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*Struggles to compliment the game outside of the visuals*
I am completely with Sav on this one, its utter guff to be honest and I am glad its just a rental as I would be kicking myself having paid £30 for this! A few problems I have encountered so far:
1. Turned Xbox on to receive damaged disc error despite it being completely free of anything. Did it two more times and it finally worked.
2. Setting up Table to put opponent through is streesful and completely disatisfying. Tried and tried to put opponent through using Rock Bottom and when I lined it up and did it the table didn't break. The only let down with the tables in Smackdown is that you can only put them through it with 4 moves and the opponent has to be on the table, I was under the impression that in RAW 2 you could do any move and so far I have managed to put them through using a boring fishermans suplex.
*YAWN*
3. Trying to get tables etc from under the ring is a nightmare, you press the white button and nothing happens. Keep trying and within 5 minutes you might have some luck.
4. Trying to get weapons, tables etc into the ring from the outside. Once again an absolute nightmare. Pressing black makes him drop it and even though the guides say you need to be in the middle of the ring it still doesn't work.
5. Shockingly slow game engine, very unresponsive and very annoying.
6. Poor layout of controls, whoever laid the control shceme out should be shot.
There are more problems with the game than I have noted down but I will list them as they arrive. So far absolutley gutted.
Avoid!
I mean, I'm no sports fan, but I can understand that in sports like football, rugby, hockey and virtually every other sport ever concieved it's actually a test of peoples' abilities. Wrestling is just 2 or more greased up men hugging and slapping each other around a bit; all of which is choreographed move for move. It's not like there's even any point to any of it. If a football team wins a cup, it's because they've trained hard and used their superior football prowess to win, not because they've been paid to choreograph a football season and build up rivalries that no one should give a damn about because they're not even real.
Wrestling is just one big waste of time, effort and money.
Since then I haven't watched it outside of when The Rock very rarely comes back.