WWF SmackDown!
Review by CSF BoMBer
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=-= GRAPHIX =-= !PLUS!
The Grapgix in WWF SmackDown! are phenomenal! The Faces are great not to mention The Rocks lil facial trademark, The Peoples Eyebrow goes up and down when you taunt your oppponent! The wrestlers move really good and do not move like WcW Nitro's wrestlers which are slow and sluggy. Backstage areas are perfect unlike WcW Mayhem's. Best add-on to a wrestling game is the Titontron movies which are the actual thing unlike WWF 2000 for N64.
=-= GAMEPLAY =-= !PLUS! with a bit of ?MINUS?
Gameplay is really good in WWF SmackDown! Controls are so easy that you can master the buttons in 10 minutes and destroy your friends if you don't use the same move over and over. Grapple moves are made so easy that a blind kid can bodyslam HHH all you need is Left and o or Right and o and so on. The only bad thing i came across is that each wrestler has *1* finisher each, it may be stupid but hey it does stop the fun.
=-= GAME MODES =-= !PLUS!
These game modes are amazing, ranging from your simple 1on1's and tag matches to guest ref matches and I Quit matches. the only dent in WWF SmackDown! for Game Modes is CAW (Create-A-Wreslter) and Season mode. CAW is so stupid, if you played WWF 2000 for N64 you will be think how in hell did they come up with this after having a wonderful CAW system in WWF 2000???
=-= SOUND =-= !PLUS!
Sound is great ranging to the offical enterence themes and good chair hit sounds plus the music while you wrestle isn't to bad either! Voice announcers would be nice but hey it is still a great game.
=-= PLAY ABILITY =-= !PLUS!
The Play Ability in WWF SmackDown! is great thanks to the 4-player action matches and 3-player matches. Bad thing is that even though 2 or 3 Double teams moves have been found more better be on the way! What really got me down is that you can only create 4 CAW's to a memory card and when you take each CAW through Pre-Season (Where you develop Feuds and aquire chararteristics) you can take each CAW through a regular season BUT only one CAW can go through a season at a time which is a real bummer! What really cool is that you can injure a elbow and when you fight there is scars on your elbow (My Tazz has a injury like that).
=-= TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY, THAT IS THE QUESTION =-= !PLUS!
Lemme just put it this way- You can either buy WWF SmackDown! or go buy the really bad attepted WCW Mayhem!
Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 03/14/00, Updated 03/14/00
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