Massive WWE Smackdown!Shut Your Mouth Story/Season Mode Article

Just reading a back issue of Gamesmaster Magazine and here\'s the full article on the story mode, with all the information you need...

It\'s quite long though so please read it and express your views...

here goes...

"The key to Smackdown!Shut Your Mouth is the incredibly in-depth season mode. Compared to Just Bring It, the season mode this time is focused much more around your character, with more wrestler-specific situations and cut-scenes, compared to the generic storylines of last year\'s game.
Each character also has a different starting point, based on their position in the rankings. So for instance, Raven starts in the Hardcore division while The Rock starts in the World title division but has to work hard to maintain a winning streak and not drop down the rankings.
If you play with a character you\'ve created yourself, you begin at the very bottom of the ladder and may not even win the title in a whole season. Should this happen, you can then continue on to a second \'season\'.
Each month in a season consists of two Raws, two Smackdown!s and a PPV, starting with Backlash and culminating in Wrestlemania.
As per real WWE shows, there will be a draft to determine which characters are on the \'Raw\' team and which appear on the \'Smackdown!\' team, with champion being allowed to wrestle on both shows.
Throughout a season, you will form allaiances and make enemies, based on answers you give to questions you\'re asked by other characters when you\'re backstage. This then influences your path through the game.
After a cut-scene, a match then follows that ties in with the storyline.
New to the season mode is a Superstar points system which determines which belts you are qualified to to wrestle fo, with each win or loss affecting the number of points you have. Storyline aspects - such as turning on Vince McMahon - can also affect your score.
When you reach each goal, you will be given a choice of unlockable items, which include create-a-wrestler parts, arenas, hidden moves and yup, secret characters"

[Kurt Angle]

Sounds like an enhanced version of the Smackdown 2 season mode, which was much better than SD:JBI story mode crap.

The full season mode has much more depth and as a result IMO it will last much longer and take longer to unlock new items. I presume you wont be able to unlock all items in a weekend like in SD:JBI.

So to conclude I would say that Yukes have certainly learned their lesson from the last game and finally given wrestling fans what they want, a decent wrestling game with depth and good replay value.

I\'m still playing the first one due to it being a WWE game, me and the guys still playing it on multiplayer, and I still keep up using the CAW to create the new guys on the roster...

But I agree Kurt and it will take ages as I think that you may need to play season mode a few times as different wrestlers just to unlock everything...