WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2009

[Nikki]

So, got the game yesterday, so far I've played through the RTWM mode for HHH, CM Punk and Undertaker, just started on Cena. Pretty decent game all in all.

[Ruki]

...you got 3 RTWM done already? How long are they?

[Nikki]

Put it in spoilers, so if you dont want to know how long the RTWM is, dont check

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13 weeks I think it is.

[Ruki]

That doesn't seem too long, I can see why you have done it already. I am going to see if I can rent the game tonight.

[TKz]

Due to my lack of money I'm going to have to uhm *aquire* it through other means for the time being, which will be sucky due to loading times being terrible on copied games.

Oh well, PS3 at X-Mas hopefully.

Any news from anyone on who the Tony guy is?

Edited November 5, 2008 by Commander TKz Brannigan

[Adam]

Any news from anyone on who the Tony guy is?

Road to Mania spoiler, kindof:

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He's from the Cena RTWM storyline apparently.

[zero]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the RTWMs each have branching storylines and multiple endings?

[Plubby]

I'm at a point where it's possible to branch, but I doubt that it will, aside from changing the character who *spoilered*...

[TKz]

So... Stuff is unlocked via beating things in RTWM? Is there any kind of list of what you unlock?

[NM!]

So the reason you guys have it is because you guys live in England right? Or should I run to the store because the game came out everywhere today?

[alldaws1]

I think America's the last place to get it apart from Japan. Comes out officially in the UK on Friday.

I don't know about branching storylines for the RTWM mode, I haven't experienced any so far but then again I'm not very far into the one I'm doing. I did lose a match and had to replay it or quit though.

[TKz]

Regarding RTWM

Spoiler: Click here to view

Do they all start at Royal Rumble? That's kinda lame. :\ Also Punk is on ECW? Wassupwithdat?

Also I haven't encountered any branching storylines yet.

Oh and, did I miss anything decent by not beating Big Daddy V in under 2 mins? I was litteraly a second off >;[

Edited November 6, 2008 by Commander TKz Brannigan

[zero]

CM Punk is on ECW in RTWM because voiceover work is done long before the draft.

That aside, this is sounding more and more like another THQ letdown-a-thon. They seriously need to lose the WWE license, but apparently they have an option to renew through 2013. Lame.

[oldskool]

Why so negative? I honestly don't see how anybody got their hopes so high up to be disappointed with what I've heard so far.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

As long as it's better than 2008, I don't think I'll be disappointed.

It IS better, isn't it? Isn't it?

[TKz]

It's an improvement, yes. How much of one? A decent amount. There aren't really any steps back this year. The storymode is still a bit... meh, but I prefer this to last years ones.

[Plubby]

The ONLY bad thing about this game that i've come across is the only one career mode at a time thing.

[zero]

RTWM sounds cool, but it also sounds like a lot of non-delivered promises (a THQ specialty). No one's talking about branching storylines, there was supposedly 40 hours of gameplay combined across all six storylines, but it sounds more like 10-15 hours.

Career mode sounds like an embarrassment and you have to take every CAW you make through it in order to get their stats up, create-a-belt is inexplicably gone, GM Mode (which could have really been something special) is gone, and it sounds like they once again took more moves out of the game, which they seem to do every year.

It's typical Smackdown Syndrome, get me all excited through October and then when the game comes out, it's still a Smackdown game, which have all pretty much sucked save for Here Comes the Pain and 2006.

[Plubby]

Create-a-belt didn't sound that good anyway

[alldaws1]

I can't say I miss Create-A-Belt and GM Mode. Especially GM Mode, I only played it to get achievements >_>