
The game features more than 100 cutscenes to push storylines, which can revolve around alliances, rivalries and titles, forward. These cut scenes appear randomly before, during, and after the match. The game's new "WWE Universe" builds storylines, and integrates cut scenes and rivalries between wrestlers based on the matches that are wrestled. This game was also the last to feature Batista and Shawn Michaels as non-legends or unlockables until the release of later installments of the game. In addition, new ways to exit the cell were introduced, such as barreling through the cage wall.


The Hell in a Cell match was revamped with expanded cell walls, weapons underneath the ring, steel steps near the poles, and the removal of the cell door. Raw game, chairs can be thrown at the player's opponents. For the first time since the original WWE SmackDown! vs. Inside and outside the ring, ladders can now be rested onto the ring ropes and be broken in half. Tables now break differently depending on the impact placed upon them. One of the main changes in the game is the incorporation of a new physics system that allows objects to be used more realistically, such as objects involved in the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. The Tables, Ladders and Chairs match features new ways to use and break objects.

John Cena, Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio, and Drew McIntyre in a TLC Match.
