Wrestling Games

[vivisectvi]

Yeah, I definitely dig that. You can change the rope, post, mat, apron, & skirt color and then plop a logo right in the middle if you'd like. My old school Royal Rumble ring is pretty badass with the purple ring skirts and perfect logo some guy on one of the FPR fan sites did a while back.

Yeah there are some pretty damn accurate logos on that site!

 

[vivisectvi]

Also, Wade's finisher looks just as bad in videogame form as it does in real life. I'm thinking I'm going to change it to the F5 when the DLC comes out.

Smackdown vs raw 2011 Wade Barrett Finisher

 

[vivisectvi]

One more - re glitches. I downloaded an awesome Shinsuke Nakamura from Community Creations. The creator also had made a moveset with created finishers, so I downloaded that and applied it. Played him in a few matches the other night but when I came back to play this morning his moveset was reset to default. Anyone else have this issue with CAWs and movesets?

 

[J]

That's happened to me with CAWs I made, but not with a downloaded one, and it is fucking irritating especially after spending a good chunk of time putting a moveset together.

 

[Danville_Wrestling]

Yeah, I definitely dig that. You can change the rope, post, mat, apron, & skirt color and then plop a logo right in the middle if you'd like. My old school Royal Rumble ring is pretty badass with the purple ring skirts and perfect logo some guy on one of the FPR fan sites did a while back.

Yeah there are some pretty damn accurate logos on that site!

Yeah, I actually got a picture of the old school King of the Ring Logo (with the crown), put it on Microsoft Paint, and spent 7-9 hours transcribing it into the game. It was pretty awesome when I finished it. I had a lot of great stuff on the memory card for that game, but it got corrupted and I lost it. I'm still really angry about that, because I'm not going to sit in front of the TV and do that again.

 

[Kageho]

So I recently moved the difficulty up to Hard (and lowering the reversal ratings) and began continuing my second season in WWE Universe with Hulk Hogan heading into Backlash as the WWE Champion after cashing in his Money In The Bank contract. After doing this, my time with WWe Universe has been anything but like my first season with complete dominance.

I'm still playing as Omega (Raw) and instead of me getting a simple rematch, it became a Fatal Four Way with Batista and HBK getting involved. I'm a little pissed, but I can handle it, I thought. Well, no I can't as while I'm beating the ever loving crap out of HBK, Batista does what Batista does best and Batista bombs Hulk Hogan for the win and becomes the WWE Champion.

I'm pissed, but I deal with it. So Extreme Rules is next up, and after beating Shawn Michaels and Triple H for the right to face Batista, I probably have my most hellish match in my falls count anywhere match. I'm absolutely pissed, and I could've finished the match off a few times, but I spent a good probably few more minutes beating the ever loving hell out of Batista to claim the WWE Champion yet again.

This is where the fun really starts. With The Bash on its way, Omega gets to face Shawn Michaels (#1 Contender after beating Batista) one on one. I'm like, okay, I can deal with that. He's a tough bastard to beat, but hey, I can do this! So I actually manage to do it. Hurray me.

Then its announced that the match would be restarted as a falls count anywhere match. Wait, what the fuck!? So I think this can't get any better. Well, guess who shows up? Yeah, Triple H. Pedigree, Sweet Chin Music, boom. Omega lost. What, the, fuck?

Break to the next week, and guess who's my next opponent! Triple H! Awesome, I can get revenge and I proceed to do everything I can to beat the hell into Triple H. I don't think I've been this pissed with a WWE game in awhile. And I'm ready to celebrate but...

Match gets restarted as a falls count anywhere match. Oh, hi Michaels. You want to play the band? Certainly, I'll take your best song, Sweet Chin Music please. How about an encore Triple H? Certainly, the Pedigree sounds great. And yet again, Omega pinned lying face down. Fucking DX.

Just a week before the match though, Triple H is facing off against MVP. Michaels comes in and it soon degrades to a two on one. Then, to end the show, Omega just rushes out to make the save. And so now, I can't even really use weapons because I just went from heel to face. Thank you, Omega. As if I needed to make this match any freaking harder than it already was! Now I'm going to get a Falls Count Anywhere match, and Omega's going to get screwed over by DX.

I guess I missed Omega's promo of how he doesn't want an ordinary match, but something that'll raise the excitement, tension, and temperature from the current chill factor we have. Because at The Bash, its Omega vs Shawn Michaels in an Inferno Match. This was probably the greatest match I've had against the CPU, because it took ten minutes before either Omega or Michaels was able to hit a single finisher. It took 5 finishers, which were all coming fast and furiously after the first for Omega to toss out Michaels and retain the WWE Championship.

After The Bash, I had to concentrate more on my other character, Azrael (Smackdown), than Omega. Since it seemed both Michaels and him were given some time off. Now, before someone goes "I bet you are dominating both rosters", I actually haven't been with Azrael. He's been kinda winning matches, losing some matches, and that. Also, he's been pretty boring aside from the mini-feud on Superstars with Chavo Guerrero and I actually lost to him. So, I managed to string together 3 wins with Azrael and place him as #4 in the battle for the IC Championship (Daniel Bryan's current title).

The last week heading to Night of Champions was mind boggling. First was Raw, and finally Omega has come back and faces off against the Miz for the #1 Contendership to the United States Championship. ...wait, what? How the fuck does that work? How is Omega in line to win the United States Championship!? I give up on questioning it and just run with it.

So here we go against the Miz and it seems fine at first, until The Miz backs out of the ring suddenly and I'm like, what the fuck Miz?! Then Chris Jericho races down and enters the ring and beats me up. Okay, so Miz has an unfair advantage but its nothing I can't overcome. I can totally win this match. There's nothing to worry about. The Miz only went outside of the ring for a breather. Just because its a Falls Count Anywhere...

...aw come on, two run-ins in one match? And its Triple H? And he even gets to land the Pedigree? Are you kidding me? He gets to upstage Jericho even in the game? I fucking hate DX with a passion.

And then the greatest sequence of events occur because this will probably never happen again. The Miz with the pinfall, which gets a long two count. Kip up by Omega, followed with the Level 5 and the pin! ...1...2...3~! I fucking win and I'm going to be facing off against Shemus for the United States Championship and defend my WWE Championship against Triple H at Night of Champions! ...considering all the screwed up stuff I had to go through to get to this point, I'm quite sure I'm going to be fucked over in one of those matches.

Superstars occurs and I notice that Omega's eternal rival, CM Punk has a mystery partner against two people, I honestly don't recall the match. Why? Simply because of who his partner turns out to be. It was Shemus~! No way! Shemus partners up with CM Punk and the two are surprisingly a very damn good tag team. After the match, I'm about to put them together when the game actually asks me if I want to team them, and of course I say yes. Hell, they practically destroyed the competition, why not? So the Straight Edge Society is now CM Punk, Luke Gallows, and Shemus.

Smackdown is next and its Azrael vs Christian vs Dolph Ziggler for the right to face Daniel Bryan at Night of Champions. Not a very great match, as Azrael just dominates the two competitors, in which I was shocked he could dominate with the amount of times I've lost, and becomes the new #1 contender for the IC Title.

This wild week continues into Night of Champions in which it starts off with Azrael vs Daniel Bryan for the IC Title. I figure, hurray, I'm getting another piece of gold! However, things didn't go at all like I wanted them to... Daniel Bryan just fucking takes me to the woodshed. I've never been on such a one sided loss in all my life, and worse is that I actually was putting up a fight every so often. When I finally started making some noise, Daniel jumped up for a hurricanrana pin. And yes, I lost the match to a hurricanrana pin. Que the laughing track.

The tag titles go on the line, and I could care less about those, needless to say that the Hart Dynasty still retained them. I really need to find a team to take after the Titles. Maybe I'll send CM Punk and Shemus after them.

This lead to Edge squaring off against Kurt Angle for the World Heavyweight Championship. I simmed this match as well, because I had nothing vested in it, but the belt finally comes off of Edge (holding it since Wrestlemania) as Kurt Angle is your new Champion. Oh, its true. Its damn true.

Which leads to the United States Championship being contested. Shemus put up a good fight against Omega, but eventually I won the match. And there wasn't any interference what so ever to my shock, so I thought I had a good chance of retaining both belts. Or so I thought....

Remember my match against Shawn Michaels? Yeah, it was awesome, but this one was just as good an Inferno match as that one. Back and forth it went, Hunter and Omega beating the ever loving hell out of each other for the richest prize in sports entertainment. Finally, after what seemed like forever (15 minutes) someone hit their finisher and then threw out his opponent for the win. And that, was Omega! He is now the current United States Champion and current WWE Champion and is currently the guy with the largest target on his back!

God, I love this game. Can't wait to play more.

 

[vivisectvi]

I was getting a lot of shit interference from HHH as well and decided to end it all with CM Punk retiring him. He's now enjoying his post-WWE career on the Legends roster.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

I sent RVD back to WCW because I was sick of him and Sheamus having US title matches at EVERY PPV FOR 2 YEARS, if not more. He then won the US title at the next PPV anyway.

 

[KingPK]

So I tried another online Rumble. I get to the end and eliminate what I think is the last guy and then.....nothing. My character just stands in the ring all alone. I let this go for like two minutes before quitting out, losing all the points I've earned in the process.

I'm officially regretting buying this game. And then giving them another $10 for DLC I'll barely play because the core game is so broken. Lesson learned.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Just play offline.

 

[KingPK]

That has it's own problems.

 

[fazzle]

My game hates tag teams. I only have 5 teams left. A 5 person Nexus (Barrett/Slater/Gabriel/Otunga/Sheffield) managed to completely fall apart in a period of 3 weeks. All I have left is the Hart Dynasty, SES, Evan Bourne/Mark Henry, Brothers of Destruction, and HHH/...Yoshi Tatsu.

My main problem is even on Legendary, this game seems to be way too easy. Unless I'm facing Undertaker, it's almost always a squash.

 

[daileyxplanet]

Tweak the AI.

 

[fazzle]

One other thing that bugs me about this game, but nobody else seems to notice so it's probably just me...

When you're in a title match, and it goes to the whole "ref holds up the title" cutscene, why is that scene SO MUCH FUCKING DARKER than anything else in the game? LIGHTING people, goddamnit. Seriously, I hate doing title matches just because of that.

I know it's minor, and shouldn't bug me as much as it does, but..it does.

 

[Baby Shoes]

Anyone read about the supposed glitch on one achievement in SvR 2011. I'll spoiler tag it because I think it is one of the secret tickets.

Spoiler

100G achievement is The Man of 1004 Holds. It supposedly unlocks after 1004 Signatures and Finishers have been hit but people are insisting the only way it is being achieved is do all 1004 in one match. People are saying they've played the games endless hours and not gotten it but sat through and did 2/2:30 hour matches and got it.

If that's true, I guess this will be the first SvR in years I won't get 1000 on.

 

[Kageho]

I was getting a lot of shit interference from HHH as well and decided to end it all with CM Punk retiring him. He's now enjoying his post-WWE career on the Legends roster.

Heh, that is one way of doing it. Though, I don't mind this, because DX is all evil again. Like take for instance, SummerSlam. I'm still the United States Champion and I defend my title successfully against Shemus. Then DX comes out and gibbers on with my guy about later tonight. Okay, fine, I'm totally dealing with that. Then my singles match with Triple H goes from a singles match to a fucking Last Man Standing Match. I'm totally getting screwed over by DX, and I'm betting that Triple H is now the GM of Raw, because I had just beat Shemus in a freaking Iron Man Match.

So I did what any smart and sane person would do. I beat the ever loving hell out of him with chairs, railings, stairs, and tables. If that doesn't shelf him for awhile, I don't know what will.

I'm kinda thinking I'll play someone else other than Azrael on Smackdown. While he's fun to play, its all just the same as Omega. I think I'll take a regular superstar and work with him instead.

 

[vivisectvi]

Flik, Do you play every match on every card in Universe or just the ones that involve the guy(s) you want to push (or bury)? I usually skip most of the matches and play as a core group.

When you're in a title match, and it goes to the whole "ref holds up the title" cutscene, why is that scene SO MUCH FUCKING DARKER than anything else in the game? LIGHTING people, goddamnit. Seriously, I hate doing title matches just because of that.

I know it's minor, and shouldn't bug me as much as it does, but..it does.

I hadn't noticed but I'll take a look if it's like that in mine too. I hate playing tag team title matches in Universe mode because of the stupid separate entrance thing with the titles. Small thing, yes. But it's dumb that they did it that way.

 

[vivisectvi]

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 DLC #2 Lex Luger in game highlight reel.

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 DLC #2 Layla in game highlight reel.

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 DLC #2 Wade Barrett in game HD highlight reel.

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 DLC #2 Justin Gabriel in game HD highlight reel.

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 DLC #2 David Otunga in game HD highlight reel.

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 DLC #2 British Bulldog in game highlight reel.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Guessing the forearm shot by Lex was the signature to set up the Torture Rack Rebel Rack. That's all I wanted.

 

[Dobbs3K]

Guys, I just picked up SvR'11 for PS3 this afternoon. Having fun so far, but wondering something. How the heck do you climb up onto an announce table (like in last year's game)? Or can't you anymore? Too lazy to look it up.

 

[vivisectvi]

You can't. You can only toss someone through one via a directional move or via the top rope elbow finisher.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

On the subject of glitches, I don't know if this is a glitch, something they forgot to program, or I'm just missing the cue, but I'm not a big fan of the fact you can't seem to pin with any top rope move. I really wanted to win a match with Steamboat's crosssbody and it's kind of lame to do it, get up, then pin someone.

 

[Baby Shoes]

Yeah. When I saw the option to make a grapple move into a pinning combo by holding down a button, I was happy and was hoping it would carry over to top rope moves. I hate when it either always or never does it. Hopefully they will do that for next year.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

Another annoying glitch is that when they show the replay after the match, it often plays the loser's music instead of the winner's. Grrumph.

 

[Dobbs3K]

You can't. You can only toss someone through one via a directional move or via the top rope elbow finisher.

Ah, that's lame. It was fun slamming someone through a table with a pedigree or rock bottom. Or just doing an elbow drop off the table. I also miss the little "cut scene" animation they had for the flying elbow drop from the top rope.

My other annoyance is how often the Vince McMahon "You forgot about your NEXT opponent!" plot device comes up. I think it happens once per show in WWE Universe.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

Haven't had that cutscene. Then again, I only play about 2-3 matches per calendar week in Universe mode.

 

[Black Lushus]

You can't. You can only toss someone through one via a directional move or via the top rope elbow finisher.

Ah, that's lame. It was fun slamming someone through a table with a pedigree or rock bottom. Or just doing an elbow drop off the table. I also miss the little "cut scene" animation they had for the flying elbow drop from the top rope.

My other annoyance is how often the Vince McMahon "You forgot about your NEXT opponent!" plot device comes up. I think it happens once per show in WWE Universe.

Check on Gamefaqs...it's something like if you win one match on Raw you face and unlock so and so...if you win one match on Smackdown you face and unlock so so...if you win one match on Superstars you face and unlock so and so...if you win 5 matches, 10 matches etc. you face and unlock so and so.

Speaking of that...man this game is so broken...I'm not sure how it is on the non-Wii versions, but after you beat your second opponent and you're doing your celebration stuff, it's the original opponent laying in the ring in agony, not the second guy you just beat.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Another annoying glitch is that when they show the replay after the match, it often plays the loser's music instead of the winner's. Grrumph.

I haven't had that, but I've run into a lot of commentary and ring announcer glitches, which can get annoying.

 

[Dobbs3K]

The commentary is REALLY broken. Cole and Lawler don't make any sense whatsoever, half the time.

How did they screw up so much stuff from last year's version? Hopefully they can release a patch to fix some of this stuff.

 

[KOAB]

Also, Wade's finisher looks just as bad in videogame form as it does in real life. I'm thinking I'm going to change it to the F5 when the DLC comes out.

Smackdown vs raw 2011 Wade Barrett Finisher

It's still a trip that Wade's finisher is a basic move in lucha as a set up for top rope stuff. Dude does an awesome Bossman slam, he should make that his finisher. Do they have the Bossman slam in this game?