012 season. Unless the prices of consoles faces another drastic drop, there's many recession-minded consumers who're still glad to have a PS2 and if the technology isn't light-years into obsolescence, then maybe it's better to cater to the value-driven consumers than to forget about them and hope for the best.

All of us PS2 mourners are waiting for the official "unplugging" of the best console of all time. I have purchased 3 different "11" titles. Madden, NBA 2K11, and this title from THQ.

The game does have more depth and more choices. That in itself is a step up. If this is the final edition for PS2, then they put some care into it. The graphics are still great for the system. There are more players and more arenas. I did think SvR 2010 was a great game. The cover was the best of all, even frame worthy.

This will be a Greatest Hit title in the future. If you are a WWE fan or looking to start a wrestling game, this one is worth the $40. Again, its just an opinion.

I love the graphics and all the stars showing in the game, I recomended. My son and my nephews reaaly enjoyed it.

70 WWE Superstars and the new Universe mode are really why anyone and everyone should buy this game. Not to mention how cheap it is. The Universe mode generates wrestling cards based on who your WWE superstars are feuding with. You play the matches you don't or make matches to add to the card or don't play any.

There is a new Road to Wrestlemania where you choose from 5 workers (Undertaker, Christian, Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio and John Cena). This time in Road to Wrestlemania... you can walk backstage around a virtually empty arena. There are a few scattered wrestlers to talk with, but it feels very vacant. This really could have been streamlined. The voiceover work is bad and wodden. Sure some workers step out above the rest, but they sound very uninspired. The bad part is you're stuck having to watch the workers talking... It could have been like Morrowind where you zoom in on the worker's face, but no you're stuck having to hold the analog stick to look at the worker's face.

And the next main mode is the storyline mode. You can make your own storylines and play them. You follow the storyline in matches and angles from week to week and it branches such as if you win a match against Primo, you'll face Chavo, but if you lose you could end up in an angle with John Morrisson. It is like the old N64 No Mercy path system only far more advanced.

There are tons of options to edit the computer AI, movesets, entrances, how you want to play, editable match options... put it in a cage, KO only, first blood, weapons, 2 of 3 falls, no DQ and so on. Change their brand, change their enemies and allies and so on.

The controls are pickup and play, but have depth that you'll find hours into gameplay. Its nice. Some of the animations could be better like you'll be do a side headlock and then do a second side headlock takeover. So the guy is in a headlock... then you reheadlock him to do a takeover. Maybe its a PS2 limitation?

PROS:

- WWE Universe Mode

- Best in the Franchise

- Character models look excellent

- Overwhelming amount of matches (HiaC, Inferno Match, Championship Scramble and everything else you can imagine)

- Very in depth creation stuff (create a storyline / worker / finisher / entrance / moveset)

- Seems just like the PS3 version (except commentary)

CONS:

- Commentary is very inacurate like if Kofi is the champ it still says Miz or diva's matches his and him are used.

- BRIEF slowdowns (lag). I hear its horrible but for me its brief and tollerable.

- Cumbersome creation tools just from how in depth they are

- Load times. They're very noticable

- It feels its age. Match controls can be clunky

- Crowds look like they're N64 characters

Smackdown vs. raw 2011 for the playstation 2 was a big dissapointment!

first off the TLC match's for the Ps2 have not changed(Only for Xbox360&PS3)

I thought the TLC match would improve and be more hardcore

but it's the same as every SVR game...except for the ladder finishers

the announcers mess up of who's in the ring or what move is being done.

that's a big one because it pulls me away from the WWE experience

the back of the box says if it's in WWE it's in the game

but I dont feel like im watching a WWE program.. I feel im playing a crappy WWE game.

The road to wrestlemania mode does have the 3rd person but wasn't much fun.

the story lines are short and you dont get much freedom backstage because most the wrestlers say

"get out of my face" and you have to find these challenge match's to unlock legends like (stone cold or the rock)

you have 5 superstars story's to pick from John Cena,Vs. The Undertaker,rey Mysterio,Christian & Chris Jericho.

but I found myself wanting to play Randy Orton or Triple H or Shawn Michaels but thats all they had to offer.

The WWE Universe wasn't very fun they say create ur own world and stuff it's bull I can't change the superstars in the

championship match cause it will say it's a normal match because changes have been made.

I find this to be very dissapointing because the same 2 superstars can end up fighting at every ppv for months straight.

the game isn't anywhere near great and I'd suggest you rent it before buy it.

The Good things about Svr 2011

-Roster Update(tons of superstars)

-Create a storyline(lots of new animations including Undertaker one's)

thats really all there is

The Bad things about Svr 2011

-Same 5 songs play while ur at the main menu(cannot change either)

-Announcer's have no idea whats going on(always making mistakes)

-if theres 6 wrestlers in the ring the game slows down and half the front crowed is missing

-very hard to get a chairshot because they hardly connect

-No superstar threads still

-Storyline's arn't that great (compared to svr 2010)

-No online still (even tho the Ps2 can go online)

-No Challenge even on legend there not stronger they just reverse more and that dosn't feel realistic to me)

& much more..

the game isn't good if you want a good Svr game for ps2 stick with 2010 because that feels more real to me then 2011

I purchased this for my 8 1/2 year old son. He is totally into this. He plays for as long as I will let him every day. He studies extra math and vocabulary words to be able to play. It is winter so I don't mind him playing as much. He will be outside everyday once the weather breaks! A definite buy!

Awesome Game Ever in SvR Series. The Game have the best graphics. Single matches, Tag Team Matches etc.this year they have done it all right with almost 70 Superstars, Divas, and Legends.there's a new mode called WWE Universe. This is basically the combination of the old career and exhibition modes. the controls are very easy in this game. in create a superstar mode, there are so many chose which is good.

I have not played every part of game yet, but from what I have seen so far, I'm not as impressed with this as I was with SVR 2010.

First off, and most disappointingly, title defenses no longer exist in exhibition mode. That was the number one thing I enjoyed about SVR 07, 08, 09, and 10. Title defenses happened in exhibiton mode which made me make stories and build contenders through there. I enjoyed building contenders from the ground up on both rosters and making different matches and creating feuds and building up to future ones. I could control and separate rosters and would be able to go 2 or 3 or even 4 months without putting one certain guy against another. I loved that anticipation of the future which made me play constantly. I could make specialty matches for titles. One glitch in SVR 10 was that elimination chamber matches were not contested for titles, which let me down. And in this SVR 11, no exhibition match will be a title match. I think they had it that way in the very first SVR in 04 (which would have been called SVR 05).

WWE Universe mode. A major let down. Might as well call it GM mode. Only one show is controlled by you, and you can't even choose which one. It is RAW or you don't play. You have to simulate SMACKDOWN and SUPERSTARS and those shows feature strange matches with strange tag team pairings. Also you can't switch champs to start off. Deal with the default champs. Plus, number one contenders are not even decided by you, the CPU chooses. I wish I could control everything there. At least in 07 and 08 you could choose the show.

There are too many superstars and arenas that have to be unlocked. In SVR 10 every single arena was available from the start which made it perfect for exhibition. I'm now kind of wishing I kept SVR 10.

Road To Wrestlemania is another let-me-down. I played Christian's full RTW season and the only thing I got unlocked for the effort was a Cody Rhodes t-shirt. Made me lose interest in playing any of the other ones.

Match creator is pointless. You just choose the same settings that you would if you picked an exhibition match.

Changing rivals and allies: If a team is set up in team management, the team will disband completely if you take tag partner off a superstar's ally list.

Not a fan of the concept of DLC packs. I have a PS2 and even if I upgraded I don't think I would pay for DLC packs no matter what.

Now to what I like:

The Royal Rumble elimination controls. Much easier than in 09 and earlier.

I'll give the game credit for the Money in the Bank match. SO MUCH EASIER to get the briefcase and takes a lot less time. No more standing on a ladder for what seems like ever and seeing a red case meter very slowly trickling down until it turns black. just right joystick up then hold it down until case is freed, within a minute. Much credit for that.

I love the looks of the superstars, the graphics, and entrances. Always have. Also like seeing which new superstars are on there. Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, Hart Dynasty are excellent to see, even Vance Archer is a nice sight on here.

However, I may noy keep the game much longer.