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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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It's not a bad game by any means.
But the whole point of the career mode seems to have been removed and replaced with a "If you lose you have to start again" idea, which in my opinion, is terrible.
In Smackdown 2, you could enter your wrestler and a mate could enter his. Both of you progress through a career, starting at the bottom of different leagues, seeing who could get to the top first, occasionally meeting up for tag-matches.
Just a healthy competition for multi-players.
But not anymore, just one player only and no progression through the ranks.
Lose and start again.
Win and start again.
Hmmmm...not a bad game at all, just nowhere near as much playability as Smackdown 2 for multiplayer action.
Shame really, as the rest of it is good fun.
But the whole point of the career mode seems to have been removed and replaced with a "If you lose you have to start again" idea, which in my opinion, is terrible.
In Smackdown 2, you could enter your wrestler and a mate could enter his. Both of you progress through a career, starting at the bottom of different leagues, seeing who could get to the top first, occasionally meeting up for tag-matches.
Just a healthy competition for multi-players.
But not anymore, just one player only and no progression through the ranks.
Lose and start again.
Win and start again.
Hmmmm...not a bad game at all, just nowhere near as much playability as Smackdown 2 for multiplayer action.
Shame really, as the rest of it is good fun.
I wish I had a Playstation or playstation 2 because I could play such great titles as Bust a groove or Spyro but U can't beat a good wrestling game. There's nothing better than laugh in your mates face when youv'e just clotheslined his wrestler... RESPECT.
=B0p
=B0p
Nick1, remember what I said. You'll get reported if your not careful!
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.
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.
Or†ega wrote:
> Hmmm, all i've heard so far is bad things about the game. Is there anything good
> about the game?!
i'm getting it delivered monday/tuesday so i would like
> somthin to look forward too!
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Bad news travels faster than good news! Everyones expecting so much from SD3 so if theres a bad bit about it everyone has to know. Its as simple as that...
> Hmmm, all i've heard so far is bad things about the game. Is there anything good
> about the game?!
i'm getting it delivered monday/tuesday so i would like
> somthin to look forward too!
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Bad news travels faster than good news! Everyones expecting so much from SD3 so if theres a bad bit about it everyone has to know. Its as simple as that...
It seems to me that the makers of SD3 have taken a more arcade approach to the game this time round, which I find a lot less more fun.
It’s more of a kind of survivor option you’d find on a beat ‘em up. Its a lot more life-like now…
It’s more of a kind of survivor option you’d find on a beat ‘em up. Its a lot more life-like now…
Hmmm, all i've heard so far is bad things about the game. Is there anything good about the game?!
i'm getting it delivered monday/tuesday so i would like somthin to look forward too!
i'm getting it delivered monday/tuesday so i would like somthin to look forward too!
Is it me but were people expecting too much from this game? I mean don't get me wrong i'm sure it's great fun but i've asked a few people and they say it's not as good as it could have been.
Also going for two titles at the same time is something i've done with a mate and loosing that option looses a lot of laughs.
Also going for two titles at the same time is something i've done with a mate and loosing that option looses a lot of laughs.
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