WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role

WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
Cover art featuring Chris Jericho, The Rock, Triple H, and The Undertaker
Developer(s) Yuke's
Publisher(s)
Series SmackDown!
Platform(s) PlayStation
Release
  • NA: 21 November 2000
  • EU: 1 December 2000[1]
  • JP: 25 January 2001
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role (Exciting Pro Wrestling 2 in Japan) is a professional wrestling video game released on the PlayStation console by THQ and developed by Yuke's. It is part of the WWF SmackDown! (later renamed WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, then WWE; now simply WWE2K) series based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) professional wrestling promotion. It is the sequel to WWF SmackDown!, which was released in March 2000, and was succeeded by WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It on the PlayStation 2 in November 2001.

It is the best-selling combat sports game on a single format (PlayStation) with 3.2 million copies sold.[2]

This also marks the last WWE game to ever feature Chyna just months before parting ways with the company.

Gameplay

The Season Mode was heavily modified in this game. Along with removing the pre-season mode from the original, Know Your Role gave more storylines and more matches per show. These changes were given a mixed reaction by fans and critics alike. There are a number of flaws in the Season Mode, such as the long loading times needed for even the most insignificant scenes (like a wrestler walking down a corridor). Wrestlers, wrestling moves, and arenas are unlocked as the player progresses through a season. The Season Mode has multiplayer support, with up to four players playing at once in a Season. Wrestlers such as Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Billy Gunn, Mick Foley (Including Cactus Jack) and Debra Marshall are unlockable superstars. This was also the first SmackDown game to feature wrestlers such as Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit.

Throughout the series, this is Michael Cole's first appearance as an unlockable superstar, which would appear in his second game which is WWF No Mercy and would not appear again in the series until WWE '12 as his last appearance as a DLC superstar.

Big Show and Ken Shamrock were removed from the game before release; Big Show had been removed from the promotion's programming and sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling while Shamrock left WWF to return to mixed martial arts competition, but both may randomly appear during a Royal Rumble match (of which the player can take control of) and can be used in other modes using cheat devices, although their names were removed.

Create Modes

WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role was the first game in the Smackdown series which introduced advanced Create-A-Superstar, allowing the player to create a character in greater detail as opposed to just choosing preset mix-and-match templates like the previous game. A unique feature 'Create-A-Manager' was included which allows the player to assign managers such as Paul Bearer and Tori to different superstars. In addition, more features were added such as Create-A-Moveset, Create-A-Taunt, and Create-A-Stable which allowed up to 4 members.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic90/100[3]
Review scores
PublicationScore
EGM8.83/10[4]
Famitsu30/40[5]
Game Informer9/10[6]
GamePro[7]
Game RevolutionB+[8]
GameSpot8.8/10[9]
IGN8.9/10[10]
OPM (US)[11]
PSM8/10[12]
X-Play[13]
The Cincinnati Enquirer[14]

The game received "universal acclaim" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[3] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40.[5]

The PlayStation version of WWF SmackDown! 2 received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),[15] indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "CTW Game Guide". Computer Trade Weekly. No. 818. United Kingdom. 1 December 2000. p. 32.
  2. ↑ "Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2015". www.guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  3. 1 2 "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role for PlayStation Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ↑ EGM staff (January 2001). "WWF SmackDown! 2 Know Your Role". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Archived from the original on 29 January 2001. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 "プレイステーション - エキサイティングプロレス2". Famitsu. 915: 25. 30 June 2006.
  6. ↑ Reiner, Andrew (December 2000). "WWF SmackDown 2: Know Your Role". Game Informer (92): 104–5. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  7. ↑ Star Dingo (22 November 2000). "WWF Smackdown! 2 - Know Your Role Review for PlayStation on GamePro.com". GamePro. Archived from the original on 12 February 2005. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  8. ↑ Nash, Joe (December 2000). "WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role Review". Game Revolution. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  9. ↑ Gerstmann, Jeff (17 November 2000). "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  10. ↑ Smith, David (22 November 2000). "WWF Smackdown 2!: [sic] Know Your Role". IGN. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Zuniga, Todd (January 2001). "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 January 2001. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Review: WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role". PSM. December 2000.
  13. ↑ Shkloven, Emmett (12 January 2001). "WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role". X-Play. Archived from the original on 18 April 2001. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  14. ↑ Saltzman, Marc (26 December 2000). "The Rock, WWF friends return in Smackdown 2". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  16. ↑ Caoili, Eric (26 November 2008). "ELSPA: Wii Fit, Mario Kart Reach Diamond Status In UK". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017.
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