Must say that the game is pretty epic. Only really messed around in Attitude mode (just finished DX) and a few exhibitions. Seems that the game is getting the balance right finally for AI. It feels challenging (as long as Im not trying to end the match ASAP) for once instead of feeling cheap with overuse of reversals on default. The catch reversals are awesome. So far only encountered a crossbody to a slam tho. Haven't touched Universe but I'll probably play it like I usually do and that's playing it when I want the game to decide what match I play.

Absolutely loving the little touches in Attitude mode. Like HBK having all his different colored attires. Also marking out over Attitude mode every match. Even matches I thought I had forgotten I'm like "ohhh yeaaah".

I marked like a bitch when I saw in match creator that both the blue and black barred cages are in.

I do feel this will have much longer life than the last few WWE games for me. Roster aside, it just feels more fun for some reason. More polished.$

Anybody else notice the moment of silence in Attitude Era mode commentary not only when you know they’re saying “WWF”, but also for the word “Federation”? Seems kinda gay since I always thought the restriction from the 2002 lawsuit only said they could no longer call themselves WWF or use that anagram. Never heard about them not being able to use “World Wrestling Federation” if it was in its original context in the pre-WWE days.

Also, why the fuck (early on) do they use the block logo sans the F? I know why the scratch logo is like that obviously, but I thought they were supposed to be able to use the old block WWF logo without restriction.

Original logo:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A0JrrX4J1J...0/wwf+logo.jpg

WWE ’13 version:
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They're allowed to use it, WWE would just like it to be shown as WWE where possible, even from the past.

I do find it weird that it's in commentary. Yes, there are a few instances of the original audio being in the game, but it's mostly rerecorded with "WWF" or "Federation". But it's also rerecorded as "WWE" a lot.

Though maybe they did that knowing about the settlement proceedings and it just wasn't settled by final editing.

Ah, good point Xero. Hadn’t thought of that. Mainly because so little has happened since early-mid 2002 when in May WWF became WWE, I guess I just figured back then that the lawsuit was far from settled before hearing news recently that they were still working out final details ( :wtf: ). :-\

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Saw a YT vid that did that. One comment was something like "Hey, everybody! Do the Bury!"

It is Stephanie McMahon's theme.

There are slight differences between HHH's My Time and Steph's My Time. Besides the altered intro, there's some adjusting of the drum track and guitar.

I only ever noticed the lack of intro. I'll have to listen to it closely some time. I still haven't made my CAW yet which is usually the 1st thing I do every year. Attitude Era mode was awesome.

The hats are emphasized for Steph's. I noticed on some episode of Smackdown many moons ago. I'm a total geek about little details with the music. Remixes, remasters, added lyrics and all that. Jim Johnston is kind of a god to me.

Ohhh. Isn't that the lyric less version?

Probably the best settings I've found for a nice long match but usually ending with a finisher are epic (duh), slow meter build and high finisher damage.

Still get the odd CPU kickout after your first finisher with high ranked guys, but that's half the fun.

They should have incorporated the Epic settings in story mode for the main event matches.

Nah that's the first version HHH had. She got hers after her Billion Dollar Princess change. It has "You don't know what trouble is!" at the start.

Triple H used it during the Owen Hart Tribute show. That's the only time I noticed it, though. :-\ I definitely prefer the "My Time" version with the vocals and all that.

<font color=goldenrod>I caved. :o Just heard way too many good things about the gameplay, servers, and Attitude Era mode. Not like I would have saved more than like $20 waiting for the price to drop anyway.

Haven't even started AE mode yet. I took my time in setting up my Universe. Split the Attitude Era roster in half and currently have a 4 brand setup now: Raw, SD, Attitude Raw, and Attitude SD. I only have like 16 guys per brand, so I can just bounce around show to show and pick random guys to create storylines for rather than doing 20 matches a week.

Haven't really noticed any of the wonky cutscene booking Hasney mentioned...but then again I haven't seen very many cutscenes at all. The default matchups are incredibly repetitive. Cena vs. Brock has main evented every single Raw. And over on SD I get Hunico vs. DiBiase in a remarkable match every week. I even play the Hunico/DiBiase matches hoping something will actually happen, but it never does.

Also, a minor gripe I suppose since I'm probably in the minority of guys who still do CPU simmed matches on occasion...but the OMG moments have pretty much fucked CPU simming. The CPU rarely tries to finish the match off when they have a shot, instead they nearly always dismantle the announce table and try to do the table break spot. It's like they programmed the AI to go out of their way to use this new feature that they hyped.

Gameplay is much improved from past years though, and that's really what drew me in.</font>

Attitude mode unlocks universe storyline packs.

Did not know that. I may have to reset the Universe for that

<font color=goldenrod>Already unlocked them via Accelerator. Haven't seen anything come up though even when I do matches that were booked by the game.</font>

It took a while for me in '12 before anything really started branching out, had to jumpstart it by interfering in matches etc.

Not sure if this is in for everyone, but...

Yeah, few nice touches like that in it.

they don't come up. seems to be a common problem

have been glued to Attitude era mode. Really fun compared to the crap they put out the last few years.
Only complaint is that some of the models look fucking terrible.

Uh oh...

Love Jerichos entrance.
Love the legit finishers off the ladder and not bullshit suplexes.
Hate the new fiddly grappling system.

Not sure if it has been brought up and I missed it here,but did anyone else notice Ryder's logos blurred out in the promo package? I think it one that shows as you start Attitude Mode? also anyone else know why that would be?

Trademark issues, I believe. Same reason the Broski boot is renamed the Ryder Boot.

Y2J Jericho has the LionTamer.

My favorite Attitude Era mode moment so far was watching Mankind put the mandible claw on himself to avoid tapping out to the ankle lock.

One thing that bugs me is the fact that the original Mankind has Socko, yet the original non-socko claw is in and used for Cactus.

Just got this a couple days ago. Really enjoying the Attitude Era Mode and the gameplay does seem to have gotten quite a bit better from last year's edition. I like that you can climb onto the announce table again and that the moves onto chairs (DDT's and Piledrivers, etc) feel more realistic. My only gripe so far is the roster, but I think we're all on board with that - could've done with a lot more current roster superstars and a lot less multiple "Attitude Era" superstars. 3 Triple H's is just fucking stupid - could have easily made it so that you can change the costume and music for each of these superstars to make space for others. Oh well. I guess that's where the Online downloads come into play.

Haven't finished the DX story yet, but I'm liking the historical moments challenges - adds a bit more to the game play.

We'll see how long this keeps my attention before I abandon it for Uncharted 3.

Maybe when characters models were simple in like games like No Mercy could you have just outfits. Don't think they can do that now.

Ended up getting this today, wasn't originally planning to as I've just got Assassin's Creed 3, couldn't resist after hearing all the good comments.

I wish they could do something where special guest referees at least just wear generic pants and a ref shirt.

Dunno if it was something they forgot to fix or whether it’s in every copy of the game, but

had that too

Yeah, I had that happen in the victory cutscene after the New Age Outlaws vs Mankind match.

Having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to start a corner punch combo...anyone know how it’s done?:?:

right and A

Has anybody noticed there seems to be less grapple moves? Or is it just me?

it has about the same amount of grapple moves. It's just split up between standard grapple and groggy grapple

Yeah, and because of that the flow of the matches and the moves themselves seem a lot more fluid than in ’12.

Gonna see if there's a good Barack Obama and Romney CAWs.

Update: Nope.

Going to set up a Special Guest ref match after I download a Brad Maddox CAW.

Hahah somebody chose Ryback. DQed him for using a weapon and he was pissed. :) I was just going to screw him with a quick three count, but that worked out better.

Anybody else have issues with the universe story? Or do you need to interfere in matches?

My experience with WWE universe mode is the same its always been fast forward to money in the bank to get the CAW achievement and then skip to WM.

I rarely play any matches other than cashing in/winning MITB. You guys are expecting way too much out of the mode.

Yup. Expecting way too much for it to work as advertised. Surely these were the GREAT EXPECTATIONS we all needed.

So, I may have missed this in an earlier post, but could somebody fill me in on some Universe logistical things?

1) Is it still four weeks of TV, followed by the PPV, with the exception of February?
2) Does it start in January like last year, or after 'Mania like '11?
3) How many match slots are available on each show? Raw/SmackDown, Superstars, and PPVs

1. Every month is 4 weeks then the PPV on the 4th Sunday and you can add shows to the days that don't have one.
2. Starts after Wrestlemania
3. 5 for Raw/Smackdown/Superstars, I think 7 for PPV

Thanks! I always try to sort of pre-book a few weeks before I get the game, but realized I had no idea what my parameters were. Can you do fewer than five? Like, if I wanted to do a Main Event/Saturday Morning Slam-type show with one or two matches, can I do that, or do I need to throw in filler matches?

All TV shows are 5 matches. Unfortunately the idea of separating the Major and Minor shows is kinda defeated when the minor shows have just as many matches.

That is weird. I guess I just need to set the major matches to epic and have short matches on the minor shows.

Minor/Major might just refer to how much a win on the show effects your momentum.

Must have missed it somewhere, but what is this 'epic' match setting? Is it to do with crowd noise or something?

No it afffects how long the match is. Forget where it is atm. Think it's on the match up screen.

Yeah, it's on the match up screen. You hit one of the shoulder buttons to change between normal, epic and quick. It doesn't show up in Attitude mode but I think it's in every other mode, except probably create a story.

I tried it a few times. I honestly didn't see too much of a difference other than I suppose damage being lessened or something. It's probably best for simming, honestly.

Quick match is also an option, basically making a quick squash.

The idea of epic match is to have more false finishes to make it feel like CM Punk/John Cena from Money in the Bank and other matches like it.

But what actually changes? To me it just sounds like the sliders get bumped down since you'd get the same basic effect that way.

It saves you from having to fiddle with the sliders to begin with.

When me and my guys do a show we start off with jobber matches to kick it off. Usually one of us has to deliver a massive beating to give the impression of a 'piss break match'. In other cases, when we have our main events and PPVs, we add a lot of semi-staged spots and false finishes to simulate big matches.

The new options regarding how matches are supposed to be directly appeals to us and people who care for that. Yes it is essentially a fighting game handicap slider, so fucking what.

I haven't tried epic mode yet, but it is probably that. So, it's the convenience of not having to do that and then change it every time.

Wow Matt Hardy is the top Download content right now. Damn near 5,000 downloads.

Calm your tits, I was just wondering if that was it or if there were other things considered in the "epic" match selection, like certain features being affected like easier to break submissions. I actually like the idea.

Just had to give a Bane CAW a 3/5 cause it didn't have a Backbreaker as a finisher. DDT?

Hasney's CAW still needs 2 more reviews so he can get the achievement. Unless he released something else without the TPWW hashtag.

Shamrock's finisher in WWE 13 is MICHAEL COLE's AN COLE LOCK!!

Sheamous' kick?

Lol so thats why he's grinning like an idot.

Just got an update for the game. Any idea what it is?

Only thing they announced about it was a specific bug that crashes the game sometimes when using a custom arena in Universe mode. Nothing else specific mentioned.

I know I'm probably missing something really obvious but do you create a title?

you gotta go to like title history or some title menu and then hit lb/rb r1/l1 to move over to the custom title menu

My WWE, titles...kinda wank though.

Still waiting for some good stuff from universe mode....Going to play every match post TLC thru 'Mainia and see if anything happens.

Whiteyford...did you see the JCW arena?

Haven't really looked at the uploaded stuff outside of CAWs but i'll look out for that.

good luck

Game will be $25 at Walmart on Black Friday.

At least you don't get the cpu interupting pins/submissions during elimination matches now.

I figured as much, but damn man....its so sad. AE was alot of fun to play thru but now that I'm done (and I could give a rats ass about playing online) I was hoping universe would have some angles to play out.

What happened to those 200 Paul Heyman written stories? :nono:

Unless some cool shit happens, I'm kinda bored of the game already.

So far I have only been playing through the attitude era mode. I have it beat with the exception of the Jericho match in the off the script part, very frustrating. I really love the game so far, glad I picked it up on day one.

Beat 'Taker at Wrestlemania with a custom superstar on Legend difficulty and no achievement...is there something specific you've got to do? Won by DQ and submission, is it pinfall only?

Universe mode only. You can make he match in card editor at Wrestlemania at least.

Damn, not being able to save stuff to the hard drive really hurts. Want to have WWF vs WCW for Universe mode, but that means most, if not all my caw and caa slots will have to go to wcw stuff. Won't leave me much space for legends, tna, japan, etc.

So yeah where are these WWE Universe storymodes? Were they part of create-a-story mode? They seem to have more options there now. They have an "APA Card Game" where APA beats the shit out of somebody for cheating.

Create a story has gotten too convoluted for my taste.

Dunno, Create a Story is pretty fantastic, imo.

It's beyond annoying in my opinion. I can understand how back in the day when data had to be saved to memory cards that you'll have a limit on created wrestlers and other features.

But in this day and age, with consoles having hard drives with at least 4GB of space, why you would be limited to how much custom content you desire to create and download by a per-determined number of slots... it's just stupid.

I guess maybe because they still catered to the PS2 until a few years back, as well as the Wii, so they are still hamstrung by old tech. That's the problem with a yearly game, they don't have time to rebuild things properly, they just nip and tuck the same game and put it out again. Much like COD games I suppose, a new gloss of paint and more reliance on DLC to make money.

Damn Universe mode won't even seemingly recognize any Attitude Era teams (Acolytes/DX/NAO)...sucks because I am trying (so far in futility :nono:) to get one of them #1 Contender status so I can then go ahead and pick up the belts for them and unlock the last unlockable I have left to go, the WTT Championships (’98-’02).

Suggest you just edit the title rankings and move one of the Attitude Tag Teams up to the #1 Contender spot the show before a PPV.

That being said, even if said Attitude Tag Team wins the belts, it may not register. I originally had the Road Warriors win and didn't have the belt unlocked. Had to repeat the process and have the New Age Outlaws win the belts from them to get that unlock.

you have to actually make the team first, then you can just make a title match on any show you want. don't see how this is difficult.

How would I go about that process?

And I should note, I HAVE tried editing the titles to the Acolytes and having them drop the belts to the former champs at a PPV in hopes that a rematch at the next PPV followed by the Acolytes winning them back would unlock it but no such luck.

Figure I might just set up the Acolytes with the belts again and have them face N.A.O. at the next PPV and have N.A.O. win them, see if that does anything... :-\

Not giving up without a fight though. Especially since I never did unlock Goldust in ’12.

I think it did that in '12. I'm gonna finish that before I even pick up '13, though.

Loved it so far but found the Y2J V Road Dogg match fucking torture, and my mate did it in abt a minute and a half

Pull out the table and set it up first. Get in the ring do a quick move, then taunt. Repeat until you get two specials. Do a the LionTamer and quickly release. Then get him outside and do a special table move. It took me a WHILE to master this though...

Hope that helps.

Whoops, sorry. Go to Rankings, then hit X (or the relevant PS3 button) to edit the rankings. If you can't see them on the Ranking page, then you'll need to move the team to either RAW or Smackdown so they're listed on the rankings page. If they are there, then you just highlight their name and select them, then move up to the Number 1 Contender slot and select that team. Should switch them and you should be fine to advance.

Hope that clear things up. :)

For me, Lita vs. Stephanie was an absolute nightmare. If it wasn't for The Rock's flip-flopping on fast and slow counts, it was Trips interfering with every pin.

Cheers got it

Yeah don't try pulling it off in the ring I found out that out the hard way and the ref kept tossing it back out and even when I did manage to pull it off the damn marthafawking table wouldn't break! :foc: