Smackdown 5

[MatPhillips]

hard luck mate, still worth the wait.
i played it for the 1st time in about three weeks at the weekend, since i got the capability to get copied games, i've bought too many, so it got pushed down the pecking order

 

[sheringham316]

Though this is the best wrestling game its felt very different to the rest!! With the others i used to go on every day to see if there was any more pics... with this i hardly even know whats in it. Proberly casuse i've stoped watchin wrestlin as much!!
From me not watchin wrestlin as much i reckon its gonna effect how much i like it now, since with the others i used to have matches which were goin threw in wwe for example The Rock vs Hulk Hogan, but now i dont really know whats been goin on in...
Any of you's think that wrestling has gone down hill??

 

[MatPhillips]

yes it has gone down hill, especially Smackdown, i can watch a Smackdown episode in 15 minutes with the use of fast forward!

I watched NWA-TNA last week, it 's on Sky. it felt fresh, and it was really enjoyable. its got a lot of old WWE stars under new names, such as Jeff Jarrett, Road Dogg, Raven, Sting, Luger and loads of others, every night at 7pm on friendly t.v (sky) there is a different wrestling show on. including organisations that feed stars to the WWE. try it if you've got sky

 

[sheringham316]

you think it'll be on ntl digital??
NWA was doing a live thing down my area there becoming bigger and bigger!! Razor Remon went there since he didnt have to wrestle or come on week in, week out. Ive heard there sum decent wrestling goin on there. WWE is just talkin which is there best part for wwe, since there wrestling has just turned to a few slaps to tha chest and a suplex
ECW was tha best for pure wrestling, if you use kazza or anything simalar download sum sabu, sandman matches pure class There was this 1 match where sabu like fucked his knee up proper bad, he might have moved a bone or sumthin and he still carried on... SUM A AMAZING STUFF!! check it out

 

[MatPhillips]

i've got 20-30 ECW video's, huge fan.

NWA has got some great Wrestling matches, no bull. its got some story building, but it concentrates on what the fans pay to see!!!

not sure if its on NTL, its called "Friendly T.V" have a look through. hopefully they will start bringing some videos out!!

there PPV was on wednesday but was U.S only, so i couldn't catch it.

speaking of which,any idea why Armageddon wasn't on T.v over here??? the december ppv is usually on Box office, but it wasn't anywhere. just had to watch the Following Raw to catch up. dead annoying!

 

[sheringham316]

it was on... since my mate was talkin about it. I think it might have been on sky sports 1 or 3 RVD was class in ECW i bought ecw:hardcore revolution for tha n64 though tha controls wasnt to guud the idea was brilliant soo much blood!!
Who was your fav wrestler in ecw before it closed

 

[MatPhillips]

probably RVD, he was better in ECW than he is now. Misused by Vince!!!!!

Tazz was excellent in ECW, i liked Sabu, Jerry Lynn, Raven, Justin Credible, Tajiri, Rhyno and towards the end Steve Corino
have you noticed that?? Vince buys an EX WCW/ECW star, destroys all his good features and puts them as curtain openers (1st match) just cos he can?????? e.g Hurricane, Rvd, Steiner, Hogan, Goldberg, Scott Hall/ Razor Ramon, Nash, Raven, Justin Credible, Jerry Lynn,Rhyno, Tajiri (the list goes on and on!)

he destroyed the nWo in about thirty seconds!!!

i think WWE's best era by far was the Attitude phase, the invasion was a good idea, but i'm not a fan of the brand extension!

 

[sheringham316]

Neither am i... your spot on he recks everythin NWO comin was a brilliant idea but wtf did he do with it!! Wrestling was just shit after that wrestle mania. HULK HOGAN vs THE ROCK... what a match.
Plus when The Rock came bk as a bad guy made it interesting and funny but he went bk. Taz was a brilliant wrestler but what did they do, make him a commentator leaving him to go fat The invasion was a good idea but as the weeks went on, it just kinda dragged on too much which left me kind pissed off. When i look bk to it now it seems quite good but only since wrestlin is complete shit now compare to before the invasion.
I think WWF was good but since they changed there name its kinda went down hill, not sayin that the name changed it just since then i havent watched it as much casue simple reason its boring. Many people have moved on and wwe are gettin sum new fans but more have left then joined.
I here sum people went to see raw and there was a whole stand where it had a black sheet over all tha seats... you cant see it properly on t.v casue they've dimmed tha lights too much.

I think soon wwe will be out of buisness, sad really since i luved wrestlin as a kid and have great memories... to when HBK wasnt HBK he was apart of The Rockers

It was nice while it lasted!!

 

[sheringham316]

WHAT A GAME!! It soo guud that i might acctually start watchin wrestling again infact you know what i acctualy watched raw "the best of raw 2003 moments" and too be honest after playin smackdown 5 some how it has effected me and it just feels like tha old times. I ACCTUALY ENJOYED IT , after months of not watchin i just watch it out of nowhere and it was fantastic

Smackdown 5 itself is just pure class... i would have never thought that it would come out like this... lets just hope that this 1 will last a couple months. Theres 1 thing thats really fucked though... what the hell is the difference between smackdown arena a and smackdown arena b.. same with raw arena a and raw arean b. Ive heard that the only difference is tha fuckin roof. Who the hell would give a shit about lookin at the roof whilst playin. As soon as i unlocked it i went straight to the top and tried climbing to the fist but none of them worked. I was dissapointed since with smackdown 4 you could climb
The only downside i guess, very hard indeed well compare to the last ones. Job well done by THQ. Anything you would want in the next smackdown??

 

[MatPhillips]

you didn't watch the best of SMACKDOWN 1003 then??? cos that would've put you right off it

 

[sheringham316]

well thats ok since i missed it!!
I just finished 1 season in smackdown 5... 10/10 for season... i acctually enjoyed how it ended since i just thought the begining was sum kind of bullshit but it did end up linking Im gonna have to do another season mode but with a tottaly diff kind of wrestler... have to unlock the classics cant wait!!

 

[MatPhillips]

if you start a season with the same wrestler all the stuff carries over, so title story lines continue. i was in a 2 on 2 type story, but at the end of my season i changed my created guy from heel to face, so in that story the guy with me turned on me (cos he was heel) and the guy on the other team helped me! weird no??

did you do the single story or the "stable"

i swear i enjoyed the stable so much!

 

[sheringham316]

I done a stable ... i too luved it. Me and Chris Benoit won the tag champs. But casue i was a face i always got tag matchs against big time heels. While i had all these tag matches, i found myself teaming up with val venis alot. So after about 2 weeks me having chris b.... and (lita ) in my stable, val wanted to be in it, casue i had teamed up alot with him i let him.
I got jumped right at the end of a match (even though i won ) and the rock came out . He joined after i returned the favor!

I was Undertaker in my 1st one. So if i start another season mode with Undertaker, he will be the champ and i will have a fued with Brock like before??

p.s my 900th post... hehe i will catch up MATT!!

 

[MatPhillips]

thats the way it worked for me!

heeeeeyyyyy, i haven't been on over xmas, i'd be way out in front by now

 

[sheringham316]

Btw congratulations on ya 1000th post.
Damb!! These storylines are just so authentic. Everything is just brilliant. Even the loading time isnt all that long anymore. I remember smackdown 4 being superb but, in the career mode it used to take about 10 minutes to load (ok maybe im exagurating) and it really did take the piss.
I like the idea of having original and made up storylines in hctp. It makes it more worthwhile playing, since your just playing then some classic moment just happens, for instance "the rocky touching the floor before big show incident" HAHA ... i was in the rumble and i smacked vince's special person out (eddie querro) and i cleared him, then this little scene happened, which showed me and him both going out around the same time but i just clinged onto the ropes. It was brilliant, i was well chuffed. Then he had this big fued with me. He was just looking for an ass kickin
Im doing a new season mode now, will me doing a new season effect me if i start a new season mode with Undertaker?? will i be champ with him... and carry on with my fued between Brock, even though ive started a new season mode with RVD??

 

[MatPhillips]

i think it only carries over if you finish the current season, if you quite one half way through it wont.