Hunter Carvalho

SmackDown has always been one of the best wrestling shows in professional wrestling history I’ve watched. It may not be as good as it was before, but everything it had established and built up for over 20 years are the things we tend to look back on the most. Stars like Kurt Angle, John Cena, and The Undertaker all made what it is today to give people like “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt, King Baron Corbin, and Roman Reigns a chance to continue. May not be the best now, but it’s always been a show that we can look back upon and enjoy.

This game is way too simulated. Everything feels to, “realistic,” if you will. It’s a game, it should feel fun and arcadey. I also think the targeting and AI systems are terrible. Most of the times from experience, when I, computers, or other people do things like running attacks and running strikes, it’s way off. Usually off to the side. Sometimes they’ll get stuck and you’ll have to strike them. And the mini games are a good concept, but are terrible. Submission mini games are complex and in battle royal styled matches, they should just get rid of the elimination line when partaking in said elimination. The ladder match mini games are cool, but way to long and annoying. And career mode, although good, doesn’t hold a candle to RTWM and Seasons Mode. It doesn’t have much replay value either. And towers mode is fun for the first ten-twenty minutes or so, but get old fast. The only good thing holding up this game is the creation suite which is outstanding.