Smackdown vs Raw 08 Hands On

[LBzrule]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/802/802648p1.html

[Aggies7]

Re: Smackdown vs Raw 08 Hands On

The videos look pretty good.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Smackdown vs Raw 08 Hands On

Hardy and Sandman join previously-announced superstars Undertaker, Bobby Lashley, Kane, Triple H, John Cena, Rey Mysterio, Chris Masters, and Randy Orton to bring the roster count to 10. Also of note is that, contrary to other reports, no other wrestlers have been officially confirmed. All three commentary teams, however, will make appearances.

[franch1se]

Re: Smackdown vs Raw 08 Hands On

The videos look pretty good.

Orton had pyro in the video!! hahahah
bring it back!

[TimmeH]

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Man they just need to fix the gameplay. That's all I'm asking. Let me have a competitive match against the CPU that actually goes 10+ minutes!

[JohnDoe8865]

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Man they just need to fix the gameplay. That's all I'm asking. Let me have a competitive match against the CPU that actually goes 10+ minutes!

Yeah I hear that. All the graphics/sound/animations/extras upgrades in the world isn't going to make the difference if they don't address the outdated and not that great anymore gameplay.

I DO think they need to throw out any animation that wasn't added in the last two years and redo the rest, but not before changing the gameplay and I'm not saying just using the right stick. I mean the AI (which even sliders didn't help that much in 07). The logic of the AI needs to be better and they need some semblense of "human" intelligence since they are supposed to be humans. Collision detection still is spotty too and that detracts from the gameplay experience sometimes too.

I really want to see the gameplay addressed from the core code on up. I doubt we'll see that anytime soon though.

[BSanders]

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I can't get hyped for this game after hearing that they are combining season and gm mode together so that means removing the best mode gm mode.

[Aggies7]

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Interesting note from Wrestlezone:

"The latest WWE video game was almost complete when it was ordered to extract Chris Benoit from it. There were a lot of problems in this because they can't just so easily delete him from the game, especially considering that game so far in the process. Nonetheless, the feeling was that it would be a p.r. disaster if they released the game with Benoit as one of the star characters. The video game's team pretty much had no choice but to remove Benoit from the game."

This sounds like it may delay the release of the game, I guess we will just have to wait and see.

[The GIGGAS]

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I'm not seeing how it could delay it. Sure there is a bit of work to be done but it shouldn't delay the release.

[adembroski]

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Interesting note from Wrestlezone:

"The latest WWE video game was almost complete when it was ordered to extract Chris Benoit from it. There were a lot of problems in this because they can't just so easily delete him from the game, especially considering that game so far in the process. Nonetheless, the feeling was that it would be a p.r. disaster if they released the game with Benoit as one of the star characters. The video game's team pretty much had no choice but to remove Benoit from the game."

This sounds like it may delay the release of the game, I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Bah, they could easily just disable him. They already have disabled characters in the game that can be ennabled using a code... the green dude for create-a-move-set for instance.

[mgoblue]

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I'm not seeing how it could delay it. Sure there is a bit of work to be done but it shouldn't delay the release.

If he was used a lot in season mode (voiceovers and whatnot) then I could see how completely removing Benoit would be kinda tough

[Pared]

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Yeah, it's always easy for people to say it's easy.

If Benoit was very heavy in the story mode portion of the game, removing wouldn't be as simple as everyone puts it.

And no, replacing him would be just as irksome, as Benoit's situations were most likely specific to him.

[The GIGGAS]

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That would be difficult, but I thought it was WWE 24/7 mode this year... I totally forgot about that mode, though.

[Altimus]

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Hopefully it's not delayed too much if at all. But hopefully they don't rush it because of the Beniot story lines they have to take out.

Also are we ever going to get different attires for wrestlers?

[JiggidyJames]

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Eh, from the Observer site...

--The box art for the WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 game has been released with a cover of John Cena, Undertaker and Bobby Lashley, as well as the ECW logo added. The game will allow for flaming tables.