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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Jan. 12, 2009

Bawh gawd
Bawh gawd
Jim "Good Old J.R." Ross, the WWE's lead commentary guy for SmackDown!, posted an update on his blog with a brief mention of the annual work he does voicing THQ's wrestling products. And here is that update!
The next round of THQ voice overs is slated to start within the next week or so. It will be anxious to see who makes the roster for the next Smackdown vs. Raw video game. There has been some internal changes within THQ and it will be interesting to see if it affects the lines we read in announcer mode for the next game.
So unless he's going in to do commentary for the upcoming Legends of Wrestlmania game, that's your confirmation that we'll see a WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2010 at some point. Not that this should come as a surprise. I think it's pretty obvious that such a popular series would continue. More interesting, however, is the talk of internal changes. Could he just be referring to some personnel moves that have him dealing with different folks? Or is THQ planning something larger for its next SmackDown! game?

I'm going to guess that we'll find out sometime around July or so.

Filed under : WWE Smackdown!, WWE

32 Comments

grainger
on Jan. 12, 2009
i likes my jim ross

TheHBK
on Jan. 12, 2009
Oh my god....did you see...that.  Ahh, to have that commentary come back for another year.  Maybe they should ask for help from the people that do NBA2k commentary.

AlexMarra
on Jan. 12, 2009
Great caption under the picture, lol

Gizmo
on Jan. 12, 2009
Jim Ross is wasted on WWE.

StaticFalconar is online
on Jan. 12, 2009
Same old shit.............

gzl5000
on Jan. 12, 2009
Wow, they're actually recording new voiceover stuff for this one? I kinda thought they'd just re-use the old stuff like they always do. Who knows, maybe the people at THQ will even realize that the WWE stopped having one "face" announcer and one "heel" announcer around 2003 and that Jerry Lawler no longer screams "YES!" when someone does a low blow.

Gizmo
on Jan. 12, 2009
WWF was so awesome back in the day, now it's insanely bad. That classic Triple H V The Rock rivalry was really entertaining.

Milkman
on Jan. 12, 2009
STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD!

Death_Burnout
on Jan. 12, 2009
Oh My Gawd!...Oh...My...Gawd! How is he able to stand!? is what i wanna know!

BOOMER SOONER!

dtran1212
on Jan. 12, 2009
when will Jeff realizes that about 85% of people using this site including myself DON'T GIVE A FUCK about wrestling games!!!

hey Jeff, give us some worth-while news that we can actually care about

bigdaddyjack21
on Jan. 12, 2009
On no... that sounds like the Jim Ross music

BestUsernameEver
on Jan. 12, 2009
Why is this even posted?

dtran1212
on Jan. 12, 2009
when will Jeff realizes that about 85% of people using this site including myself DON'T GIVE A FUCK about wrestling games!!!

hey Jeff, give us some worth-while news that we can actually care about

Death_Burnout
on Jan. 12, 2009
@dtran1212 Please pipe down!

BestUsernameEver
on Jan. 12, 2009
dtran1212 said:
"
when will Jeff realizes that about 85% of people using this site including myself DON'T GIVE A FUCK about wrestling games!!!

hey Jeff, give us some worth-while news that we can actually care about
"
%100 agreed.

carlthenimrod
on Jan. 12, 2009
I would love to play a good wrestling game. They are a blast with 3 other people. Unfortunately, the Smackdown series aren't good games and they keep pumping out the same crap every year. The thing I don't get is that there are good wrestling games out there but they are on the N64. It seems wrestling games get worse with time.

Death_Burnout
on Jan. 12, 2009
Erm excuse me but since when was catering to an admittedly small audience a heinous act of horror?

Please keep your boring opinions to yourself.

MKHavoc
on Jan. 12, 2009
I haven't played a WWE game since SVR06.  I think the series will only continue down hill.

Lepuke
on Jan. 12, 2009
This site has information about games. Wrestling video games are games.
Bitching that someone posts information about a game on a video game website is retarded.

There are a lot of trash games based on kid focused TV shows and various other lame cash-in subject matters that I don't approve of, but if said type of game had a news blurb on a games website, I would not waste my time to bitch about it being not news worthy. I simply skip or ignore the article.
Whereas some people may find Hannah Montana and various other sources of annoyance entertaining and worthwhile.

ultrapeanut
on Jan. 12, 2009
Bah gawd, King, I thought THQ lost the WWE license!

*Vince Russo storms in wearing a THQ shirt*

Russo: "SWERVE!"


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