My fave wrestling game of all time is Shut Your Mouth for the PS2. I play wrestling games for the careeer modes, to live out my childhood fantasy of being a pro wrestler. And it had by far my favorite career mode as it spanned "two years" and had all sorts of diverging paths.

A lot of the more recent games have had really disappointing storylines IMO. Well, I haven't played a new one in...six years so maybe I'm out of date.