Gameplay
SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 includes five championships: the World Heavyweight Championship, the World Tag Team Championship, the WWE Women's Championship, the WWE Hardcore Championship and the ECW Championship. There are also five arenas available for players to work in, as well as several training modes.
The game's online modes, consisting of online play, create a wrestler and his corresponding manager, and a general manager mode are new for the game. In addition to the seven featured areas, both wrestlers and managers have custom rosters, complete with backgrounds. Wrestling games are traditionally more interactive than the standard sports games, in order to allow gameplay in between cuts. Raw is a much more simplistic game than SmackDown, as the WWF roster is much smaller.
Games
Development
While the first two WWE games were developed by Yuke's, the third, SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, was developed by a new team at Yuke's.
Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The Washington Post said it "crams an amazing amount of content" into a "plodding" experience. The Official Xbox Magazine gave the game 9/10, praising its presentation, ease of use and the quality of its online modes, but stating that the game "needs more than just a facelift". IGN gave the game a 7.5/10, praising its graphics and character customization, but stating that the game had a "horrible" storyline, and that the presentation was "too much". The Daily Telegraph praised the game for "a clean-cut and polished presentation", but said it had a "stiff" gameplay. GameSpot said it was "a surprisingly capable game", though found some of the camera angles in gameplay to be a bit wonky.
See also
List of licensed wrestling video games
References
External links
Category:2006 video games
Category:THQ games
Category:Video games based on real people
Category:Video games developed in Japan
Category:Xbox games
Category:Xbox-only games
Category:Yuke's games
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