Codes and Unlockables
Codes
From the main menu choose Options, Codes and enter (some European and Australian versions don't have the Codes option):
- KellyKG12R: Kelly Kelly's second costume.
- DXCostume69K2: Triple H's and HBK's DX outfits.
WWE Shop (costs in dollars)
- Bret Hart ($210,000): defeat him in a Direct Challenge in the Hall of Fame.
- Mick Foley ($210,000): defeat him in a Direct Challenge in the Hall of Fame.
- Stone Cold Steve Austin ($210,000): enter the Hall of Fame, select Stone Cold and defeat him with Bret Hart in a submission match.
- Terry Funk ($210,000): defeat Sabu, Sandman and Tommy Dreamer in a 4-way ECW Extreme Rules match, with any superstar on Legend difficulty.
- The Rock ($210,000): defeat him with Stone Cold on Legend difficulty.
- Vince McMahon ($110,000): defend a championship in 24/7 mode. Bald Vince McMahon ($60,000): buy the original.
- HBK DX and Triple H DX entrances ($30,000): buy the DX outfit.
- Championships ($20,000 each): Hardcore, Million Dollar, Classic WCW and WWF Attitude, by entering the Hall of Fame. Preset move set ($15,000): buy all the move sets.
Arenas (points in Hall of Fame mode)
- No Way Out 5, Vengeance 6, ECW One Night Stand 7, December to Dismember 8, New Year's Revolution 9, Great American Bash 10, Summerslam 11, WrestleMania 23: 12.
24/7 Mode and GM
- Unlocking Vince McMahon: choose to play as GM in 24/7 mode, with a preset roster and your own champion. Advance a few weeks on the calendar by simulating the matches and renew the superstars' contracts for as long as possible (including the champions). Select a date just before expiry, simulate up to that point and renew again: repeat until WrestleMania, where you must arrive with a pair of valid superstars and play a championship match.
- Easy money: start 24/7 mode with a superstar with attributes of 90 or more, go to WrestleMania on the calendar and simulate all the matches up to that date. Save and repeat.
- $1,000,000 contract: go to the awards date as soon as possible (popularity rises 5% with each award, about 30% a week). Bring popularity to 100 when the contract expires: the salary becomes about 1 million, about $20,000 a week.
- Easy wins in 24/7 (you need 2 controllers): choose the opponent but not your wrestler; at the start of the match pick up a weapon and hit your wrestler to get him disqualified (or counted out). In a 4-way fatal match put the two characters on the same team.
- Easy rating in GM mode: create a superstar, duplicate it 30 times and start GM mode, turning off all the superstars except the created one: the other two brands stay at popularity 20. Turn the superstars back on in the next week's negotiation and sign them: you will win the rating easily. Send the superstars to the trophy dates when they reach popularity 100: then it drops only 1 or 2 points.
- Maximum fans: with the previous trick replace the roster with CAWs: in 3 months you can have 10 million fans, with the other two at 0. Easy money in GM: advertising promos every week with superstars at popularity 100: over 1 million for each show with more than 10 million fans.
Special Events
- Hall of Fame: set the difficulty to Legend and customize the AI so that the CPU never counters strikes and grapples.
- King of the Ring: on the screen before the match, in "Game Rules" disable disqualifications: you can use weapons.
- Money in the Bank: take the two ladders at the entrance ramp, wait for the other superstars and hit them with a ladder; then run to another ladder and take the briefcase (the superstars walk, they don't run). Or: put one ladder under the briefcase and the other diagonally, and climb the diagonal one while holding the left and right analog sticks. Put a ladder at the entrance to make some wrestlers leave the ring.
- Royal Rumble (Legend difficulty): start as First Entrant with The Great Khali; hit the Second Entrant while he is on the rope, 4 seconds before the Third Entrant stop, lift him and throw him down, then hit the Third, and so on.
- Shawn Michaels' old entrance: Create an Entrance, choose Shawn Michaels and Advanced Creation. In the ring choose Fireworks 1 or 2, timing it with the pose. For Intro, Stage, Ramp, Ring In and Ring, use Shawn's model for the lights.
- CAW attributes: don't train them before you have bought the special abilities kit, otherwise the training is useless; then bring the abilities from 80 to 90 and 100.
Weapon Moves
- Ladder: click the right stick to put it on your head and rotate it to spin (after a while you get dizzy and throw it). With the ladder in your hands, R3 does the Helicopter.
- Table: move the right stick to put the opponent on the table, perform a grapple (chokeslam or suplex) and go toward the table. To set it on fire you need 2 specials in stock: take a table from under the ring, hold R1 and keep pressing Finisher while you position it.
- Stacked tables: put a table in the ring, take another, stand in front and press X; to set them on fire reach a full bar and press Finisher.
- 2x4 lace: use it to fill the bar; with the bar full take another 2x4 and press Finisher: the character sets it on fire.
- Announcer's table: press X to remove the guard and the monitors.
- Triple Moonsault (Hardcore style, like Sandman or Sabu): with a chair while the opponent is on the ground, press the right stick in any direction.
- Conchairto (Hardcore style): with the opponent face down press X near the head to put the chair on, run to take another chair and press Square to hit him. Press X near the legs to put the chair on, then Square to jump on him; face up, X puts it on the neck and Square to jump on the chair.
Default Move Sets
- 1 Paul London, 2 Brian Kendrick, 3 Charlie Haas, 4 Shelton Benjamin, 5 Eugene, 6 Val Venis, 7 Rob Van Dam, 8 Big Show, 9 Test, 10 Hardcore Holly.
- 11 Tazz, 12 Kurt Angle, 13 Christian Cage, 14 Rhino, 15 Brother Ray, 16 Brother Devon, 17 Kip James, 18 BG James, 19 Samoa Joe, 20 AJ Styles.
- 21 Christopher Daniels, 22 Tajiri, 23 Brock Lesnar, 24 Goldberg, 25 Sting, 26 X-Pac, 27 Jimmy Snuka, 28 Dusty Rhodes, 29 Ultimate Warrior.
