WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth!

[apsham]

I just bought it again... mwahaha this is just plain excellent although I keep trying to do the analog moves. It's fun to go back and play a wrestling game so long after its time. I think I'm going in to try and find 1 and 2 on Tuesday.

[Corizzle]

I bought Just Bring It over the summer for $4 just to complete my Smackdown game collection(I own all of them from WWF Smackdown on the PS1 to WWE Smackdown vs RAW 07 on the 360).

Every once and a while I will pull an older game out, Smackdown 2 is so fun to play, especially the career that is so seemingly random

[apsham]

Yes I miss the PS1 Smackdowns more.. but I have no idea if I will be able to find them tomorrow.

[Adam]

I love playing the classic games, mostly SYM and HCTP, which i still play now, ive gotten bored with svr07, so go back to my Sean O'Haire neverending season ^_^

[The Sultan of Swank]

I think it was HCTP that I was Stevie Richards and in my first match I had to face Goldberg. What a squash.

Smackdown 2 was excellent, a friend of mine and I used to sit in the basement and play it all the time but the all time greatest wrestling game of all time...

WCW Backstage Assault!

David Flair > *

[apsham]

I am having so many problems trying to use the analog stick when it comes to playing this game. >.<

[The Mask of Norro]

Smackdown 2 had the greatest season mode ever. It was endless and just utterly nonsensical. I loved it.

The create-a-PPV mode in the game was ace too, much better then the recent versions.

[Scruffy The Janitor]

Smackdown 2 is the ultimate. Missed so much high school because of it. My mate and I would just go home at lunch, and play like hour long TLC's and the like. We had it, like, almost permanently hired out of the video store, until I realized that I had spent double the money it would cost to buy it by hiring it.

[Dan]

SD!3 sucked balls.

[Toe]

I am going to have to agree with the love for Smackdown 2.

There are other wrestling games with better fighting engines and some with better graphics, but Smackdown 2 was just so enjoyable.

[apsham]

They don't have it around here. I am heart broken.

[The Future]

Just Bring It was just dissapointing!, first Smackdown! game in the PS2 and we get a one month season mode...

[Only In Dreams]

Shamp, I guess your only hope for SmackDown 2 is to search on E-Bay and Amazon, I'm sure you'll find it there for outrageous prices.

Anyway Smackdown: Know Your Role

EDIT: Here are the links on E-Bay.

SMACKDOWN

Know Your Role

Edited January 17, 2007 by Planet Earthquake

[King Ellis]

Just Bring It was just dissapointing!, first Smackdown! game in the PS2 and we get a one month season mode...

To be fair though it did offer a less linear play through, what with being able to go after different titles which is probably one of the few parts of it that can be looked back fondly on now that we're down to just fighting for World Titles.

Expanding on that, Pre-Season on Smackdown 1 was interesting too. What with being able to pick up things that affect your character like becoming friends with certain people, gaining speciality matches etc.

Basically this is just a thinly veiled attack on the season modes we have to take part in nowadays. I'd much prefer to be able to move around backstage trying to form alliances and assault people I don't like than just be stuck on a path and never be able to deviate from it.

[Skummy]

Pre-Season got a bit naff after a while, but it was fun to begin with. Especially when you got guys like Stevie Richards giving you hints and it's like...what have you got to offer me? You're not even in this game! And you could set your character to be a "Don Juan". I don't think that kind of thing actually changed anything. And you couldn't go back and change your entrance movie once you'd set it, could you? So my CAW ended up permanently stuck with Debra's >_<

Smackdown 2's season was the fucking ultimate. That never-ending and random generation, coupled with the occassional full-fledged storyline a la SDvsRAW2k7 thrown in, would be awesome. Especially if it still involved the odd Essa Rios PPV main event.

[Guest Anti-Hero]

The best part about Smackdown 2 was the ability to put certain wrestlers in "divisions" so to speak (that is, you can dictate who should be in the hunt for which title).

[VerbalPuke]

Man, I forgot how awesome that SD 2 season mode was. You had the World, IC, Euro, Hardcore, Tag, Lightweight, and Women's division. With such a large roster, you could easily fill all of those divisions and make things interesting. On top of that, you could practically add as many of your CAW's as you wanted, and they'd be involved in storylines. Hell, most of my CAW's were consistent winners in their respective divisions.

I'd take that old season mode in a heartbeat over the stupid bait and switch storylines we get nowadays in Smackdown games.

I loved putting Val Venis, Taz, and Edge in my World Title hunt. I also loved that I could completely take guys out of the season mode (good bye Too Cool).

And what a fucking roster. The Radicals, Edge and Christian, Jericho, Taz, Essa Rios, Funaki, Taka, DX (including Shawn Michaels), man oh man.

SD 2 rocked. They should just re-make SD 2, keeping the roster and season mode while adding the new grapple system, hot spots, and crowd fighting that they put in 07. And a few legends sprinkled in. I know, wont happen.

My only gripe with SD 2's season mode is that it seemingly took forever to work your way to a title shot. Still, I could live with that because the game rocked.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

At the in-laws for Christmas we all played Shut Your Mouth again for a good long time. I only play it at Christmas

[Venom]

Man, I used to play Smackdown 2 like every day with my friends. One of the coolest parts was if you put your CAW in DX, once in a while after a match it would go to a cutscene where you, Triple H, and someone else were beating down your opponent, then Triple H would Pedigree him onto a steel chair. The first time I saw that I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Also, was that the game where Big Show would randomly be an entrant in Royal Rumbles despite not actually being in the game?

[Skummy]

Another thing I loved in Smackdown 2 was if you did the Slobberknocker, you'd end up facing guys you hadn't unlocked yet. I used to mark out so much seeing Pete Gas at ringside >_<