WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain

WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain

Developer(s)	Yuke's
Publisher(s)	THQ Yuke's Future Media Creators
Series	WWE SmackDown vs. Raw
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2
Release date(s)	US - October, 2003 EU - November, 2003
Genre(s)	Professional Wrestling Fighting
Mode(s)	Single player Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen PEGI: 16+
Media	DVD
Input methods	Gamepad

WWE SmackDown! Here Comes The Pain (or HCTP) is the fifth instalment of the SmackDown! series, and a sequel to WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth.

Features[]

HCTP is considered a favourite by many (whether it is for improved graphics/sound/gameplay/presentation). Secondly, this game is the second game in the series not to include commentary. Thirdly, it is the only game in the series to have won a Player's Choice Award. Fourth, HCTP boasts one of the largest wrestler roster of any Smackdown game released to date, featuring 65 Superstars and Divas from around the 2002-2003 season (if one includes the 11 WWE/F Legends that debuted in the game), with an additional 32 Create A Wrestler slots that would boost the available roster of characters to about 97 total wrestlers for players to utilize. Moreover, the game included 21 different match setups.

Another bonus is that all of the Create A Wrestler parts were available from the word "go" (in Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth, players progressed through Season Mode to unlock CAW parts). Furthermore, as mentioned above, HCTP included (for the first time in the series) eleven Legends from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Game Modes[]

Creation[]

Create an Appearance
Create a Moveset
Create an Animation
Create a Stable
Create a Taunt

Other Notables[]

Revamped grapple system (pressing grapple button+directional button to initiate, then grapple+directional button to do actual move)

New body damage meter, which measure damage done to different parts of wrestler's body

Last appearance of Create An Animation/Taunt mode.

Roster[]

Legends[]

Animal
George Steele
Hawk
Hillbilly Jim
Iron Shiek
Jimmy Snuka
Nikolai Volkoff
Roddy Piper
Sergeant Slaughter
Ted DiBiase
The Undertaker (Early ‘90s)