Playstation blog writes:
SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 contains just about anything you could want in a fighting game, including Inferno Matches, improved tag team battles and even a Create-A-Finisher mode. But even with all that and over sixty playable characters, some gamers have been left wanting more...
IGN Says: If you ran out and picked up WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 today with dreams of creating dozens of Superstars, you might be in for a surprise. Currently, the only way to drag your created Superstars from their low-30 overall rating to something that can contend with the WWE heavyweights is to take each one of them through the game's Career Mode and spend hours earning attribute points. Needless to say, if you're looking to make 30 great Superstars, that's going to take some time.
Everyday a code for a new character on the new WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 game
You can play as more than 60 Superstars on six different systems. You can create a Superstar, create their entrance and even create their finisher. You can attack your opponent with tables, ladders, chairs, trash cans, sledgehammers and who knows what else. But for some members of the WWE Universe,The WWE knows this still won't be enough. That's why SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 contains a slew of unlockable content.
THQ issued the following press release today:
From NextGen Player:
This past week WWE has attempted to control the media. There is some heat towards UK's magazine the Fighting Spirit for their preview of SmackDown vs. RAW 2009 video game.
IGN SAYS: Let's be frank: the single-player career in WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 wasn't that great. WrestleMania was in the same city every year, the storyline repeated, and characters were forced into situations that they'd never be in on the show so the players never felt like they were actually walking in that Superstar's boots.
IGN Says: Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.
IGN Says: Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.
Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.
IGN Says: Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.
WWE man-mountain Randy Orton last night became an unlikely defender of the industry's creative freedoms, urging developers to fight back against critics with a rallying cry for "more violence" in videogames.
Videogamer reports that the WWE headliners will be appearing on the cover art for WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2009.
Because the Democrats have taken so long to nominate their bid for the presidency (of the United States), THQ and the WWE have taken it upon themselves to settle the battle once and for all. Tonight on USA’s Monday Night RAW, it has been hinted that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will meet... in a wrestling ring. To demonstrate what the two might look like, THQ has rendered wrestling entrances for both political figures ...
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WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 publisher THQ has dismissed comments from TNA wrestling star Kurt Angle that its game "is going to look like all the other games in the past", labelling it "trash talk".
THQ has today unveiled the key titles that will form the publisher's fiscal 2009 video game line-up. Scheduled for release in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2009 are a range of new editions to existing franchises, new original games and social and party titles.
From IGN- "Cory Ledesma is the Vince McMahon of THQ's SmackDown vs. Raw franchise. No -- to our knowledge -- he doesn't make a public spectacle out of firing his underlings, fighting his coworkers in steel cages or having a bizarre relationship with Hornswoggle, but if you wanted to know exactly what was happening with the WWE, you'd ask Vince, and if you wanted to know exactly what's up with THQ's annual grappler, you'd ask Cory, the title's senior creative manager."