SvR 2011 was my first ever WWE game. In 2013 when I first discovered WWE, I got myself this game and this was such a beautiful time back then. The Road to Wrestlemania mode, the awesome animations like the break of the pinfall by a mate in a tag team match, the hot tag animation, finisher animations, putting the opponent onto the top rope with the groin and then move the rope up and down and so on. One of the best wrestling games to me.
Me too. I found out about wwe in 2012 and I’ve played some of the smackdown vs raw games , wwe 12, wwe 13, wwe 2k14, wwe 2k15, and wwe 2k16. It all bring back memories so much playing those games back in the day and makes me wish I could play them again one more time because back then, when i was playing it i didn’t realize then how much I’ll miss it. I prefer the older games than the new ones
I was mentioning this on a Reddit post and ppl who play these modern wwe games don’t know and deny that there was ever blood in the older games. It’s very clear they cater to children while they literally censor everything. Nothing will ever beat 2000s SvR games
In my opinion SvR 2011's feature set should be the bare minimum when designing any wrestling game. Anything less is just being lazy (though in the case of the 2K series, despite being a pretty decent sandbox, they don't want you to have tools to make your own stories because that would take away the incentive for you to buy the same game every year). It also boggles the mind that no other wrestling game has ever recreated the incredible physics of SvR 2011 even with today's available technology.
Newer games look better, older games were (for me at least) more satisfying to play. If this game had 12 universe mode booking, 13 universe customisation and create a story scenes implemented into it's universe... add in going backstage before and during matches and some alternate backstage areas like the hctp one then we might as well just be getting updated rosters and features rather than a new game each year.
Going trough the whole arena, boiler room, parking lot, outside, to the near pub was amazing in older games, my first wrestling game was Smackdown know your role, me and my bros always were playing fatal 4 way and going outside 😁 I’m really wondering why in 2023 they can’t make something like the games had 20-25 years ago 🤦🏻♂️
@@V-95K annoying how they'd add a good feature and take it away, or introduce some features way too late. Worst are when pretty normal aspects of older games are being sold as novel new features, the omg moments are kinda annoying, they need to stop making it a big deal
they removed tons of things from creation suite to, making entrances, finishers, backstage brawl venues and interactions, stacking tables, and before the banner on the stage gets damaged but when you irish whip your opponent there now nothing happens, and you cant slam your opponent to a table without a finisher, the interactions with the chair and the kendo stick now all you can do is taunt and smash lol, also now they only get tired while on older games they hold their head
I started my wwe journey at a young age my brother introduced me into wwe games the very first time I played SvR 2010 I loved it ever since and here I am now still going strong in the wwe games industry
Create-a-Story was the best feature, and after ten years, I still can't accept that it's gone. My friends and I would make entire shows with funny dialogue and characters and spend hours every week just watching them with each other. We did this for years. It was better than real wrestling.
I completely forgot how great SVR 11 was, I know the all time great SVR game is 06-07, but SVR 11 was so amazing. I played it throughout the whole year, I loved how they kept all the features from HCTP
The Backstage Brawl of WWE 2k will never hold a candle to SVR 2011. The amount of interaction I get to do there was the main reason Backstage Brawls was my favorite match type in SVR 2011.
I grew up with svr 06 and svr 07 and still play them to this day. I heard a lot of great things about svr 2011 and i just bought a copy for 15 bucks. It'll be here in a couple days I'm excited!
@@SpiraXVIX surprisingly, I actually did! The gameplay is smooth and there's lots of fun modes to keep u busy for a while. Overall I really enjoy it, but it's not better than 06 and 07 for me.
SvR 2011 is still one of my favourite WWE games, it was the first WWE game that i played non stop as there were so many good features and stuff to do in this games plus the matches were always fun to play especially the ones when you add weapons.
@@RedSavage7 and??... I'm saying 2K better deliver on their next game which would be 2k24. I played 2k23 and i was a bit disappointed. Announcement or not 2K24 better fucking deliver or i won't buy it. The game is missing features and it needs more life to it.
I was playing the 2010 part before the 2011 game was released, and when THQ made the greatest part, which is SVR 2011, and the game was released that year, everyone was shocked by the strength of the graphics, the story, the mode, and the interaction. The story was a very beautiful thing, especially when you enter the backstage and see the wrestlers talking, you talk to them, you wrestle with them, and some enter. The rooms contain the Undertaker and the masked Kane, something that makes you excited as if it were a real thing, but unfortunately when THQ sold the game to the 2K franchise, it became just a game without any enthusiasm or any physics and realism. Imagine that you are playing a game released in 2011 that is better than a game released in 2023 in terms of story, graphics, and the shapes of the wrestlers. Even the circuits here are well aware that everything beautiful has ended. I still miss the old games. Sometimes nostalgia for the past makes you forget the disgusting saliva that comes out nowadays.
Another addition they need to return is individual wrestler sounds of pain during matches, I think it was WWE 12 that had some wrestler sound effects during matches Kane was one of them and others rather then all wrestlers having the exact same sound effects during matches
This game was awesome still is I can recall one of my friends had it and he changed the divas move set and they would be doing finishers like rko, rock bottom , choke slam, stunners during hell in the cell i didn’t know you could do that 😂
In the past, wrestling games (and the gaming world in general) were as if each version of them was a family restaurant, expressing their passion for the work, their love for what they do, and popular culture. Today it's like a fast food chain that offers standard quality, basic service, boring changes, and makes a profit anyway.
If we could get the perfect match of SVR 2008 graphics with 2k24 crowd , svr 2011 weapon physics, 2k24 blood physics, 2k14 style gameplay ect it could well be the perfect WWE game have all the match types from all the games I quit, guest ref ect
I used to be a WWE fan and when I play recent 2K games I feel like there is no mode other than simple quick match that can satisfy me. I miss so much the Road to Wrestlemania, Break the Streak modes or the one where you were back in time and followed some story from past. I understand that if the game has success, it means that people like it and maybe that is something with me but hell, new modes are so much worse to me.
SVR 2011 was awesome, I remember getting it back in the day and would play it for hours on end. I personally loved the addition of the universe mode, felt like I was actually running things and you could change stuff too. Though sometimes I would roll with what the system gave me to make it feel like I was working with what I was given, like with an actual wrestling show. Those were the days. I haven’t gotten a WWE game in forever, but I’ve heard they’ve definitely gone down hill as of late.
Back as a kid my first taste of wrestling games was WWF Smackdown 2! on Ps1. Next one I tried was SvR 2009 and the last one was SVR 2011 which to me is the the one and only but that's just because I never played SvR 2007 or tried WWE 12/13. Bottom line is that I'm biased to games developed by Yuke's and there is a good reason for that!
In my opinion, looking back THQ made the better wrestling games. I recently played WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 again and SVR 2011 is a step backwards in some respects! I'll explain why I see it this way: In SVR 2009 you can tell that your opponent is injured not only by the damage display but also by the wrestler himself! In SVR 2011 there are both advances and regressions: They changed the physics engine and took out the damage model. But I have to say that I find it much more difficult to tear myself away from the SVR games than from the 2K games and that doesn't exactly speak for 2k
This was my first WWE game I bought. I had it on wii. This game was so amazing bro. I loved everything about it. And everytime you would open the game you would hear I WAS BORN TO FLYYYYYYYY I WAS BORN TO WIINNNN. Good days. Definitely a top 5 WWE game oat
A few years ago I ordered SvR 2011 for Xbox 360 (I have SvR 2011 for the Wii but I no longer have a GameCube controller or nunchucks) for some reason was send SvR 2008 instead. (It was from GameStop during covid, the games also took forever to arrive, tried to appeal it as well and nothing was done about it)
da hardcam facin da entrance is a huge one for me - so much work gets put into makin stages accurately jus for you to barely see it with the exception of in entrances hopin in 2k24 we can have different camera angles fr
SVR games were great but i still miss the pure carnage&fast paced SmackDown Games. Doing an RVD finisher off the top of Times's square building is still the peak WWE gaming for me.
The moving poses brings back so much nostalgia omg my first ever WWE I remember playing was SVR 2006 but I also had here comes the pain, shut your mouth because they were really cheap at the time that SVR 2006 came out since it was older
If 2K was smart they would bring back Create a Story. You gotta do all this time consuming editing in the current games. Since Universe barely works you can't even use that to help. You'd see a lot more Universe videos on TH-cam if we didn't have to jump through hoops.
It genuinely blows my mind This list is so long or needed Every year fans tell 2k what they want and tell you what they enjoyed from the games. It's not hard to keep in something like create a finisher. 2K really seemed to walk into wrestling games blindly for almost a decade when there was absolutely no need yukes had laid the perfect foundation to build upon.
Yeah there's problems about that half of the roster is gone from the current WWE unless you sign them up to legends deals to appear your stuck with a barebones roster.
My first time was playing wwe game and i played this game on ps2 but i can tell the difference ps2 had low graphics but so many interaction like crowd moves grab the weapons from crowd just u can't fight in crowd area in ps2 but now days they removed so many things from the game they made the game works like ps2 on ps3 and ps4 works like ps3
When I first saw the entrance of undertaker in SVR 2011 Game, I thought it was real. To produce those type of graphics in 2011, is required to be appreciated. Regards,
One time set up 4 tables outside the ring, 2 stacks of 2, and my brothers were on a ladder fighting for the brief case, and I pushed the ladder and they both fell, breaking through all 4 tables. I had it recorded and saved too
Ple pin I’m first
And last to get laid
SvR 2011 was my first ever WWE game. In 2013 when I first discovered WWE, I got myself this game and this was such a beautiful time back then. The Road to Wrestlemania mode, the awesome animations like the break of the pinfall by a mate in a tag team match, the hot tag animation, finisher animations, putting the opponent onto the top rope with the groin and then move the rope up and down and so on. One of the best wrestling games to me.
Couldn't agree more!
Same
Me too. I found out about wwe in 2012 and I’ve played some of the smackdown vs raw games , wwe 12, wwe 13, wwe 2k14, wwe 2k15, and wwe 2k16. It all bring back memories so much playing those games back in the day and makes me wish I could play them again one more time because back then, when i was playing it i didn’t realize then how much I’ll miss it. I prefer the older games than the new ones
you and I had very very similar childhoods
@@bigdaddybryan7918 Nice to hear people having similar memories as me.
I miss the old blood physic where it gets worse overtime and some of the blood actually gets on the opponent.
Blood looks so much better than 2k19
Me too
it’s back in wwe 2k24
I was mentioning this on a Reddit post and ppl who play these modern wwe games don’t know and deny that there was ever blood in the older games. It’s very clear they cater to children while they literally censor everything. Nothing will ever beat 2000s SvR games
In search of graphics we lost gameplay
Correct ✅️
The weapons physics system that Smackdown versus Raw 2011 had has been sorely needed back in the franchise for over a decade now.
💯
SVR11 Still have the best physics even to this day, No one other game can even touch it
Nope. It has not been needed for over a decade lmao. The weapon system ended in 2013. So its not over a decade
The weapons physics in the svr games are tragic…you miss the table by about 18ft and you still break it
@@Luke_-_ thats a lie lmao
In my opinion SvR 2011's feature set should be the bare minimum when designing any wrestling game. Anything less is just being lazy (though in the case of the 2K series, despite being a pretty decent sandbox, they don't want you to have tools to make your own stories because that would take away the incentive for you to buy the same game every year). It also boggles the mind that no other wrestling game has ever recreated the incredible physics of SvR 2011 even with today's available technology.
Newer games look better, older games were (for me at least) more satisfying to play.
If this game had 12 universe mode booking, 13 universe customisation and create a story scenes implemented into it's universe... add in going backstage before and during matches and some alternate backstage areas like the hctp one then we might as well just be getting updated rosters and features rather than a new game each year.
Oh yeah, fighting in the crowd and the bottom of the stage too would be nice
Going trough the whole arena, boiler room, parking lot, outside, to the near pub was amazing in older games, my first wrestling game was Smackdown know your role, me and my bros always were playing fatal 4 way and going outside 😁 I’m really wondering why in 2023 they can’t make something like the games had 20-25 years ago 🤦🏻♂️
@@V-95K annoying how they'd add a good feature and take it away, or introduce some features way too late. Worst are when pretty normal aspects of older games are being sold as novel new features, the omg moments are kinda annoying, they need to stop making it a big deal
Pipe dream
I don’t think they look better the models are super bulky and look nothing like the wrestlers
i wish they bring back these features from 2011 and the omg moments it’s crazy that we can do more things in older games than the latest games
fr, i hate the new engine, i mean its cool but it takes the good stuff away such as chain wrestling and etc
they removed tons of things from creation suite to, making entrances, finishers, backstage brawl venues and interactions, stacking tables, and before the banner on the stage gets damaged but when you irish whip your opponent there now nothing happens, and you cant slam your opponent to a table without a finisher, the interactions with the chair and the kendo stick now all you can do is taunt and smash lol, also now they only get tired while on older games they hold their head
I started my wwe journey at a young age my brother introduced me into wwe games the very first time I played SvR 2010 I loved it ever since and here I am now still going strong in the wwe games industry
Create-a-Story was the best feature, and after ten years, I still can't accept that it's gone. My friends and I would make entire shows with funny dialogue and characters and spend hours every week just watching them with each other. We did this for years. It was better than real wrestling.
7:08 I played SvR 2011 all the time and I have never ever seen that animation before!!
I completely forgot how great SVR 11 was, I know the all time great SVR game is 06-07, but SVR 11 was so amazing.
I played it throughout the whole year, I loved how they kept all the features from HCTP
The one with McMahon on the cover is great.
THQ is better than 2K ✅
It's shocking that game this old still better in almost every aspect than new repetitive games by 2k
The Backstage Brawl of WWE 2k will never hold a candle to SVR 2011.
The amount of interaction I get to do there was the main reason Backstage Brawls was my favorite match type in SVR 2011.
SM VS Raw 2011 was my favorite game on PSP. I loved backstage brawls and Road to Wrestlemania. Played that 24/7 as a child. I miss those times 😢.
when companies made games with love
I grew up with svr 06 and svr 07 and still play them to this day. I heard a lot of great things about svr 2011 and i just bought a copy for 15 bucks. It'll be here in a couple days I'm excited!
Did you enjoy it?
@@SpiraXVIX surprisingly, I actually did! The gameplay is smooth and there's lots of fun modes to keep u busy for a while. Overall I really enjoy it, but it's not better than 06 and 07 for me.
Play Mode was tied to Universe Mode in SmackDown VS RAW 2011 so that's why I spent my time on Universe Mode and Road to WrestleMania.
I miss Road To Wrestlemania. MyCareer isn't bad (shockingly), but nothing compares to what we experienced in RTWM
11 really was the peak. 08 was my first game still perhaps my favorite, but the additions in 11 were astonishing, truly a Wrestling game masterpiece.
This game is the standard for how much creativity sports games should let their players have
This was PERFECT WWE Game and still is🔥🔥
Create-A-Story is what I miss the most out of it all. These games were so dang good every year, and 2K just doesn't listen to us.
Will always love SvR 2007, best roster!
I really miss the bleeding from SvR 2011 i wish 2k could add it back in the game someday😅
SvR 07 & SvR 2011 are such good games, 2k ain't even close imo
This game just literally had everything, I can’t even understand how with the technology now a days they can’t copy paste this man
5:00 Big Show injuring himself worse than Taker 😂
😂
SvR 2011 is still one of my favourite WWE games, it was the first WWE game that i played non stop as there were so many good features and stuff to do in this games plus the matches were always fun to play especially the ones when you add weapons.
Smackdown vs raw 2011 was way better than 2k23 with features. Maybe they will start doing better with 2k24. My expectations are higher with that.
They haven’t announce
2k 24 ?
@@RedSavage7 and??... I'm saying 2K better deliver on their next game which would be 2k24. I played 2k23 and i was a bit disappointed. Announcement or not 2K24 better fucking deliver or i won't buy it. The game is missing features and it needs more life to it.
I was playing the 2010 part before the 2011 game was released, and when THQ made the greatest part, which is SVR 2011, and the game was released that year, everyone was shocked by the strength of the graphics, the story, the mode, and the interaction. The story was a very beautiful thing, especially when you enter the backstage and see the wrestlers talking, you talk to them, you wrestle with them, and some enter. The rooms contain the Undertaker and the masked Kane, something that makes you excited as if it were a real thing, but unfortunately when THQ sold the game to the 2K franchise, it became just a game without any enthusiasm or any physics and realism. Imagine that you are playing a game released in 2011 that is better than a game released in 2023 in terms of story, graphics, and the shapes of the wrestlers. Even the circuits here are well aware that everything beautiful has ended. I still miss the old games. Sometimes nostalgia for the past makes you forget the disgusting saliva that comes out nowadays.
Another addition they need to return is individual wrestler sounds of pain during matches, I think it was WWE 12 that had some wrestler sound effects during matches Kane was one of them and others rather then all wrestlers having the exact same sound effects during matches
SVR 11 > Most 2K WWE games.
*all
All wwe 2k games
This game was awesome still is I can recall one of my friends had it and he changed the divas move set and they would be doing finishers like rko, rock bottom , choke slam, stunners during hell in the cell i didn’t know you could do that 😂
In the past, wrestling games (and the gaming world in general) were as if each version of them was a family restaurant, expressing their passion for the work, their love for what they do, and popular culture.
Today it's like a fast food chain that offers standard quality, basic service, boring changes, and makes a profit anyway.
If we could get the perfect match of SVR 2008 graphics with 2k24 crowd , svr 2011 weapon physics, 2k24 blood physics, 2k14 style gameplay ect it could well be the perfect WWE game have all the match types from all the games I quit, guest ref ect
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 is my fav wrestling game of all time.
No matter how cool wwe2k is remember that SVR is the OG the Goat at least wwe2k still has Roman reigns, Brock Lesnar and braunstrowman
I used to be a WWE fan and when I play recent 2K games I feel like there is no mode other than simple quick match that can satisfy me.
I miss so much the Road to Wrestlemania, Break the Streak modes or the one where you were back in time and followed some story from past. I understand that if the game has success, it means that people like it and maybe that is something with me but hell, new modes are so much worse to me.
SvR 11 is the most criminally underrated video game of all time. So customizable. So…. Working.
in svr 2011 you can use your custom songs (mp3) for entrance of any wrestlers
damn I'm today years old when I when I found about these
Everything changed once they went 2K
SVR 2011 was awesome, I remember getting it back in the day and would play it for hours on end. I personally loved the addition of the universe mode, felt like I was actually running things and you could change stuff too. Though sometimes I would roll with what the system gave me to make it feel like I was working with what I was given, like with an actual wrestling show. Those were the days. I haven’t gotten a WWE game in forever, but I’ve heard they’ve definitely gone down hill as of late.
2K just took a U-turn from the physics.. THQ was too good in all aspects.. miss those games man!!
2:01 Loved how that person holding guitar is still holding a guitar without a guitar 😂
the blood on the ring floor was great
I bought SVR 11 on PS3 at GameStop for 1.99 a few months ago.
I still have this game in psp❤❤
Back as a kid my first taste of wrestling games was WWF Smackdown 2! on Ps1. Next one I tried was SvR 2009 and the last one was SVR 2011 which to me is the the one and only but that's just because I never played SvR 2007 or tried WWE 12/13.
Bottom line is that I'm biased to games developed by Yuke's and there is a good reason for that!
I remember smack down here comes the pain
Man, I really miss the Create a Finsher.
Here comes the pain is the masterpiece of wwe games it only need a remake
The only thing that was missing in SVR 11 was Jeff Hardy... 💔😞
Svr 2011 was my last wrestling game too
In my opinion, looking back
THQ made the better wrestling games. I recently played WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 again and SVR 2011 is a step backwards in some respects! I'll explain why I see it this way: In SVR 2009 you can tell that your opponent is injured not only by the damage display but also by the wrestler himself! In SVR 2011 there are both advances and regressions: They changed the physics engine and took out the damage model. But I have to say that I find it much more difficult to tear myself away from the SVR games than from the 2K games and that doesn't exactly speak for 2k
the nostalgia of playing SvR 2011 is so just 💯💯💯 feels like im a kid again watching this video
Simpler times, were more fun then today 🔥🙌
2011 was that game bro, I need this remastered I’d totally cop
Cause back then they cared more about the gameplay 2K only care about graphics
To be honest, while SvR 2011 and WWE 2k14 had a soul, new WWE games have not.
This was my first WWE game I bought. I had it on wii. This game was so amazing bro. I loved everything about it. And everytime you would open the game you would hear I WAS BORN TO FLYYYYYYYY I WAS BORN TO WIINNNN. Good days. Definitely a top 5 WWE game oat
Or you would hear OUT OF TIMMEEE TO SAY GOODBYE. Or ohhhhhhhh you’re always smoking mirrors
A few years ago I ordered SvR 2011 for Xbox 360 (I have SvR 2011 for the Wii but I no longer have a GameCube controller or nunchucks) for some reason was send SvR 2008 instead. (It was from GameStop during covid, the games also took forever to arrive, tried to appeal it as well and nothing was done about it)
2K just needs to stop and have the rights over to somebody else
Yo tuve el SVR2010 y lo de crear tu finisher era una locura
I think back to when I first got svr 2011 and I was excited to see what the game would be like in ten years boy was i disappointed
If you played svr 11 on wii you got robbed
THQ were bunch of geniuses
da hardcam facin da entrance is a huge one for me - so much work gets put into makin stages accurately jus for you to barely see it with the exception of in entrances
hopin in 2k24 we can have different camera angles fr
1:19 never let them know your next move
Weapon physics of svr 2011>>>>>any other shit 2k provides
Ahnnnn this was nostalgic my first WWE game for my PS3 ahnnn i miss those days
Moving graphics cards are always cool, in game too
SVR games were great but i still miss the pure carnage&fast paced SmackDown Games. Doing an RVD finisher off the top of Times's square building is still the peak WWE gaming for me.
the 2k23 weapon physics are the best since SVR 2011 they’re so close to getting it right hopefully for 2k24
more like 18 Things old gen does better than new gen
on a weekend off from school back then create a story was my favorite i remember i made dolph ziggler top heel of em all😂
THQ never die
The moving poses brings back so much nostalgia omg my first ever WWE I remember playing was SVR 2006 but I also had here comes the pain, shut your mouth because they were really cheap at the time that SVR 2006 came out since it was older
If 2K was smart they would bring back Create a Story. You gotta do all this time consuming editing in the current games. Since Universe barely works you can't even use that to help. You'd see a lot more Universe videos on TH-cam if we didn't have to jump through hoops.
If would be great if you could create custom cutscenes in universe mode, at least that would revive the gamemode
2007 to 2011 was the greatest smackdown vs raw games!
It genuinely blows my mind This list is so long or needed
Every year fans tell 2k what they want and tell you what they enjoyed from the games. It's not hard to keep in something like create a finisher. 2K really seemed to walk into wrestling games blindly for almost a decade when there was absolutely no need yukes had laid the perfect foundation to build upon.
I played this game so much I carried it to school on my psp and sometimes skip school because of it 😂
I had this for the Wii and I’m starting to see just how many features I never experienced
Smackdown vs Raw 2011 is the greatest WWE game ever made
At this point just release a remake of svr for the new consoles. I’ll gladly buy.
Yeah there's problems about that half of the roster is gone from the current WWE unless you sign them up to legends deals to appear your stuck with a barebones roster.
My first time was playing wwe game and i played this game on ps2 but i can tell the difference ps2 had low graphics but so many interaction like crowd moves grab the weapons from crowd just u can't fight in crowd area in ps2 but now days they removed so many things from the game they made the game works like ps2 on ps3 and ps4 works like ps3
The PS3 WWE games looked so good pre-WWE '12, but ever since that game the graphics took a huge dive.
Ohhh miss those days 😊
playing svr 2011 on pc with ps3 emulator feels so nostalgic :D
To this day
The weapon physics of svr11
Are some of the greatest in any wrestling games
Is* the gratest
They need to bring everything back
The camera angles are just better in svr 11 for me
When I first saw the entrance of undertaker in SVR 2011 Game, I thought it was real. To produce those type of graphics in 2011, is required to be appreciated.
Regards,
Batista in 2011: I love bleeding 😁
Batista in 2023: i don't like bleeding 😟
😂
Bhai aap ne svr kaha se download kiya tha our aap ka wifi router kon sa hai
One time set up 4 tables outside the ring, 2 stacks of 2, and my brothers were on a ladder fighting for the brief case, and I pushed the ladder and they both fell, breaking through all 4 tables. I had it recorded and saved too
Post it
Alot of the SVR series has better things including parking lot brawls, casket matches, inferno matches, and gameplay in general
Weapon physics and stacking tables weapon moves.....diving finishers off of the chamber pod and ladders I miss.....
I want them to bring back create a story and create a finisher and more blood
If I am not wrong a time machine feature was there in the road to WrestleMania.