Smackdown 2 Controls

[Vicki]

Welcometo the basics section, where you will learn the fundamentals of Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain. Whether it's the essential controls or the information on the types of matches you can participate in that you fancy, you have come to the right place.

I was using Lb and the directional pad (the same way you call for mgr interferance) one has them attack superstar your against and the other has them to attack the non-legal opp (useful for whe you hit finisher and need a pin) As far as i remember its like 07 was. Thankx for the heads up on the target ind. i was ready to stangle the developers for that. j/k. but seriously the controls for 07 were 10X better.

i didnt know that about managers and what not. was that in the manual? as for the controls being tough... im a ps2 users so this is my first time with the 360 version. after about a day i got used to the controls. there not that bad. imo just give it time

The SmackDown! series has come a long way over the course of its development. Remember, it wasn't that long ago when wrestling fans were over the moon about the integrated storylines in the original WWF SmackDown for the PlayStation. By contrast, last year's WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 had season mode (complete with real WWE voice talent), a newly introduced general manager feature, and online play to boot, in addition to the standard wrestling modes. The evolution of the series continues in WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2007, specifically in terms of player control. Here, we'll take a look at how the analog controls will play a big role in exactly how you deal the pain to your opponent in the ring.

If you've played a wrestling game in the past, you're used to the standard method of pulling off grappling holds--you hold a face button or two, usually in tandem with a directional button, to get your opponent wrapped up and then pull off a suplex or a slam with another button combo. The producers behind SVR 2007 realize that this system--though certainly familiar to veteran wrestling game fans--isn't necessarily intuitive. What's more, it can be downright perplexing for players who pick up the game for the first time. The obvious solution, then, was to remap grapple controls from face buttons to the right analog stick. Now, instead of needing to memorize combinations of face buttons (or worse yet, just hitting a button and hoping for the best), a simple flick of the stick is all that's needed to pull off a devastating move on your foe.

SmackDown! vs. Raw 2007 producers are quick to point out that this new control scheme does not come at the cost of depth--players will still be able to pull off the same moves they're used to with their favorite superstars. Only now, those moves will be much more accessible. In terms of the moves themselves, the game organizes its grapples into two categories: quick and strong grapples. As the name implies, quick grapples are fast, low-damage attacks--think of Rey Mysterio's arm-drag takedown or Kurt Angle's leg trip--which are used to work over an opponent and get him or her ready for the more-powerful, strong grapples moves. To execute a quick grapple, you simply move the stick up, down, left, or right within the vicinity of your opponent.

After you've softened up your foe with some quick grapples, you'll want to dish out some serious punishment using the strong grapple types. These moves are the ones that get the crowd out of their seat and put the welts on your opponent's body--power bombs, suplexes, as well as submission moves are all examples of devastating strong grapple moves. Unlike quick grapples, strong grapple moves can only be executed when in a grappled state. To lock your opponent up in a grappled state, you simply hold down the R1 button (on the PlayStation 2 controller) and move the right analog stick either up, down, left, or right.

The direction you choose determines which set of strong grapple moves you can execute. Pressing R1 and moving the stick up, for example, will put your opponent in a submission grapple hold. From here, you'll have access to four different submission moves by pressing either up, down, right, or left on the analog stick. But it doesn't stop at submission moves. You'll also have access to clean and dirty grapple moves by locking up your opponent in the clean/dirty hold (by pressing R1 and up on the stick), as well as two additional categories of moves which you can either leave as default or assign in the game's create-a-move-set option. There are seven categories to choose from: power, technical, brawler, martial arts, diva, luchadore, and old school. One move set is accessed by pressing the R1 button and left on the analog stick; the other by pressing R1 and moving right with the stick.

As with submission moves, once you've locked your opponent into a specific grapple hold (such as power or brawler grapple), you'll have access to four moves within that set, which you can access by once again moving the right analog stick. For example, after you've locked your foe in a clean/dirty hold, you'll have four different clean or dirty moves available to you depending on the direction you move the right analog stick. Also, interactive grapple moves--such as holding an opponent at the apex of a suplex and then walking him around the ring before slamming him back on the canvas--can only be executed with strong grapple moves. The default additional move sets for the superstars have been set by the Yuke's development team based on his or her personality type (Angle's move sets default to power and technical, for example) but you will be able to customize move sets as you see fit both for WWE superstars and your created wrestlers.

With all of these moves available to you with just a flick of the analog stick, it seems that SVR 2007 is making a significant step toward bringing the game's sometimes-complex controls into a scheme that is approachable for beginners, without sacrificing the depth that longtime veterans of the series have become accustomed to over the years. We're looking forward to getting some hands-on time with the game in the near future to put these control changes to the test for ourselves, as well as to report on the other new features found in the game. You can expect to see much more on SVR 2007 in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

The DevExpress WPF controls are very nice and extremely easy to style to look like MS Office with their built in support for it. Their grid has incredible functionality and some very nice animations when dragging and dropping column headings.

Interestingly, the Infragistics tools support an Office 2010 Blue theme, whereas the DevExpress toolset supports an Office 2010 Black colour theme. The grid supports some very nice hover effect, although it lacks the cool column dragging and dropping animation.

It took some doing to be able to use the themes; I had to add a reference to a ThemePack assembly after which the themes became available. A bit of an unnecessary inconvenience in comparison to most of the other component suites that supports the MS Office themes out of the box.

The Tekerik WPF controls did not disappoint. Although, it did lack some of the more flashy elements like drag and drop animations, its Black MS Office theme did fit in nicely with the standard MS Office UI. Their grid and buttons supported the Office hover effect and in general the toolset was very easy to theme.

ComponentOne frustrated me a little bit. Their controls do not provide clear properties for setting themes and almost all the links to their help pages I found via Google, return an error 404. It also appears that their Data Grid control did support themes for Office in the past, but not anymore.

Their default theme colour looked similar to the blue Office theme, so I will judge them based on that. Unfortunately, ComponentOne does not provide any WPF buttons, overall this was the control set I liked the least.

Almost all the controls did very well in the tests but once again DevExpress and Telerik rose above the rest with their overall ease of use and ability to style to mimic the Microsoft Office UI.

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Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 is the latest iteration in the long-running, Yuke's-developed WWE franchise, making its fourth appearance on Wii. Although I haven't played a WWE title in a number of years, I spent a lot of time with the license on N64 and GameCube. One thing that I remember about WWE titles from that era was that although the gameplay was generally rock solid, often times the front end was messy and irritating. The same remains true of Smackdown vs. Raw 2011.

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