I'm going to rate them by how I remember myself liking them.
Smackdown 09 will always be last to me. I didn't even want it after 08, but I decided I needed games for my wii so I would get the wii version of 2009 instead of the console version. I played the game twice. Once to try it, and a second to show myself that it really was that bad. The controls were terrible, and the game was no fun at all. Definitely the worst for me!
Smackdown 08 was the second worst. The games controls sucked, if I remember correctly, and the game felt dead, and it just wasn't any fun at all to play. It was disappointing after how awesome SVR 2007 was.
My tops would be Smackdown Vs Raw 2007. This was the first next-gen smackdown game, and the graphics were insane! The gameplay was nonstop fun, and I loved the new controls, after I had to adjust to them. I played this for hours and hours by myself, which should tell you how great the gameplay was! Ladder matches were so fun, and the game was just an all around beast of an xbox title!
Smackdown vs Raw 06 was really awesome too. This was the first game in a while that I didn't actually get at launch. I had taken a break from wrestling when I saw it at a TRU about a month after it had been out. I got it, and got back into wrestling. The game was amazing! The graphics were incredible for a ps2 game and the story mode was killer.....if you only wanted to play it once. :/ Kinda eery thinking back on how they had that Eddie and Undertaker story in there... I remember Bobby Lashley debuted and creating a perfect version of him in the game. This was the last version that I actually played two player with my friends with. Sooo many good times lol. The reason this is up here is because not only was I blessed with a great ps2 WWE game, but also a great PSP game! This was one of a handful of games I got with my psp for christmas of 2005, and it was by far my favorite. It was pretty much the same game, just made smalled, which was shocking to me! The graphics were un like any thing I had seen up to that point, the wrestlers looked incredible! The load times were long and frequent, but they were worth it for me!
Here comes the Pain is the obvious choice here. Anybody who played this game in it's prime knows just how great it truly was. The gameplay, the graphics, the sound, the roster. All truly great. i wasnt a huge fan of the career mode that started every single year after wrestlemania where the guy is like "It's my time." Luckily I had friends that I would play this with. I become a beast at this game lol. I had my friend pick my maxed out Goldberg, and I'd pick a Rhino that was 40 or a Goldust that was 40, and I would destroy him. One thing As a child, I remember hating the lack of commentary. I know commentary is bad, but I loved having it there as a kid playing these games. It made the game feel kind of empty when I played by myself. Nowadays, I don't want it in or care if it's not really good. Lately it has been pretty bad. It's not funny bad like Just Bring It, but worse, boring and repeating bad. Games nowadays like WWE and NCAA football have boring commentary that constantly repeats itself, but I would have killed for that as a kid. The roster was just so incredibly deep, it was impossible to use everybody. I can say for sure that this wasn't necessarily my favorite game, but it was top 3. And if I had to say what the best game was, this was it no doubt. For when it came out, and how good it was, this was 100% the best Smackdown game.
I didn't get Just Bring It until 2 months before Shut Your Mouth came out. I still really liked it though. I had trouble with the gameplay as a little child though lol. I remember there was a match where I had to put the dudleys through a table, and my little brain couldn't pull it off. I also remember the titles looking weird around champions, and the arenas sucking. I alsooo remember seeing that opening where everybody is hitting their finisher, and wishing that the game looked that way.
Well, now, only 11 years later, it does! LOL. I loved this game, and I loved the way the story went, and the way you unlocked things, not to mention....Fred Durst! I was just getting into wrestling, so I didn't know who a lot of the guys were, and many of the guys I did know had different themes than I recognized, and I didn't know why HHH and Stone Cold were a tag team! Great game which provided me with great memories from a time where I was just learning lol.
Shut Your Mouth was another personal favorite. I anticipated this game for ages! I was constantly looking at screen shots and just couldn't wait for this to come out. I remember getting this and just being in shock at how good it was. Graphics were the best I had ever seen, and it was miles better than Just Bring It. I don't remember much more other than the fact that I loved it.
The rest I really don't have much to say about. The first two smackdowns were the first wrestling games I played. I played them at my friends house and it is where I was introduced to Mr. Ass lol.
I didn't like the first Smackdown vs Raw. It wasn't a bad game, I just didn't get it for a while, and when I did, I couldn't get into it. Part of that is because I wasn't that into wrestling when it came out. I got it mainly because the rock and stone cold were in the game lol.
2010 was pretty good for a short time, but I platinumed the game in 2 days and got bored of it after that and I traded it right after.
I got 2011 for 40 dollars on black friday and even that felt like too much. The game felt exactly the same as 2010.
And lastly 12, too many problems for me to consistently play. The DX entrance being messed up really frustrated me to no ends, mainly due to the principle that they wouldn't fix such an obvious issue. The servers were HORRENDOUS. I created a really sweet Mr. Ass, and I couldn't even check if people had downloaded it. So frustrating that I swore off 13 no matter how excited I got, that plan backfired lol. The fact that Billy Gunn is in made it impossible for me to ignore.
My final list would be.
Likes:
SVR06
SVR07
HCTP
SYM
JBI
Smackdown 1+2
Dislikes:
SVR
SVR10
WWE12
SVR11
SVR09
SVR 09