Looking Back at WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007

[@natedoggcata]

Oh man the soundtracks of these games were so iconic that I just instantly trigger so many good memories anytime I hear "Big train roooooooooling down the line"

[@JRC99]

Makes me lonely...

[@speranza9415]

I GOT MONEY IN THE BANK, SHAWDY WHAT YOU DRANK 🔥🗣️

[@Just_Daze]

@@JRC99 sometimes i wish, to ride away

[@angusyoung119]

“I can’t escape this Hell”

[@javi994]

SO WHAT IF YOU CAN SEE THE DARKEST SIDE OF ME

[@ousmansano21]

The Gameplay,The Soundtrack,The Roster,The Gm Mode(Best one),The Season mode,The Graphics. For me this is the best and most complete Wrestling Game ever.

[@KingJadInfiniteHope]

Same, I truly don’t think there’s a better wrestling game that’s ever been made. it’s been my favorite since it came out.

[@ultraexcalibur1728]

The only thing this game did better than 06 was the Soundtrack and Graphics. The Gameplay? Definitely worse due to Ultimate Control. I've seen people get softlocked because of it. The GM Mode? It doesn't even let you book who you want in Title matches and instead forces you to abide by the ranking system. I definitely prefer 06's "f around and find out" approach. The Season Mode? Please. Should've been two seperate stories. Instead they force you to do both. If you start on SmackDown and go to RAW then the story has no satisfying conclusion. In conclusion: 06 better.

[@ultraexcalibur1728]

​@@KingJadInfiniteHope 06

[@JCW187]

I don’t get the hype of 07 I love 07 but 06 is way better I really don’t like the grappling change

[@NuMetalfan1996]

There are some very eerie things involving Benoit in this game. A weird promo cutscene with Taker saying to Benoit that the “Inevitable will occur” and talking about his “Grieving family” And there is a song on the soundtrack called Forgive Me, by Post Hardcore band Versus The World, which the song is all about suicide. And this creepy lyric from the song “I’ll swing here, I’ll hang on to this rope just until they’ve found me, the note on the floor says I wish you were here” Benoit was found slumped and hanging from his weight machine after he tied towels around his neck and onto his weight machine to crush his neck.

[@JRC99]

And the game is coded so that Forgive Me is always the song that plays at the start menu.

[@efu707]

people wouldn't really care about that if benoit tragedy didn't happen. human minds tend to look for coincidences, we're just prewired like that

[@Mrbigsaks]

@@efu707just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get me 😜

[@TheMuscleMage06]

It's coincidence.

[@JRC99]

@@TheMuscleMage06 It is, entirely. It's a fascinating one, though.

[@stanettiels7367]

17:00 “But here’s the real scary part: No one’s seen Benoit since last weeks match, and I’ve got no idea what’s going through Benoit’s head.” Pretty prophetic.

[@MonoCronic]

Yeah, it's been mentioned a lot in all the "creepy WWE video game moments" including Taker "killing" Guerrero in another game

[@Venemofthe888]

@@MonoCronic I believe it was the game before this one

[@Bumbaclartios]

@@Venemofthe888 what was that one called

[@mrwhippy101]

Have a guess​@@Bumbaclartios

[@alr68]

I remember finishing a friday at school, year 6 and my dad picked me up in his Astra, since it was his weekend with me. He whipped this baby out of the driver's side door and I was absolutely ecstatic. Such good memories with this game

[@SegaGentleman]

Such a cool memory! In 2007 I was 17 locked away in Military academy. I missed Svr 07 so I was reading about 08 for the whole year I was in boot camp. My dad gave me a 100 bucks on graduation day and I went straight to GameStop while still in cap and gown to buy SVR 2008. Rip Dad

[@TheJaguar1983]

"If wishes were fishes..." There's one that stuck in my head for life.

[@potentialanimator7597]

...the world would be an ocean 😂😂

[@MrTAG-re5ym]

Memory unlocked: How long it took me to beat the final challenge match in this game (Mickie James vs The Great Khali on Legend difficulty) even after using the “give Mickie the Pedigree as her finisher” trick it took me a few tries.

[@jaimereupert4247]

Especially cause it had to be on Legendary difficulty. (You could also cheese it by lowering the reversal for the CPU to its lowest.) 😜 Me and my buddies usually put the game on the hardest difficulty, and have all the reversal meters maxed and do our own season mode which we use our own custom superstars. ❤

[@JRC99]

This game is how I got into WWE. It's still amazing that this game opens with a song about suicide (that mentions hanging, no less), given who's in it.

[@stsolomon618]

I still have this game. The last game to have Chris Benoit.

[@dukes1993724]

Who?

[@TheJoker-yu5ds]

Crispin Wah

[@bloodredblooodred]

vacant

[@pleaseshutup7053]

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[@TheGameCube64Guy]

Error 404

[@Joshuawott69]

I can still play this for hours non stop and it not feel like hours. I love this game so mcuh.

[@irvinmorales1409]

This game was my childhood. It was the game that got me into Three Days Grace

[@marquisfields9894]

Aye same

[@HorrorHoundV]

Yes!!! Glad to see this covered. Had a blast testing this at THQ and this was the 1st one I got to work on from the beginning of its testing cycle

[@nonstickmeat]

awesome and lucky !!!!

[@HorrorHoundV]

@nonstickmeat Got plenty of stories

[@HorrorHoundV]

@@nonstickmeat SvR 2008 was pretty intense in the development and testing process. Won't say anything else though

[@Billy-ot8mk]

I remember RVD's entrance music being different in this game and it threw me for a loop, and also the Uh Oh Its Magic storyline from the Season Mode is amazing.

[@andthatswhyidontlike]

Loved 2007 on the 360. Last year of school, 16 years old, new mastodon album, was loving life

[@gtaking109]

11:42 as a kid i loved it because i would make up my own wrestling roster of my classmates and teachers and make up storys in ppv mode...me and a friend would tag team match teachers we hated 😆

[@WarlockX4]

I thought I was the only one who did this with my friends. Great times.

[@arrisbaldwin6498]

The last game to feature every roster of the Ruthless Aggression Era 02-07. Chris Benoit before Murder/Suicide, Kurt Angle heading to TNA, Big Show 1 year hiatus at the end of 06 returns 2008 and RVD until 2013 return to WWE and Hall of Fame class of 2021.

[@Venemofthe888]

RVD is in Raw vs Smackdown 2011

[@Immortalangel14]

​@Venemofthe888 which is weird because he was tna world champion around the development 😅

[@Venemofthe888]

@Immortalangel14 it is a little strange cause by the time the game came out he'd already been tna champ at that point lol

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

RVD was unlockable in 2011

[@Volvase]

Y2j wasn't in this one at least to my knowledge cause he was off in 06, chirstian also had left the year prior

[@tashrif46]

One of the best wrestling games of all time. SvR 2006 and 2007 were the pinnacle of the SvR series

[@TheVileOne]

This was the peak of the SmackDown vs. Raw series.

[@rulerofall015]

Okay so the reason its legendary is the story mode, roster (one last hurrah for the RA era) and GM Mode, its often acclaimed to be the last of great wrestling games WWE presented (excluding 2010 and 2011).

[@leojamesfitness6031]

He's putting those educated feet to good use!

[@TheSubZero187]

One of my top wrestling games of all time. It’s in the rotation of wrestling games I go back to. Along with 2006, No Mercy and all the Smackdowns.

[@scottdecowski4913]

One of those years for Smackdown vs Raw that got a lot right. Shut Your Mouth, Here Comes the Pain, 2006, 2007 & 2K14

[@dimitrinicomanis]

Was 2k14 the year they did the Attitude Era showcase? That was amazing!

[@Bsmith806]

@@dimitrinicomanis13 was attitude era, 14 was 30 years of WM and beat the streak

[@scottdecowski4913]

@dimitrinicomanis That was 2k13, 2k14 was basically the same game with a ton more options

[@artedepatito]

​@dimitrinicomanis and the undertaker beat the streak mode that me and my friends found out how to max the score each week to keep at top of the leaderboard xD i sat there for awhile 😆 just max all limb damage and an omg fin everwhere and you were basically set. Shame the games now have just watered down to my faction miking and the first thing you see when you boot the games is my faction mode 😑 can they ever fix basic bugs? Nah but myfaction bs? Yeah brother we gotchu xD

[@dimitrinicomanis]

@scottdecowski4913 I always get confused around that time! They all started blending into one!

[@michaelrussell3890]

"If you insist on making this mistake. Then, your grieving family will have no one to blame but you when the inevitable occurs" Then, real world events happened

[@venomousnate7263]

SmackDown vs Raw 2007 is one of my favorite games. I had a PSP version which sadly broken down, but then I got it on 360 and I still play it from time to time to this day. It’s one of my favorite wrestling games. Great memories.

[@VedantKulkarni619]

My very first wrestling game in 2009, a kid who bought his play station portable and got into wrestling, enjoyed it thoroughly. One of the GOATs of wrestling games for sure.

[@VinnieDangerous]

06 & 07 were my favorite SVR games as a kid!

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

This is why ownership is important Imagine if this game was online and they d have updated benoit out .

[@Capta1nAsh]

god damn, just finished watching this series a few hours ago and was sad to see no '07 in the past year. I'm so glad I didn't have to wait.

[@dimitrinicomanis]

I never, ever understand video game trailers that don't use in game footage? Like what's the point? You wouldn't advertise McDonald's by showing off the finest steak available, you wouldn't run a commercial for a pair of jeans by showing a T-shirt. So why do it with games?!

[@zlinedavid]

To get people talking. Talking = free advertising and keeps it top of mind.

[@lanceyrenzo932]

While I agree with you, it’s similar to how McDonald’s and other restaurants polish and present their food items to look perfect on the commercial, meanwhile in real life you order the same thing and it never looks how it did in the commercial …eventually you learn and start to know better. I think nowadays you often see a note at the bottom of some trailers clarifying whether or not the footage being shown is cinematic or in game footage

[@jeremybooth6720]

​@@zlinedavidFalse advertising.

[@patrickhein6986]

SvsR2007 may not be the best WWE Game of that Era but what it had was definitely the best Soundtrack. The others were also good but 2007 was just awesome: Animal I have become, Alive and kicking, Bullet with a Name, The Enemy, Forgive me, Riot, Suvive. To name a view.

[@ReverendLuc]

Best soundtrack for a Wrestling game ever

[@adamolender8614]

Sick Rey Mysterio entrance song.

[@childofnature4402]

The Undertaker and Benoit story should’ve been called “The Deadman vs The Dead Man”.

[@isoliiid5614]

I have such good memories about this game dude. I remember my first introduction to the SvR series was with the original Smackdown! vs. RAW (2005) and I played the hell out of that game. Sadly the game wasn't mine so I had just one week to play that game. But then when my dad bought me SvR 2007 for the PS2 oh man I was the happiest kind in the world at that moment! I remember creating so much superstars, championships, playing day and night that game. And also the soundtrack! Man it was a hell of a soundtrack selection. My good taste in music is thanks to this game. Amazing video dude!

[@richardcrew417]

I am not surprised Teddy Long made you go one on one with.... The Undertaker

[@NOCallerID00]

Typical teddy

[@InsomniacRocker]

Playing this game with my friend singlehandedly got me back into Pro Wrestling after writing it off for completely for about 6 years.

[@TSY5800]

Dusty Rhodes looks like Chris candido 🤣

[@JonathanFournier]

Nice to see this get covered. I took a hiatus from wrestling in mid-2007, so this was the last Smackdown/SvR game I would buy for a long time. I logged a ton of hours on the GM Mode.

[@littlemike0258]

The soundtrack for this game is one of the greatest soundtracks ever in a game. So many bangers

[@ReaverPrime]

This is one of the games that helped me stay sane while I was downrange in Iraq. I brought the PS2 version with me, and during the deployment, I got SvR08. The memories, man. 😊

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

U killed innocent people in Iraq And u think u have any moral high ground ?

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Rest in hell reaverprime U won't be missed

[@whatwhatwhat1432]

​@@JonySmith-bb4gxCry more

[@whatwhatwhat1432]

​@@JonySmith-bb4gxyou have a child murderer action figure

[@tgon5153]

The Ruthless Aggression Era 🤩

[@CNTheMonster18]

This game is very important to me. Not because its my favorite because its not but because its how I found Three Days Grace. This game influenced my music

[@tededwards5709]

Allele was highly underrated too

[@RoyHodgsonBurner]

Just got home from work and saw this upload.. I’m grabbing something green out of RVD’s stash & watching this. Thank you Wrestling Bios ❤

[@eduardofranco8528]

Not only the first ever wrestling game I ever played, this game was the first time I'ver ever heard of WWE, now wrestling is a major part of my life, helped me a lot in my life, even in my professional life, I've learn english because of wrestling, and that helped me a lot in my career, safe to say this game literally changed my life.

[@krisjustice2681]

Have played this one consistently over the years, and it’s still a blast and one of my favorite WWE games, for sure. The loading screens are iconic and it’s got one of my favorite video game soundtracks ever. It literally never gets old.

[@WTFiTzFlow]

Absolutely love that you picked the boogeyman over JBL Regal and Finlay. So daft, I love that! 😂

[@extremeking425]

I really wish this game was on PS3 at the time but it's ok, this game came out 18 years ago. I can't believe I just said that. 18 years was such a long time ago.

[@WrestlingBios]

It's terrible isn't it? I try not to think about these things too much

[@darrenhogg5366]

​@@WrestlingBios18 years ago in my head: "I can't wait for HBK vs Razor at WrestleMania X" 18 years ago in reality: "Wow, ECW One Night Stand 2 was an amazing event" 😭

[@Gannooch]

At 25:26, I chose the Big Show for the story. So that meant that Big Show and BamBam were the face team against the smaller heel team Foley and Piper in that tag team cage match. That was strange.

[@Apetraits]

The 360 version has always been my favorite looking wwe game, Mostly because of the lighting and detail of the models

[@panoskakkavas4022]

My first WWE ever game . And I instantly fell in love with it . Season mode split between challenger and champion with two dozen storylines , never feeling repetitive ( Favourite ones the Survivor Series story and The Elimination Chamber for the WWE Title ) . Challenge mode is great and GM Mode rules . What a great time that was .

[@barrymk400]

Its crazy how some of the models in this game hold up just as good as this years WWE2K game.

[@hogan4670]

It's definitely one of the best looking WWE games alongside 2k15

[@NuMetalfan1996]

My favourite WWE game. Amazing soundtrack as well. I wish WWE games were still like this

[@renegadeloco1029]

"If you insist on making this mistake, then your grieving family will have no one to blame but you when the inevitable occurs."

[@RickssonNilson]

My favorite video game ever, my dad bought it for me in June 2007, I remember like it was yesterday. Truly love this game, too many memories.

[@jp3813]

It's weird that they made the likes of Rey Mysterio hurt themselves when trying to kick the likes of Eddie Guerrero. The Divas are only available to be picked in normal match types. And there's massive slowdown during Money in the Bank the more weapons get brought out. Still, it's nice to be able to use the cage as a weapon this time w/ new animations for turnbuckle attacks, while incorporating a meter to win the ladder match is a significant improvement. I'm one of those people who liked the Create-a-PPV feature to be able to set up dream matches & events. It's especially convenient when revisiting the game after many years, simply going into a PPV and play different characters and match types in quick succession.

[@Bubba__Sawyer]

Vito was the only Light Heavyweight in the game for some inexplicable reason. It looked ridiculous seeing Eddie, HBK and RVD, Nitro and Mercury react like The Great Khali when a cruiserweight would strike them or try to lift them.

[@punisher_764]

I bought this on Xbox in 2006 this was my favorite WWE game on Xbox 360 the SvR on original Xbox was decent also. All in All I was only beat 4 times online with over 200 wins 21 custom titles and 7 tag team custom titles I acquired .

[@RiqRoseOfficial24]

Got this for Christmas along wit the TLC ring set wit John cena and Batista figures back then🔥🔥🔥🔥best times

[@ajgdwn]

I love this game! The memories of me and my friends creating our own characters and making unique entrances and move-sets for them just to go to war in all sorts of match types..... great times! 😊

[@80srocknroller]

My favorite SmackDown VS RAW game ever because of the legends

[@jcena6714]

The greatest wwe gameplay ever

[@shibbywwe]

Favorite SvR game. Owned an OG Xbox with all the terrible wrestling games. After RAW 1, 2 and Wrestlemania 21, this game was absolute heaven to me lmfao

[@Dashawn2007SigmaBlood]

YEEEEEEES THIS WAS THE YEAR I GRADUATED FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS! In my point of view THE BEST GAME EVER! AWESOME SOUNDTRACKS! I was playing the PS2. 4:22 - I'm glad you are seeing why.

[@punisher_764]

I made a storyline where the Hardy Boyz joined DX and became DXtreme since the NAO were in another promotion and Jeff Hardy was coming back but he wasn’t in the game so I made a CAW Jeff Hardy .

[@nameunknown8053]

Recently played this game after a long time and DAMN! I don't remember it being this hard, I'm getting whopped in every match lol. The controls are weird as hell and hard to get used to

[@zachwhitaker4167]

The last WWE game that I bought from the smackdown series growing up. Around this time I fell out of wrestling because it was moving to the pg era and I was also getting older and changing interests. Such a special time lol

[@slykilla1593]

This was the first wrestling game i ever played and the one that made me a wrestling fan, i had no idea what it was but my older brother recommended it

[@ArcaneAnarchy]

Oh heck yes! I played this all the time on the PS2 when I was about 24, 25. I had a lot of fun with, lotta good memories. But that win a MitB ladder match as Great Khali against 7 other cruiserweights challenge can F right outta here 😂

[@MikeLoveThyself]

After watching the McMahon documentary on netflix it brought back all the nostalgia, now im a wrestling fan again

[@CYB3R2K]

I CAN'T ESCAPE MYSELF

[@Speedyreedy1218]

Somebody wake me from this nightmare!

[@dennissmith1072]

I think my favorite career mode in the pre-2k era was Shut Your Mouth. SvR 2008 was really good too. WWE 12 and 13 weren't too shabby either.

[@carloshill]

I remember being leary when i bought this game dirt cheap a few years ago for the ps2. But then that all changed when i played it and had tons of fun with it especially gm mode i played that more then season mode and had a fun time with it.

[@domesticfishy]

I loved this game so much and I spent so much time on GM mode!!!! I wish they could remaster these games with the new roster and old roster together. These old GM modes would be INSANE!

[@WideOldDan]

The games of this era are the only ones i played online. There were very few players not using CAWs and almost all of them were either crazy, purple, midget aliens with 6 foot long arms or some guy with Jeff Hardy's facial hair and a hoodie with glitched 2 tone

[@Wavecheckfoo]

24:07 my favorite as a kid was “that was a sloberknocker” 😭😭

[@KTLR-333]

I used to spend hours playing this with my little brothers when times were simpler, and we were all still very close. What I wouldn't give to just go back...

[@adamdavis1737]

I think SVR 2006 might have kind of been a better game overall as a package. But I played this one like exponentially more. I just loved having it on 360 and it was close enough to '06 that I didn't necessarily think of it as a downgrade. I might have preferred the roster in '06 overall though. I can't remember what the heck they called that new feature, I want to say it's like ultimate control moves. But that idea where everybody kind of had one move that you could use to pick people up and move them around or throw them onto or off of things. I liked that feature. And I think 06 and '07 had the best story modes. I loved going through it again and again to get slightly different stories to occur, and some of them were pretty wild lol. Other than that I thought it had a decent selection of match types, and I was absolutely addicted to GM mode The real big problem I used to have with it, and I definitely had with it even more when I revisited it. Was that this game has like just as many loading screens as starfield. Only this was back when games took a lot longer to load. Seeing one before each entrance and then before the match really felt like it dragged things out a lot.

[@marcludwick512]

This was my favorite of them all. The music is insane!! Play it on emulation now, but had it for the 360 when it came out and I'm so disappointed I don't still have it. I probably traded it in at GameStop for a few dollars in store credit for another game. 😭

[@Dbutter5000]

I was so hyped to get this game back then. Man time flys

[@michaelreich4827]

I'd almost sacrifice an arm to have a 3-way with Torrie Wilson and 1996's Terri Runnels. Almost.

[@whatwhatwhat1432]

Simping ain't easy

[@steven5671]

I have recently ordered this game and can't wait to get it again for some nostalgia

[@SebastianGomez-uj8iu]

Definitely goated. 2008 and 2013 are super great too.

[@Evanswrestling24]

I love when wrestling bios gets funny this game is fun never played the Xbox version one day i hope to do so

[@MisterHella]

I'd honestly like to see more of the storyline gameplay. A livestream or more videos would be pretty sweeeet👀👀👀

[@moe6702]

My personal favorite Smackdown vs Raw game!

[@Future320]

This game brings back good memories, the soundtrack was 🔥

[@kristimccabe8288]

I loved this game!! Every time I hear the song "Animal I have become" I think of this game

[@V-Master-ez1ht]

Yeah same alongside Forgive Me, Survive, and The Champ. God this soundtrack rules.

[@AllieRX]

The controls on the PS2 and Xbox 360 versions are the reason why I prefer playing the PSP version, even if it's watered down on everything else. The controls on the PSP version are much more intuitive and simpler - closer to the older SmackDown games.

[@SkylerDouglas]

The Lockerroom is what drew me into this game. I would redesign it often.

[@mrb-dv7eq]

I thought the season mode was better in svr 2006 but this game had the better gm mode.they need to remastered some of these old games

[@Tru3Times]

I had a PSP and a PS3 at that time so I played this game on PSP and had a great time. Even though my PS3 played PS2 games, I liked having it on the go.

[@Venemofthe888]

Ive been doing a gm mode where it goes all three raw vs smackdown games that have them and i have to say this game has the best one for sure especially having Heat and Velocity too where you can build up new superstars and they dont lose any popularity if they lose matches like on the main show.

[@AdamSMessinger]

I'm surprised you didn't like the grapple system. I played it in 2020-ish after not playing it since it came out and thought it was really really good. I liked it so much that I 100%-ed the trophy locker room and got all the achievements minus the online ones. My only gripes were some of the tweaks they made to GM mode

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

6:59 i have that outfit figure of benoit from jakks pacific . Not selling it

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

I want that . I wish I can it from some yard sale

[@xandersthoughts]

Me and my friends growing up in middle and high school played this game all the time on PS2 - we basically played it so much that we got used to some of the controller jank.

[@4seenfamily551]

I had the PS2 version. I remember when 2009 came out and going back to this one after my console and games got stolen and the screen loading time was quite annoying and that was roughly 2 years after release.

[@BrianAwesome]

Thankfully SVR 2007 allowed to switch back to the Hctp controls.

[@adrianpadilla1825]

Smackdown vs Raw 2007 is really my favorite one in the series besides 2011 and WWE 12 soundtrack and the season mode were excellent. 👍😃

[@extremeking425]

7:24 I'm honestly glad I'm not the only who noticed this

[@devyndowling689]

I used create a ppv all the time. There wasn’t a universe mode yet so to make my own stories I would use exhibition for raws and smackdowns and then create my ppv’s at the end of the month

[@tommyfraz.]

Hey WB, I have a video topic for you. “The best stable bump guys.” No, not Ed Leslie and Shawn Michaels mysterious powder delivery guy. The guy in a stable that was there to protect bigger names from taking losses, or they’d take the big bumps and set up the hot tag.

[@AmazingGuy13]

I had the PSP version