What with all the good games around at the expo, we unfortunately didn’t have time to wait in line to play SVR 2009. We did, however, see some live gameplay for ourselves.

What can we say? It’s very much SVR 2008, but with a different UI. The HUD’s changed to a more gritty ink-splotch style design, and the character selection now boasts a larger quantity of wrestlers with ridiculous expressions on their faces as they strike pantomime-esque poses. Short sentence. Other differences, while meagre, include: an awesome sounding finisher-creator, “enhanced” tag team matches and finally the inferno match. Wrestling… with fire (apparently). None of the aforementioned new features were seen in our preview, but we can expect that they hardly warrant a new game.

Differences aside, what you have here is a minor update to a solid game. The feature list is almost identical to its predecessors (previous issues, such as dodgy collision detection and dated graphics remain) and the new features, as always, aren’t likely to be worth a new purchase if you own any of the previous games in the series.

Die-hard fans of the series should check it out, but it’s hard to recommend DLC quality additions at a forty pound price point, while the previous game in the series (SVR 2008) can now be picked up at a measly £24.99 new.

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