SMACKDOWN! VS. RAW 2006
Note-worthy Features
- Create an Entrance!
- Title defense in Exhibition returns at last!
- Belts won in exhibition (regular and CAB) actually stick to the wrestlers that win them!
- Exhibition will have more titles than season mode, and CABs will also be used with it
- Stamina system, wrestlers tire as the match goes on (can be turned off)
- Cages actually have doors (No way! You mean like on WWE TV or something!?)
- New Sleeper Hold system (Attempt to keep arm from falling three times!)
- New Playing Possum system (Use a finisher to feign injury, then steal the win with a roll up!)
- New match types, like FYF, Buried Alive, and Backstage Brawl
- “Momentum Meter” combines Smackdown! And Dirty/Clean meters from last year
- Profile system allows you to track your stats
- Normal and “Power” Irish Whips
- Now 25 grapple catagories as opposed to last year’s 16
- Supposedly, you can fight to a “double knockout” (has to do with stamina, must be tough)
- 2 full seasons in season mode (supposedly 1 RAW, 1 SD!; do you get drafted?)
- Longer Entrance animations
- Can only store one finisher
- Finishers used right when meter fills have more power
- Some Legends will have voice-overs and can be in season mode
- 3 levels of blood
- Camera effects for finishers are back (and can hopefully be turned off
- No Flashing Logo on Finishers!!!
- No women in season (and no voice-overs for female CAW)
Superstars
1. Batista
2. The Hurricane
3. Rob Conway
4. The Big Show
5. J.B. Layfield
6. Rob Van Dam
7. Booker T
8. John Cena
9. Scotty 2 Hotty
10. Carlito
11. Shawn Michaels
12. Charlie Haas
13. Kane (Masked Kane as an alternate attire)
14. Shelton Benjamin
15. Chavo Guerrero
16. Khosrow Daivari
17. Snitsky
18. Chris Benoit
19. Kurt Angle
20. Spike Dudley
21. Chris Jericho
22. Chris Masters
23. Steven Richards
24. Christian
25. Mark Jindrak
26. Sylvain Grenier
27. Muhammad Hassan
28. Tajiri
29. Danny Basham
30. Orlando Jordan
31. Doug Basham
32. Paul London
33. Triple H
34. Eddie Guerrero
35. Randy Orton
36. Edge
37. Rene Dupree
38. The Undertaker
39. Eugene
40. Rey Mysterio
41. William Regal
42. Heidenreich (Old version, not Road Warrior)
43. Ric Flair
Divas
1. Trish Stratus
2. Torrie Wilson
3. Christy Hemme
4. Lita
5. Stacy Keibler
6. Michelle McCool
7. Joy Giovanni
Legends
1. Andre the Giant
2. Steve Austin
3. Bret Hart
4. Jimmy Hart
5. Ted DiBiase
6. British Bulldog
7. Junkyard Dog
8. Mankind
9. Hogan 80's
10. Hollywood Hogan (nWo)
11. Hulk Hogan (Current)
12. The Rock
13. PSP Exclusive Legend
Non-Playable
- Jerry “The King” Lawler
- Jim Ross
- Lillian Garcia
- Michael Cole
- Tazz
- Eric Bischoff
- Theodore Long
- Tony Chimel
Venues
- Smackdown!
- Raw
- Velocity
- Sunday Night HEAT
- ECW One Night Stand
- Armageddon
- Backlash
- Judgement Day
- New Year’s Revolution
- No Mercy
- No Way Out
- Royal Rumble
- Survivor Series
- Summerslam
- Taboo Tuesday
- The Great American Bash
- Unforgivan
- Vengeance
- Wrestlemania 21
- Wretlemania IX (A Legendary bonus arena!)
Title Belts for Exhibition
- WWE Championship (Toggle between spinner belt and normal belt)
- World Heavyweight Championship
- Intercontinental Championship
- U.S. Championship
- WWE Tag Team Championships
- World Tag Team Chamionships
- Cruiserweight Championship
- Women’s Championship
- Hardcore Championship
- DiBiase’s “Million Dollar Belt”
+ CABs
- (WWE and WHW Titles are in season mode. Conflicting reports on IC and US. No others.)
Known Weapons
- Steel Chairs
- Ladders (2 Ladders in a Ladder match now!)
- Shovel
- Hammer
- Barbed Wire 2x4 (could be a bat)
- Ring Bell
- Paddle (FYF only)
- Chain
- Large metal thing (I think he meant a lead Pipe)
- Pool Stick (From one of the Brawls, probably)
- Tables
- Ring Steps
- TV Camera
Match Types
- Over 100
- Supposedly everything from SvR (Except B&P)
- Fullfill Your Fantasy replaces B&P (Each Diva has School Girl, French Maid, and Nurse attires)
- Buried Alive (may be Survivor Series-only)
- Backstage Brawls (Including Bar Room Brawl)
- Legend Cage (The oldschool blue cage)
- Cage match now has the door to escape from (as it should)
- Can now pull climbing opponent from cage, instead of punching the wall
- The Time Limit Title match makes it's return for the Hardcore Title!
Create-A-Wrestler
Profile
- Name
- HUD Name
- Nickname
- Nickname Placement: Before or after name
- Announcer Introduction: 181 names, some simple names (Bob), some nicknames (like last years)
- Hometown: 64 locations with various sub-locations for each (185 possibilities)
- Gender: Male or Female (No unkown!)
- Weight Class (On a slider!): Diva (<149lbs), Cruiserweight (<200), Light Heavyweight (<240), Heavyweight (<280), and Super Heavyweight (280-400)
- Match Tactic: Clean or Dirty
- Show: SmackDown! or RAW for season
- Voice: 5 male voices for season
Head
- Basic Faces: 7 base faces to work with (basically CAW face samples?)
- Morphing: Eyebrows, Nose, Jaw, etc.
- Morphing (Continued): Hair, Facial Hair, Teeth, Skin, etc.
Body
- Body Type: Make your CAW as ripped or pathetic as you please
- Body Skin: 9 skins
- Body Hair: 32 variations
- Body Height: 5'2"-7'2"
Outfit (Now supposedly far more 3 dimensional!)
- 45 patterns for hats, masks, clothing, etc.
- 535 tattoos and logos for head, torso, arms, legs... text may or may not be within that total.
- Head: 28 hats, 22 masks, 159 face paints, 135 make-ups, 40 glasses, 46 horns, 33 piercings, 35 misc
- Torso: 101 Men's or 43 Women's, 17 costumes, 32 jackets, 8 coats, 58 body paints, 38 accessories
- Arms: 16 elbow pads, 20 wristbands, 18 gloves, 50 accessories, 149 paints
- Legs: 25 underwear, 20 tights, 62 pants, 41 skirts, 29 belts, 15 knee pads, 160 paints
- Feet: 22 socks, 48 shoes, 18 accessories
- Layer editing returns (32 layers again)
- Fighting styles the same, but can now equip CAWs with a superstar's A.I.
- 200 crowd signs
- 8 statistical attributes: Strength, Submission, Durability, Technique, Speed, Charisma, Hardcore, and Stamina
- Create a Moveset will also be returning, supposedly with a ton of reanimated moves
Create a Belt
- Create Title: Single, Tag, Change engrave, Title History, Cash In
- Title Name: Up to twelve letters long
- Belt: 4 materials and 5 designs
- Center Plate: 7 materials and 24 designs
- Centerpiece: 7 materials and 69 designs
- Side Plate: 7 materials and 68 designs
- Jewels: 15 jewels placable in 8 faceplate slots
- Name Engraving: 7 materials and 10 designs to place 10 letters on
- Defendable in exhibition!
Create an Entrance
- Stage, Ramp, Ring-in, and Ring
- Can edit the entrances of superstars on the roster! (Don't like someone's pyro? Change it!)
Create a Stable
- No known changes.
Create a Pay Per View
- No Known changes.
Locker Room
- Your own personal 3D pad!
- Room Lighting, Wall, Floor, Furniture, Locker, Training Machine, Sound System, Trophies Case, Belts Case, Collection Items
- Change cutscene costume assignments for wrestlers with multiple attires in season
- Check your Royal Rumble number for season (the more you win, the higher your number)
- Toggle cutscene subtitles
- Tons of posters and such to choose from, buyable in shopzone
- Essentially you do everything from this base of operations
General Manager Mode!!!
-http://ps2.ign.com/articles/662/662051p1.html
Online Features (Not my area of expertise, check for inaccuracies)
- Many added match types: Single, Tag (Normal, Tornado, Elimination Normal and Elimination Tornado), Special Referee, Triple Threat, Fatal 4-Way, Handicap, Backstage Brawls, Battle Royal (Four Player only), Buried Alive, First Blood, Fulfill Your Fantasy, Hardcore, Hell in a Cell, Iron Man, Ladder, Last Man Standing, Steel Cage, Submission, Table, TLC, and Title Matches (That’s more than just single and B&P, right?)
- CAW trading
- Titles won are pretty much taken from the loser’s Memory Card to the winner’s
- Title’s gain online prestige
- Cash vs. Title matches
- Online ranking/match history tracking
- League System
- Up to four players online (as opposed to six)
