Customer Reviews

WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008

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1 star:		(7)

 

 

The Bad: They took a lot of matches and modes out. You can basically only wrestle single, tag, triple threat, and a couple others. The season mode has essentially NO storylines. You just challenge guys to matches or they challenge you until you get the "Legend" rank. Matches are very short.
The Good: Graphics and weapons are cool. It's fun using the Wii remote to do the moves (even if they don't vary a lot from wrestler to wrestler). The roster is pretty complete. Commentary from JR, King, Joey Styles, etc (but it does get repetitive).
Overall, fun to play, but I really wish there didn't remove match types and storylines in the season mode.

This is one of the worst games I have ever played. I was forced to go back to my PS2 to play the 2007 versions. You do the same move over and over and over, and over again. The moves are not explained very well in the manual and create mode was terrible. You are not able to preview the movie, entrance song, and entrance move set.

Don't buy this game, you will regret it.

Originally I was thinking as I played this, and read pre-hand reviews, "Wii users get screwed over", and after playing the Xbox360 version, I can definitely confirm this.

With each vast step forward the WWE seems to take with regards to its new games, they always manage to slip up when entering the realm of next gen consoles and totally fumble, but this time it's inexcusable. Match types are quite literally only Singles, Hardcore, Triple Threat, Tag, and Last Man Standing match. And to think you had table matches, ladder matches, Cage matches, TLC matches, and Hell in a Cell matches in Day of Reckoning 2 (Nintendo version's predecessor in 2005).


The roster is quite large, but still sparse in a way as it misses out on some of the promising young talent, and instead keeps several superstars long gone from the company, including Sabu, Sandman, Chris Masters (forgiveable since he was just released a week or two ago), JTG and Shad Gaspard (Who? Cryme Tyme. Oh yeah, the racist joke Steph found funny), and King Booker T.

Conspicuously missing from the roster are the likes of Brian Kendrick and Paul London, Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, Hornswoggle, Deuce and Domino, Viscera (Big Daddy V), Matt Striker, Balls Mahoney, Kevin Thorn, The Miz (thank god), Hardcore Holly, Little Guido (Nunzio), etc.


The Create a Wrestler mode is unchanged, thankfully, with a wide variety of options to recreate much of your Day of Reckoning and Day of Reckoning 2 CAS's over again, with better graphics. Female wrestlers will have to be humiliated by having a separate mode (though identical) called "Create a Diva" mode.


Storyline mode in the game is called "Main Event" and consists primarily of you joining either Raw or Smackdown (because apparently ECW isn't worth joining) and receiving random challenges via text messaging (no joke. Umaga's message to you: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! And subtitled: I will beat you to death with your own arms. One hell of a language, that Samoan. Full of subtlty). You start out weak, no matter what superstar you choose, and have to spend points training, and recieving "massages" to relieve fatigue. You have to do this after EVERY match because otherwise you start new matches with the same fatigue level you had last week (because in the crazy world of the WWE, weeks pass like seconds).


God help anyone wishing to make themselves a finely crafted wrestler with only the best moves available, or a skilled high flying/technician. In true WWE fashion as with John Cena and The Great Khali, you only have around 5 chooseable moves. The rest are preset based on what wrestling style you choose your superstar as. There is no way to choose the moves you do regarding punches, kicks, etc. And the move-list available is flimsier and shorter than Wrestlemania X8's. The only good aerial attacks being a moonsault, and TWO versions of the Swanton bomb, both equally sloppy and capable of breaking your neck if the game didn't turn at the last moment.


Not that you'd really need to pick your moves much. In the ring, most all of the action revolves around the same system as WWF Warzone and WWF Attitude, only shortened considerably: beat your opponent down till their health bar goes down into the red. Once it's in the red, you can do your finisher as many times as you want. Whereas Warzone and Attitude had several layers of health bars to beat through, this one only has half of one, meaning a match can literally be over in two minutes or less with enough punching, and three or four finishing moves in a row. The WWE must have been so ashamed of this, they removed the timer showing how much time there is in the match---you'll be counting your matches by milliseconds.


Typical problems already complained about, including no running. The controller is actually quite fun, but even the game totally fumbles that mess. The only way to punch and kick and dropkick etc is to swing your remote around, and the only way to counter a move is to do the EXACT SAME MOVE as your opponent at the EXACT SAME TIME AS THEM! (this is easier than it sounds, as the only real moves are done the exact same way: hold A and B and swing in some direction), so repeatedly hitting R will do nothing for you. Minor moves are also done by swinging repeatedly in some way. The manual doesn't bother to detail this for you, and the game's on-screen instructions can be vague, or simply not there. For example, there is seemingly no way to release an opponent when preparing them for a Death Valley Driver-like maneuver. Swinging in any direction will only make your character spin like a retarded Top.


I think that about covers this latest WWE abortion. The same sort of watered down action you get on WWE TV these days, dense and unexplained controls, almost impossible reversal system, dirt-poor storymode, inability to run, and most damning of all, a health-bar system of combat, which renders everything but the most damaging moves and a finishing move obsolete. Why bother trying to irish whip an opponent or use a high flying move when you can just punch the crap out of them till they go red, then do nine or ten finishers in a row on them for a pin? The average match length so far for me has been about a minute and a half. If I manage to work the AI into having a semi-decent match, this can stretch as far along as 5 minutes or slightly more.


Total failure.

Ok um featuring ECW...? Um yea sure. So many things wrong I don't know where to start. ok I went online to look up some codes or something because the game just seemed to lack....EVERYTHING. I wanted to know how to go backstage? How to find tables, fire , barbwire bats, regular bats...anything besides two chairs which are offered ONLY in Hardcore matches and are just lying outside the ring. The codes I found had to deal with GM mode, 24/7 mode and some shop or store...um CAN'T FIND THOSE EITHER? Just stick wit DOR2 (Day of Reckoning 2 for GC/Wii) This is a fun new experience but uh...don't mention the reversals...

How to reverse... swing your arms and hope your character blocks a grapple or strike. If that doesn't work just have to get beat until opponent stops.

Submission system...just move the knob up or down and they'll submit once their gauge is low...yay(yay with sarcasm).

THQ has never recovered since going to GC. N64 still has those "No mercy" and "wrestlemania2000" games that I used to love so much. Will THQ ever get all of those moves and taunts back.

MAIN POINT:

Don't purchase this wait til next yr when there's backstage, tables, elimination chamber, FIRE and just about everything that's more than an ordinary 1,2,3, count fall match.

P.S. I love wrestling games TNA save us

If you're a fan of either wrestling or videogames, look elsewhere, because this will dissatisfy you on both fronts. If you're a fan of neither, you're lucky, as you will be spared from playing this mess.

The Smackdown Vs. Raw games on other game consoles offer a large variety of gameplay and match options. The Wii version does not, but it comes with something the rest of them don't have: unresponsive controls. You'll find more fun and interaction browsing through the menu of a WWE DVD.

It seems like all it needed to pass quality assurance is the fact that a Wii would boot the disc if you popped it in. As a consumer, I am angry that this is available for other saps to purchase, because it will inevitably sell enough copies to warrant a sequel in which nothing is fixed.

Technically, the game isn't broken; I don't believe in my extensive testing did it slow down or crash, but with the lack of action that happens in the game, that's hardly surprising.

Overall, i wouldn't reccomend this game to anybody, except for the makers of this game, because if they played it, they would realize what a steaming pile of turd it is.

smackdown vs. raw 2008 is one of the best games for wii. The moves and weapons are great. Doing the motions for the moves are so much fun. But i gave it a four out of five because when you are fighting the computer they dont stop hitting you. That is the only complaint i have with this game. For people who dont like this game and said the graphics are horrible i dont know how they say that. Cause i think the graphics are great on my t.v. The game is one of the best games i played for wii. Smackdown vs. raw 'ROCKS'.

Alright, this game is an insult for the smackdown vs. raw franchise!! But lets look at the pros!

Pros: -

Now cons: The game has 4 match types and the k.o match type made NO SINCE because all you do is do your finisher which is a automatic k.o! The graphics are terrible! the graphics look like plastic action figures! the 24/7 or "main event" mode sucks cause there is no cut scenes, you can compete for any title belts, and you can only face 2 people! It's just cut and dry. And the contact a diva was the stupidest thing I ever seen! You cant even contact a diva! (not in real life but talking in the text). MY MAJOR COMPLAINT is that you think you can punch with the wii remote but you simply just move it slightly and you just punch. And there is only like 4 moves in the games! Well this is the WORST GAME FOR THE WII AND DON'T BUY THIS GAME PLEASE!

This game is trash. You only have 5 matches to choose from:single,tag team,hardcore,3 way & knockout. The hardcore matches are the worst because you only have 2 chairs to use. The career/story is so easy to beat/finish. I mean I beaten it 15 times. The wrestlers in this version of SVR08 are wimps. They only last like 6 to 7 minutes. The only way to make the mathces longer is to have a 3 way bout. The only GOOD thing about this game are the sample c.a.w superstars & divas but even then that still won't save this lame game. I give this gargabe a 2 out of 10.

I bought this for my grandson who is 8 years old and he enjoys playing it. I have rated this based on his interaction with the game. I had a hard time getting him off...

My problem with WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 is that, it's been YEARS, and still not many changes to the gameplay have been made. It's all been done before, so there's no more originality left to the series. You can play as all your favorite stars in more quality games released years before this one.

I also hate the fact many moves have been taken out. To me, that's wrong on so many levels. Technology is supposed to improve which in turns allows MORE features in video games. Not so with this game. What a very bad game.