WWE Smackdown!!! may be #1, again

[Perfect Stu]

'Here Comes the Pain' has a new producer...the guy that's been doing the previous SD! games got pushed aside or something. This guy says that TO DATE, the pinnacle in wrestling videogames is 'WWF No Mercy'. He says that the new grappling/countering/submission engine is inspired from AKI's work. And about the submission engine...it's like a tug-of-war. The guy applying the hold hits buttons to have the meter reach 'submit' and the one who's in the hold hits buttons to 'escape'. Early in the match, it's much much easier to escape...but later in the match, and you get, say, the Crossface applied to you, it's easier for your opponent to get you to submit. Anyway, it sounds really cool...You actually have some control over getting someone to tap or getting out of a submission move.