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3. WWE Smackdown! Vs. Raw 2006

WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2006
THQ

As great a job 2K has been doing in developing the line of recent WWE games, they will never do as good a job as THQ from back in the day.

Yes, THQ started to fall of the rails in later years, which is pretty evident in the whole bankruptcy thing in 2012, but their early days gave way to some of the best wrestling games ever.

Nowadays, wrestling games have become more of a wrestling sim, focusing more on realism than arcade fun. THQ had the perfect mixture of both in Smackdown! vs. Raw 2006, blending arcade carnage and over the top fun with just the right amount of realism.

SvR 2006's online mode was powered by GameSpy, just to give you a glimpse as to how long ago this was. It featured lobbies that capped out at 25 people.

Twenty. Five.

Even with that limited amount of people in a lobby, the community was booming.

With that came the ability to partake in practically every match available outside the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber matches. Hell in a Cell, Buried Alive and even Bra and Panties matches could be had online. In addition, you could defend your created belts online, and they were legitimate defenses - if you lost the match, you lost the belt, period.

Pair all this with the ability to trade created wrestlers with anyone online and you have yourself one of the better online modes from a WWE game.

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