WWE SmackDown

Published on: 11th May, 2009

Now this is weird: an all-stylus, all-prodding, twirling and waggling take on the sport of champions. Like letting Hornswaggle win the Cruiserweight championship, DS SmackDown’s an interesting idea – but one that loses its appeal pretty quickly.

Here’s the setup. Whatever your wrestler’s situation (face-to-face, in a grapple, lying on the floor) you’ve got three options, activated by tapping different bits of the screen. One’s quick – usually a strike – and only takes a quick swipe of the stylus to pull off. The other two take longer, and might involve a wobble followed by a spin, or a delicate stroke topped with some quick tapping

Special situations call for some special moves, and you’re occasionally given the chance to tap at the top-right to pull off a finisher or dash outside for a weapon.
And it’s fun in a sort of WarioWare way – for about two matches. After that you realise that you’re doing exactly the same handful of moves again and again, and that you’ll be doing them for as long as you can be bothered to keep playing this much simpler wrestling game. You see the trouble is, unlike Hornswaggle’s title reign, buying DS SmackDown’s a decision that’s going to be stuck with you for a while. We don’t recommend it.
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