XBOX 360: Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008 or How It Feels to Be the World Tag Team Champion

SLAM! POW! CRASH! No, I'm not watching the 1960s Batman (only because it's not released on DVD and I didn't go to SuperMegaFest where Adam West and Burt Ward were apparently selling bootlegs)...that's the sound of me going through a table in the new Smackdown Vs Raw 2008, the latest in the series of wrestling games sanctioned by the WWE. The 2008 game is lacking some of the features of the 2007 game, like the ability to play story mode and general manager mode at the same time, it has a shortage of superstars, and half of the people it does have have either quit of been fired from the WWE in real life.

What it lacks in some of the features, it makes up for a bit in graphics and gameplay...the characters are mostly perfect down to individual tattoos (aside from CM Punk's Pepsi tattoo which apparently was considered advertising and left out). I actually thought I was watching the show for a second last time I played. 2008 plays a bit better online...the 2007 version would lag and an ass whopping wasn't far behind (almost as if I had a dial up connection to the Internet or something. This version also lets you create a closer duplicate of yourself than the previous version, and of course it's always fun to create your friends and family to fight with you. I decided that I would create my brother as my tag team partner and now we've gone on to win the Tag Team Championship.

As you can see by looking at us, we kick ass...and I've been playing on hard mode so the outcomes aren't always in my favor. What fun would that be?