SmackDown vs. Raw 2008

[Hutch2004]

Which means we're likely going to see a WWE midcarder get a BIG push in the in-game storylines. Which could be interesting. The season mode spread out over 3-4 years, it'd be more realistic if the main event scene in the game changed.

[Pepsi Punk]

There's a new trailer on IGN showing all the different fighting styles and it shows a few cool things that they haven't showed before:

-First look at Jeff Hardy(looks great)

-Sandman putting someone on the guard rail than hitting them with a chair

-Sandman choking out some guy with a Sledgehammer while they are grounded

-Sandman LIGHTING A TABLE ON FIRE!

-Undertaker using his newly animated Tombstone

[wozzi]

There's a new trailer on IGN showing all the different fighting styles and it shows a few cool things that they haven't showed before:

-First look at Jeff Hardy(looks great)

-Sandman putting someone on the guard rail than hitting them with a chair

-Sandman choking out some guy with a Sledgehammer while they are grounded

-Sandman LIGHTING A TABLE ON FIRE!

-Undertaker using his newly animated Tombstone

[Guest Brainbustah!]

I don't really have a problem with the commentary, because I always turn the sound down and listen to my iPod.

But my favorite thing about the last two games was the GM Mode. Last year, it even seemed like they were focusing on the GM Mode, and Season Mode was there mainly to unlock stuff. And now, they're saying that they've merged the GM Mode and Season into the WWE 24/7 Mode. Well, I haven't heard one thing about how the GM Mode is being used in 24/7.

And, I wouldn't even have a problem with this new thing being mostly about Season and barely about GM if it lasted longer than 3 years for an entire career. I can understand it only lasting 6 months for guys like Ric Flair or The Undertaker, but if I create someone, or use someone like Burke or Cor Von, then it should last a LOT, LOT longer than 3 years. If you're going to do a WWE 24/7 Mode, you should make it pretty much EXACTLY like NFL Superstar mode in Madden.

So yeah, this game sounds like it will either completely suck, or completely kick ass. I won't buy it on launch day like I did last year.

[THIR13EN²]

I saw a video on youtube, I'm not sure if it's the same one as from IGN, but I noticed that everyone was kicking the shit out of The Sandman, what's up with that...

[King.]

On Smackdownvsraw.com there's a new trailer under the media link. It features some nice shots of the game in action. There's also a brief clip of The Sandman lighting a table on fire. Very cool.

[Guest Anti-Hero]

One of my big wishes for this game is a playable Vince McMahon. Shane-O just don't cut it.

[Adam]

Hasnt the full roster usually been announced by now? Theyre a bit slow with updates this year...

[zero]

Hasnt the full roster usually been announced by now? Theyre a bit slow with updates this year...

IGN usually has the exclusive on announcing the full roster by doing the daily countdown up until a couple weeks before release, so no, the full roster isn't usually announced by now.

[Guest Senka Surakei]

Was it just me, or did they say in 07 that you could double stack tables... but you couldn't. : | I'd love to see double stacking availible! =)

[MalaCloudy Black]

You could. I swear you could.

[Heroin Bob]

In a tables match you could double stack.

[alldaws1]

Yeah, you could double stack tables in '07. And superplex people through them.

[Skummy]

Was that on the 360 version? I don't remember being able to do it on PS2.

I agree with the need for a playable Vinny Mac. His character model is in the game, so it wouldn't even be remotely taxing.

[alldaws1]

That was on the 360, yeah, but I didn't realise it wasn't available on the PS2. You just whip the opponent at the middle of the stack and then (IIRC) do a finisher.

[Media 2.0]

I'm pretty sure I've done it on the PS2 as well. And the whole get the table from the crowd area into the ring.

[SeanDMan]

It's available on the PS2, it just sucks. You set them up only in direct relation to the corner, and superplex people through them. You couldn't, say, set them up in the middle of the ring and then leap off a ladder, or set them up outside the ring and launch yourself from the corner. Tables as a whole took a huge step backwards, they used to have pretty good physics, now they've been simplified to the point of stupidity.

[The Future]

HCTP had the best weapon physics I remember leaping from the top corner to the outside and hitting my friend perched on top of a ladder with a hurracanrana.

[Captain Eo]

What do you guys think of the cover?

I'm actually disappointed. The featuring ECW graphic just doesn't cut it for me.

Back on topic I have to agree last year's weapons were a big downgrade. IIRC weren't there only 2 attacks with the chair?

[GhostMachine]

1. Cover design sucks.

2. No, you could still do the DDT, Guillotine and Vandaminator with the chair. What I thought was stupid, however, was that the barbed wire wrapped baseball bat wouldn't draw blood!