Outside of CAW, the DOR series is almost infinitely superior to SmackDown despite not being able to hold so many wrestlers on it.
There's no GM Mode or any of the extras...or as many Legends (basically they got The Rock, Bret, Hogan, Stone Cold, and Mankind)

The AI can get brutal, and getting up is ridiculously on some BS...

but one play of that game reminded The Doc of No Mercy with the SvR
innovations (outside of clean/dirty). The gimmick matches like Hell in a Cell, Table, and Cage are (and have been) infinitely superior... they are a lot like they were in No Mercy, you can even do any move on a table/on a chair/on a bell...like you used to. Submissions can be broken up by anything (heck, even grapples can be if you run in quick enough).