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#1 The Fallen Angel

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 04:41 PM

The SmackDown Countdown: Carlito
His spit will decide if you're cool.
by Greg Miller



October 9, 2008 - Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.

For eight years IGN's been teaming with THQ to bring you videos, screens, and information for every playable character in the latest WWE videogame, and this year is no different -- except for the fact that it's very different. Rather than hand you the entire roster at the onset of this feature and then profiling the people on it day by day, we're going to give you the roster one person at a time.

That's right; every day we'll be announcing a new character in the game.

Monday through Friday from now until the release of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009, we'll be profiling Superstars, showing their entrance, signature move, and finisher on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. Now -- PSP, PS2, and DS users -- if you see the Countdown pop up on your channel with videos from the PS3, it's not a mistake. That appearance means that character is in your version of the game. We're hoping to have weekly updates to your media sections with platform-specific stuff.

We've got a long way to go, but keep in mind that you're a huge part of this Countdown. Both Friday Fights and the THQ&A are back this year. Every Friday -- in addition to the Countdown -- IGN will post either a match in its entirety or a quick developer Q&A. If you check the IGN SmackDown vs. Raw message board, you'll find threads where you'll be able to vote on who you want to see fight and in what match as well as post your questions for the developers.

Can you smell what we're cooking?

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#2 The Rob

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 04:47 PM

Eh, nothing special. He's pretty much the same as last year.

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 05:06 PM

Like The Rob said pretty much the same as last year, but I think his hair is a bit different

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 05:10 PM

I see they just had Coach record the same lines they had the other announcers say <_<

What's with all the pink on Carlito's mouth in the picture?

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 05:16 PM

View Postphoenixsplash630, on Oct 9 2008, 06:10 PM, said:

I see they just had Coach record the same lines they had the other announcers say <_<

Yeah, its really lame when they can't think of new material to record, might aswell have had JBL & Cole do SD! commentatry again

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 06:31 PM

I like his new attire, but nothing else really changed on him.

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 11:46 PM

Carlito = NEXT...

One question though; Can we turn OFF the Glass Shattering effect ??

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 02:00 AM

View Postglennsoe, on Oct 10 2008, 12:46 AM, said:

Carlito = NEXT...

One question though; Can we turn OFF the Glass Shattering effect ??
Pretty sure you can.

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 02:34 AM

View PostJibby, on Oct 10 2008, 04:00 AM, said:

View Postglennsoe, on Oct 10 2008, 12:46 AM, said:

Carlito = NEXT...

One question though; Can we turn OFF the Glass Shattering effect ??
Pretty sure you can.
Damn well better be able to. It just makes me wonder if they've really learned anything. People complained for years about finishers being covered up by those stupid Smackdown logos, and they finally did something right by getting rid of it. Now after a couple years they want to stick a full screen glass shattering effect in to further obscure your vision, I just don't get the point.

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 03:01 AM

Anyone else notice that his highest stat rating is 83, and his overall is 84. Weird...

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 04:00 AM

He looks fantastic. I am a huge Carlito fan.

9.5/10

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 05:01 AM

Carlito actually looks really good IMO but i wish he had his new attire/pants. also why do they have alot of the superstars like bob their heads when pinning

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 05:48 AM

View PostSharpy93, on Oct 10 2008, 04:01 AM, said:

Anyone else notice that his highest stat rating is 83, and his overall is 84. Weird...

Yeah, that is weird actually. Something about the length and width of his face is off too me

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 06:25 AM

Carlito? More like a Meh to me. Even though now hes clean, I would still keep the Dirty Pin on him. Though the Backstabber and the Codebreaker can make great double finishers on a caw.

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 06:50 PM

View Postglennsoe, on Oct 10 2008, 01:46 AM, said:

Carlito = NEXT...

One question though; Can we turn OFF the Glass Shattering effect ??
The Wii version of SvR '09 doesn't have the glass shattering effect. I don't know why. Maybe the glass shattering effect can be turned on and off. I hope so, because I'm getting it for PS2, and I want to be able to turn the glass shattering effect off. It's just annoying IMO.

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 06:59 PM

View PostThe Fallen Angel, on Oct 10 2008, 12:48 PM, said:

View PostSharpy93, on Oct 10 2008, 04:01 AM, said:

Anyone else notice that his highest stat rating is 83, and his overall is 84. Weird...

Yeah, that is weird actually. Something about the length and width of his face is off too me

How do they even calculate overalls anymore? It used to be simple, stats /10, add them up = overall. But now stats are out of 100, wonder how they do it. Add up and divide by 10, maybe?