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I'm not a wrestling fan.
I did get Smackdown 2 and found it tremendous fun.
Me and a mate would create freakish wrestlers with boobs, massive heads and tiny hands and then enter them into the career/story mode.
I'd go into say, the European League and he'd enter Intercontinental or another one.
We'd laugh and dance like women when one of us would lose a match and slip in the rankings or rise to get a title shot etc, good hetero-manly fun.
Get Smackdown 3 and look forward with anticipation.
Except I'm noticing a few...differences (polite version of the word I want to use).
Story mode:
Only 1 character can be played at a time.
That means I can't race my mate to title champ or mock him as he loses to woman.
Just 1 character can be played.
And you can't choose the league you play in, it's a set league with set matches.
Say you lost a match in SM2, you would slip a rank and have to work twice as hard to get back, eventually getting a title shot.
Except for SM3, if you lose then that's it - Game Over.
Start again.
What the fun? That can't be right, surely?
Surely I can enter more than one wrestler at a time?
No?
The graphics are excellent, create-a-freak is still fun.
Sure you can do exhibition matches against a mate, but you can't progress a career together and watch your mutants rise to glory?
I'm missing something here aren't I?
I just haven't found the right option to choose 2 characters to play, simultaneously.
Right?
They wouldn't remove the career mode and just settle for a pre-scripted, one-character only mode would they?
Please tell me I'm just not doing something correct, because otherwise it would appear they have destroyed the career mode and replaced it with a one-player slug-a-thon that ends as soon as you lose a match.
Hmmmmm...nice graphics, but it would appear the guts of the game have been removed and thrown on the floor?
Am I right?
I did get Smackdown 2 and found it tremendous fun.
Me and a mate would create freakish wrestlers with boobs, massive heads and tiny hands and then enter them into the career/story mode.
I'd go into say, the European League and he'd enter Intercontinental or another one.
We'd laugh and dance like women when one of us would lose a match and slip in the rankings or rise to get a title shot etc, good hetero-manly fun.
Get Smackdown 3 and look forward with anticipation.
Except I'm noticing a few...differences (polite version of the word I want to use).
Story mode:
Only 1 character can be played at a time.
That means I can't race my mate to title champ or mock him as he loses to woman.
Just 1 character can be played.
And you can't choose the league you play in, it's a set league with set matches.
Say you lost a match in SM2, you would slip a rank and have to work twice as hard to get back, eventually getting a title shot.
Except for SM3, if you lose then that's it - Game Over.
Start again.
What the fun? That can't be right, surely?
Surely I can enter more than one wrestler at a time?
No?
The graphics are excellent, create-a-freak is still fun.
Sure you can do exhibition matches against a mate, but you can't progress a career together and watch your mutants rise to glory?
I'm missing something here aren't I?
I just haven't found the right option to choose 2 characters to play, simultaneously.
Right?
They wouldn't remove the career mode and just settle for a pre-scripted, one-character only mode would they?
Please tell me I'm just not doing something correct, because otherwise it would appear they have destroyed the career mode and replaced it with a one-player slug-a-thon that ends as soon as you lose a match.
Hmmmmm...nice graphics, but it would appear the guts of the game have been removed and thrown on the floor?
Am I right?
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I must admit, I was pretty disappointed with the story mode, but I am still having a bit of fun with it. I have now managed to see cut scene where Edge and Christian do the Conchairto and where Kurt Angle comes down to the ring in a milk float. I am pretty sure there are still some more to uncover.
I would have to agree there Goatboy, I won't be playing SD3 nearly as long as I did with SD2.
Good points:
They have removed the annoying cut-scenes you couldn't skip between every 2/3 fights that took ages to wade through.
They have beefed the graphics up.
Bad points:
They have removed the career mode and replaced with "Story Mode", so you cannot progress through a season, it's 3 fights to win the title, end of game.
Then defend the title in a single match, end of game.
No PPV anymore
Only 1 person in story mode at a time, so no racing your mates to glory.
----
Overall, I am highly disappointed with Smackdown 3.
Smackdown 2 was great fun, let down by numerous cut-scenes of utter irrelevance.
But now there is no single player career/season mode.
They appear to have ripped the guts out of the 1st two games and replaced it with a 3-match-and-then-you-win thing.
And the smackdown moves are almost impossible to pull off now.
Countering is far too easy, it's rare that a grapple actually results in a throw etc.
And most of all, no career mode. No getting high in the rankings and losing, fighting your way back up again.
Win - Win - Win - End.
Bah
They have removed the annoying cut-scenes you couldn't skip between every 2/3 fights that took ages to wade through.
They have beefed the graphics up.
Bad points:
They have removed the career mode and replaced with "Story Mode", so you cannot progress through a season, it's 3 fights to win the title, end of game.
Then defend the title in a single match, end of game.
No PPV anymore
Only 1 person in story mode at a time, so no racing your mates to glory.
----
Overall, I am highly disappointed with Smackdown 3.
Smackdown 2 was great fun, let down by numerous cut-scenes of utter irrelevance.
But now there is no single player career/season mode.
They appear to have ripped the guts out of the 1st two games and replaced it with a 3-match-and-then-you-win thing.
And the smackdown moves are almost impossible to pull off now.
Countering is far too easy, it's rare that a grapple actually results in a throw etc.
And most of all, no career mode. No getting high in the rankings and losing, fighting your way back up again.
Win - Win - Win - End.
Bah
The worst thing about Smackdown 3 is the lack of a Create-A-PPV mode, which I spent months trying to improve my audience ranking on SD2. I can't believe they've taken it out...
Or†ega wrote:
> I've always thought the Smackdown controls were dodgy, but I am used to the N64
> THQ Wreslting games, which I think have a much better game engine in general.
Brill! I've always found N64 controls easier.
=B0p
> I've always thought the Smackdown controls were dodgy, but I am used to the N64
> THQ Wreslting games, which I think have a much better game engine in general.
Brill! I've always found N64 controls easier.
=B0p
Starlight wrote:
> Or ega wrote:
i'm getting it delivered monday/tuesday so i would like
>
> somthin to look forward too!
You can beat up Fred Durst but i'm sure you
> already know this, is there a hell in a cell, I mean a proper one not like in
> Smackdown 2 and can you clib it, put people through it etc.
u can climb up and put them through the top in smackdown2
> Or ega wrote:
i'm getting it delivered monday/tuesday so i would like
>
> somthin to look forward too!
You can beat up Fred Durst but i'm sure you
> already know this, is there a hell in a cell, I mean a proper one not like in
> Smackdown 2 and can you clib it, put people through it etc.
u can climb up and put them through the top in smackdown2
I've always thought the Smackdown controls were dodgy, but I am used to the N64 THQ Wreslting games, which I think have a much better game engine in general.
is it me or are the controls really hard for just bring it?
keeping in mind this is the first time i have played a wwf game...
*picks up a table and..*
*waits for the girls cant play games comments*
keeping in mind this is the first time i have played a wwf game...
*picks up a table and..*
*waits for the girls cant play games comments*
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