Lacks anything new, and totally unoriginal. Don't waste money on it.
User Rating: 6.3 | WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw PS2
If you have played and enjoyed the previous Smackdown game (Here comes the pain) you can pretty much skip this game, as there is nothing new in this game thats worth the $50 price tag. The new features all have their flaws. Online play has only 2 modes and totally lacks any depth. The voice-overs are flat, with no emotion and sound like they have been recorded in a bathroom sized room. The only exception is Vince's voiceover, as he is the one person who sounds sincere. Besides that, some issues have been fixed, like the balancing issues with weapons, which now disappear after a few hits, and there is better weight detection, as lifting heavy wrestlers is harder than before. But the flaws out number the fixes. The AI is just awful and totally stupid. Especially in matches that involve more than 2 wrestlers. Speaking of which, in matches with more than 2 wrestlers, the issue with the focus still remains. The auto focus is crap, and the manual never seems to work fast enough. Also there is a huge balancing issue, when a wrestler gets knocked down, the opposing wrestler can perform so many moves on the mat, that you can conceivably just keep doing that and not allow your opponent to ever get up, which in my opinion is a huge bug. Overall, I wish I hadn't spent $50 on this game. This is going back to the store, and I'm going to continue playing Here comes the pain instead.
