-- The latest WWE video game was almost complete when it was ordered to extract Chris Benoit from it. There were a lot of problems in this because they can't just so easily delete him from the game, especially considering that game so far in the process. Nonetheless, the feeling was that it would be a p.r. disaster if they released the game with Benoit as one of the star characters. The video game's team pretty much had no choice but to remove Benoit from the game.

Source: -- Rajah.com -- More Backstage WWE News, Benoit's Video Game Status, Signs Confiscated



Hopefully they leave his signature moves in the game so we can at least create CAWs of him. It's awful what the guy did the last days of his life but it doesn't change his influence in wrestling over 20 years of career. I don't think it's right to completely act like he doesn't exist and the media has already made WWE so paranoid they blur out his name and image....
Melkane Reviewed by Melkane on . THQ ordered to remove Chris Benoit from Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 -- The latest WWE video game was almost complete when it was ordered to extract Chris Benoit from it. There were a lot of problems in this because they can't just so easily delete him from the game, especially considering that game so far in the process. Nonetheless, the feeling was that it would be a p.r. disaster if they released the game with Benoit as one of the star characters. The video game's team pretty much had no choice but to remove Benoit from the game. Source: -- Rajah.com -- Rating: 5