Create-A-WWE / Smackdown vs. Raw Video Game mode

[King Patrick Star]

In Smackdown vs. Raw 2007, we had Season mode and GM mode.
In Smackdown vs. Raw 2008, we had WWE 24/7 mode, which merges the Season and GM modes together.
In Smackdown vs. Raw 2009, we had Road To WrestleMania mode and Career mode
In Smackdown vs. Raw 2010, we had Road To WrestleMania mode and Career mode.
In Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, we had Road To WrestleMania mode and Universe mode.
In WWE 12, we had Road To WrestleMania mode and Universe mode.
In WWE 13, we had Attitude Era mode and Universe mode.

In each of these modes, we had some pretty interesting storylines. I would even go as far as saying that I would have loved to have seen some of these storylines play out on WWE TV. Some of my favorites include the 3 WWE 12 storylines featuring a Villain, a Hero, and a CAW vs. WCW and the 8 WWE 13 storylines featuring the 8 Main SuperStars of the Attitude Era.

Here’s where you come in. Now, with WWE 12 featuring WCW and WWE 13 featuring the Attitude Era, the question is what will WWE 2K14 (and beyond) feature??

Before I get into mine, I have a few questions first. Didn’t like which WCW SuperStars’ contracts the WWE decided to pick up?? Didn’t like which ECW SuperStars’ the WWE decided to sign?? Did you wish the WWE picked up the Major WCW SuperStars?? Did you wish the WWE utilized the ECW Championships in the storyline?? Did you want a 3 sided war instead of the Federation vs. Alliance (still sounds like Star Wars with the sides reversed) storyline that we got??

If you said yes to all the questions, then you’ll love this idea. I would like to see the Invasion storyline featured in a future WWE video game Story mode, where the difference between what took place in 2001 and what takes place in the game, is whatever you decide.

Picture this if you will.

June 25, 2001. It’s Monday Night Raw. We already know Shane McMahon bought WCW. We saw Shane defeat Vince at WrestleMania X7. From King Of The Ring 2001 up to this point in time, WCW SuperStars have been interfering in matches on WWE TV. Shane then announces his intentions to take WCW and invade the WWE in an attempt to take over Raw and / or Smackdown, and, in essence, Heat / Bottom Line and / or Velocity / Afterburn. The next thing you see is Booker T. executing the Scissors Kick on the Chairman, Owner, CEO and King (get it) of the World Wrestling Federation.

June 28, 2001. It’s Thursday Night Smackdown. The Fully Loaded PPV has now been officially changed to Invasion featuring matches between WWF and WCW.

Now, because of what happened during the first 3 WCW matches on WWE TV, (Booker T. vs. Buff Bagwell on Raw Is War, and Shane Helms vs. Billy Kidman, and Booker T. vs. Diamond Dallas Page on Smackdown!), WWF decided to change the original plan from WCW the Brand to WCW the Stable.

This is the point in time where I would like the gameplay to begin. This, of course, would require WWE Games to include every single Character from Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 to WWE 13, and maybe even add some characters that are missing from SvR 07 to ‘13. You decide who you want to face Booker T. for the WCW Championship in the first WCW match on Raw Is War. You decide who you want to face Shane Helms for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship in the first WCW match on Smackdown!. You decide who you want to face Booker T. for the WCW Championship in the second WCW Main Event on WWE TV. From here, the possibilities are endless. The following week, ECW emerges with Stephanie McMahon at the helm. Again, decisions have to be made. Will you have WCW and ECW form the Alliance, or will you take the Invasion to the Extreme and make it a 3 sided war?? If you go with option B (for Better), will you have Bischoff join Shane and Heyman join Stephanie?? Who will you pick to make up Team WWF, Team WCW, and Team ECW for the Invasion PPV?? I could keep going on and on, but you get the gist.

So, what storylines, past ones that actually happened or newly created ones by you, would you like to see in the future sequels??

 

[Deoxyribonucleic A.C.I.D.]

Thats a very interesting idea you have there King Patrick. WWE seems to base their storyline modes around dream storylines or matches that never happened or will happen. The InVasion storyline, is one of the most loved and most hated storylines of all time. Why? Everybody loved the great TV it provided and everybody hated the fact that WCW's big fish weren't around.

And with WWE having the rights of both WCW and ECW old school WCW/ECW characters could appear in the game like Sting with the facepaint, Hollywood Hogan, Goldberg, Ric Flair, Vader, Steiner, DDP, Booker T, Raven, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko etc. All of this concluding to Wrestlemania, including the biggest match-ups of all time like Goldberg vs Austin, Hogan vs Rock, Sting vs The Undertaker, Triple H & HBK vs The NWO (Nash & Hall), Flair vs Angle, DDP vs Jericho, Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero vs RVD in a Ladder match and many many more.

What my personal storyline would be? Hmmmm, NWA vs WWE running from the day Ric Flair debuted in the WWE till Wrestlemania VIII, were it concludes with Ric Flair vs Hulk Hogan in a NWA Champion vs WWF Champion, Biggest match of all time. In the beginning fans would also get to pick a side, being with Ric Flair's NWA or with Hogan's WWE? Superstars like Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage and The Horsemen would also be included to make to storyline even more thrilling.

 

[King Patrick Star]

Wow!! That’s an awesome idea!! The Invasion was good, but if we replace WCW with the NWA, it potentially could have been better. That period of time would fit one of my dream matches.

Team WWF – Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior and Brutus the Barber Beefcake
vs.
Team NWA – Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Sting, and Arn Anderson

 

[Wolf Pac]

Great thread, Patrick.

Apart from Smackdown 1 and 2, I've never played any of the other games on the poll, so I don't have a clue about their Season/Career/GM/Road To Wrestlemania modes, and I can't remember the Season modes in SD's 1 & 2 cause it's been such a long time since I last played those two games, but in the last couple of years I've played Wrestlemania X8, X9, Day Of Reckoning 1 and 2, and my favourite Season mode out of those games are from DOR 1 & 2.

In DOR 1, your CAW starts off as a new wrestler signed to a developmental contract trying to work his way up to the main roster. After developmental comes a stint on Sunday Night Heat, before the wrestler graduates and finally joins the main roster. You get to choose which brand your CAW joins, if you choose RAW, your superstar would also join Evolution, if he chooses Smackdown, he joins The Ministry Of Darkness. Whichever brand you would choose for your wrestler, he works his way up the roster and wins the Tag Team Titles with another member of your selected stable, then he goes onto win the IC Title or US Title, all while the stable leader becomes the show's world champion, then starts kicking people off the team as they fail him or in your CAW's case, become a threat to his championship. After Triple H or Undertaker has kicked you out, you go onto win the Royal Rumble match and in the final battle, face one of them in an Iron Man match at WrestleMania XX for the championship.

The story continues in DOR 2 though under the assumption that you chose RAW in the original game, it's almost a year after WM XX, Evolution has disbanded, you've lost the title back to Triple H and fallen back down the ranks, however your character has gained a love interest in Stacy Keibler. A couple of months before Wrestlemania, Triple H loses the World Title in a match with Chris Jericho in a controversial ending, where both men pin & submit each other at the same time, Eric Bischoff vacates the title as a result and holds it up in a mini-tournament to determine a new champion, and the finals will be held at Wrestlemania. Your player and Triple H advances to the finals, set to face off at WM again, but then Bischoff reports that the World Title has been stolen. Later in the storyline, your player gets framed for stealing the belt, dumped by Stacy and fired from RAW, but then he's picked up by Smackdown and goes on to win the WWE Title and eventually finds out that it was Edge, Chris Jericho and Randy Orton who stole the World Title and he recovers the belt. Triple H is booked to face your CAW for the WWE Title at Wrestlemania instead, in a Last Man Standing match, but before your player does face Triple H, he faces Edge first on the undercard and defeats him before he goes onto beat Triple H and retain the WWE Title. And after he wins the match he's reunited with Stacy, and Triple H, who turns face, is handed the World Title by your player to end the story mode. Okay, the ending to this story mode is a little cheesy but it was still fun playing it.

As for what storyline I would like to see in future sequels? Not really sure, I don't think anything could top your idea, Patrick, but maybe in WWE '15 after the Invasion storyline is over in WWE '14, they could redo the NWO storyline from 2002 and do it right this time. I wouldn't start the brand extension between RAW & SD just yet, hold it off till after the NWO vs. WWE storyline is over with. NWO is the bigger threat here, so RAW & SD should be a unit. Start with the NWO debuting at No Way Out, then at Wrestlemania X8 the right matches get booked, Austin vs. Hogan, I don't know who Hall and Nash could face, maybe Hall vs. Rock and Taker vs. Nash II or vice-versa. Win or lose, Hogan doesn't turn babyface after his match with Austin is over, he's still with the NWO, and as the storyline progresses past Wrestlemania X8, the faction gets bigger and stronger with some of the other original members jumping back to the NWO like X-Pac, Big Show, Curt Hennig, Big Bossman etc. Some of the WWE stars also defect to the group, and at Backlash Hogan beats Triple H for the WWE Title and he sprays the NWO logo on the belt. In the upcoming weeks, on RAW, SD, PPV, The Outsiders win the Tag Team Titles and the other NWO members take the rest of the gold in the company, I'm thinking Hennig can win the IC Title, Pac wins the European Title, Bossman gets the Hardcore Title. In July, the NWO get their own PPV, NWO Vengeance, like how WCW gave the NWO their own PPV with Souled Out in 1997. Of course the PPV would be WWE vs. NWO matches and the WWE could win some of their titles back. The storyline would come to an end at Survivor Series, where every match is WWE vs. NWO, all the titles are on the line, and the main event is a 10 man elimination Winner Takes All match, basically it would be Survivor Series 2001 again just with the NWO taking on the WWE instead of The Alliance.

If not that, then maybe the NWO (with Bischoff and Hogan in charge) could be included in your Invasion storyline in WWE '14, making it a 4-sided war, WWE vs. WCW vs. ECW vs. NWO, or if WCW and ECW form The Alliance then a 3-sided war, WWE vs. The Alliance vs. NWO, which could come to a head at Survivor Series in a 3 or 4 team Winner Takes All WarGames match.

 

[King Patrick Star]

Awesome idea!! It’s not just an awesome idea, but it the perfect sequel, with kpgreece’s idea being the perfect prequel, to my idea.

By the way, in case you were interested, here’s my original idea for the Invasion angle from a prior thread.

Survivor Series 2001

In this version of the “Invasion”…the War has just began.

Round One

Match One
Blue Word Order – Big Stevie Cool, Hollywood Nova, Da Blue Guy, and Taka Michinoku
vs.
ECW – Shane Douglas, The Sandman, Raven, and Taz

Match Two
New World Order – Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and The Big Show
vs.
WCW – Ric Flair, Big Van Vader, Booker T., and Sting

Match Three
NWA – Steve Corino, Jason Rumble, and The New Heavenly Bodies ("Casanova" Chris Nelson and "Vivacious" Vito DeNucci)
vs.
The Radicalz – Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Chris Jericho

Match Four
D-Generation X – Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Mr. @$$, and Road Dogg
vs.
WWF – Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Kurt Angle, and Undertaker

Round Two

Match Five
The winner of match 1
vs.
The winner of match 2

Match Six
The winner of match 3
vs.
The winner of match 4

Round Three

Match Seven
The winner of match 5
vs.
The winner of match 6

Yup!! 8 sided war!!

 

[Piss Bucket]

WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 was the first Xbox 360 game I ever got ALL the achievenents on, and it was an excellent game IMO, RTWM mode and all.