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WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role for PlayStation 1
WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role for PlayStation 1 builds its wrestling matches around quick holds, running attacks and recognisable finishers. You choose WWF stars such as The Rock, Triple H and The Undertaker and try to pin an opponent, force a submission or eliminate them under the selected rules. Position remains important: attacking near the ropes, on a turnbuckle or behind a wrestler gives you different options from a direct confrontation.
The match selection includes Ladder, Hell in a Cell and Tornado Tag. Climbing a ladder requires different timing from putting an opponent through a table. In Season, you follow events, champions and incidents between matches. You can also create wrestlers, taunts and events. The expanded creator lets you combine appearances and attacks, allowing your invented characters to compete in the same wrestling world alongside the established WWF roster.
You play against the computer or locally with up to four people simultaneously in matches designed for this. Two players use two controllers; three or four players require a PlayStation Multitap and one controller per person. Season can also be set up with up to four participants, with the match card determining whose turn it is. A PlayStation memory card stores your seasons, settings and created wrestlers. A larger roster therefore does not mean every wrestler is in the ring simultaneously.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role was released in 2000 for PlayStation 1, shortly after the first SmackDown! game. Yuke's remained the developer and THQ the publisher. The sequel appeared during the WWF period when The Rock, Triple H and various tag teams played prominent roles on television. Its subtitle refers to a familiar catchphrase from The Rock. The roster and presentation therefore capture a specific moment in the history of televised wrestling.
The expansion focused on what you could do within the same console version. Additional match rules changed objectives in the ring, while new backstage areas provided other places to fight. The wrestler creator became more detailed and gained extra options, including custom taunts. Season retained the connection between matches and short scenes. Yuke's thus continued the first game's structure while giving players more room to place their own participants and events alongside the established programme.
Know Your Role was the second SmackDown! instalment on the first PlayStation. The series then moved to PlayStation 2 with Just Bring It. That distinction remains important when comparing releases: this disc contains the original PS1 game, with its own controls, roster and match structure. Later career systems, expanded presentation and new features from other generations are not included here. The combination of local matches, an ongoing season and created wrestlers defines this instalment's particular place.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
WWF SmackDown! for PlayStation 1 is the direct predecessor and uses the same fast foundation for holds and movement. It already includes a season and a wrestler creator. Know Your Role expands these elements and adds match types such as Ladder and Tornado Tag. Moving from the first game therefore means recognising the wrestling mechanics while gaining more choice when selecting participants, rules and your own events.
WWF Attitude also lets you create wrestlers, pursue championships and put together an event. The main similarity is managing your own WWF programme alongside individual fights. Attitude's controls place more demands on separate move commands, whereas Know Your Role links many actions to position and direction. The SmackDown! sequel also uses encounters between matches to flesh out its season structure, producing a different pace from Attitude.
WWF War Zone brings an earlier WWF roster to PlayStation 1 and already offers created wrestlers and championship fights. It puts more emphasis on learning button sequences and on individual matches. Know Your Role offers a different experience through fast context-dependent holds, additional match rules and events around Season. Both games revolve around weakening and pinning your opponent, but the route to the right attack feels distinctly different.
WCW Mayhem combines wrestling in the ring with backstage fights and a creator for custom participants. This resembles the alternation between matches and backstage brawls in Know Your Role. Mayhem, however, uses WCW wrestlers and that organisation's events. SmackDown! 2 places its own emphasis on the WWF and a broad choice of special match rules. Both take the same sport as their starting point, but offer different characters, locations, controls and match objectives.
WCW/nWo Thunder offers three-dimensional wrestling matches with WCW stars, groups and different rules. Like Know Your Role, it turns the atmosphere of a television show into playable confrontations. Thunder belongs to another organisation and takes a different approach to attacks and roster selection. SmackDown! 2 connects its WWF roster with Season and its expanded creator. The comparison therefore extends beyond the ring: the structure surrounding a sequence of matches also takes a different form.
