Call me an N64 fan boy who loved all the n64 THQ/AKI wrestling games like WCW Vs NWO, WCW Revenge, WWF Wrestlemania & No mercy. I have played and owned almost every single smack down since PS1 and while i did enjoy the story modes for these games. I never licked the way smackdown feels compared to the N64 games. For the love of god is it that hard to program a get up move like on the old n64 games? When you use to get up off the mat you can hold the block button which would have your wrestler not stand up all the way. At this point you could A)Grapple B) Roll out of the way or C) use a strike move. Thats just one of my issues also.
Yeah i know i just said story mode and I meant it. Smackdown career mode use to have original stories for the games or stories that were similar to what was happening on TV but not 100 percent a direct copy. They would actually hire wrestlers to talk and add to the story.
The current Smackdown game's story mode/career is me re playing all the classic matches I don't really care to play with WWE/WWF footage from that story/era. I feel this is a rip and if i wanted that I would buy a DVD/Blu ray that shows all the old WWE stuff. I also could forgive the story if they really redid the game like the N64 ones.
EDIT: Me and all of my friends use to play N64 for hours at a time. We still play smackdown at times but to be honest we only play casually now and don't really get to deep into the game. Last 3 smackdown games after i beat story i played with my friends for an hour or two after and we just didn't care to much. I still to this day play the N64 games