WWE 12 Retail Early Impressions

[RocketTMac1]

I put all three tag titles on Air Boom and they only come out with the unified belts and are introduced only as unified tag team champions

That solves the tag team title issue I was fearing that was in the game. Man this is great to know. How is the cusom PPV arenas? Do the announcers still call the PPV arena Extreme Rules if I make ECW One Night Stand?

[jrider99]

Re: WWE 12 Retail Impressions

For those wondering about accessing the online stuff with only a silver account, I tried to download the 7-day trial Online Axxess pass and it wouldn't let me because it was a silver account. And the trial is only good for multiplayer matches, not access to the community creations. I had already used my pass with my gold account, so maybe if you have that code you will be OK, but I have to think this isn't a good sign.

[LouieLouieWWE]

Not to be a bother, but have you checked on the custom music yet. Last year these bugs really annoyed me and I'm just curious to see if they were fixed

[hulkhogan1]

Has Morrison's Starship Pain been reanimated?

[stunta21]

1. is the nwo, wolfpack, and evolution theme and muisc in the game

2. is booker t doin commentary

[stunta21]

music* sorry typo

[BDKiiing]

Re: WWE 12 Retail Impressions

I put all three tag titles on Air Boom and they only come out with the unified belts and are introduced only as unified tag team champions

what happens if they drop the unified straps?...do all of em transfer?

[sderrick23]

At the royal rumble will the trons show for the entrant thats entering the match and will fueds start by eliminating someone in universe for example: kane eliminates brock lesnar they start a feud and it continues for weeks. And if a tag team is in at the same time will they work together or they try to eliminate each other(i hated that i love to see tag teams trying to stay in the whole match)

[hulkhogan1]

At the royal rumble will the trons show for the entrant thats entering the match and will fueds start by eliminating someone in universe for example: kane eliminates brock lesnar they start a feud and it continues for weeks. And if a tag team is in at the same time will they work together or they try to eliminate each other(i hated that i love to see tag teams trying to stay in the whole match)

I could see it being pretty hard from them to make AI that is that smart. It's already dumb at times during a one on one match, I can't see how well team based AI would work. You have some other good ideas though. The beauty of Universe mode is you can create your own feuds at any time, so having Kane and Lesnar face each other the next night because of that instance you described would be very easy to make happen. And it would be pretty cool if at least mini trons played when guys entered the Rumble. They were able to make some character specific Rumble entrances and even have pyro go off for some guys, so having a mini tron play for a few seconds couldn't be that much harder.

[Kamaria]

I could see it being pretty hard from them to make AI that is that smart. It's already dumb at times during a one on one match, I can't see how well team based AI would work. You have some other good ideas though. The beauty of Universe mode is you can create your own feuds at any time, so having Kane and Lesnar face each other the next night because of that instance you described would be very easy to make happen. And it would be pretty cool if at least mini trons played when guys entered the Rumble. They were able to make some character specific Rumble entrances and even have pyro go off for some guys, so having a mini tron play for a few seconds couldn't be that much harder.

I'm no coder, but perhaps they could assign a 'priority' to the guys in the ring. The AI will prioritize people not in the current wrestlers' alliance, and will always target 'rivals' first, in any multi-man free for all match. Of course, if one of the allied wrestlers 'accidentally' hits them, they might just get targeted, or if nobody else is left in the ring but them...

[DJ]

Re: WWE 12 Retail Impressions

For those wondering about accessing the online stuff with only a silver account, I tried to download the 7-day trial Online Axxess pass and it wouldn't let me because it was a silver account. And the trial is only good for multiplayer matches, not access to the community creations. I had already used my pass with my gold account, so maybe if you have that code you will be OK, but I have to think this isn't a good sign.

Not good for me, as I only have Silver. I'll probably just get the PS3 version so I can download things without having to pay extra.

[goh]

Re: WWE 12 Retail Impressions

For those wondering about accessing the online stuff with only a silver account, I tried to download the 7-day trial Online Axxess pass and it wouldn't let me because it was a silver account. And the trial is only good for multiplayer matches, not access to the community creations. I had already used my pass with my gold account, so maybe if you have that code you will be OK, but I have to think this isn't a good sign.

Thanks for checking on that. The code didn't make a difference last year.

Just a rental to play through the story then. They don't seem to realize most people don't share CAWs anymore and say to go download them so that's a large part of the game missing. There's clearly no excuse for this to not be available,I just rented 2K12 the other week and had full access to downloading and uploading rosters,highlights etc.,I didn't even upload the right thing for the achievement at first and PS3 users don't need PSN+ which makes it entirely inexcusable. There was a contest on the dashboard for free gold and there's 500 of them so maybe if I get that but otherwise no downloading = no buy. THQ or Yuke's or whoever it is that's responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves.

[Streets]

Re: WWE 12 Retail Impressions

Can you create your own title matches for unranked titles in Universe?

So, say I want to bring the European title back; could I put all the other unranked belts on a legend in WCW, give someone the European title, and make them defend it when I want?

Also, is it possible to swap out major and minor titles in the middle of your Universe or is it something you set from the beginning? I want my CAW to get rid of the god awful spinner belt and bring some attitude back to wrestling when he wins the WWE title in Universe.

[Aggies7]

Maybe a stupid question but is there any improvements to CAW names for entrances. I got so sick of hearing...

"Now coming to the ring...the Superstar".

[hulkhogan1]

Maybe a stupid question but is there any improvements to CAW names for entrances. I got so sick of hearing...

"Now coming to the ring...the Superstar".

I don't have the game but call names have indeed been improved. There is a much bigger list to choose from that has much more variety, such as having alot of real names instead of gimmick names. Also for the first time you're able to string up to 4 different names together, to allow for alot more possibilities. So yes, CAW announce names should be much less generic this year.