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| Smackdown: Just Bring It, Rated T for Teen Do you think you�re that damn good? Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? Would you like me to stop quoting WWF superstars? Well then play this game. �Smackdown: Just Bring It� is the latest in the classic Playstation �Smackdown� series. This game takes full advantage of the Playstation 2 game system. When I first turned on the game the first thing I saw was the most incredible opening video for a game ever. The characters actually looked close to the real life wrestlers. However this was just a video. The graphics for the actual game aren�t as good, but you still get a visually stunning game. Once you play the game you notice the amount of options you have. First of many options is the story mode. The story mode is the only way for characters to get title belts and the first step to unlocking all 52 hidden items. The �Create a Wrestler� option makes a triumphant return making it possible to build your own unique wrestler, put a non-WWF-wrestler from the independent circuit into the game (I had to add Homeless Jimmy to my game), or you can build a character that looks like yourself and play the game as YOU. The amount of matches has increased adding the street fight, and the ultimate submission match as options. The best part of the extra matches is they got rid of the pass� casket match. Another cool little feature is that they have some unlockable movies that you can watch, which are the greatest recent Smackdown moments, the commercials for the first two smackdown games, and the behind the scenes filmings. There are negative aspects to this game though. First of all if you�re expecting to find the WCW or ECW stars from the Alliance in this game, don�t hold your breath. Due to licensing problems with Turner, the former owner of the WCW most of the Alliance was left out of this game. It turns out that the WCW stars are still contractually obliged not to appear in WWF games, as for the ECW I just don�t know. However they made it very easy to build these wrestlers, even having special coded move sets that you can enter in to build the alliance superstars. Another thing that they messed up is the Play-by-Play announcing. Granted this is the first time that a serious effort to do play by play has been done but it�s still greatly flawed. Michael Cole and Tazz call the play by play, but magically when Tazz is in the ring, he still manages to call his own play by play. When Tazz and Cole speak, the sentences don�t flow smoothly. The other Superstars don�t speak at all. It would be nice if they had taken time to record the superstars saying a few words so they could speak in story mode, but they didn�t. Also the game itself is still a little buggy and it seems that they could have spent another month on it to make it even better than it is. However they had to hurry up and get a WWF game onto PS2 before people lost interest in the product. The entrances are the best that I have ever seen in any game I have played, and I�ve played them all. The music is clear, the applause is wild, and the entrances are as intense as they are on television. I have played every wrestling game to be released out over the past couple years and I can tell you that this is one of the best. The entrances are fantastic, the moves are solid, and according to a non-WWF fan �This is more fun to watch than the actual wrestling.� So if you�re into wrestling games and want to play the beginning of the next generation of them then go ahead and get your hands on this game. It�s truly fun and it�s visually stunning. Back |
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