WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007 updated hands-on

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We get up-close like never before with the sweatiest wrestling game ever

These moves are kind of lame, however, when compared with the things you can do with your environment. During a grapple, you can kick your opponent in the crotch, which stuns him enough to let you drag him around to any of 20 different "hotspots" scattered around the ring. Drag him over to the ropes, for example, and you'll be able to use the stick to scrape his face across them, or set him on top of the ropes and bounce him for a while. Or you can drag him over to the announcer's table, rip out the cables and strangle him with them. It's surprisingly easy, works really smoothly (most of the time, anyway - the game is still unfinished) and so far it's a lot of sadistic fun. What's more, we're told there'll be around 40 different ways to use the hotspots to torture your opponents.

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.