You are incorrect, sir.

The week after Brock walked out on the match with HHH as he was called the champ has a rematch between the two. Dolph Ziggler walks down for guest commentary and King says. Hey, here comes the champ. Dolph does not possess a championship belt.

Me and Swagger won a match and in a post-scene beat down where we destroy Brodus and Zack, Dolph Zigglers music is playing. Dolph is nowhere to be found and my CAW does not use Dolphs music.

It should be known that I haven't even made it to the first PPV yet.

Yeah, Universe mode is still broken, 3 years later.

This is a rental game. Play Attitude, it's fun. Everything else is the same as it is in 12.

Might explain a bit why there isn't a single review from any big noteworthy place and not even IGN who usually gets special treatment by THQ doesn't have a review up either.

Just had my first branch. Match between Primo and Epico and my CAW came down to help Primo who I was controlling. After the match, my CAW gives him a chair and I can choose to beat Epico with it or leave him alone.

Figured out the problem here. My CAW and Swagger got to the point where they could become a team, but instead of create a new team, it just put me in Ziggler & Swagger and booted Dolph out.

Primo has just joined the team known as "Ziggler and Swagger".

Even IGN basically say Universe is broken. I know a lot of you guys are like me and your purchase hinges on that (and servers).

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR THE UNIVERSE MODE. IT IS STILL A BROKEN MESS.

Wait until next week to hear about the servers. Even if they're fine from Tuesday, the rest of the world will have it by Friday.

I never really got into Universe. I usually just do storylines in either Create-A-Story or in Exhibition. Of course, I sold WWE12 back to GameStop in February too.

My copy from Amazon has shipped, and will arrive to me tomorrow. Originally was gonna be Wed., but it got bumped up to tomorrow. If it’s mostly junk, I will probably play it for the experience of Attitude Era Mode, which is supposed to be the best thing about it, and then sell it @ GS.

Am I the only guy who still plays this series for it's very customizable nature and always-a-blast multiplayer?

Multiplayer is weak compared to DoR2. Customizations are nice if I can download other peoples creations when the server isn't taking a shit and when I have a framework to use it in like Universe.

Think the only scenario I would put this on for multiplayer ahead of DoR2 is for guest ref, which was always fun in No Mercy.

<font color=goldenrod>I think I could get around Universe's idiocy, I ended up having fun in WWE 12 when I would just let ridiculous shit happen and turn it into a Wrestlecrap Universe.

Not worth $60 though.</font>

Was going to try to get this tonight, but fuck that now with the storm.

Really, because I had a blast with WWE12's multiplayer last year. I'm personally done comparing this series to ten year old wrestling games that simply will not come back or have their legacy challenged ever. No Mercy was awesome. DoR2 was awesome. I know that, I've said that.

WWE12 was fun multiplayer and the adjustments made with 13 points to a smoother experience. There's too many options and ways to play to just generalize it by saying, "Well it's not as good as [insert early 2000s wrestling game here]".

All it needs are interruptible moves and I'm down. Like proper ones, not this stumbling crap that WWE 12/13 give you. It needs the insanity of a good party game because no-one I know gives a fuck "who's the best" at a wrestling game and the only entertainment we really had out of WWE 12 in multiplayer were the crazy physics bugs.

It doesn't matter if it doesn't come back or not. I play DoR2 with non-wrestling fans because it's crazy fun so nobody cares about the roster either. If the multiplayer wrestling game I want already exists and I own it, why settle for second best just because it's newer and shinier?

Can you seriously have a 4ply ladder match or even a standard tag team match where unlike actual WWE TV anything can indeed happen - and tell me you'll be fantasizing about the old games the whole time? How often do you actually explore the multiplayer?

I mean by now you guys know I haven't the patience for campaign as I once did and multiplayer is make it or break it for a lot of games I get into. The WWE series, since the beginning imo, was about Create-A-______ and getting a bunch of controllers and going crazy.

It blew my mind in the last few years that story-modes got that important to the point of people buying/not buying the game over it. And quite frankly it's something I don't think any game will ever get right.

I finally got enough 360 pads and PCSX2 working well enough that I introduced them to HCTP as well now. Drunk grown men almost in tears laughing at a man on a motorbike grabbing someone by the throat and launching them around while another man in a forklift chases after them is something that modern games lack. I don't even mean modern wrestling games there, just general craziness in games in general.

Need a Wii U Wario Ware for that type of thing ASAP.

We don't even play seriously competitive. The only competition, and rightfully so, is who can give the best spots or match of the night. We have 1v1s when we do a 'show' complete with acting out real or CAW characters. We have 3/4plyr matches when to break the pace and get everybody on. Me playing wrestling games is not how I approach fighting games or FPS games. This series did a good job facilitating that.

It has everything it needs to be a great get together game, with the one issue being teaching a newcomer the controls. Once that's out of the way, it's a slobbernocker.

I love multiplayer insanity as well. I'm a Power Stone kid.

In an ideal world they'd release Universe 3.0 as a patch, and new guys as DLC for WWE 12.

A patch that still barely fixes anything :shifty:

In an ideal world, they'd stop realising half-arsed features.

Michael Cole and JR are so annoying during submission holds. Whoever is applying it, they keep saying "Good reversal by X" "Oh, well scouted by X" "X saw that coming!" thinking they are in a string of reversals instead of an actual submission hold.

That's not a random occasional bug. It happens every single submission.

Commentary has been pish for years, they need to completely overhaul it rather than adding a few new lines to suit the roster every year.

Pretty sure you can't put titles on the line anymore in either exhibition or Universe, unless I'm missing it.

That'd be a big step backwards, they only reintroduced that last year right?

Just hit Brock with White Noise off the top of the ladder through a table. It took a second for the table to work out we had just gone through it and explode.

Couple of achievements seem glitched. One is to compete for a custom championship in a custom arena with a custom superstar. The other is beating Taker on legend at WM, but this might just have to be done in Universe mode rather than exhibition.

That is fucked up. How hard is that to keep in?

GameStop is doing Midnight Release on this and a bunch of other titles. Considering going so I can play the shit out of it for a few hours.

I know. Just went back and booted 12 to remember how it handled it and if you book a match as champion, you hit start when it asks "Title Match?". Yup, gonzo.

Really hoping there's a day 1 patch for it up today for at least the achievements and the title matches, because they must know they're broken.

Found the title thing, it's under Speciality matches and then Title Match.

Whoopsie.

Taker achievement does need to be in universe mode and the custom superstar/arena/belt one does need to be an exhibition title match.

Watch out, on the second year of Universe mode, all my PPVs lost their theme.

Online pass/Fan Axxess still isn't up and properly priced. The midnight launches are soon, right?

Bought it at Gamestop and played for a few hours. Not bad.



Attitude mode is cool.

Yeah the access shit is still fucked. Guess they'll fix it when those people get out of bed today. :n:

Why don't you pony up the several billion points to unlock it and tell us how it is?

Saw this tweet on the main site: