The Buscher

So the Wade/Bryan match was actually a 15 minute Iron Man Match. Jimmy Uso ran out halfway through, hit both men with Samoan Spikes, and left.

I feel like that should make me want to use Exhibition for my sim fed...but it's so ridiculous that I can't help but see what comes of it.

I pretty much "re-booted" my Universe game by simming several months ahead and beginning anew in December. I wasn't planning on using Universe for my sim fed, but dammit it's too addicting to not at least try.

Moved everybody back to the shows they're on now. Also made a few things happen as though they were to happen in the next few weeks in real life. Gave Barrett the WWE Title and Natalya both women's belts (if she has to defend the belts twice on PPV I'll just switch one of the matches to reflect some random feud that had cropped up since). I broke up the Hart Dynasty with Smith going heel. Since my tag division is badly lacking, I booted Otunga out of Nexus since there are only 5 slots anyway and I turned him face, teaming him with fellow disgruntled former Nexus member Darren Young.

Assumed AJ would win NXT, so I added her to the SmackDown roster which suddenly had a loaded divas division as Beth Phoenix and Tiffany have also returned. Down the line I may take the "NXT Season 4: Second Chance" idea and d/l a few random WWE guys to go along with Shelton and Knox and run my own NXT on the side.

Should be fun. The first card the game generated was main evented by new WWE champion Wade Barrett against US champion Daniel Bryan.

I had drafted Sheamus to SmackDown and was rather disappointed that every single week the game had him fighting Edge in the main event, including number one contender's matches every month. I had drafted Undertaker to Raw and it seemed like Swagger, Kane, Mysterio, and World Heavyweight champion Big Show weren't considered to be on the same level as Sheamus and Edge.

In my RTWM, The Undertaker's streak was broken following a spinning heel kick, by the unlikely challenger, former frontman of Journey, Steve Perry.

Was it the way the fans wanted it? How about the way they needed it?

So I got both of the main Universe-related CAW achievements in one WrestleMania. My 88 OVR CAW won the Rumble (I actually SIMMED the Rumble, my guy had only been in the company for a couple months and yet he still won) so I got the achievement for winning the World Heavyweight Title when I beat Edge at Mania. The MITB also had 2 CAWs in it (Khali and Joey Mercury) so I tried to win it as Khali and actually did it, knocking off that achievement.

More disturbingly...Taker had gone from 18-0 to 20-0 in one night in my first WM (he defended his title AND had another match right after and won both). Same deal this year except he lost the WWE Title to John Cena to fall to 20-1, and then lost to ALEX RILEY of all people to go 20-2.

For some reason you can't name your CAW "Uso" and put it online. So all of their CAWs are "U s o" - you can edit it on your own.

Just downloaded them and Alex Riley, completing the male roster. Now to download all of the divas that didn't make it and I'll be ready to start my sim fed, likely using exhibition since Universe does a bit too many sneak attacks for my liking.

Love having just about everybody's theme in the game (except for the Usos and Tiffany, forgot their themes which shows just about how much I care about either of them).

If you have a Yamaha keyboard, just randomly mash on keys for about 10 seconds, record it to Audacity and then loop it so it stretches to five minuites.

Or, just use Kevin Nash's TNA theme, which was made in the exact same fashion.

Haha, wound up just giving them Shad's theme. It's generic enough.

Shame that online Rumble still has unusable lag. I expected it would happen but it's still annoying.

For some reason you can't name your CAW "Uso" and put it online. So all of their CAWs are "U s o" - you can edit it on your own.

Just downloaded them and Alex Riley, completing the male roster. Now to download all of the divas that didn't make it and I'll be ready to start my sim fed, likely using exhibition since Universe does a bit too many sneak attacks for my liking.

Love having just about everybody's theme in the game (except for the Usos and Tiffany, forgot their themes which shows just about how much I care about either of them).

Finally filled out the entire Nexus, including the injured ones who may or may not be still part of the group on paper (Sheffield and Tarver)

Of course, it looked weird to see them all coming out with totally different Nexus shirts and armbands. So I had to go into nerd mode and change all of that using the same Nexus paint tool logo

Color me unimpressed with the ending to the Vs. Taker RTWM. Guess I just thought it would be more epic.

Best moment I've had in a SmackDown game: Me vs. HBK

I hit him in the head with a chair. He kips-up. I immediately hit him again for the 3.

So last night I began punching in the names of any WWE guys NOT in the game on community creations, and downloading the good ones I found. Amazed how many really good ones are up already.

Thus far I've downloaded Daniel Bryan, Alberto Del Rio, Curt Hawkins, and Heath Slater (who promptly became a punching bag to test out Bryan)

So online Rumble definitely has potential. That being said, I have yet to play one in which I don't encounter a dickhead using a 100 OVR rated CAW who somehow manages to win the button-mashing mini-games in 3 seconds.

Think I'm just gonna use my Fan Axxess and be content never finishing Christian's RTWM. MITB matches are an absolute chore.

So thus far I've unlocked Kozlov, Finlay, Gail, and Ryder all by doing random singles matches on Raw, SD, and Superstars. Anyone know how to unlock all of the other current wrestlers? I'd guess they are unlocked in a similar way but I haven't had the option pop up in awhile.

Played a month or so in Universe, picking and choosing my matches. Problem with that is I saw basically the same 3 or so cutscenes on loop and damn near every match involved one guy coming in early to attack the other. Think I'll need to try and not fuck around too much with the matches the game creates, otherwise it might eliminate the storylines it had been building up.

Simmed a year or so, Show won the MITB and Taker pushed his streak to 20-0 in one night by defending the title against Edge AND beating Swagger in separate matches. Beast.

Did a quick draft, old school style with 6 going to Raw and 6 to SmackDown. Taker, Finlay, MVP, Shad, Masters, and McCool (Divas champ) to Raw...Sheamus, Henry, Santino, Kozlov, Maryse, and Melina (Womens chamo) to SD. Wanted to give SD more than 3 divas and change up the midcard schemes on both shows while not breaking up any random teams that had formed (Primo/Ted, Ziggler/Archer, etc.)

Think I'll watch the matches now and see how well the game forms feuds from here on out.

kbusch, is your version the PS3 one? Because I'm not seeing Fan Axxess in the PSN store yet.

Still creating my CAW and his manager, really getting immersed into the customization features. Haven't even played a single match yet, but really looking forward to it

Nah I have 360.

Oh, and even though I got the Best Buy edition with a code to unlock Bret, I downloaded Fan Axxess and went into WWE Shop. The option to unlock Ministry Taker was there. So I got both exclusives in one fell swoop.

lol so I'm doing Jericho's RTWM and right next to the gorilla position there is a white board with all of that night's matches on it. And one week, I see:

Primo vs. Carlito

Guess there's the proof that Carlito was in fact supposed to be in the game.

Ok, so I'm loving Universe Mode. Over on SmackDown I decided to book Gallows in a squash match against JTG and use Gallows to try and push him (since I moved Punk to Raw he'd be trying to make it on his own and such). Cutscene shows Gallows jump JTG before the bell. I start the match with a finisher and win with one move, WWE squash-style. Nice.

So the next week I decide to put him against another patsy in Chris Masters. Masters waits in the ring as Gallows' music plays, but Gallows attacks him from behind. Once again, start with a finisher and win in one move.

Luke Gallows: Master of the cheap wins

Played some weapons-based matches. Hella fun.

Updated the rosters as best I could (took HBK, Jericho, Hardy, and Batista off of the active roster whilst switching up Punk and Edge) so now I'm ready to give Universe a whirl.

Had 880 MS Points, just enough to grab Fan Axxess. Will be playing this in a few hours. Can't wait.

Just got an e-mail from Best Buy telling me to pick up my copy tomorrow. Can't wait.

Apparently there's a work-around to defending titles in Exhibition. Since you CAN defend unlockable belts (ECW, Hardcore, Cruiser, etc.) all you need to do is go into WWE Universe and assign one of those belts to someone who holds another title.

So say you want Dolph Ziggler to defend the IC Title in exhibition. You just go into WWE Universe and plop the ECW title on him. Then in exhibiton you'll actually get to pick which belt he defends.

Hopefully you're right. Still looking forward to seeing how this shakes out.

If it really is a bitch and a half to get a CAW in a position where he can be in MITB, I'll just download a bunch of CAWs and then put all the real wrestlers on WCW where they won't get booked. MITB would then be all CAWs by default so I could just pick one and win it.

Elaborate on what you read. Did they play matches or did they just simulate?

Simulate.