Monday Night Wars II?

The mid-90’s was a wonderful time to be a wrestling fan.  Millions of people around the world fondly look back on the World Wrestling Federation vs World Championship Wrestling ‘Monday Night Wars’ that took place between roughly 1995 and 2001, escalating to dizzying heights in mid-1996 with the formation of the nWo faction in WCW and really hitting its peak with the arrival of the WWF’s (WWE these days) ‘Attitude Era’ in early 1998.  The original Monday Night Wars was the pinnacle of not only wrestling but television in general, the amount of technology used just to give us, the viewers, a top quality broadcast paved the way for others to follow suit and for a time the production quality of both WCW and WWF was light years ahead of anything else we’ve seen.  Hell, some NFL broadcasts are still struggling to catch up even today.

Smackdown vs Raw 2010 – all about customisation

Unusually for a Smackdown vs Raw game very little information has been revealed for the latest instalment in the popular franchise.  All we know is that a release date is scheduled for November, which has been the norm for the series for several years.  What we don’t know is… practically anything else, oddly.

Usually by about mid-August we have a vague idea of a roster, any new match types, what type of game modes there will be an so on, but this year there’s absolutely nothing like that – not even any footage or a working demo to my knowledge.  To me that suggests they’re behind schedule and will therefore rush the finished product, or that they have so much in store for us they’re saving it for one big surprise down the road.  Apparently a playable demo of the game is being showcased at the SummerSlam fan event later this month, so I’ll be sure to post more details as and when they’re available.

Upon trawling YouTube I managed to discover one thing of interest however, which is that ‘customisation’ is the theme for this years Smackdown vs Raw game.  Last years was all about tag team wrestling so by comparison this is a little bit more interesting to those of us who don’t have friends or family members who appreciate and enjoy wrestling, so over to John Morrison to explain a little about what to expect.