WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 (2005) (VG)

Director:

Keith Arem

Release Date:

15 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Sport

Plot:

Cast

Kurt Angle	...	Himself (voice)
Steve Austin	...	Himself (voice)
Doug Basham	...	Himself (voice)
Dave Batista	...	Himself (voice) (as Batista)
Chris Benoit	...	Himself (voice)
Mark Calaway	...	Himself (voice)
Erick Carrillo	...	Wrestler (voice)
John Cena	...	Himself (voice)
Carlos Colon Jr.	...	Himself (voice)
Rob Conway	...	Himself (voice)
Adam Copeland	...	Himself (voice)
Shawn Daivari	...	Himself (voice) (as Khosrow Daivari)
Nick Dinsmore	...	Himself (voice)
Rene Dupree	...	Himself (voice)
Ric Flair	...	Himself (voice)
Mick Foley	...	Himself (voice)
Joy Giovanni	...	Herself (voice)
Sylvain Grenier	...	Himself (voice)
Eddie Guerrero	...	Himself (voice)
Salvadore Guerrero Jr.	...	Himself (voice)
Oscar Gutiérrez	...	Himself (voice)
Charlie Haas	...	Himself (voice)
Jimmy Hart	...	Himself (voice)
Jon Heidenreich	...	Himself (voice) (as Heidenreich)
Shane Helms	...	Himself (voice)
Christie Hemme	...	Herself (voice) (as Christy Hemme)
Hulk Hogan	...	Himself (voice)
Dan Hollie	...	Himself (voice)
Booker Huffman	...	Himself (voice)
Matt Hyson	...	Himself (voice)
Glen Jacobs	...	Himself (voice)
Chris Jericho	...	Himself (voice)
Mark Jindrak	...	Himself (voice)
Orlando Jordan	...	Himself (voice)
Ryan Katz	...	Player Character 2 (voice)
Stacy Keibler	...	Herself (voice)
John Layfield	...	Himself (voice) (as J. B. Layfield)
Paul Levesque	...	Himself (voice)
Paul London	...	Himself (voice)
Mark Magnus	...	Himself (voice)
Michelle McCool	...	Herself (voice)
Shawn Michaels	...	Himself (voice)
Chris Mordetzky	...	The Masterpiece Chris Masters (voice) (as Chris Masters)
Randy Orton	...	Himself (voice)
Jason Reso	...	Himself (voice)
Steven Richards	...	Himself (voice)
Gene Snitsky	...	Himself (voice) (as Snitsky)
Trish Stratus	...	Herself (voice)
Yoshihiro Tajiri	...	Himself (voice) (as Tajiri)
Rob Van Dam	...	Himself (voice)
Bryce Wagoner	...	Triple H, Bautistia (Motion Capture)
Paul Wight	...	Himself (voice)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

THQ

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: If you choose to fight John Cena in your first match in the Smackdown storyline, Michael Cole will say RVD, though the subtitles will say John Cena.

Quotes:

King: I think I know who's going to win this one, but I dont wanna say, I'm afraid I'll jinx it!
J.R: Come on King! Don't tell me you're superstitious?
King: Of course not JR! I'm not superstitious, because I know that's unlucky!

Movie Connections:

Follows WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role (2000) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Waiting

Tons of fun

A game with huge return to pull - I've put It In a draw & as good as forgotten about It for weeks but once played again It's enjoyable all over again.

Takes a while to fully command the finer points like all 24 or so grapples, finisher reversals, tag moves etc once learned this game Is a joy. The ability to create superstars Is excellent down to the ring entrances lighting to their kneepads. TLC matches are possibly the best laugh a person can have without being arrested. Most fun to play are comedy heels such as HHH or my favourite Dupree - up taunt/left downed upper body grapple! The commentary Is generally good at points some of the slurs hilarious but at the start of every match we get "here we are from....(somewhere there not)....what a reversal" ad nauseum. Their mock shock over the ref being laid out & disgust over getting tooled up, most the finishers are pretty dramatic too.

The gameplay Is brilliantly done specific cut scenes for many moves, on the PS2 the feel of the joypad Is naturally co-ordinated with what you're trying to execute. It looks as good as Playstation characters get, the random chants, entrances, expressions make for Impressive fine detail.

Depending on the settings the coms AI can become very annoying reversing every other attack, needing 3 finishers to be put away whilst you take one and can't kick out. At times the AI Is un-speakably cheap -expose turnbuckle repeatedly whip Into taunt outside whip Into turnbuckle taunt outside by this time they've got a finisher and of course you can't escape! Worst are the good guys repeatedly coming off the top rope for extremely tedious cheap momentum. Honestly seeing any of the super heavies (taker & esp batista) sling you outside only to come gliding out the ring like Jeff Hardy for the 3rd time has me reaching for the reset button.

The challenges are exactly that, In exhibition mode you can do pretty much whatever these are Interesting enough but It's GM mode that makes this so compelling, after a couple seasons the roster should be mostly 90's popularity players legends & CAW's making for an astounding card.

Great game days & days of fun!