[Evil Vito]

I caved. 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.