WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 PS3 Demo Available, Impressions Here

[Rawdeal28]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Up in NA now. HBK vs. Matt went as I expected. Jeff vs. HHH went mostly as expected but with quite a few counters from HHH. HHH vs. HBK was a major WTF. 4 sledgehammer shots and a pedigree,him in red on torso and head,kicks out. Further beating with sledgehammer,sig spinebuster,pedigree,no sells. Beaten with chair,3 more pedigrees,2 more spinebusters,1 more pedigree through a table,tossed in ring and gets up right away with no chance to pin. End up outside the ring again after some cool punch combo thing,3 more sledgehammer beatings,another spinebuster and 3 more pedigrees,I get back in the ring and it seemed he refused to come back,he stood out there appearing to wipe blood from his eyes in an infinte loop. I came out and he started moving again so I got back in the ring. Then he stood out there holding his back. I went out threw him back in,more sledgehammerness and another pedigree and finally winning.

WTF???

u playing vs cpu or a real person?

[goh]

CPU
Pretty much had to kill him to win.

[cake612]

Played the demo a few times now, it's interesting but I'll be waiting for impressions/reviews before deciding. You do have to just destroy the CPU to get a pinfall from what I've seen so far. Haven't played a smackdown game in a couple years and was starting to get excited about this one but if it's going to take atleast 3 or 4 finishers to win a match that'll be pretty disappointing.
Got the wrestling bug again for some reason, was a diehard fan when I was growing up back in the 90's and early 2000 but stopped watching completely a few years ago. Now I'm kind of interested again but there's just way to many guys I don't know and look like complete scrubs but their in main story lines and fighting for belts. What the hell is a Miz and why are he and John Morrison fighting DX tomorrow is that the dude from real world road rules...WTF!! Might try and catch RAW tomorrow hoping that'll be a big episode and catch me up on who some of these dudes are.

[goh]

Yes it's that Miz from the MTV show.
John Morrison was formerly known as Johnny Nitro,he was on one of the Tough Enoughs,then Bischoff's lackey,then dissappeared,then in a really great tag team but his partner got fired,then he went solo and was ECW champ,then ended up with Miz.
I hope they're fighting DX tomorrow for the sake of making new stars.

[cake612]

Cool thanks for the rundown, man it's like WWE just fell off a cliff since it's glory days, ex olympians and football players back in the day and now it's a bunch of jokers from reality shows or guys that have been around since I first started watching. I shouldn't really mock it since I haven't really watched it in a couple years(so I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to anyone who started after 2002 or so) but I think there was a reason I stopped watching.

[Pared]

I actually enjoyed this. The arguing with the ref is completely horrible though. It goes to some sort of cutscene, the crowd cuts out and you hear the ref clearly. Who in their right mind thought this was good?

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

I actually enjoyed this. The arguing with the ref is completely horrible though. It goes to some sort of cutscene, the crowd cuts out and you hear the ref clearly. Who in their right mind thought this was good?

What? They still have this stop the action cut scenes in game. I hated it in the game last time. Pushing the ref, getting weapons in the ECW match, going to crowd would all stop the gameplay because one player is doing something random and pointless.

[Pared]

I don't know about the others, but the arguing is beyond stupid.

They kick out, and while you're getting up, if you press triangle the screen cuts, repositions you in a way that you weren't when you hit the triangle, has you get up and start complaining to the ref.

It looks so terrible and out of place in the game.