WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain
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WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Yuke's, released 27 October 2003 on PlayStation 2.
What WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain is
WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Yuke's and released in 2003. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain is a professional wrestling video game developed by Yuke's and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 in North America on October 27, 2003, Europe on November 7, 2003, and Japan on January 29, 2004. It is the sequel to WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth and the fifth and final game in the WWE SmackDown! series based on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are non-fiction.
Where it sits in the WWE series
WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain is the 15th of 65 entries we hold in the WWE series. The next entry was WWE Day of Reckoning in 2004. Its critic score of 90 is 21 points above the series average of 69. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Players rate it 82, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain launched on 27 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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