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Few sounds in this life are sweeter than the "boop" or “ding” noise that comes when you have earned an Achievement on 360 or Trophy on PS3. Not only do you get the satisfaction of completing an in-game goal, but points get added to the overall score attached to your online profile, showing your friends how awesome you are.
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We can just about understand the way things used to be. When games came on cartridges, the only way you could play a sports game with the correct player names was to either type them all in yourself (which took hours), or buy the newest licensed version. But things have changed.
The advent of DLC has meant that all games could, in theory, be updated via a patch downloaded from the internet. This could either be for free (like the
Remember when you were a kid and you’d use your action figures to act out scenes from your favorite movies and TV shows? You’d move them around, imitate the voices as best as possible and have a great time reenacting a scene from Back to the Future or Anne of Green Gables. We decided to recapture that time in our lives (roughly three years ago) by playing WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2010 and its Story Designer mode.
It’s been a busy 2009 thus far for the WWE. On SmackDown, reigning champ CM Punk has driven Jeff Hardy into premature retirement after an epic summer-long battle, and now seemingly has the backing of WWE management as he enters a feud with the Undertaker over the World Heavyweight Title. Meanwhile on Raw, both D-X and John Cena have endured a miserable year thanks to the attentions of Randy Orton’s Legacy group.
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THE INFO BOX
Post date: October 23, 2009
T-Dar 74 length: 2:19:46
Intro song by: Anamanaguchi
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This year's premier wrestling game, SmackDown vs Raw 2010, is just a few days old, but we're already filled with giddy excitement for the future. One of our favorite features mentioned in the review is the online community used for sharing created content, chief among them user-created wrestlers.
It seems that character matters little when it comes to deciding who will be the public face of your sports franchise. As a result, the history of sports games that have featured past, current, and future criminals on their covers is extensive. That is why we’ve picked ten cover athletes/criminals and ranked them in order of least-criminal to most-criminal.
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