The online pass and Axxess are up.

I know it's still early for now, but the servers are not only usable, they are bloody fast. That's coming from a UK guy with a 2mbit connection and all their servers are in the US.

We'll see if they get worse over the week.

DLC Pack 1 is all on disc, arbitrarily locking out content. Ugh.

To use any community creations that use DLC elements, you have to have Fan Axxess too. For instance, if some character you want uses the worm, you can't just purchase Scotty 2 Hottie, you need the Fan Axxess 1600 point pack.

Damn, why would they do that? I'm sure that wasn't the way it was last year, not that it bothers me as I'm getting Fan Axxess anyway.

PS. Could've gotten it at midnight but opted against it as the rain/winds were pretty heavy and I was just leaving the hospital.

It might not actually be true, it's just what it says on the Community Creations page. They might just be covering their own back.

There is a badass Nitro arena already up. I've put Hasney up if you're bored, under TPWW tag. Also got a screenshot of the white noise going through the table and it not breaking. That's under the keyword "glitch". I'll get the video up tonight I think.

Rate away since if I get 5 ratings, I get an achievement. I'll return in kind.

Working on WWE is DBZ now. This may take a while, but this Ryback as Buu thing could be great!

Launch was last night/this morning.

Me too. I made 3 arenas and played the holy fuck out of Attitude Era mode. I completed DX, Bonus Matches, and Austin/McMahon. I looked up and it was fucking 7:00am.

Looking back on it, I wonder what the fuck Undertaker and Kane thought when they told them about the Inferno match concept. Let alone the finish: "Hey Taker, we want you to throw that 325 lbs. man over the top rope without touching the fire. Then, you will springboard over and knock the fuck out of him. It'll be friggin' sweet. Oh yeah, do that rope walk thingy too. We'll shoot the flames up real high and use that footage for years. Good luck guys!"

When I went to WWE Shop, it said everything was -1MSP. Hope they fixed it. Still not crazy about it, but meh. Gangrel vs Val Venis feud. Who is the better man: the porn director or the porn star?!?!

Yeah, I already grabbed it. Axxess is 1600 points.

Too Cool and DDP were the ones that swayed me.

Might get this today. Dunno yet.


Dishonored might hold me til next week though. Game is mint.

for those who have done attitude how the hell do you beat bulldog? No matter what i do i cant get my signature or finisher. Yes im back but just to ask this question.

DDP swayed me.

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Finally get to do the DDP/Randy Orton feud I've always wanted to do.

Any good Rybacks up yet?

This is why I no longer buy games, that and THQ seems to take things out that I liked which were in their earlier games.

First one on "what's hot" looked pretty good.

Is DDP already available?

Yup, part of DLC pack 1.

First pack is:

Rikishi
Too Cool
DDP
Gangrel
Goldust

Lol @ my auto-correct wanting to make Gangrel FAngel.

<font color=goldenrod>Reading a lot of reviews on various sites saying that the gameplay is the best its been in years - especially on "Epic" match setting. Matches usually lasting at least 10 minutes on that setting.

Getting antsy to try this but I know Universe's bugs will piss me off. Gotta continue to resist the urge and wait til the price lowers.</font> :mad:

I think it may be if the the CAW has moves from DDP or Gangrel/Goldust(whichever is the Axxess exclusive), because those two can't be purchased individually, the only way to get them, and the moves, is through Axxess.

Also, DDP is badass. The amount of his moves that they got in for him is pretty slick.

Also, Brian Christopher has a pretty slick looking version of the skull crushing finale.

Caved in and got it. Doesn't matter to me that Universe is still crap. I only use Create a Story, and considering that there are 300 new scenes, I think I'll be pleased.

First impressions forthcoming.

Attitude mode is good, but also kind of strange. They put so much love and detail into the cutscenes and story progression, but then skimp out in weird places, like not having Billy Gunn's tights, or Taker's rock theme.

My other complaint is that some of the objectives can be a pain in the ass.

Besides that, I love Attitude mode so far.

Create an arena is neat, but the added stage customization isn't really what I'd hoped.

Lots of cool new scenes in story mode.

Gameplay feels a little more polished and tight.

Oh and much love for daniel bryan getting 2 attires

The top rope catching reversals oddly have added so much more to the game than I thought they would. Going for a top rope hurricanrana and getting powerbombed, back-breakers off of crossbodies and the classic shot to the gut off a double axe-handle Reversals in general have been given a nice touch. The only stupid reversals I see now are reversed CAFs, which makes sense.

Because I like to play with high-fliers, the fact that top rope moves now rotate to hit their guy is a great touch too. Finally bringing back pins was a no-brainer.

Went a bit crazy on community creations last night while the servers were snappy just in case they went back to the old 12 speed, but they're holding up well so far.

Also, a bit of weird one with Lita. There's 2 versions of her and 3 themes. Neither one of her versions use her awesome Boxcar theme, but it's in there as Lita 2. The matching tron to that one is Lita 1.

Even then she comes out early, so if you go to advanced entrance and give her Triple H 1 as her intro theme, everything works out.

Gonna give Universe one last try, kill off Smackdown and Superstars and have current Raw, Attitude Raw, Nitro and ECW.

I'd put NXT on there actually if they had more guys up on creations. Only one I saw so far was Paige, which I'm cool with.

So what can we edit in the Universe Mode that won't override the storylines? I have a diva and superstar CAW that I want to group as a couple.

Or do you mean we can edit ANYTHING except the actual booking of matches, so we can't interfere in the matches?

I'm pretty sure you can edit the cards, just not the matches that are TODAYS HIGHLIGHTED MATCH, because they're the ones with branching possibilities. It actually comes up and tells you if you try changing that one.

Undertaker's rock theme is in. You just have to get to mid 1998 for it to start being used.

I've played the fuck out of Attitude Era mode. I'm already on the "Off-Script" matches.

Yeah, if any of the focused on guys change their music throughout the years, it updates it. Even down to Mankinds theme with the weird beat before he went to Wreck at Rumble 99'.

Thinking about it, the only thing that irked me in Attitude mode was Kane. His entrance fireworks hit too early and they get rid of the red light during matches quicker than they actually did.

Yeah. The entrance cues are a little off on Undertaker's rock theme and Kane's organ theme. I guess it wouldn't make much sense to make another entrance when the only difference would be a longer crowd shot or what have you.

True. Gonna probably change Attitude Kane's myself though. Then give modern Kane Finger Eleven back.

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Beautiful :'(

I just thought of a Universe mode improvement. I haven't had a match restart as a submission match yet and even with injuries on, only had one in a year.

Me too. I'm planning on waiting until after the last DLC pack comes out to buy, that way the price will have come down and I'll have the "complete" roster.

Oh fucking sweet. Hadn't gotten far enough where that happens.

And I totally agree with hasney on the catch finishers. My HBK vs Taker HIAC match with taker was epic because of it. Kane had just come in and done his thing, so I went in and pinned taker, only for him to kick out. A few moves later I had a signature, so I went up for the elbow, but he got up and tombstoned me out of the air. I was marking out like crazy at how awesome it looked. The transition is so smooth.

Even losing and having to do it all over would have been fine by me after that awesome ending, but by a sheer stroke of luck, I won the pin mini game and kicked out. He grabbed me and I reversed it into sweet chin music for the win.

Freaking epic.

And speaking of epic, the addition of match pacing might be the best addition. The settings are quick, normal, or epic. Quick will get you a 1-3 minute match. Normal gives you 5-7, and epic gives you 10-15.

No more Alex Riley vs Heath Slater 10 minute classics on Superstars!

With all the gameplay options available to you now, you can really have some great matches.

Irish whip animation has been changed to how it is in real life, where they lean in and call the next move.

Thought that was really neat.

Quick is also a godsend for non-multiplayer MITB. I remember a couple of them lasting close to an hour in 12.

Doing all the historical objectives are a bitch on the harder difficulties (especially timer objectives). HBK/Bulldog about had me throwing my controller.

Do you have to do it on harder difficulties to unlock anything?

I don't know why, but whenever NAO were in the match either controlled or as CPU, there was some crazy-ass time limit objective that made me want to punch people in the throat.

I think out of all the Attitude story, Rumble 99 has to easily be my fave to play. Love all the Mankind/Rock matches though, especially the ones where you whip someone into the announce table and grapple so Rock can get on the headset to talk trash.

Nah, everything can be unlocked on any difficulty. Most of it in Attitude mode, then some in Universe.

I wish they would have let you play the Rumble match as Austin and chase around McMahon.

Anyone get this on PS3 instead of 360? Been reading a few reports that Brodus being in a match freezes the system.

PS3 can't process all the funk.

Well then, I don't know why you'd play it on those difficulties at all, let alone getting objectives in Attitude.

If it's for challenge, then put down the wrestling game, because they've all had broken and cheap AI past normal, instead of challenging but fair.

Yeah, time limits and escort missions are the most useless things in all of gaming.

Redbox it

So far so good on the community creations server.

Can I get a ruling on that?

I'm mad because they have all the generic theme music from 12 EXCEPT the one I used. (Hip Hop)

SMH

I edit most cards and I still get some branching stories. Just don't edit the feature matches.

Kind of pissed they don't have stage parts for Nitro and the other WCW PPVs from last year.

I think it would be awesome if next year they did something like Attitude mode again, except for the entire monday night war.

Tried to recreate Sheamus's 18 second Wrestlemania win in Create a Story. Put Daniel Bryan's heath all the way to red, but it won't let you have infinite finishers like you can in exhibition. So I went on to the match first glitch was that it introduced Bryan as the "challenger", then as the WHC. Then when I beat Bryan with an axe handle, Sheamus didn't even celebrate with the WHC. Lame.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

How dare you try to re-create that!!!!

About to go through the brothers of destruction story. I doubt Vince's putrid pussies line will get in the game, but that would be awesome.

So far the biggest mark out moment was...

Yeah, that was awesome.

They had better be working on a patch. :mad:

For what? Your little story bug?

Amazon just gave me a free PDF version of the strategy guide.

Just attempted the Kane/Austin match from Raw 1998 and ended up losing it. Managed to do all the historical objectives but whenever it came to the finisher/pin combo Paul Bearer would just leap up on the Apron and distract the referee. Tried to take him out but he'd always manage to get back up in time to stop the pin and therefore just ended up being worn down until I lost.

Aside from the usual AI Reversal cheapness this is probably the first major issue I've had in the game, managers haven't usually been this cheap. Anyone else encounter this?

They did that last year but they'd eventually get thrown out in a normal match.

Finding it retarded that there's a limit on how many superstars can be downloaded. Let me fill my goddamn hard drive if I want. Cunts.

They got 3 interrupts before they got sent to the back.

And they don't in attitude mode. Had to store 2 finishers. One for the manager and one for the opponent.

The only Dudley's up are done by one guy. Respectable Bubba but with D-Von, he's blatantly gone "I made him black! What more do you want?!"

Yeah, you're gonna have to wait a while for the really good caws to hit. That logo creator stuff takes time.

Is anybody having trouble with the WWE Universe unlock compete at WrestleMania? I downloaded a CAW Ryback and competed in two WrestleManias and neither thing unlocked.

It blows my mind how they do those logos. Is it a hack or something where they do it on their computer and copy it over or something?

Maybe or they just have alot of experience with the CAW system.

Unlocked first time for me. Maybe it had to be a guy you made yourself?

Nah, it's just pixel art and some people are really good at it. I've seen the hacks that bring in new wrestlers and the models they put in are sometimes better than THQ's. It's hilarious.

Last years Chris Jericho (the one that was most downloaded) was damn near perfection.

The Ryback they have is pretty damn good. Downloaded it along with Antonio Cesaro.

I just hope they have alot of good celebrities and tv characters so I can make a weird story mode this time around.

They just had a graphic saying Raw was live for the Mick Foley winning the title for the first time match. LOL.

Taker's rock theme is in the game dude. Did you skip the intros for Summerslam and BreakDown or something?

All of the themes seem right. They even put in the Mankind face version of his original theme song that he got before Crash.

This was a top notch performance by THQ.

Attitude Mode was a 9.5/10. I didn't like how they seemed to brushed off most of 1999 and all of 2000 without the whole experiences from 97-99. I understand space is limited, so I'll only take off a half of a point for it. This is how all story modes should be handled from now on: a faithful re-telling of a year (or more) of WWE programing from different angles and views. They won't have to spend months writing original stories because they will already have them with the archive audio and video footage to boot. Last year's Road to WrestleMania was a chore and a bore and this one was a score.

I haven't played online or created any stories, so I can't tell how the servers are yet.

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<font color=goldenrod>Based on the rave reviews the mode is getting, I actually could see them continuing the story next year, doing the rest of 1999 and maybe continuing it to WM X7 in 2001 (the perceived end of the Attitude Era).

Wouldn't even need to alter the roster all that much. You'd sub out Bret, Vader, LOD, blue blood HHH etc. in favor of some other guys more fitting of the years the mode covers. Then make any necessary tweaks to characters (Taker becomes a biker, HHH becomes The Game, etc.)

Bonus points if they signed up a bunch of the Hardcore wrestlers from the game and did a story focused on the 24/7 rule.</font>

They actually work.

Anyone different would be a bonus, not like it'd break the bank to sign Hardcore Holly to a deal.

Only 3 or 4 matches into the DX story and have been grinning like a masturbating retard the entire time.

The Nation Vs. DX would have been good even though they couldn't do it justice without Owen being there.

Chimel finally fucking says SOUP-erstar for Edge, but not that loud and exaggerated as he did at the end.

Gonna wait for a price drop, was tempted to run out and get it, but sony fucked up Fan Axxess in the UK, it's supposed to be 50% off for PS+ users but apparently that discount won't go live until next week.

Soon.

Did it put asses in the seats?

Nah, back when I got knee surgery, I spent a lot of time laid up, just creating guys in SvsE 11'. Made like a dozen cruiserweights. Took time and patience, but it wasn't hard.

Servers are lightning fast. Pretty great.

Also, I dunno why they showed that crappy ankle lock for Ken Shamrock in the trailers, because his real one is in there and it's fucking awesome.

The ankle lock is fine, the gay little cheer he does before applying it is shit.

anybody that has wwe 13 for wii slide me a pm... i have some questions

isn't there supposed to be storylines in universe mode? played through like 2 years and still nothing. do i have to play every match? LAME

This.

Played almost every match for the first two months without changing much and havent gotten anything other than cutscenes that were in 12 (even though i have everything in AE mode unlocked). Anyone know how to get stories going other than just random interferences? Still like the updates they gave to the mode to far but it seems far from complete.

My CAW was caught in a fued with Cena and Lesner from the jump.

I have to insert my female CAW in matches just to make her relavent... It's just like the WWE.

Just experienced the 1st top rope reversal, 'Taker caught me coming off the top rope and turned it into a tombstone, really nice touch.

i have been in many 'feuds' but none actually have a storyline.

tried to interfere in matches with certain people but nothing came out of that. even now when i have the title there is still no 'storyline' feud.

Cena caught me in mid air too... still won though

Yeah, just noticed now that he has some retarded smile on his face, instead of an expression of pure rage that he was known for.

gay.

Did a superplex to the outside in a Divas' match for an OMG moment. Forgot it could be done. It was a pleasant shock.

Attitude mode plays really well, might just be in comparison to last years RTWM, which was fucking terrible, or rose tinted glasses but its been really fun, could see them following it on in next years like Vito said.

And Shamrocks happy face is kinda lol, same as them blurring Austins fingers when he flips someone off.

Last year's RTWM mode was at least 50% handicap backstage brawls, where the AI spams running grapple moves and you get irish-whipped so much you are practically slingshoted around the sun.

Yeah, it was shit. WWE 12 didn't captivate me as long as Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 did with the creating of story modes. I think it was because it was such a pain in the dick load things into the servers.

So far so great for WWE 13. Everybody should get it once theres a price drop if you're watching your budgets.

I am just livid they gave me blue balls. Attitude Era mode cuts off right as Triple H makes his ascension to greatness. I want Summer 99-2001 bad ass mother fucking evil son of a bitch WWF Heavyweight Champion Triple H.

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*BONER*

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The "My Time" theme being in WWE 13 is awesome though.

It is? I jut thought it was blue blood, DX and The Game since he doesn't use it in Attitude mode. I gave him My Time as a custom and everything :'(