I can’t be the only one that misses using real superstars in season mode

Also should be added: SVR 2007 had an absolute BANGER soundtrack. There was not 1 bad song on it. Miss this game so much!

SVR 07 also had real referees (Mike Chioda for RAW, Nick Patrick for Smackdown)

2007 for me is the best SVR game. It is the game that made slight adjustments from what we had until SVR 2006 which is fast paced gaming. 2007 did just fine. My favorite feature of 2007 is the ultimate control, I didn’t even do my basic grappling moves, I just spammed Ultimate Control moves lol. The thing about 2k is the graphics are great and suits the evolution of gaming. Unfortunately, the engine sucks. Wrestlers move like robots and the wrestlers collide with each other awkwardly.

3:01 takes a frog splash from on top of the pod and still kicks out at 2, even in video games you can't escape Super Cena

5:46 so realistic. Even in the game Stephanie adds herself into storylines for no reasons

2007 had one more awesome detail. An "adrenaline rush" mechanic that allowed you to lift one weight class higher than you normally could when your momentum meter was full. That enabled heavyweights to use power moves on Great Khali for brief bursts till the meter went back to normal either by timing out or using a finisher

2K still misses many things that SvR series had, like the crowd interactons or parking lot backstage brawl with various car interactions

Back when games weren’t solely corporate products One gripe in 2k23 is that the announcers do not stfu for certain entrances. It’s so annoying to hear them talk before Cena, Taker, or Triole H come out like they would do in real life at times.

they added more features and interactions in just 1-2gb of data, and now a days game's avg size is about 50gb but got nothing except graphics

Lmao at randy ripping his own signs 🤣

Multiple announcement teams is a gem I never knew about, there’s so many little details that I wish were in the new games

Man SVR2007 gameplay was unrivaled imo. The amount of variety you get with your matches was insane. I really miss that as now a days the games are more limited as far as interacting with environment, in-ring storytelling, and player control.

All they need to do is remaster SVR 07' & 08' with community creations and I will literally die peacefully 😭

1. The crowd part made me sad 2. How is the choosing commentary teams option not a thing 3. The cage door should always been a thing because in what match have anyone broke the the cell wall just to get out 4. Customized locker room should be a thing in 2k 5. Choking someone with a cable would be cool in modern games

2K23 is great, and if they continue to add onto the foundation with features from older games. It will reach GOAT status one day. For now SVR 07 imo is the best Wrestling Game ever made. While there are other GOAT tier games to me they don't hit as hard as 07 does.

Not gonna lie, I played 2K23 for a week since the initial release and haven’t played it since.

It's crazy how a game from 2006 looks better than a game from 2023. It's should be the other way around.

07 graphics were beautiful as well

I miss season mode so much in WWE video games. It feels like forever since we've gotten it.😢

Edge vs Matt with lita as special ref , I'm just ded🤣🤣🤣🤣

2007: Batistabomb Lita through the announce table for the win. 2023: You accidentally pushed Lita down when she was at ringside... disqualification! So much for women being taken more seriously in the modern day, huh? 😂😂

Only two complaints I had in 2007: Pinning moves getting replaced with generic moves in non pinning situations and having the same season mode for both Raw as well as Smackdown, especially if you used a CAW

Svr 07 has the most accurate HBK to this day

Damn, this was 15 years ago and holds up well. Although the graphics have obviously improved in WWE2k23 it's not exactly in a mind blowing way, considering the 15 year difference!

I wish have this commentary changer. I wish I could use Jim and Jerry Lawyer in my attitude era Universe mode

Every wwe game 2k put out is 2 steps forward 10 steps backwards

Back when games were made more for the fans and less devoted to corporate profit

Also THQ games had amazing camera angels

First time I've seen SvR 07 being praised anywhere online. All I ever see is HCTP, 08, and 2k14. 07 is the best in my personal opinion.

It's like the saying goes, you don't know what you got until it's gone. Felt like SVR 2007 didn't get enough appreciation. So much freedom

I miss just freely climbing the announce tables

Number 13 was a straight up robbery😂😂

You are right im about to buy a Xbox 360 in 2K 7😂

Back when WWE cared about their games

SvR2006 - 2009 were the best ones!.. Oh it’s true! It’s damn true!

A better GM Mode that was actually fully done

And wish there was more to do in the crowd. Idk how they can't manage a bigger backstage, weapon grapples, more stiff to interact with in the crowd, and better blood spread. Wwe 2k23 is a fun game though in my opinion. P.s. I forgot how cool the story was using actual non created superstars and the custom locker room. I'll never know why so many years later all this stuff got taken out. Not like they dont have the resources.. if they just add back how big backstage was. That would make it so much more fun.

Wwe 2k23 has only one thing which is one lady saying alright thats it every goddammn minute

The more realistic it gets the more lazy it gets.

HCTP - SvR07 is the golden era, especially when you consider the DOR games came out during that time period, too.

I miss the SvR series. 2k23 is really good. Just wish they had a Backstage like Smackdown here comes the pain. Or 2k19.. also I forgot until finishing this video all the stuff you could do. Like ultimate control moves. Actually opening the Hell in a cell door. Like i said 2k23 is fun. I just don't understand why they took out so many features with today's technology and everything else.. I'm not game creator so maybe there is a good reason idk. Even the little things like climbing announcement tables, getting weapons from the crowd, the season mode, and ripping crowd signs. The little things made it so cool

2k is really putting hard efforts to destroy and remove cool fratures from their game

Which Wwe game was it that actually showed the affects of the injured part… like if you injured the leg and the person ran they would fall due to having been severely damaged

07-08 to me still hands down are the best,even the lighting and graphics were killer for the games at the time

Svr 2007 was THQ & 2k took over.

Svr 2007 has one thing that is better than almost every game It has a final boss lvl character Yes i am talking about great khali Khali is the only superstar in the game with a ultra heavyweight class to the point even undertaker cant lift him Fighting khali in normal mode is already a pain in the ass but if you fight him in legend mode,boi that's truly a hellish match

Imagine the same guys that made SVR games were still making WWE games

You can't compared THQ & Jakks Pacific inc.'s WWE games with 2K's WWE games, 2K will never have that great build that has the Smackdown VS Raw games

Damn this just reminded me how much time I spent on this game

2K23 looks great, but the backstage is one of the most disappointing I've played in a WWE game. Even No Mercy on the N64 had a better/more interactive backstage area.

The storylines for season mode are also better and voice acting too

Things that should make sense in 2K23 if the devs would have bothered: - Crowd Area Interactions (including climbing the scaffolding just to make high dives - Intergender matches (we have Chyna and Rhea Ripley beating men, and I wanna see this again). - Elimination Chamber Finisher dives - Ultimate Grapples (for controls) - Hell in a Cell door opening (not chained) - Ripping up crowd signs - Complaining to the referee (especially if you have a superstar who happens to be a Karen) - Leaning ladders on another ladder - Ignoring the referee. - Climbing announcers table (I missed this so much). What wouldn't make sense in WWE 2k23 today: - spinner belt (I know spinning is cool but not anymore :( ) - locker rooms (don't need this necessarily unless it has season mode) - Season mode (the game is focused mostly on WWE history than making your own Season mode (Universe is actually a sandbox but it's hard to execute the "season mode" style)) - multiple backstage areas (too much work to do but need more interactive objects though) Also, SVR 2007 is better than WWE 2K23 in terms of mechanics. But would still love to have them in the most recent WWE games.

One of the things that can directly be compared is the grappling system. Both games have an initial grapple system but 07 does it better. In 2K23 there's only 1 animation, the collar and elbow tie up 👎 In SVR07 you could perform 4 different initial grapples that lead to more moves and more animations. Collar and elbow, arm wringer, knee to gut, and front face lock Doing big moves from a collar & Elbow makes no sense in terms of realism, but that's your only choice in 23

SVR 2006 In PSP version the spinner belt can spin

Hopefully 2K24 will have more blood and more features like other previously released WWE games-I’m going to pass up on 2K23…and maybe buy it once it goes down in price, big maybe

The big thing I find 2K doesn’t understand is how to have fun gameplay

the ONLY thing I didn't like about SVR 07 was the fact that I couldn't use grapple attacks as a smaller wrestler against a bigger wrestler

Watching the 07 gameplay gives me so much nostalgia 😢😮❤

I hate how they took out leaning ladders you can lean the ladder on the ropes to jump out but you can’t lean the ladder from outside the ring to jump in or on the ladder 🤦🏾‍♂️

The voice fot Lita counting to 10 gave me flashbacks omg 😭🤣

They dont ever have Batista's rope shake in the games but at least then, I would just use that ultimate control in that clip right after the Spinebuster and before the thumbs up/down taunt.

It’s just sad to me that a game like SVR 07 had some amazing features and 2k can’t even give those simple features in a games it’s honestly sad.

I’m so glad I bought this back yesterday. It sucks you can’t play this on Series X though.

Wow all these years of loving and playing this game and I didn’t even know that you could grab and rip up crowd signs. Or maybe I just forgot but I remember everything else that made this game one the best that they ever made! I wish they’d bring back a lot of details and features they used to have into the new games with modern graphics.

I was so mad playing 2k23 wen I couldn’t do my finisher off the elimination chamber .. I knew the old games let you do that

Fighting in the parking garage or fighting outside of WWE would have been a big ass upgrade in 2022 and 2023 and that running up the ladder you can't even do that in the new games

We were content with not being able to edit superstar attires because theres so many good features in the game that holds up today. My only complaint is the ring bell sound effect from the older svr games 😂

Ah The Good old days

Bro is it that hard to implement a season mode with current superstars? I’m tired of rising stars at this point lol

Honestly 2K needs to take some notes from THQ gameplay wise they failed detail wise they exceeded expectations because how the hell does the spinner belt not spin make it make sense in 2023

I remember watching the trailer for this when I was young. Looked so great

Number 17 and 18 i want back . Doesn't even make sense why 17 hasn't returned . We still see that in wrestling alot .and the spinner championship should move even if you cant control it. Also the spinner looks so bad in 23.

THQ and 2K Not Same man

It always bothered me a lot that they made the arena is so dark until like smackdown versus Raw 2011. Everyone knows that a WWE show is well-lit with arena lights why is it so dark. It looks like the undertaker is about to come out

Here we go, clinging to nostalgia again

7:58 anyone else get disappointed when they made their guy a cruiserweight and they still couldn’t challenge for the title?

Almost got excited seeing Scott Steiner in a WWE game. Then I realized it was 2K23

Coming from ps1 wrestling games seeing svr07 back in the day was just so jaw dropping

1.bring it back. 2.bring it back. 3.bring it back i've been saying this for ten years well 13 so yeah bring this back but i the divas to bleed at the head like the superstars do. because when they took it away it really angered me,because in real life the divas were in matches with the guys like the royal rumble,remember when beth phoenix eliminated the great khali? and it has angered me that they took it away because i couldn't punish the divas i didn't like and thats why i want intergender matches back. 4.yeah bring it back. 5.oh yeah for real bring those back. 6.yeah i miss the door,bring it back. 7.yeah bring it back. 8.bring it back. 9.bring it back also caws/caw divas need to be used here as well. 10.oh yeah bring it back. 11.bring it back 12.bring it back 13.bring it back,what made this one special is as the special ref is that you can attack people for as long as you want without a real ref showing up and removing you,i want this back. 14.bring back. 15.bring it back. 16.bring back. 17.bring it back. 18.bring it back. i also want to add bring back custom made finishers/signatures and you can give them custom names as well,bring back custom made title belts as well and you can give them names as well,bring back custom made wrestling arena/rings and you can give them names as well. also bring back tossig your opponents over the ropes during the inferno matches and make the fire show up on them and bring back the degree counter that tells you how hot it is. please understand that i loved wwe2k14 it was the last great wrestling game because it had so much that you could do but those 18 things i sure do miss and i want them back plus all those extras that i want back. i blame wwe2k15 and beyond on why the games suck now and i can't stand it anymore this why i want the next game to be titled wwe2k24 40 years of wrestlemania because if wwe2k14 was wwe2k14 30 years of wrestlemanina well then wwe2k24 should be titled wwe2k24 40 years of wrestlemania and i ant everyhing that was shown here in the video pus the extras i want back for wwe2k24 40 years of wrestlemania. so spread the word and lets get this game made wwe2k24 40 years of wrestlemania made. facebook,twitter whatever you can and get these creators of these games to give us wwe2k24 40 years of wrestlemania made.

The first couple of the SVR were probably the best wwe games ever made

I miss spinning the belt ;-;

Never played svr games started with 2k14 but looks great according to its era ❤

Number 9 you can actually do. All you have to do is create a custom attire for a wwe superstar and keep the "Use as alternate Attire" box unchecked and you can then import them into myrise as you would any custom superstar

Another thing is the weigh class system. I loved using Khali back then because he was the most OP character

That dump truck spot... I owned that game for many years and never knew about this. Also, Bret killed Shane there... there was no KO...

Corey Graves in the commentary team is an automatic L for 2K23

I just want to be able to do whatever I want and go where ever I want. I wish things were more interactive & there were a lot more weapons

This game shows how much better the product WWE was back then. Less gore, less ideas, safety first. It´s just not as fun anymore.

2k23 blood sucks. I miss the games where the opponent would be bleeding all over the mat

The spinner title nowadays doesn't even look like the spinner title, looks like they spray painted some gold onto a metallic mold of it lol

The moment I realized that getting wwe 2k23 for my ps5 isn't gonna cut it I need this game lol I've never played or owned this one all the other sd vs raw Iexcrpt this nd 2006

Had this game as a kid. It was waaaayyyyy ahead of its time

The multiple commentators is the reason why I have SVR 2007(with Fight Night inside)and SVR 2010.

Number 6 it’s cool how they even have how triple h and undertaker would uniquely leave the ring

Number 1 isn't from SmackDown VS Raw 2007, it's from SmackDown VS Raw 2008. I would have one of my female created characters wrestle her male opponents in that opened area. Also, in SmackDown VS Raw, you can do Intergender Elimination Chamber & Hell In A Matches.

2007 Had The Best Soundtrack Ever It Introduced Me To Rock Music, And I Don’t Remember Number 14 Or 16 On The Game

Last wwe game I played was SVR 2007, now I got ek23. Sometimes is good to turn the page.

Mannn season mode was the best !!! And able to get dq when there’re touching the ropes was a small detail I miss

The arena “crowd fight” spot is SO lame especially against SVR days….