WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role

WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
Developer(s)Yuke's
Publisher(s)THQ (WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role)
Yuke's (Exciting Pro Wrestling 2)
SeriesWWE 2K Edit this on Wikidata
Platform(s)PlayStation
Genre(s)Professional wrestling
Fighting
Mode(s)Single player
multiplayer

WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role is a professional wrestling video game developed by Yuke's and published by THQ. The game was known as Exciting Pro Wrestling 2 in Japan. The Japanese version was published by Yuke's.

It was released on November 21, 2000 in North America,[1] December 1, 2000 in Europe[2] and on January 25, 2001 in Japan. The game is the second game in the WWF SmackDown! video game series and the last WWF game on the original PlayStation. It is the sequel to WWF SmackDown! and was followed by WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It on the PlayStation 2.

Reception

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Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic90/100[3]
Review scores
PublicationScore
EGM8.83/10[5][a]
Famitsu30/40[7]
Game Informer9/10[8]
GameRevolutionB+[9]
GameSpot8.8/10[10]
IGN8.9/10[11]
Next Generation3/5 stars[12]
OPM (US)5/5 stars[13]
X-Play3/5 stars[14]
The Cincinnati Enquirer4/5 stars[15]

IGN rated the game a 8.9 out of 10 and said "SmackDown 2, if it's the last wrestling game on the PlayStation (which is likely), is a fine high note to go out on - no WWF fan is liable to be disappointed by what they get when they pick it up, as they undoubtedly will.”[16]

GameSpot gave the game a 8.9 out of 10 and stated "While it isn't that much different from the last SmackDown!, SmackDown! 2 makes enough incremental changes and upgrades to be significant in its own right."[17]

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ Two critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game each a score of 9/10, and the other gave it 8.5/10.

References

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  1. ↑ IGN staff (2000-11-20). "THQ Ships WWF Smackdown2: [sic] Know Your Role". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 2023-12-02. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  2. ↑ "CTW Game Guide". Computer Trade Weekly. No. 818. United Kingdom. 2000-12-01. p. 32.
  3. ↑ "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role". Metacritic. Fandom. Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  4. ↑ Rector, Brett (12 December 2000). "WWF SmackDown 2: Know Your Role". Gamecenter. CNET. Archived from the original on 27 January 2001. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  5. ↑ Zuniga, Todd; Sewart, Greg; Mielke, James "Milkman" (January 2001). "WWF SmackDown! 2 [Know Your Role]". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 138. Ziff Davis. p. 204. Archived from the original on 29 January 2001. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  6. ↑ Steinberg, Scott (25 January 2001). "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role". The Electric Playground. Greedy Productions Ltd. Archived from the original on 19 August 2002. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "プレイステーション - エキサイティングプロレス2". Famitsu (in Japanese). Vol. 915. Enterbrain. 30 June 2006. p. 25. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ↑ Reiner, Andrew (December 2000). "WWF SmackDown 2: Know Your Role". Game Informer. No. 92. FuncoLand. pp. 104–5. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  9. ↑ Nash, Joe (December 2000). "WWF Smackdown 2 [sic]: Know Your Role Review". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  10. ↑ Gerstmann, Jeff (17 November 2000). "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role Review". GameSpot. Fandom. Archived from the original on 4 December 2000. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  11. ↑ Smith, David (22 November 2000). "WWF Smackdown 2!: [sic] Know Your Role". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  12. ↑ Erickson, Daniel (February 2001). "WWF Smackdown 2 [sic]: Know Your Role". NextGen. No. 74. Imagine Media. p. 81. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  13. ↑ Zuniga, Todd (January 2001). "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. No. 40. Ziff Davis. pp. 140–41. Archived from the original on 28 January 2001. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  14. ↑ Shkloven, Emmett (12 January 2001). "WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role". Extended Play. TechTV. Archived from the original on 18 April 2001. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  15. ↑ Saltzman, Marc (26 December 2000). "The Rock, WWF friends return in Smackdown 2". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role Review". IGN. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  17. ↑ "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2013-12-05.