WWE SmackDown Here Comes The Pain Remaster: 10 Things It Must Have

2. Women's Wrestling

SmackDown Here Comes The Pain
THQ/Yukes

The world as a whole has changed since 2003's Here Comes The Pain launched onto PS2 and delighted countless gamers. Back in those days, it was totally acceptable for women to take a back seat and use their...womanly charms as a selling point for horny teenage males everywhere.

Not in 2019. Yukes could not get away with putting 'Bra & Panties' matches in their new game.

They'd need to rethink the entire structure of female use in their title. Women's wrestling has never been taken more seriously by WWE than it is now, and characters like Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey have been every bit as important as their male counterparts over the past few years. That'd need to be realised in-game.

There's just no way the developers could get away with leaving these boob-exposing bouts in. Firstly, they'd get slaughtered for doing it. Second, Yukes wouldn't be so stupid as to think everything would be fine if Becky and Charlotte's only role in the game was tearing each other's clothes off.

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