WWF SmackDown!: The Road to Greatness

We gave D-Pad Destroyer $15 and a train pass, and told him to go take over the WWF in THQ's WWF SmackDown! We hadn't planned on him coming back, but when he did he had quite a story to tell of his exploits in SmackDown!'s Season mode. What follows are the rantings of a madman, and the smack-talk that goes with them.

We gave D-Pad Destroyer $15 and a train pass, and told him to go take over the WWF in THQ's WWF SmackDown! We hadn't planned on him coming back, but when he did he had quite a story to tell of his exploits in SmackDown!'s Season mode. What follows are the rantings of a madman, and the smack-talk that goes with them.

Monster Factory
It was a windy April night when I smacked Al Snow down with the double-powerbomb-to-pin that I like to call "The Destroyer," giving me my first win. After taking out Ken Shamrock in the same manner the next month, I had to take on The Acolytes with Shane MacMahon as my partner. Unwilling to trust my budding record to a jobber like Shane, I took it upon myself to single-handedly Destroy the Acolytes.

A few matches later, the "powers that be" paid me back for my arrogance in the tag match - I was to face both Dudley Boyz in a 2-on-1. After busting the damn Dudleys' asses all over ringside, I finally landed The Destroyer, then knocked down Buh Buh Ray long enough to pin D'Von. Things were starting to get interesting.

The jabronis just kept coming. First came Mankind, then Edge and Christian, then Kane. I was becoming a contract killah, and the others knew that. In February 2000, Chyna asked me to kick Ken Shamrock's ass backstage, and then at Wrestlemania, Big Bossman asked me to beat the hell out of Big Show before their match. I would have shown Big Show his teeth if The Rock and Mankind hadn't come in to save him, but even the D-Pad Destroyer knows when it's time to back down.

It was May of 2000 before Chris Jericho climbed out of a steel cage to hand me my first one-on-one loss. After delivering four Destroyers and countless other devastating maneuvers, Jericho somehow managed to climb his monkey ass over the top of the cage. Y2J lost his Intercontinental belt to X-Pac a month before, which dampened my desire to win that match, but I vowed then and there never to be caught sleeping again.

In July 2000, I used Edge's face as a mop, dropping The Destroyer on the pretty-boy backstage in an Anywhere Match. Mr. Ass bent over in August, and Shane MacMahon was the special referee as I exterminated X-Pac in a non-title match in September. A tag-match with Big Show, versus the unlikely team of Chyna and Road Dogg, set me up for the main-event: a title match with the Rock.

The REAL Big Show
It was a hard-fought match, but The Rock couldn't dance with the Destroyer. The Great One became the Gruesome One as I landed The Destroyer, not once, not twice, but three times on The Rock's candy ass. I walked outta there wearing a nice, shiny new belt and a grin. Let 'em come.

And they came. Stone Cold wanted that belt bad, challenging me five times over the next year. Not long after that I took it backstage with Road Dogg for the Hardcore title. One gold waistband wasn't enough for me, so I took that one as well.

The WWF? Destroyed
Over three years I managed a record of 28-5, with three of the losses being in the Royal Rumble. Untouchable was a word often used to describe me. I went from being an unknown jabroni to a massive assassin to the World Heavyweight Champion in what seemed like no time.

The interaction with the WWF superstars, no matter how limited, helped cement the feeling of being in the WWF and added a layer of accomplishment to winning the title. Unlike a lot of games, where you just fight match after match after match, SmackDown! kept promising something different, and I kept playing to see what would happen. If that's why you watch wrestling to begin with, then SmackDown!'s Season mode might be just what you're looking for.

Still got questions about SmackDown!? Check out the Q&A, jabroni!

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