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You're basically in charge of keeping them trained, healthy, and setting up new and challenging matches for them. This mode is pretty cool because it lets you exert a considerable amount of control over your character. You can choose their brand and even whether they are a clean or dirty fighter. What this mode essentially entails is you pick a superstar and build their career from the ground up. Raw 2008, which was undoubtedly the most fun to play, was the Main Event mode. You also have Tournament mode where you can either participate in pre-existing WWE tournaments (such as the Royal Rumble) or you can create your own tournament. You have the generic Quick Play mode, which functions as more of an arcade-style game.
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One such strength lies in its different modes. Raw 2008 on the Wii does have its strengths. You'll end up just madly swinging your Wii-mote to try to score a victory, and unfortunately, that's not really a great experience when it comes to a game that's all about pulling off the best wrestling movesīut for its pretty obvious flaws, Smackdown vs. It's really a great foundation as far as Wii controls are concerned for wrestling and other fighting-type games, but these controls just don't provide the complex experience that this type of game needs. Reversals are executed through timed movement of the Wii-mote, and special moves are performed by holding A and B and swinging the Wii-mote. You can also perform a grapple move by holding down the A button and swinging the Wii-mote. Control essentially involves swinging the Wii-mote in different directions to perform fairly basic foot stomping and hand hitting moves. Raw 2008 does pretty well at nailing the basics, but an oversimplified control scheme based almost exclusively on motion control really hinders this one. As far as control is concerned, Smackdown vs.