WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Update (IGN, Videogamer.com)

[hdaniel1]

The following websites has posted WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 updates:

• IGN: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Hands-on (DS)
  
  

  Quote:

  "This year's SmackDown vs. Raw for DS is all about taking the touch elements from last year, and really expanding into a full, true WWE game. Developer Tose is hitting this one full force this year, expanding on control, options, and the game's story mode, cramming more into this portable WWE title than any wrestling game we've seen on a Nintendo handheld in years."

• IGN: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Hands-on (PS3)
  
  

  Quote:

  "After an hour and a half of playing and creating, I was digging my time with SVR 09, but it wasn't the match types that were making me cheer inside. I was marking out for the way the ropes sagged as Jeff Hardy put his weight on the taught lines. I was marking out because flicking the left stick skips the current track playing over most menu screens in favor of another licensed tune or wrestler entrance theme."

• Videogamer.com: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Hands-on (360)
  
  

  Quote:

  "And so the gloves are off. Strangely this November, when SmackDown VS Raw 09 is unleashed upon gaming wrestling fans across the world, it won't be the first new wrestling game of the year."

• IGN: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Screenshots (DS)
  
• IGN: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Screenshots (360)
  
• IGN: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Screenshots (PS3)
  
• IGN: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Teammate Carnage Video (PS3)

[CM Hooe]

INFERNO MATCH!!!

[Qb]

Thanks, hdaniel. The author of the PS3 piece sounds rather excited for the game. I love the sound of the new tag match features, especially the hot tag. What is more basic to tag team wrestling than that?

Sounds like Yukes is really trying to put some authenticity into the in-ring action. Hopefully the online component runs smoothly, as with the new features SDVR 09 could be a great multiplayer experience. I hope they work in online Royal Rumbles; a bunch of us used to play four player rumbles in the dorms in college on No Mercy & Wrestlemania 2000 and that was the most fun I've ever had with a wrestling game.

[LBzrule]

The game is looking and sounding much better this year. Hopefully TNA will be good as well.