What Made Smackdown vs Raw 2007 So Good? 

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what made 07 great was that Rey Mysterio couldn't lift the great Khali

Who remembers the ‘’lets start a riot’’ song

"This was basically the grand finale of our childhood obsession with the wwe" mannnn I felt that

"The Playstation 2 will forever be my favourite console of all time. No console will ever bring me as much joy as the Playstation 2 did". Damn I felt that......

Me playing the Taker vs. Benoit story: This is awesome Real life: 😶

The last game ever to feature Chris Benoit!

I remember unlocking the Divas loading screens as a kid and feeling like a badass 😂😂😂

The only bad thing about this game is that it didn’t have the goat Jeff Hardy on the roster. That was a bummer

The biggest things I remember from these games are: - The Locker room - The Music/Soundtrack - And beating the hell out of the referee with finishers or a steel chair cause it gave me the CHOICE.

This game introduced me to Three Days Grace.

2002-2007 was the Golden age for WWE games, agreed 100%. I still play these games and I'm as obsessed now as Ive ever been.

I miss those Saturday mornings playing SVR 2007. Time flies.

Honestly wrestling games low key got me into Rock songs especially day of reckoning with breaking Benjamin

This was the last WWE i truly enjoyed. I got 2008 and 2009 but that was around the time i stopped watching wrestling daily. SvR 2007 will always be the GOAT for me.

Triple H pouring water on his head was so cool to me back then 😂

It’s amazing how we all enjoyed this game when we were kids and now 13 years later we’re in our 20’s revisiting this game and reminiscing. This was my favorite Smackdown vs raw game. The control scheme was kinda hard to get used to at first but I got very comfortable with it. Kurt Angle and Batista were my favorite wrestlers to play as.

I love how positive this guy is

I think the soundtrack is one big part of what makes SVR 07 legendary l remember when I first got my PS2 this was the first game I bought along with the others

I'm so happy that I too grew up in this era and got to experience these games.

The early/mid 2000's were so good man, just everything was good in general, games, music, sports, life... man I miss those simpler times so much

A fantastic soundtrack, unique story mode, a cool roster. This game was fantastic. Plus, this was the last game in the series to have unique winning animations for each wrestler. The grappling system was a little rough around the edges though. But still good.

Damn the memories if you're in the age of the early 20's you remember this so good!

I feel like 90s babies feel you the most. I’ll be 24 this month and just reliving this game through your video made me feel like I was 10 again. Thank you!

"Let's Start A Riot" and "The Champ" always got me hype

It’s crazy how they had Kane’s choke slams animation from the masked Kane cuz the way he nods his bed to flop his hair

I was in 4th grade when this came out. I’m now 23 going 24

I still play this game on my PS2.. It has simple things like gm mode, win/loss records, popularity instead of momentum and crowd reactions based on your popularity..

I remember when my dad caught me playing the fulfill your fantasy matches😳

Who's down for a GM mode series?

Really though you said it best this was the last big push loving WWE games and really forgot about these until I found this channel !! Great content man !! Subbed

It's crazy how you remember and explain these years like it was yesterday, really enjoy your content.

This was my last Smackdown vs. Raw game I ever played. The memories 😢

This game easily had the best soundtrack in my opinion

I'm 22 yo man and I can feel you in that intro my dude. 2007 was my last year watching and playing wwe games

My copy had a glitch where when “bullet with a name on it” came on it would freeze my game, but I never traded it in because it was still an amazing game

This game brings back my best childhood memories... I remembered ill sleep over my cousin’s house and play this game all night and having his father coming and yelling at us for not going to sleep😪 good times

Literally the last WWE game that I’d consider “legendary.” Everything 2008 & up was just like wtf..

i truly forgot how great this game was, i regret selling my PS2 along with every single game i had. i had it ALL

Edge transforms the Boogie man when i play i had John Cena transform into a girl. I want SVR 2007 to make a remake, for the PS4 and Xbox One. 😭😭😭

This game reminds me of CAW shows on RU-vid back in the day. Mainly SMF. I miss that show.

Lol man I loved this game's soundtrack. I remember singing *what's wrong with me? You wanna know what's wrong me?! I COULD ASK YOU THE EXACT SAME THING!!!* from "Alive and Kicking" anytime my grandma asked what was wrong with me.

Lol I remember when you’ use to be able to get a diva as a gf, and there were so many scenarios where she would cheat on you, get kidnapped , fight over her, protect her , rescue her , man those were the days , or you could’ve just went solo, and at the end everyone would respect you , you win the champion and confetti everywhere .

1.) The cover was smooth. 2.) Easy controls. 3.) You could go into the crowd which I thought was really cool 4.) The locker room was limited but nice. 5.) The roster had so many playable characters and buying them wasnt hard because you didnt have microtransactions. 6.) The season mode would keep you interested as there are so many decisions. 7.) The soundtrack is one of the best in gaming right up there with madden 10 for me. You could play for hours and not get bored probably the second best wrestling game I've played

Everything you described in this video about the end of the era and the transition stuff is exactly how I felt and still feel.

I lived in a pretty poor trailer park when I was younger and I was one of the only kids with an Xbox 360, and everybody used to come to my trailer after school to play saints row and shit, after alot of playing, well, my Xbox 360 red ringed, and all I had was my uncle's PlayStation 2, which he left me when he moved out of my grandparents house, I think you know where this is going.... This game right here, Backyard wresting with icp and shit, Madden 04 and gta San Andreas, became a weekend tradition for me and my friends. We used to make created characters in sdvr and then hold full tournaments against eachother for little bets like who would give whose lunch the next Monday and shit. No phones. No social media. Just meet up after school, or knock on a door, and play the PlayStation 2, me and my childhood friend Stan went as far as coming up with plans to both fake sick on the same day, and he would sneak over and we would just chill and play video games on the ps2 all day. Nostalgia is such a weird emotion, it makes me so happy yet so sad. I'm glad I was born pre social media, before everybody was a robot, don't get me wrong I love my social media and shit nowadays, but I'm just glad I didn't grow up with it. Couch co-op brought a group of poor ass kids together and we all just had a great time. Now you can barely find a fucking split screen game. I miss it all. Sometimes I just wanna go back to bumpin my mamas burnt rap CD's on my plug in radio, faking sick to skip school, boosie rap snacks, kool aid juices, and play station 2 with the friends I've lost contact with.

You have earned 350 *SP* Go to the locker room to upgrade your abilities

I still remember the first time my friend told me he didn’t catch the latest episode of Monday night RAW. I could feel times were changing. We never used to miss an episode.

just found ur channel and i been binge watching it nonstop and it actually made me buy a ps3 again and i just ordered every wwe game from 2000 to 2013. great content brother keep grinding. as a huge wwe fan these videos are amazing and nostalgic

We're around the same Age so everything ur saying is facts

My favourite game of all time, best soundtrack in a WWE game, really fun gameplay, great modes and a good roster, this game is the best and I've been playing this for over 10 years. Holds a special place in my heart and it's too good.

1 big improvement this game made over SvR06 was the high fly moves connected no matter where your opponent was in the ring. In 06 you had to place your opponent directly in the middle of the ring in order to connect.

Not to be laughed at, but it being the last game of Chris Benoit? Other than that the song, "Let's start a riot" was perfect

Smackdown vs raw 2007 my First wwe Games. So Fun play much this games

13:02 That's very dark considering what happened to Chirs Benoit.

Forgive me is a odd song To have with a game with Chris Benoit

This video just spoke to my whole childhood. Thank you! 🙌🙌

The soundtrack made it even more legendary

Oh the memories I still got this but I missed playing this with my cousin RIP cuzzin

This game was not only fun, but it also educated me on so much wrestling lore with its tibits of facts inside the locker room

Greatest game ever!!! I still to this day remember the controls, I played this game countless hours and still may pull out my 360 just to play this. Classic 👌🏽

Seriously though, I remember my brother and I doing MITB matches and getting so sick of how long it was and we would work together to make sure one of us would win and not the CPU

I couldn't agree more. When I got into Wrestling, this game was the Last SVR game, that I've been looking for until 2009 on Christmas day. I've played SVR(05) SVR 06, 08, 09 2010 & 2011. 07 was the last one.

this game had black people really singing rock songs “lets start a rioooot” this game is goated💯😂

Back when friends had to come over and play with each other. Wish we could do it one last time like we did in the gold old days with not a care in the world.

This was my shit from my childhood between smack down vs raw 2006 , 2007 & here comes the pain.

Yo I don’t know if y’all remember but they even had their own website for this game called svr2007.com where u could just view the roster and their models in HD. So many memories. 2nd favorite WWE Game

I been playing this game recently, and honestly was playing for what felt like 15 minutes, but an hour had actually passed. I had so much fun replaying this game, since it was the first WWE game i played religiously. glad to see others enjoy it for the same reasons i did.

Alive and Kicking by Nonpoint is still one of my favorite songs. This game had an absolutely legendary soundtrack.

That SWEET CHIN by Shawn Micheals at 11:15 was EPIC

Bro what you saying in your intro video fits my childhood till now and is chilling to know, there are ppl like me lol. I still watch old WWE videos and play the WWE games just for the old wrestlers and legends. Cheers

My favorite wrestling game ever. Still play it all the time. It definitely took what was good about 2006 and made it even better. And the reason I think it's better than 2008 is because that one has ECW which makes your roster too thin in (greatest mode ever) GM mode. Anyways, great video.

I remember after beating the superstar and legend challenges, and when the last challenge, Mickie James v Great Khali happened, I thought it was over. But I was so good with Rey mysterious in the game, I changed mickie James’ moveset to Rey’s, and pinned khali in like a minute in legend. Good times

YES! FINALLY! This is my favorite WWE game of all time! Thanks for reviewing this!

The soundtrack alone makes this game legendary. One of the best wrestling games ever. I still go back & play this every once in a while on the Xbox 360.

This is the game that made me switch from the PS2 to the Xbox 360, the graphics on the 360 aged like fine wine, getting WWE2K22 soon on Xbox Series X

That Pulse shoutout made me so happy. Seeing a fave I found this year shout out my fave since 2013 was really cool.

This is my brother’s favorite wwe game of all time. This was around the time my brother started to become a die hard wwe fan in 2006. This was when he watched it daily with our cousins and we still play this game, 06 and 08 today. He still remembers the controls and plays on legendary difficulty and wins every match and we remember the soundtrack to the top of our heads. That’s how much he loves this game and I love playing it with him, not to mention this is Chris Benoit’s last ever appearance in a game and I still miss him to this day. Can you please heart this comment, not for me, but for my brother? Please?

The best decade of wrestling ever - 1997 - 2007. The best era - ruthless aggression 2002 - 2007. It was my childhood too.

I agree with you. All these games that you mentioned we played hardcore as well. They were so much fun. I think “Here Comes the Pain” was my favorite but I loved all those games from 2002-2007. I got so many of my friends to play. They were so exciting and easy to learn. After 2007, I hated how they changed the controls and the mechanics. That ultimately was what made me lose interests in the games.

This intro gave me the feels. My friends and I all fell out of the product around 2001 and with it, the hours spent with us playing WrestleMania 2000 and No Mercy. I feel your pain!

after watching all of your vids. i went and bought the oldest version of ps3s and started playing all the svr games. thanks fo bringing back my child hood.

You spoke straight facts this whole video.. hit the nail on your head.. the attitude era till 2007 was amazing

You are literally preaching my life with the 2007 soundtrack. It was disturbingly similar to my childhood!!

Answer to the title : EVERYTHING

I'm so old that the year you started watching was the year I stopped, 2002. Great video as always.

Intro definitely is big facts. I went through at least 3 copies of SD v. raw 07 on the 360 & never got bored w/ it

I asked my family to ship my old psp and my ps2 straight away to me in London... And I bought both versions of SvR 2007... A gem, as you said "the end of an Era". Well done!

Rey mysterio when he jumped in the entrance 🔥🔥🔥

I was actually addicted to this game i took it everywhere on my psp❤️

SVR 2007, and 2008 are my all time FAVORITE SVR games and thanks to your videos I’ve dusted off my copy of SVR 2008 and it’s just as addicting as I remember, the storylines are so good, the gameplay so gripping, I just completed 1 full calendar year on smackdown, been world champion for 7 months, and in a seemingly never ending feud with the macmahon family for 5 months. Faced bobby lashley and triple H in a triple threat with all three belts on the line, and I made bobby tap out and became a double world champion before having to give up the belt in storyline, then macmahon sent Tommy dreamer and ECW after me and cut my pay to $1 a day, macmahon then put me in a feud with just triple H, then I upset his kids, they made me face undertaker in hell in cell for the title at no way out, then Vince put Stephanie in charge of smackdown and Shane in charge of Raw and made his own “entourage” of batista, umaga, and WWE champion triple H. I took them out one by one and faced triple H for the world title in hell in a cell at wrestlemania. Now Heading into judgment day Shane and his dad still want revenge and have sent Batista and Kane after me. Why can’t wrestling games be this fun anymore? 😂

I was born in 87 so I'm 32.. I started watching WWF when I was about 5 so I was obsessed from about 92-02.. When SVR07 came out, I was a Freshman in college.. I had it for Xbox360.. I didn't know if this was a popular game or not, but it is the most fun I've ever had playing a WWE game.. My friends and I played for hours and hours, everyday.. These days, you basically play a match to hit your finishers and get it over with so you can move on to the next thing.. SVR07 was so much different.. We would literally have 40 minute matches because of how much fun it was.. The Gameplay was perfect.. We would have Hardcore No DQ matches and fight "in the crowd" for 30 minutes.. The longer the match went, the more realistic it became.. They'd start bleeding, fatigue set in and I would actually have time to lay someone on a table and climb that high scaffolding you were able to jump off of, in time to destroy the guy thru the table.. I don't care if this sounds corny.. I met this girl in College who became my GF and is now my Ex (No, not wife lol).. The first time she ever came to my house was a night that all of my friends and all of her friends were going out in NYC.. Everybody would come to my house to pregame because I had a basement apartment.. So this is the first time she's at my house, about 15 people there pregaming.. and we played SVR07 while pregaming until we were forced to go out around 11pm.. Such good times.. For those who are gonna try to abuse, saying "You played video games while girls were over?!".. Yeah.. and she became my Gf anyway lol of 3 years.. In conclusion, SVR07 was the greatest, gave me great memories and thank you for this video! New Sub

This video describes my childhood, such a well respected game

Love how you've been doing these vids, you're just going through my childhood and I cant relate more. You said you werent as into them after 07 but I still really like 08 and 09.

you slapped the nail on the head for this! my favourite wwe game! me and my brother would spend hundreds of hours in total playing this game making our own storylines!

What makes the game so good is that it had Chris Benoit in the game

I remember hiding the disk so that my siblings wouldn't play without me. Good times.

Man I remember having the ecw invasion and tazz put me in the Tazz submission. Greatest story line ever on SVR 07. I miss both games soo much.

Haven't heard that bullet song In 10 years and knew exactly what you were talking about that's wild

Very grateful to have grown up with this gem