WWE 2K16: 5 Real Life Events The Games Eerily Foreshadowed

5. A Warning For Eddie Guerrero (And Chris Benoit?)

Let's get the heavy stuff out of the way first.

WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2006 (released November 11th 2005) featured a story where Eddie Guerrero stole the Undertaker's urn and used it to control the Deadman. Trust Eddie to lie, cheat and steal right? The angle would culminate in a Buried Alive match where Undertaker chokeslammed Latino Heat into a casket and closed the lid. Unfortunately, Guerrero was found dead in his hotel room 2 days after the game was released.

Obviously nobody saw it coming and nobody with a brain cell would accuse WWE or THQ of poor taste given that the timing was just a coincidence. However, it must have been terribly uncomfortable for fans everywhere to witness Guerrero in a coffin with Tazz only making things worse with the line "looks like it's ashes to ashes for Latino Heat."

The Undertaker would continue to offer uncomfortable foreshadowing a year later with the sequel SVR 2007 where he feuded with Chris Benoit. This was the last game to feature Benoit for obvious reasons, but fans playing the game today might notice this horribly ironic quote from Taker. "If you insist on making this mistake, your grieving family will have no one to blame but you when the inevitable occurs."

I'm not even going to touch that one!