WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010
The best-selling fighting videogame franchise returns to the virtual ring with the most authentic, entertaining and compelling simulation of WWE programming to date. Featuring unparalleled creation tools, a robust Superstar roster, key franchise improvements and a few surprises. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 delivers the empowering freedom to create, customize and share gameplay experiences. It’s the player’s world now.
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User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Well done as a game, but boring to me to play
This game is well done, a definite improvement over SvR 2009. The graphics look good, they got rid of the dumb entrance system which wasted a lot of time (but had enough benefit to make you sit through it), and the “Create a Wrestler” and story creation modes are cool. The problem is, the game itself is BORING. The matches feel like they just drag on and on and on. Unlike a WWE match, it is very hard to “tell a story in the ring” with the game. On TV, the wrestlers might cheat a lot, or focus their attacks on a bodypart, or do innovative counters like shove their opponent head first into the ring post. It’s really hard to do anything beyond basic bodypart focusing in this game. The “career mode” is basically a way of forcing you to play through a few dozen boring matches, and they are either way too easy (the computer just lets you beat on them) or too hard (the computer reverses everything you do).
Maybe online play is better, I don’t know, I didn’t try it. I played around with this game for a few hours, realized that it had all of the frustration points of a game like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter (having to learn a lot of highly technical combinations, combos, timings, etc.) without the “instant gratification” of 90 second rounds. If you are a fan of the wrestling game genre, I suppose this game is for you, but for me, I found it boring despite its quality production.
J.Ja
1 Stars This sucks just like WWE
Well the WWE games have gotten just as bad as WWE itself. Like WWE this game is boring, the same as the last 5 years of offerings, nothing new worth buying the game for. This review is not specific to the WII it’s SVR 2010 as I have played it on XBOX 360 as well. The gameplay is slow, boring and overly complicated compared to gems like DOR 2 and No Mercy/WCW Revenge. I hope TNA comes out with a good game to get THQ to actually make a different WWE game (with more good legends or wrestlers) to the standard they used to have. SVR 2007-SVR 2010 are the same exact game with lame additions, worse gameplay and worse rosters. This sucks. DOR 2 looks better, plays better, has better controls, moves look better, and is so much better than this mess.
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5 Stars Great fun!
My 6 year old granddaaughter is a big wrestling fan. She and her mom love to play it. Highly recommended.
5 Stars One Happy Child
Got the game as a Christmas present for my 10 year old cousin. Is loves it very much. Great Christmas.
3 Stars Not great, but not bad
After reading some other reviews, I see that I’m apparently in the minority when I say that I loved the control scheme of SVR 2009. I liked waving the Wii remote to do the moves. Unfortunately for me, that has been completely stripped out in favor of button mashing. I hated the control scheme of 2010 when I started playing, but I’m warming up to it a little. The problem I have with this game is that some matches are incredibly difficult to win. For instance, I played a cage match for almost a half-hour because I couldn’t get the opponent to stay on the ground long enough to climb out. I must’ve done 6 or 7 finishers and I still couldn’t get out fast enough.
Side note: You can use virtual console controllers or Gamecube controllers with this game if you prefer not to use the Wii remote (since there are no motion controls anyway).
What’s new in the this year’s Wii version are all sorts of match types that should’ve been in the 2009 edition. You can now play Inferno matches (which I still can’t figure out how to win) and Elimination Chamber among others. The Road to Wrestlemania is the same as it was in 2009. You pick from six (I think?) wrestlers to through storylines up to Wrestlemania with. They even added a storyline in which you can use a created wrestler to go through it.
One final note: Don’t buy this game for the PS2!!! There are a bunch of glitches, particularly when 6 wresters are on the screen at once or there’s a lot going on. The game freezes often. A friend of mine bought it and can’t get past the 3rd week of the Road to Wrestlemania with his created character because it keeps freezing. Don’t buy it!
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