Homoerotic Wrestling fans, I have Smackdown vs. Raw questions

[Eel O'Brian]

My friends and I used to enjoy making wacky characters in the create-a-wrestler in the old PS1 RAW game, and making drink bets on the outcome of matches.  While they usually made boring "realistic" characters, I made The Incredible Hulk, Lex Luthor, and an ashy african-american emaciated female wrestler wearing a $$ sign bikini named Crack Ho.  There was some WWF/E game for the Xbox we invested in, and discovered you could set the CPU vs. CPU option so you didn't even have to play anymore (which was great, because we're all sort of lazy about learning moves and shit, preferring to spend that time making more wacky wrestlers and constructing elaborate ring entrances with custom soundtracks).  We just watched the game play itself and made the drink bets on that.  For this game I made George Clinton and Bootsie Collins, aka Tag Team Mothership.  We haven't chipped in on a wrestling game since.

Now they are both buying PS3s, and I have a couple of questions about the Smackdown vs. Raw games, since we're thinking about chipping in on the 2009 one coming out:

1.  Can you still set the CPU vs. CPU option and just watch the match?

2.  Is the create-a-wrestler pretty deep?  Custom ring entrances, costumes, body selection, etc?  This time I intend to make a "Jazz Greats" stable of wrestlers, including Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald.

[Bildi]

Can't remember about the CPU vs CPU (I think you can do it).

In terms of create-a-wrestler, from what I recall from SVR2007:

- Each body part (chest, torso, etc) has a few dimensions to alter (depth, height, width).
- Faces are extremely customisable.  You could model any face you wanted with enough time.
- Articles of clothing, patterns and colours available are pretty deep.  There'd be 10-20 types of short pants, 10-20 types of long pants, plus more unusual accessories (like lingerie and so on) etc etc.  And then there's layers of clothing, about four layers I think it has.
- Ring entrances have around four or five sections that you can customise.  Arena entry, start ramp, ring entry, in-ring etc... and for each section you can choose from real wrestler entrances or a few custom ones. 

I like making custom wrestlers, and I've spent quite a few hours in there tinkering so I'd say it's pretty fleshed out.

[Eel O'Brian]

Cool, thanks