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Wwf Know Your Role Wwf know your role Continue In 1966, Ralph H. Baer began developing video games for standard television. Its system became Magnavox Odyssey, the first home game console. Released in 1972, Baer launched the home video game industry. In the nearly four decades since Magnavox Odyssey's release, home game consoles have become a significant part of American culture, and the industry has grown into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Sony scored incredible success with the PlayStation home game console. Released in the U.S. in 1995, PlayStation quickly became a must-have system, and by 1999 the console was sitting next to televisions in more than a third of all American homes. Born out of an abandoned collaborative project with Nintendo, Sony PlayStation appealed to a wider gaming audience. The standardization of the disk format has allowed for more quality and quality of game content. Creating a favorable market environment, Sony has attracted numerous third-party developers who have released many outstanding games. PlayStation lasted 11 years, selling more than 100 million copies worldwide and more than 1,000 copies. Details: Video games:Sony PlayStation WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your RoleCractor: Sony Computer Entertainment AmericaDate Created: 2000 Inheritance: USASubject Keywords: Electronic Game, video games, Sony, Sony PlayStation, PlayStation, Sports, wrestlingType: Console GamesMedium: Plastic, paperObject ID: 109.6893 Explored museums and play with art transfers, Pocket Galleries, Art selfies, and more This article needs additional quotes to check. Please help improve this article by adding quotes to reliable sources. Non-sources of materials can be challenged and removed. Find sources: WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role - News Newspaper Book Scientist JSTOR (September 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) WWF SmackDown! 2: Know your roleNorskins American cover featuring Chris Jericho, Rock, Triple H, and The UndertakerDDeveloper (s)Yuke'sPublisher (s)WW: TH'DP: Yuke'sDirector (s)Toshihiko KitazawaProduser (s) Norifumi HaraDisainer (s)Toshihiko Kita Taku ChihayaComposer (s) Masafumi OgataKei MoriokaRe shimizuHiroshi Watanabeshi HasegawaShi HasegawaSinya Chikamorio NishimotoShichi KoikeSermesmak Down! Platform (s) PlayStationReleaseNA: 21 November 2000EU: 1 December 2000-1-JP: 25 January 2001Genre (s)SportsMode (s)One player, multiplayer WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role (Exciting Pro Wrestling 2 in Japan) is a professional wrestling game released on PlayStation by TH' and developed by Yuke's. It is part of WWF SmackDown! (later renamed WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, then WWE; now WWE 2K) series based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) professional wrestling promotion. This is a sequel to WWF SmackDown!, which was released in March Just bring it to PlayStation 2 in November 2001. It is the best-selling combat sports game in single format (PlayStation) with 3.2 million copies sold. The gameplay of season mode has been greatly changed in this game. Along with removing pre-season mode from the original, Know Your Role has given more storylines and more matches for the show. These changes have received mixed reactions from both fans and critics. Wrestlers, wrestling moves, and arenas are unlocked as the player progresses through the season. The season mode has multiplayer support, with up to four players playing simultaneously in the season. Wrestlers such as Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Billy Gunn, Mick Foley (including Cactus Jack) and Debra Marshall are unlockable superstars. This is Michael Cole's first appearance as an unlocked superstar, the second GAME of WWF No Mercy, and his last in the series before WWE '12 as a DLC superstar. The Big Show and Ken Shamrock were removed from the game before the release; The Big Show were removed from the promo program and sent to the Ohio Valley fight while Shamrock left WWF to return to mixed martial arts competition, but both may randomly appear during the Royal Rumble match (which a player can take control of) and can be used in other modes through as unlockable, although their names have been removed. Create WWF SmackDown modes! 2: Know Your Role was the first game in the SmackDown series to introduce an advanced Create-A-Superstar series that allows the player to create a character in more detail, as opposed to simply selecting preinstalled mixing and match patterns like the previous game. A unique feature, Create-A-Manager has been included, which allows the player to appoint managers such as Paul Bearer and Tori for various superstars. In addition, additional features were added, such as Create-A-Moveset, Create-A-Taunt and Create-A-Stable, which allowed up to 4 members. AdmissionAgeAgregion AssessmentAggregatorSorMetacrist90/100'3'Review AssessmentPublicationScoreEGM8.83/10'4'Famitsu30/40'5'Game Informer9/10'gamePro'7'GameRevolutionB /109- IGN8.9/101010Next Generation11OPM (USA) PSM8/10 X-Play 14 Cincinnati Enquirer 15 Daniel Erickson reviewed the playstation version of PlayStation for the next generation, rating it three stars out of five, and said, that there are tons of options and great multiplayer matches, but Smackdown Story Mode falls on its candy ass. The game was universally recognized by video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Faitsu scored 30 points out of 40. PlayStation version WWF SmackDown! 2 received an award for sales of Platinum from the Association of Entertainment and Entertainment Software Publishers (ELSPA), which shows sales of at least 300,000 copies in the UK. See also the video game portal List Fight Video Games List of Combat Games Video Video Video List in the WWE 2K Series Links to the CTW Game Guide. Computer trading weekly. No 818. United Kingdom. December 1, 2000. page 32. Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2015. www.guinnessworldrecords.com. Received 2018-07-25. a b WWF SmackDown! 2: Know your role for PlayStation Reviews. Metacritics. Received on February 11, 2015. EGM employees (January 2001). WWF SmackDown! 2 Know your role. Electronic games are monthly. Archive from the original on January 29, 2001. Received on February 11, 2015. a b プレステ - ション - エキサ2ティングプロレス2. It's family. 915: 25. June 30, 2006. Andrew Rayner (December 2000). WWF SmackDown 2: Know your role. Informer Game (92): 104-5. 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Schclowen, Emmett (January 12, 2001). WWF Smackdown! 2: Know your role. X-Play. Archive from the original on April 18, 2001. Received on February 11, 2015. Salzman, Mark (December 26, 2000). Rock, WWF friends are back in Smackdown 2. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Archive from the original on November 14, 2007. Received on February 11, 2015. ElSPA Sales Awards: Platinum. Association of Publishers of Entertainment and Entertainment Software. Archive from the original on May 15, 2009. Received on September 28, 2017. Eric Kaoili (November 26, 2008). ELSPA: Wii Fit, Mario Kart achieve diamond status in the UK. Gamasutra. Archive from the original on September 18, 2017. EXTERNAL links WWF SmackDown! 2: Know your role in MobyGames extracted from YUKE's Future Media Creators TH' (WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role)YuKE Future Media Creators (Exciting Pro Wrestling 2) Professional Wrestling, Fighting One Player, Multiplayer WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role (Exciting Pro Wrestling 2 in Japan) is a professional wrestling game released on TH' PlayStation console and developed by YUKE creators Media. It is part of the WWF SmackDown! series based on the professional advancement of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). This is a continuation of WWF SmackDown! and changed WWF SmackDown! Just bring it to PlayStation 2. It was the last of six WWF games to be made for PlayStation. The content show, released just a few months after the release of the original WWF SmackDown!, Know Your Role proved successful for fans. Know your role has brought out more match conditions to attend. Keeping almost all the superstars of the previous game, the list of games also increased significantly and included many new stars such as Kurt Engle, Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero. Also included in this game was the ability to unlock superstars to play during the game in season mode, such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels and Mick Foley. The season mode has also been changed in this game. Along with removing pre-season mode from the original, Know Your Role has given more storylines and more matches for the show. These changes have received mixed reactions, with some proclaiming a greater variety of storylines in the game. although there were some flaws in the season mode, such as missed matches that were fought between two battling meters. Another problem was the long loading time required even for the most minor scenes, such as a wrestler walking down the hall. Create-A-Superstar mode has improved significantly compared to its predecessor. Taking ideas from WWF Attitude, fans can now put more detail into superstars such as facial features and attire. The original head, upper and lower body mode from the original can still be used in this game as well.
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