Why do I hate Yuke's?

     I wanted to state for the record why exactly it is that I dislike and make it a mission to break down and ridicule every yuke's wrestling title after SvR 06. Long story short, the graphics have never improved, the physics are questionable at times, and they still have canned animations for just about everything in the game. I know it's not easy to make games. However, when you have a studio full of professionals, and you make the same game for decades, there's little room for excuses.

    Game play, game play, game play. For the series to be the only licensed WWE game I feel it is in the same boat as a Madden. This is the game that represents the license, when you are playing WWE 2k or what have you, that's as close as you are getting to an experience. Yuke's games however do not mimic anything other than buying a plastic wrestling ring from kmart, a bunch of figures, and playing with that shit on your own. I really thought that we were getting somewhere with SvR 08 (the one that featured ecw). I thought and still think that the ability system from that game that made every superstar unique and defined game play was awesome. Then they kept adding onto it and changing it, now it feels as useless as the ratings for any given wrestler.

     What is a "wrestling" game? That is very vague, you could make an argument that def jam vendetta is a wrestling game. A wrestling experience is what I want. Ideally in my mind, a wrestling game would center around entertaining a crowd and having to get them all caught up into the match. Creating drama, story while fighting your opponent. That's interesting to me, that's awesome, and it is the experience of being a wrestler. It's might not be to anyone else, I understand that. The closest to this type of experience is Fire Pro Wrestling, and if you're a wrestling fan that hasn't played at least one of them... what?

     I would be happy if the wwe games had a more defined style, I love WWE All Stars. It's an arcade fighter and that's how it plays, on top of that, it was fun. They aren't doing anything, is it a fighting game? A sports game? Where are the updating rosters like sports games have? Nba 2k doesn't have the 98 bulls as paid dlc. Where are the smaller true to life features and details present in other games? In WWF Raw on the xbox if your opponent is coming out and you're in the ring you could interrupt their entrance and fight right there on the ramp. Remember just bring it? 8 wrestlers on the screen(even though it was laggy), when some one interfered a match they had that little PIP box with them running to the ring, you could fight through the crowds. Why do they keep adding create a finisher shit but not create an entrance shit? I want to have a sand man entrance, or ddp, I want to run in the crowd, I want to descend from the rafters, why can't it? AND FOR GLOB'S SAKE WHY THE HELL CAN'T MY CAW HAVE REALISTIC CLOTHING AND GEAR!? When You wear a coat does the top half stick to your body? When you wear knee pads and boots are they painted on?

     I don't think I ask a lot from a huge team of professional creators, even if the graphics never change. Can we have more real time animations? EVERY other time I reverse a kicking attack it should not give me a dragon whip set up. This is hopefully yuke's last game, I am hoping and praying that 2k does the series with their own team from scratch. The guys that did don king's main event could make a better wrestling game, I strongly believe that.

     OH DAMN I forgot to mention WWF royal rumble! this game REALLY captured the damn royal rumble. I would love if RR was second disc or dlc mode if it was anything like this.