Raging Battle!

Like every year, always comes a new WWE SmackDown vs. Raw on the market. We know also from the side of the EA every year a new FIFA, NHL, NFL and NBA brings to the market. Prior to revolutionary changes are always promised that provide the predecessor to lengths in the shadows. Until long it has still managed no game to accomplish a revolutionary change. The fans want to see the Annual Games visible changes in the game for once. Just as it is with WWE SmackDown vs. Raw! There are always made big promises and finally burst the bubble beautiful dream. This challenge once again the developers THQ has already gained some experience. They promise us a new game physics and other extras. Now who do you want to know whether THQ has finally made the leap to the revolutionary changes or not, then you should read our report necessarily.

Every beginning is difficult!
Before you can join the fray, you can practice in the ring against a computer and learn different moves. There in the menu Training you will betray also tips on how to best fighting the opponents bypasses without become injured himself big. Anyone who has played the predecessors will have no trouble with the key assignment, because the keyboard layout is still the same. Use the left analog stick to move logically the wrestler and with the X key, you can distribute a few fists. You can jump around in the ring and with the right analog stick you simply put the opponent and executes a Move From The LB button. It depends on which way you hold the left stick. Depending on the direction leads you from another trick. Who you want to convey in the corner or the ropes the opponent needs to do nothing more than to press the B button. Who the opponent is down, you can pinning him with the B button. Whom they divide many strokes filled up the special ability of display. Wen it is full, you can press the Y button and the opponent conceded a mighty blow from which it will not recover as quickly. This was a brief introduction to control, in the game you can do so much more and different moves Combine.

Road to Wrestlemania
In the game mode Road to Wrestlemania choosing one of the five characters like Ray Mysterio, Chris Jericho, John Cena, Christian or Uhrgestein among wrestlers terror-inspiring Undertaker. In this mode, you prepare the selected wrestler at the biggest event of WWE before named Wrestlemania. Many of the great wrestlers want to attend the event, but few of them make it. Here you play the personal story of the selected character and you try to bring the selected wrestler to the top. The story is different depending on the wrestlers and offers 5 different stories you can play through. If you select one of the predefined characters, one is in the next moment in the backstage area and can control the wrestlers the first time in the third-person perspective. Behind the stage, you can dress him up again in the locker room, you go to the office and settled there the small stuff, or do you do with the reporters interview. One can backstage provoke the opponents and fighting with them, but unfortunately such things do not affect the event in the ring. After a few battles on the stage one has seen the backstage area and just want to get in the ring and bring Road to WrestleMania to end simply. The story of the great Undertaker is a little different from the others. Here you do not fight with but against the Undertaker with the character one has chosen. We tried with the selected wrestler for the big Wrestlemania against the Undertaker to qualify. After each battle you get experience points with which you can improve the wrestlers. That was it already with the mode 'Road to Wrestlemania'.

The WWE World
If you have the Road of Wrestlemania mode played through, can the WWE World Mode games. Here you can write the historical moments in WWE history again and change it as it suits you. One can interfere in each fight as a fit as you wish. You can even get involved in the struggle of the World Heavyweight Championship and help the preferred fighter, turning the blade even to. Here you can switch things clear for the player himself created, with which you can dress him up later. Wen you but no time for the current struggle has, you can easily simulate him summarily. It is your decision how you write the history of WWE. This mode has you for some time who has the Road to Wrestlemania through the various game modes has played or tried.

The Ultimate Fighter!
As with its predecessor, it is also here make his own wrestler anyway you want. You can make or show so tiny like Ray Mysterio him almost as big as Big. Absurd armor and testosterone pumped supernatural muscles are naturally at their own design of the wrestler on the agenda. The moves and tricks you can also compose himself, but unfortunately there is quite illogical moves. How do a triple somersault from the corner and land on the opponent in the middle of the ring. That's all done, you can still own the own show put together whom you walk into the ring. After you've done all this, your wrestler is ready for the big stage. Besides when you are still more than 70 superstars available, you can activate later in.

XBOX Live / Multiplayer:
Here you can measure against players from all over the world in various battles. Unfortunately, you need an online passport that has been introduced vorkurzem. Here you can search between Quick Match or Custom Match. The battles are not very different from the struggles against the computer. They are all available game modes that can be used in single player as well. Here you can also use its own fighters in combat. Most of the players used the own fighters, the reason might be that you can bring it to 100% very quickly. The struggles for the most part run smoothly, with lag and connection interruptions are not excluded. It's still pretty fun and above all is always something in the online mode something going on.

New is probably the most popular discipline of all, we are talking about the Royal Rumble! This was added for the first time in the online mode in and you can fight against 11 other players and 18 computers in the ring. Here the task is to throw the opponent out of the ring and he is who he touches the ground out. Guaranteeing a fighter after another in the ring and it can happen quickly that one fifth to sixth at one time or in the ring, mutually strikes the heads. If you kicked out of the ring early, you can take the next but incoming computer and control it. If you win a Royal Rumble on Xbox Live, you get paid for it 100GS. But leaving the host the lobby is no new host more determined and the connection breaks off. On the whole, the online mode is great fun, especially who to play together with friends.

Graphics & Sound:
Otherwise, we know WWE SmackDown vs. Not raw, the characters look exactly the same as the original and the graphics was the predecessor just top. This is exactly where the problem now THQ has currently. The graphical masterpiece was the predecessor so good that it did not succeed this. In the year to Topen The arenas are different and have been well implemented. The fans will see slightly edged out who you look at from very close, but from a distance they look visually good. Then there's still a problem with the developers fight for a long time. Plotting such as a cape and you lie on the ground, then look feet with the cloak out of. Or who to the opponent a chair around the neck chains to lead to a violent attack, then half of the chair disappears into the body of the wrestler. It is not just beautiful to look at with the and will be hoping that the developers finally get the problem under control.

First, we want to praise the original commentators Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler for their good performance. They were also present in the predecessor and found the game was also the year the way. There are witty sayings and great comments heard, you realize that these two the profession with heart and soul to make. Unfortunately, it does not create the audience to always be fully there and it often happens that it is at once still as death in the arena, while the battle is not over. It is a pity whom you see in WWE television, then the hall rages there and the fans will not rest. Perhaps this point will be better next time. Otherwise there is not much to say.