WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2009

[Your Mom]

Yeah GM mode was pretty terrible

[Guest deknegt]

So can anyone tell me how the creat a finisher mode is?

[apsham]

I'm not missing one thing mentioned that they took away, just ewww really. The create-a-belt feature was just something to waste money on when you got everything else, and all the belts looked like shit on the wrestlers anyways... if you got the proper entrance that let you show them coming out with them anyways. GM mode was fucking broken ten ways from Sunday and I don't think anything could've saved that sinking ship. The thing with stats for CAWs is likely to slow down the online 100 CAW vs. 100 CAW thing... but all in all, I think with CAW trading it won't be THAT big of an issue. I just wish they'd have a marketplace that had good looking CAWs that DIDN'T have their stats jacked all the way up, or a way to edit down those horribly overblown stats.

[JoeMimic]

How is the gameplay AI? Is it still just a reversal fest on the harder levels? I heard the tag team AI was much much much improved. What about the EC AI?

[alldaws1]

THQ has done got EA Sports syndrome in regards to the difficulty setting. Normal is ridiculously easy while 'Hard' is too hard. Although admittedly I've only tried hard in a fatal 4-way and after the first guy's gone the other two seem to team up on you unless you can hide out in the corner.

[Plubby]

AD's right, Normal is absurdly easy. Hard is perfect for me, it's *just* enough reversals to be challenging without being an exercise in controller-snapping frustration. It gets a little cheap when the game reverses three moves in a row, but it taught me very quickly to vary my offense. Gone are the days I spent playing on a friends HCTP where the winner would just spam Triple H's high knee ad nauseum.

EDIT: Also, I just wasted a code by unlocking Jericho's Attitude era costume the hard way.

Edited November 6, 2008 by Plubby

[Your Mom]

I don't get why everyone gets this before us. That is not the American way!

[Plubby]

I got it before everyone!

...BE JEALOUS!

Seriously though; I think the US gets it when they do so that WWE can hold some release events that don't interfere with the taping schedules.

[alldaws1]

The code to unlock Hornswoggle is now up on WWE.com, looks like you can only use him as a manager though.

[apsham]

Yeah, seems like that would be a good idea. I don't think it'd be that fun to have to switch around the entire game just to give him offense\change what moves to him would be like.

[alldaws1]

Well managers can still attack the wrestlers and such, so I don't see why they couldn't make him a playable wrestler?

[King Ellis]

I thought he was in as a wrestler, the advert I saw implied as much.

[alldaws1]

Well on WWE.com it says unlock him as a manager and the code itself is HornswoggleAsManager.

[King Ellis]

I don't doubt you Ad, i'm just saying.

[Baddar]

Just put in the code "HornswoggleAsWrestler" for fuck sake. ¬_¬

[apsham]

Is he used as a normal manager? I pictured him being under the ring and distracting the ref or giving you a weapon.

[Plubby]

I unlocked Hornswoggle in the Taker's RTWM:

Spoiler: Click here to view

Beat Finlay in less time than it takes to beat Santino. When you do, the game tells you that holding R1 + Taunt says that Horny will come out from under the ring to do stuff to the opponent

[Timmoru Suzuki]

This is unforgivably boring. It's a shame becuase there's some nice touches, but it's just so damn slow and plodding in the ring I feel like I might lapse into a coma at any moment. Even the one fun character from last year, CM Punk is as dull as everyone else, strangely that is, bar Orton who is actually fun.

[alldaws1]

It's certainly slower than the TNA game, which is quite realistic if you consider the styles of matches each company has. I would love it if they adopt Midway's approach to reversals in that you can do them at certain points of the move rather than having to reverse before the move is actually initiated.

[Evafreak]

I couldnt find it anywhere but does anyone know how to do the strong irish whip where you launch them?