Why THQ, do you insist on restricting more and more each year?!
EXAMPLE: say you're fighting someone in the ring while 2 other guys are fighting each other on the outside and you want to run and jump over the ropes onto the duo outside, you would now have to run out the ring to face one of the other two then run back in the ring and then run and jump over!
also in past Smackdowns even if you weren't facing someone you could still run in their direction and smack them one, this is no longer the case in 2008, try to do this and your wrestler will snap back in the direction of the person you're facing which is really really irritating and takes away so much of the control you had in past years.
moving on, other things that are wrong with it is the fact you could be swinging a chair at someone on the ground and yet the chair just keeps going right through them and thus not connecting, as if they're not there, how bloody lazy are the games testers over at THQ? i had the game on 5 minutes before noticing this
one plus this year though is the create a wrestler option, they finally sorted last years stupid restrictions on which parts of clothing you could colour.
also the invisible barrier on top of hell in a cell is a godsend (no more doing a move and falling off cos of the animation), it would've been nice though if opponents could go off when you do an offensive move on them.
hopefully 2009's version will not be as screwed up as this year's.