Chapter 3: RAW Storylines

The Smackdown vs. RAW season mode spans both shows. At the halfway point of the season, you will be sent to compete on the other brand. There are many storylines but you may only see a handful during any particular season. Each storyline leads to a specific pay-per-view and the particularly storyline you take part in depends on whether or not you currently hold the championship belt, if you are going for the championship belt, or neither. The order of RAW pay-per-views is WrestleMania, Backlash, Vengeance, SummerSlam, and Unforgiven. There’s one storyline per pay-per-view.

We’ve presented walkthroughs for many of the storylines in this section. You will not see all the storylines during a particular play-through and may not participate in the order presented here. The walkthroughs cover the conditions for each storyline as well as specific strategies for completing the matches.

Some storylines are also character dependent. For instance, in the storyline titled "Taking on the Show" you are going to be battling Big Show. If you selected Big Show as your wrestler, you won’t participate in the storyline. Also, if you have selected a wrestler that’s part of an upcoming title challenge storyline, you won’t be able to participate in it even if you win the required matches. Note that you may face different opponents that those revealed in these walk-throughs. It depends on your selected wrestler; however, the matches and story are essentially the same.

Taking on the Show

Big Show shouldn’t be a problem when there’s two of you right?

Most RAW wrestler selections begin here (unless you chose Edge or one of the participants of this storyline). You also begin here if you lost the belt at the end of the Smackdown season. The storyline begins with a singles match against the mammoth Big Show. After the match, you attempt to make friends. But Chavo Guerrero and Daviri enter with lead pipes and take down the big man. Carlito enters the stage and claims the four of you guys are together...when did that happen? Apparently these "little guys" are tired of being pushed around by the heavyweights. In the next RAW you’ll compete against Viscera in a singles match. Big Show arrives-he doesn’t seem pleased about that ambush. Big Show issues a devastating choke slam that goes "halfway to China" according to Jim Ross. How are you going to calm the angry giant? By the way, your little gang of misfits is nowhere to be found during this entire incident. Check the messages after this battle and you can choose to either team with the little guys against Big Show or you can try to explain yourself to the Big Show to avoid another choke slam.

If you decide to team with the little guys, you’ll take on Big Show in a two-on-one (one on tag) handicap match. After the match, Big Show takes out his anger on your partner, who suffers enough injury to put him out of commission for a couple weeks. You receive a message from Carlito; he wonders where you were while your partner was getting thumped. To make up for it, he gets you to join in on a one on three handicap match against Big Show.

After the match, the angry giant awakens again. He chokes slams both of your partners while you carefully make your way out of the squared circle. Big Show suggests no interference next week in a cage match!

Win this match by climbing out of the cage or going through the door. The Big Show can sustain a lot of pounding so it can take awhile to get him on the ground long enough to climb out of the cage. Use submission holds on Big Show’s head; you’ll want his head in the red before trying to escape. A finishing move that inflicts head damage will provide the time necessary to get out and win the match.

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