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SmackDown Vs Raw 2008 (Wii) | 
 enlarge | From: THQ
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy Used: £8.45
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New (9) Used (18) from £8.45
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 2879
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: wrestling-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4005209097529
ASIN: B000RE215Q
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 what are you moaning about? April 13, 2008
Mark Regan (Cumbria)
Its got good graphics, good atmosphere and good gameplay (once my arms stop hurting I'll play some more). What I think people are complaining about is that you can't memorize all of the special moves combos and 13 button presses to annihilate your opponent in one fell swoop. I don't know about the roster yet as I haven't got miles into the game but I love the controls, I managed to punch, grapple, throw, kick and bounce off the ropes into people, I also managed to pick up a chair! Ok so I didn't manage to hit anyone but I had a good time trying to, and my wife had a good laugh when we went head to head, great entertainment the Wii is really growing in my estimations!
Good but not great February 23, 2008
Matt Evans (Derby, England)
Very good but not an amazing wrestling game. I have played on it for 5 hours in the last 2 days, but it gets less interesting after a while.
Good fun but lacks content January 14, 2008
KM (England)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
'WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008' is this year's installment from wrestling's leading organisation and is also the first wrestling game to come out for the Nintendo Wii.
GAMEPLAY - 4/5
I've not played a wrestling game since WWF Wreslemania 2000 on the N64 (which was brillant for the time) and haven't actually watched wrestling since about 1999, so I don't really know most of the roster, but it doesn't stop it from being a good fun game to play. All of the moves are performed by swinging the Wii remote a nunchuck in different directions, giving you a more interactive experience than frantically bashing buttons faster than the other player. This also means that you don't have to spend ages learning moves for each wrestler, as generally pulling a move off correctly is down to luck.
GRAPHICS - 3/5
The character models of the wrestlers (and the refs) are very realistic, both in the ring and during their entrances, but the crowd looks like they are made of cardboard and are not that much better than the crowds from the days of the N64 and the Playstation.
SOUND - 5/5
All the wrestlers have their original theme tunes when entering the ring. There's also loads of commentry from the Raw, Smackdown and ECW commentators and they seem to be in time and accurate with the action that is happening in the ring.
LIFESPAN - 3/5
Unfortunately this is where this game falls majorly. I've played the PS3 version of this game and there are over 100 different match types to choose from - Royal Rumble, Hell in a Cell, ladder and the 24/7 mode. Not here. On the Wii there's only 1-on-1, tag team, hardcore (where chairs are the only weapon) andTriple Threat. This is ok for multi-player but when playing through the Career mode in single player, it can get a bit repetitive. There's also a Tournament mode which is King of the Ring, but this is strangely only 1 player. Aside from the multi-player modes, the only thing that'll really keep you playing this for a long period of time is unlocking the Legends such as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, The Rock, Bret "Hitman" Hart, Rick Rude, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Shane and Vince McMahon and Mick Foley (amongst a few others) in Career mode, which did really appeal to me as these were the superstars from back in my day.
OVERALL - 3/5
Although it is good fun to play making great use of the Wii's controls, there just isn't enough content here to keep me interested long enough and will only be coming out when playing with friends now that I've unlocked all of the Legends. So unless they sort this out in next year's installment, I think I'll be getting Smackdown vs Raw 2009 on the PS3 instead, as there is endless amounts of fun on that version.
smackdown vs raw 08 on wii December 30, 2007
money luva (brooklyn ny)
it is a good game but alot needs to be improved for instants the controls are very bad and no fatal 4 ways or steel cage or ladder or any good matches accept harcore and triple threats but it is very fun also when you are used to it i got it very cheap only 19.99 in game but i expected better.
 Cackdown 2008 December 28, 2007
matisfaction (The Potteries)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Remembering the joy I had playing the PS2 version while staying at a friend's house I snapped this up thinking that it would be exactly the same but with some cool motion sensor action to boot.
How wrong can one person be? It must have at least 60% of the (24.99) PS2 version hacked out of it, no main events, crap season mode, and worst of all a god awful control system! most of the game play is basically automatic and just involves swinging the Wiimote in any direction with no real control over the wrestler, most of the wrestlers have the same moves apart from their finishers, it's like going back to the days of Royal Rumble on the SNES!
This game could have been great but THQ have seemed to go for the "casual gamer" multi play game effect. I'm not sure why as the Wii already has that market sewn up with the "family games".
If you've played the other versions you can't help feeling like you've been ripped off, especially when the Wii version is about ten quid more than the PS2 version! I just hope that THQ realise what they hae done and release a new Day of Reckoning game to make up for it.
I've since taken "Cackdown 2008" back and exchanged it for Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.
If you're a die hard wrestling fan and have played the previous versions of Smackdown then avoid this like the plague!
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