And it was also the game that took the biggest leap from its predecessor. I still remember being shocked on how much better shut your mouth looked & played
Yeah. That game felt so weird in terms of what era it belonged to. Just Bring it just felt like an Attitude era game but Shut Your Mouth literally felt like it was in the midst of the Attitude/Ruthless Aggression Era transition.
I feel like I was fully sucked into wrestling at the time because of the videos and what not and the graphics on the characters bodies looked better to me. Hctp controls and gameplay beat it, but the presentation on sym is everything
Fridays after school, Godfather's pizza, and Just Bring It with my friends into the early morning hours. I'd give anything to have those days back. What a time to be a wrestling fan.
As someone who spent HOURS playing both of the PS1 Smackdown games, I can absolutely tell them apart by looking at match footage: SD1 uses thicker yellow letters for the wrestlers' name bars, while SD2 uses skinny white letters :D
@@robertl.wilson1199 low mid carders ? I’ll take hbk, lesner, goldberg, nash, flair, rvd, cena, orton, batista, rey, big show, booker, 90s taker over the guys you mentioned. Plus everyone you named can be created. Here comes the pain had a great creation suit for its time.
What a time it was for wrestling and video games. #1 & 2 are really fun games for me. I like the season modes and the replayability to unlock everything. At the same time, the Nintendo GameCube had great games as well like WrestleMania X8 & XIX
I usually don't fully agree with someone's lists but this time I 100% agree with this order I still remember when I got Smackdown! for my birthday and being so hooked playing the Smackdown! games after playing so much of No Mercy and WCW/nWo Revenge. Man those were the days!
really loved the video! i definitely support doing videos on the different season modes in the games. yeah you can do a ranking but i say dedicate a video to each gammes. i just recently got into replaying these games for the first time since i was a kid. 20 year old memories really flashing back.
"I'd even go as far as to say if you're not a fan of Pro Wrestling, there's something here for everyone". This. I think we all forget that something that made these classic games so special is that they were SO good that even non-fans played them. At least, that was my experience...I had so many friends that cared nothing about wrestling that jumped at the chance to play this or some Revenge or No Mercy because they knew how fun the games were. I personally give the edge to No Mercy as the best wrestling game of all time, but HCTP was always a close second for me. As for SD2, I can see why it's season mode would be a bit grating NOW...but at the time, you didn't really mind the battle bars. In fact I didn't even mind them so much now, I replayed another 4 years of SD2 Season Mode back in 2021 and had a blast with it.
The Tony Hawk series was the same. They were just great games in general that everyone liked back then. No non-wrestling fan is ever gonna pick up the WWE 2K games to play nowadays.
Smackdown Here Comes the Pain is THE best wrestling game ever made. I couldn’t get into any of the N64 wrestling games or that system as a whole. The graphics, the engine, the roster at the time, and the pacing of HCTP you just can’t beat.
We need a side series to the 2K games that has an arcadey feel like HCTP. Just give us 40 or so of the more popular/main-event superstars and a handful of legends. No need for a bunch of jobbers and NXT wrestlers.
I maybe in the minority but i prefer SYM to HCTP based on a few reasons 1: Jeff Hardy 2: Multiple Outfits on most characters 3: like 20 Backstage Areas 4: the draft 5: the sense of urgency picking champions in said draft 6 European Championship I could go on but then again i am a Day Of Reckoning Person Compared to No Mercy haha 😅 Even Def Jam FFNY is better than No Mercy 😅
HCTP and SVR07 had the perfect blend of realism and colorful graphics, which gives them a more timeless look. HCTP looks way better than SVR 05&06 even though its 2 years older and SVR07 looks better than other SVR games. Its just a lighting trick but it works so well.
Im glad that i get new channels on my recommendation and checking them out lately i been subscribed to new channels that have great content. This one is great too. I am curious to see what happens
Funniest thing about unlocking Fred Durst in JBI, you can also unlock the SmackDown fist arena in the game; by playing slobber knocker mode and eliminating over 15 superstars.
I got a PS2 with Just Bring It. Loved it but the biggest issue I had with it then was it's very dated roster due to the influx of new talent in 2001 and the fact the save file took up half of the PS2 memory card. I made the most horrifying Hurricane and RVD CAWs lol.
Love the video but I have to correct you on one thing with Just Bring It. You actually can unlock the fist (known as the New Smackdown! Arena), by playing Slobberknocker mode with the Rock and getting more than 15 wins. It just barely must have got in because the nameplate is shared with the ovaltron arena. I am surprised to hear your thoughts about the Season Mode though. What about it (outside of the frustrating Battle Bars) made it feel like a slog for you?
Somehow never knew you could unlock the fist! That’s really cool, though I’d still argue it should have been included by default given it was the design on TV at the time. As far as Smackdown 2 goes, I think it does have good cutscenes and fun moments in the season mode, but the waiting with the battle bars and the constant long loading screens are really a deal breaker for me. It throws off the whole flow personally, and given that season mode just keeps on going, it just seems not super worthwhile given that the future titles have much better Season modes overall. Appreciate your comment and thanks for watching!
@TroyVault No problem, I really enjoy your content. Keep it up! Do you have a twitter? I'd love to discuss wrestling games more if you're down. Also Id recommend giving the Smackdown 2 Inspired Edition patch a shot, it has some really good quality of life changes to the original, including the removal of the Battle Bars entirely.
@@TroyVaultmeh, you figure Just Bring It came out in Nov of 2001 and the Fist arena debuted just 90 days earlier. It's really surprising that they were able to fit that in as a hidden arena so close to release time in a pre DLC era.
Right, the Smackdown Fist arena debuted on August 16, 2001 through January 2008. WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It videogame came out about 4 months after the Smackdown fist arena debuted in 2001.
Smackdown 3 suffered as well by being outdated straight out of the gate. As the Invasion was in full effect, yet SD3 was set in the 2 man power trip era.
@@MrAjking808 It came out at the end of 2001 and was very outdated at that time as it featured none of the WCW or ECW talent that was on the roster at the time. We couldn't play as guys like Booker T and RVD in a Smackdown game until November 2002 with Shut Your Mouth when these guys had been in the company for 18 months at that point.
@@Bubba__Sawyer don’t know anything about game development lol 😂.. all games especially back then were going off the roster from the previous year or early that same year that’s why none of them are in the game .
I just wished these Smackdown games had a better women’s division. For Smackdown 2, they were missing Terri Runnels and Molly Holly. For HCTP, they were missing Jacqueline, Molly Holly, Ivory, Nidia, Dawn Marie, and Miss Jackie.
My brother and I loved the women's division in the early 20000s and were always disappointed at the women's roster in these games. I remember being so annoyed that Victoria didn't make the cut for SvR06, yet Michelle McCool and Joy Giovanni made the cut.
Btw TroyVault, I discovered you through this video. Loved the video and thanks for pinning the correction comment. Things go overlooked sometimes but I just wanted to help inform. I'll definitely be checking out the rest of your content.
A major negative for Just Bring It, back then anyway, is that the save file takes half of an official memory card. I just stuck with the AKI games, Smackdown 2, and Def Jam Vendetta until HCTP came out which I somehow knew about ahead of time and bought immediately upon launch. Blood finally being included in a Smackdown game was a major influence on my decision. It still is, I have held off on buying Fight Forever because normal moves don't cause bleeding and bleeding caused by weapons is too over the top anyway.
loved both series so far !! even though this is more of a niche & kinda clunky game, did you ever play Raw 2 (xbox exclusive) ?? it certainly wasn’t the best, but i loved how customizable the superstars, entrances, and gear was. also, the career mode could last you for so long and i always found that bit fascinating. would love to hear your thoughts on the game, even if it doesn’t make it to a video !!
It might be because I played HCTP first, but SYM always felt like a rough draft while HCTP was the final draft. I wasn't a big fan of the walking around backstage portion, and thought HCTP handled it better by streamlining it. That being said, as someone who was a WCW fan during the Monday Night Wars, I thought SYM had the better roster because it had more former WCW guys. I also liked that the season mode was 2 years instead of the 1 year that HCTP did.
I remember playing here comes the pain season mode as undertaker and probably tried over 30 times before finally winning the wwe belt from brock lesnar in the beginning
It just wasn't the leap from PS1 to PS2 that people expected. Know Your Role was better in just about every way. It was missing all the WCW and ECW guys from the inVasion when it was released in November 2001. SYM was everything JBI should've been.
The game was trash compared to Know Your Role which was released on much weaker harder. The latter had a way better and larger roster, actual season mode, and didn't take up half of your memory card.
SYM number one for me. 95% perfect. The only problem with it, I just wish that you could put titles on the line in exhibition mode instead of just the season mode. WWF SMACKDOWN 2 was great but shame no Big Show or Ken Shamrock
Big show wasn't in smackdown 2 because of his weight issue he got sent to OVW to work on his fitness and Shamrock cut ties with the company to focus on his MMA career
@@Fentoris Still a silly reason not to include Big Show in the game. It's not like he went back to WCW. They knew he'd be back on the main roster sooner than later. He was in the Wrestlemania main-event that year.
Every Smackdown game was great ,better then all the 2K games that came out in the last decade, I’m not a fan of 2K games , they don’t make them games like they use to .
For sure. It's a typical early PS2 title. Games looked so much better on PS2 about 3 years into the systems lifespan. Early and late releases on the system look like they're from different generations.
I feel this is an easy ranking 1. Here comes the pain 2. Shut your mouth 3. Just bring it 4. Know your role 5. Smackdown I don’t feel like “just bring it” took full advantage of being on a newer console. But I’ll edge it over “know your role” simply for being the first game in the series to add 6 man matches. That was a huge addition & it made for more fun matches with your friends.
@@Lukemasonmedia I can’t say it’s a bad game because like you said it plays & has everything from 2. But it was disappointing after seeing that trailer & finding out it slightly had better graphics than 2.. now the jump into shit ur mouth was the most substantial in the series.
@@Bubba__Sawyer I disagree. The addition of 6 players alone makes it better. Better graphics, a new career mode, full entrances. Have to edge just bring it
Ok Smackdown Here Comes The Pain is my 3rd favorite game. My favorite game is Smackdown VS Raw 2006 is my all time favorite I can play it on the PS2 and PSP plus yes it have it flaws but 1st ever season mode which it did pan out in real life soon or ever. But it was the End of an Era to me of the good wrestling games now Smackdown VS Raw 2010 and 2011 was decent in my opinion but Smackdown Shut your mouth to Here Comes the pain and Smackdown VS Raw 2005 - 2006 was the best Era in my opinion.
First game I got with my ps2 was Just bring it. Saw the intro and got hype as shit. Lol then played it and still had fun. It wasn't perfect but I had great memories and matches. Shut Your Mouth was underrated af. I loved that game too and I don't need to say anything about Here Comes the Pain. Every game got better and better.
Awesome ranking smackdown 1 and 2 imo had a way better roster than Just Bring It Also theres a mod for smackdown 2 that features new wrestlers and the removal of the battle bars in season mode thank god
Honestly, the only things keeping here comes the pain from being the ultimate best in my opinion is Jeff Hardy being cut before game was released and the charaxter models have like a weird shine to them that looks like plastic :/ otherwise shit your mouth is a little more preferred for me.
From worst to best WWF/E Smackdown games in my own opinion: 1. WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It 2. WWF Smackdown! 3. WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role 4. WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth 5. WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain
The 5 SmackDown Games were pretty rare as all 5 were really good games, and got better by each release (with the exception of Just Bring It!). Shut Your Mouth is the best of the bunch, Here Comes the Pain is objectively the better game, but Shut Your Mouth is my favorite. Although, I do like the chain wrestling physics of Just Bring It! It’s interesting that current day games can’t even match the look of Hogan in Shut Your Mouth. My only complaint in Here Comes the Pain is there isn’t the actual Madison Square Garden look of 2002 Survivor Series, I would’ve loved to see that in a video game. And it’s sad that the 2001 Raw arena seen in Just Bring It! Hasn’t made it to another Wrestling game since.
Smackdown 1 Buh Buh wears a confederate bandanna and has the old purple tye dye look Matt wears a Red shirt Also Smackdown 1 does not have a tables match But I played them both religiously 😅 If you had stone cold and billy gunn (who have the same exact attire) In the raw is war arena Then I might be stuck
For me i put smackdown 1 last because smackdown 2 is infinitly better as a hole and just bring it is still better then 1 so 5-Smack1 4-Just Bring 3-Smack 2 1-2-Here come ,Shut Your
Man, I sank so many hours into Smackdown 5 with friends and siblings. It was almost perfect, but it did suffer from 1 fatal flaw which sometimes ruined multiplayer matches...that being that you could not break up submission holds. Could anybody confirm whether this was ever fixed/patched in any releases of this game or if we got stuck with this bug in a local release or something? Just since i don't ever really hear anybody bring it up.
As much as I loved SmackDown 2, it felt near impossible to get a title match in season mode even if you were the #1 contender and had won King Of The Ring, especially if you were in the WWF Title division. If you were in the IC, European, Hardcore or even Tag division, title matches were going on like no tomorrow.
Being around at releases, Smackdown 1 was unbelievable considering we had Attitude before (and I liked Attitude). Smackdown 2 was even better, looked better, amazing match options and I played career so much. Just Bring It I found a massive letdown, I used to love story mode and JBI was such a let down but I think that was a result of the new console and getting used to it. Smackdown 4 once again broke boundaries and was so good, I still remember seeing the graphics of Hogan's entrance and being in disbelief it was so good. HCTP was a brilliant follow up, but for me it was 2 and 4 that based on the context of release and consoles, were my favourite ever
Just Bring It was a typical early PS2 game that just didn't look anywhere near as good as later games on the console. JBI and SvR06 look so far apart in graphics.
i played so much of shut your mouth that i didnt care for here comes the pain so id always go back to shut your mouth. I agree that these 2 games were the best wwe games ever made
The SmackDown Fist arena is unlockable in Just Bring It. Play Slobber Knocker mode as The Rock and eliminate 15 opponents to unlock it.
i remember doing it as well
Beat me too it, but I knew I wouldn’t be the first one to point that out
I was just going to comment this lol
I was just fixing to say the same
Beat me to it
Smackdown Shut Your Mouth was a transitional period between the Attitude Era and the Ruthless Aggression Era
And it was also the game that took the biggest leap from its predecessor. I still remember being shocked on how much better shut your mouth looked & played
Yeah. That game felt so weird in terms of what era it belonged to. Just Bring it just felt like an Attitude era game but Shut Your Mouth literally felt like it was in the midst of the Attitude/Ruthless Aggression Era transition.
@@awesomecocoapuff99Yea that's what he said.
You are thinking of Just Bring it. Shut your mouth was full on RA
@@spartanq7781 true
Just Bring It had the ability to have 8 people in the ring at one time though, which was a feature I really liked
Yeah i wish SYM, HCTP and possibly the first 2 or 3 SVRs had that feature
My favorite match
I agree Shut Your Mouth is underrated. Honestly sometimes it prefer it over HCTP.
I feel like I was fully sucked into wrestling at the time because of the videos and what not and the graphics on the characters bodies looked better to me. Hctp controls and gameplay beat it, but the presentation on sym is everything
I do prefer it
SYM was a bigger step up in quality from JBI than HCTP was to SYM.
Fridays after school, Godfather's pizza, and Just Bring It with my friends into the early morning hours. I'd give anything to have those days back. What a time to be a wrestling fan.
As someone who spent HOURS playing both of the PS1 Smackdown games, I can absolutely tell them apart by looking at match footage: SD1 uses thicker yellow letters for the wrestlers' name bars, while SD2 uses skinny white letters :D
Same, not only that but SD2 does look just slightly better graphically.
1. Here Comes The Pain
2. Shut Your Mouth
3. Know Your Role
4. Just Bring It
5. Smackdown
Smackdown Fist only came out two and half months before this game dropped
We was frankly lucky to have it included in the game at all.
That would be an easy 15 bucks dlc if that happens now.
'Smackdown 2' had the best roster, but 'Here Comes the Pain' was the best gameplay
What guys did know your role have that here comes the pain didn’t ?
@@MR.__G Tazz, Albert, Viscera, Gangrel, Taka Michinoku, Bull Buchanan, Essa Rios, just a few that come to mind at the moment but yeah there's a few.
@@robertl.wilson1199 low mid carders ? I’ll take hbk, lesner, goldberg, nash, flair, rvd, cena, orton, batista, rey, big show, booker, 90s taker over the guys you mentioned. Plus everyone you named can be created. Here comes the pain had a great creation suit for its time.
It's crazy how Shut Your Mouth gets overlooked because of Here Comes The Pain. I think Shut Your Mouth is the better game along with No Mercy
Shut your mouth was so good
I absolutely agree both games are class.but shut your mouth had the better roster and easier game play in my opinion 😮
What a time it was for wrestling and video games. #1 & 2 are really fun games for me. I like the season modes and the replayability to unlock everything.
At the same time, the Nintendo GameCube had great games as well like WrestleMania X8 & XIX
Would definitely love to look at those as well as Day of Reckoning 1 and 2 sometime!
Yeah...I definitely wouldn’t call _WWF/WWE WrestleMania x8_ on GameCube “great” LOL. It was very MEH.
@@a.grimes4202 x8 was alright, definitely got better with XIX and Day of Reckoning games. I had a great time playing all of them.
@@TroyVault Got to make a vid of them for sure !
I usually don't fully agree with someone's lists but this time I 100% agree with this order
I still remember when I got Smackdown! for my birthday and being so hooked playing the Smackdown! games after playing so much of No Mercy and WCW/nWo Revenge. Man those were the days!
2:52 Somebody needs to play Slobber knocker mode as The Rock and you'll be surprised to see the SD fist is unlockable.
Here comes the pain is such an amazing game. I remember having so much fun playing with my friends. Elimination chambers were so good
I'd put the original Smackdown at the bottom since it just feels like a demo for Smackdown 2
Yeah, there's really no reason to ever go back and play it over Smackdown 2, although the OST still jams 😝🤘
really loved the video! i definitely support doing videos on the different season modes in the games. yeah you can do a ranking but i say dedicate a video to each gammes.
i just recently got into replaying these games for the first time since i was a kid. 20 year old memories really flashing back.
Smackdown 2 was the only game to have a casket match !!!!
"I'd even go as far as to say if you're not a fan of Pro Wrestling, there's something here for everyone". This. I think we all forget that something that made these classic games so special is that they were SO good that even non-fans played them. At least, that was my experience...I had so many friends that cared nothing about wrestling that jumped at the chance to play this or some Revenge or No Mercy because they knew how fun the games were.
I personally give the edge to No Mercy as the best wrestling game of all time, but HCTP was always a close second for me. As for SD2, I can see why it's season mode would be a bit grating NOW...but at the time, you didn't really mind the battle bars. In fact I didn't even mind them so much now, I replayed another 4 years of SD2 Season Mode back in 2021 and had a blast with it.
The Tony Hawk series was the same. They were just great games in general that everyone liked back then. No non-wrestling fan is ever gonna pick up the WWE 2K games to play nowadays.
Smackdown Here Comes the Pain is THE best wrestling game ever made. I couldn’t get into any of the N64 wrestling games or that system as a whole. The graphics, the engine, the roster at the time, and the pacing of HCTP you just can’t beat.
We need a side series to the 2K games that has an arcadey feel like HCTP. Just give us 40 or so of the more popular/main-event superstars and a handful of legends. No need for a bunch of jobbers and NXT wrestlers.
I maybe in the minority but i prefer SYM to HCTP based on a few reasons
1: Jeff Hardy
2: Multiple Outfits on most characters
3: like 20 Backstage Areas
4: the draft
5: the sense of urgency picking champions in said draft
6 European Championship
I could go on but then again i am a Day Of Reckoning Person Compared to No Mercy haha 😅
Even Def Jam FFNY is better than No Mercy 😅
Shut your mouth is better than HCTP. Smackdown 2 season was crazy fun. You could have all your caws as friends. It was amazing as a sandbox.
HCTP and SVR07 had the perfect blend of realism and colorful graphics, which gives them a more timeless look. HCTP looks way better than SVR 05&06 even though its 2 years older and SVR07 looks better than other SVR games. Its just a lighting trick but it works so well.
I loved Fred Durst in Just Bring It, probably played as him more than anyone else as I loved the Swanton Bomb finisher too 😂
Having Golberg on Here comes the pain put that game over with me. That game is perfect.
Here comes the pain is the best I’m the smackdown series hands down from the graphics to the game play
Im glad that i get new channels on my recommendation and checking them out lately i been subscribed to new channels that have great content. This one is great too. I am curious to see what happens
Funniest thing about unlocking Fred Durst in JBI, you can also unlock the SmackDown fist arena in the game; by playing slobber knocker mode and eliminating over 15 superstars.
I got a PS2 with Just Bring It.
Loved it but the biggest issue I had with it then was it's very dated roster due to the influx of new talent in 2001 and the fact the save file took up half of the PS2 memory card.
I made the most horrifying Hurricane and RVD CAWs lol.
Love the video but I have to correct you on one thing with Just Bring It. You actually can unlock the fist (known as the New Smackdown! Arena), by playing Slobberknocker mode with the Rock and getting more than 15 wins. It just barely must have got in because the nameplate is shared with the ovaltron arena.
I am surprised to hear your thoughts about the Season Mode though. What about it (outside of the frustrating Battle Bars) made it feel like a slog for you?
Somehow never knew you could unlock the fist! That’s really cool, though I’d still argue it should have been included by default given it was the design on TV at the time.
As far as Smackdown 2 goes, I think it does have good cutscenes and fun moments in the season mode, but the waiting with the battle bars and the constant long loading screens are really a deal breaker for me. It throws off the whole flow personally, and given that season mode just keeps on going, it just seems not super worthwhile given that the future titles have much better Season modes overall. Appreciate your comment and thanks for watching!
@TroyVault No problem, I really enjoy your content. Keep it up!
Do you have a twitter? I'd love to discuss wrestling games more if you're down.
Also Id recommend giving the Smackdown 2 Inspired Edition patch a shot, it has some really good quality of life changes to the original, including the removal of the Battle Bars entirely.
@@TroyVaultmeh, you figure Just Bring It came out in Nov of 2001 and the Fist arena debuted just 90 days earlier. It's really surprising that they were able to fit that in as a hidden arena so close to release time in a pre DLC era.
Right, the Smackdown Fist arena debuted on August 16, 2001 through January 2008. WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It videogame came out about 4 months after the Smackdown fist arena debuted in 2001.
Gameplay goes to HCTP, but story mode goes to SYM and the story mode honestly edges SYM to the #1 spot in my opinion but it is very close
Smackdown 3 suffered as well by being outdated straight out of the gate. As the Invasion was in full effect, yet SD3 was set in the 2 man power trip era.
2 man power trip was 2001 lol. Shut your mouth was 2002. During NWO, draft, Big Evil, etc.
No it’s not
@@MrAjking808 It came out at the end of 2001 and was very outdated at that time as it featured none of the WCW or ECW talent that was on the roster at the time. We couldn't play as guys like Booker T and RVD in a Smackdown game until November 2002 with Shut Your Mouth when these guys had been in the company for 18 months at that point.
@@MrAjking808It is and toxic people like you who be shit talking about wrestling games are nonsense, your point is invalid,
@@Bubba__Sawyer don’t know anything about game development lol 😂.. all games especially back then were going off the roster from the previous year or early that same year that’s why none of them are in the game .
I just wished these Smackdown games had a better women’s division.
For Smackdown 2, they were missing Terri Runnels and Molly Holly.
For HCTP, they were missing Jacqueline, Molly Holly, Ivory, Nidia, Dawn Marie, and Miss Jackie.
My brother and I loved the women's division in the early 20000s and were always disappointed at the women's roster in these games. I remember being so annoyed that Victoria didn't make the cut for SvR06, yet Michelle McCool and Joy Giovanni made the cut.
Btw TroyVault, I discovered you through this video. Loved the video and thanks for pinning the correction comment. Things go overlooked sometimes but I just wanted to help inform. I'll definitely be checking out the rest of your content.
like the channel! looking forward to the PS1 Wrestling games ranked!
A major negative for Just Bring It, back then anyway, is that the save file takes half of an official memory card. I just stuck with the AKI games, Smackdown 2, and Def Jam Vendetta until HCTP came out which I somehow knew about ahead of time and bought immediately upon launch. Blood finally being included in a Smackdown game was a major influence on my decision. It still is, I have held off on buying Fight Forever because normal moves don't cause bleeding and bleeding caused by weapons is too over the top anyway.
@Troy Vault, The 16 grapple system is also in SvR 2007, you just have to switch to it in options.
One plus about Season Mode on PS1 nobody talks about
The only Smackdown games that allowed multiplayer in season mode.
loved both series so far !! even though this is more of a niche & kinda clunky game, did you ever play Raw 2 (xbox exclusive) ??
it certainly wasn’t the best, but i loved how customizable the superstars, entrances, and gear was. also, the career mode could last you for so long and i always found that bit fascinating.
would love to hear your thoughts on the game, even if it doesn’t make it to a video !!
It might be because I played HCTP first, but SYM always felt like a rough draft while HCTP was the final draft. I wasn't a big fan of the walking around backstage portion, and thought HCTP handled it better by streamlining it. That being said, as someone who was a WCW fan during the Monday Night Wars, I thought SYM had the better roster because it had more former WCW guys. I also liked that the season mode was 2 years instead of the 1 year that HCTP did.
Streamlining it is one reason I disliked HCTP more. Worse season, worse backstage areas, worse exploration (none)
I remember playing here comes the pain season mode as undertaker and probably tried over 30 times before finally winning the wwe belt from brock lesnar in the beginning
I hate how underrated/overhated Just Bring it is just because it’s sandwiched between other great games
It just wasn't the leap from PS1 to PS2 that people expected. Know Your Role was better in just about every way. It was missing all the WCW and ECW guys from the inVasion when it was released in November 2001. SYM was everything JBI should've been.
The game was trash compared to Know Your Role which was released on much weaker harder. The latter had a way better and larger roster, actual season mode, and didn't take up half of your memory card.
SYM number one for me. 95% perfect. The only problem with it, I just wish that you could put titles on the line in exhibition mode instead of just the season mode. WWF SMACKDOWN 2 was great but shame no Big Show or Ken Shamrock
Big show wasn't in smackdown 2 because of his weight issue he got sent to OVW to work on his fitness and Shamrock cut ties with the company to focus on his MMA career
@@Fentoris Still a silly reason not to include Big Show in the game. It's not like he went back to WCW. They knew he'd be back on the main roster sooner than later. He was in the Wrestlemania main-event that year.
They're still randomly come out in the Royal Rumble with their theme music and updated appearances/movesets and can even be unlocked with a Gameshark
Every Smackdown game was great ,better then all the 2K games that came out in the last decade, I’m not a fan of 2K games , they don’t make them games like they use to .
Facts
Truth
They should have waited, until Sd jbi could look and play more like Sym.
For sure. It's a typical early PS2 title. Games looked so much better on PS2 about 3 years into the systems lifespan. Early and late releases on the system look like they're from different generations.
The fist arena in just bring it can be unlocked
Smackdown Just Bring It and Here Comes The Pain are my favourites
I loooove the old games, Smackdown 1&2. That brought me to this video
You gotta drop the GameCube wwe games next really good short series to look into
Yes the smackdown fist arena is in just bring it you have to unlock it !!!
I feel this is an easy ranking
1. Here comes the pain
2. Shut your mouth
3. Just bring it
4. Know your role
5. Smackdown
I don’t feel like “just bring it” took full advantage of being on a newer console. But I’ll edge it over “know your role” simply for being the first game in the series to add 6 man matches. That was a huge addition & it made for more fun matches with your friends.
It’s also has pretty much all the good things from smackdown 2 with better graphics and a less sluggish season mode , underrated game of the bunch
@@Lukemasonmedia I can’t say it’s a bad game because like you said it plays & has everything from 2. But it was disappointing after seeing that trailer & finding out it slightly had better graphics than 2.. now the jump into shit ur mouth was the most substantial in the series.
Nah, Know Your Role was definitely better than Just Bring It.
@@Bubba__Sawyer I disagree. The addition of 6 players alone makes it better. Better graphics, a new career mode, full entrances. Have to edge just bring it
The only thing that sucked about the PS2 games was no title matches. I never understood why they did that
I played the F out of Here Comes The Pain ❤️
I’m so glad WWE 2k23 added the Smackdown fist arena!
The Smackdown fist arena was in JBI, you had to unlock it
Ok Smackdown Here Comes The Pain is my 3rd favorite game. My favorite game is Smackdown VS Raw 2006 is my all time favorite I can play it on the PS2 and PSP plus yes it have it flaws but 1st ever season mode which it did pan out in real life soon or ever. But it was the End of an Era to me of the good wrestling games now Smackdown VS Raw 2010 and 2011 was decent in my opinion but Smackdown Shut your mouth to Here Comes the pain and Smackdown VS Raw 2005 - 2006 was the best Era in my opinion.
I can tell the diffeeence between 1 and 2. Also in the firsr sd game bubba had a confederate flag bandana
You should do a video where you ranked svr and the smackdown games all in one video
SmackDown was fun, especially SmackDown 2. It introduced Kaientai before they were both in No Mercy.
Here's my ranking
5. Just Bring It
4. Smackdown!
3. 2 Know Your Role
2. Shut Your Mouth
1. Here Comes The Pain
First game I got with my ps2 was Just bring it. Saw the intro and got hype as shit. Lol then played it and still had fun. It wasn't perfect but I had great memories and matches. Shut Your Mouth was underrated af. I loved that game too and I don't need to say anything about Here Comes the Pain. Every game got better and better.
Well it got better until HCTP, after HCTP the games were worse or trying to reach HCTPs level.
I prefer Shut Your Mouth personally but objectively Here Comes the Pain is better
Awesome ranking smackdown 1 and 2 imo had a way better roster than Just Bring It Also theres a mod for smackdown 2 that features new wrestlers and the removal of the battle bars in season mode thank god
Honestly, the only things keeping here comes the pain from being the ultimate best in my opinion is Jeff Hardy being cut before game was released and the charaxter models have like a weird shine to them that looks like plastic :/ otherwise shit your mouth is a little more preferred for me.
I agree with the whole ranking list, I still own all of those til this day.
how are games 20 years old better than the crap and glitchy shit today
From worst to best WWF/E Smackdown games in my own opinion:
1. WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It
2. WWF Smackdown!
3. WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role
4. WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth
5. WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain
You can unlock the smackdown fist arena in Just Bring It! By beating 15 or more opponents as the rock in slobber knocker mode. 😊
Only one wrestling game came close to here comes the pain and it was svr07
06 arguably had a better GM mode. You know you can't have a wwe championship elimination chamber match in 07
What did SvR 07 do better than SvR 06?
@@Bubba__Sawyer SvR 07 had a better GM mode, but SvR 06 had a better season mode
The 5 SmackDown Games were pretty rare as all 5 were really good games, and got better by each release (with the exception of Just Bring It!). Shut Your Mouth is the best of the bunch, Here Comes the Pain is objectively the better game, but Shut Your Mouth is my favorite. Although, I do like the chain wrestling physics of Just Bring It! It’s interesting that current day games can’t even match the look of Hogan in Shut Your Mouth. My only complaint in Here Comes the Pain is there isn’t the actual Madison Square Garden look of 2002 Survivor Series, I would’ve loved to see that in a video game. And it’s sad that the 2001 Raw arena seen in Just Bring It! Hasn’t made it to another Wrestling game since.
They really made so many of these games but they did so well.
Smackdown 1 Buh Buh wears a confederate bandanna and has the old purple tye dye look
Matt wears a Red shirt
Also Smackdown 1 does not have a tables match
But I played them both religiously 😅
If you had stone cold and billy gunn (who have the same exact attire)
In the raw is war arena
Then I might be stuck
2:52 there is “fist arena” in just bring it! It’s an unlockable
When will the SvR ranking be uploaded?
the great thing is i have all these running on my xbox series even the smackdown vs raw series
I love that stats system
There is a smackdown fist in just bring it. You have to unlock it
For me i put smackdown 1 last because smackdown 2 is infinitly better as a hole and just bring it is still better then 1 so
5-Smack1
4-Just Bring
3-Smack 2
1-2-Here come ,Shut Your
Can anyone please tell me, what is special in wwe here comes the pain season mode?
Man, I sank so many hours into Smackdown 5 with friends and siblings. It was almost perfect, but it did suffer from 1 fatal flaw which sometimes ruined multiplayer matches...that being that you could not break up submission holds. Could anybody confirm whether this was ever fixed/patched in any releases of this game or if we got stuck with this bug in a local release or something? Just since i don't ever really hear anybody bring it up.
Unlikely in case you mean Smackdown vs Raw because it’s PS2
This was one (of several things) that the Wrestlemania/DoR series had over the Smackdown series.
Yeah that was a major problem in matches with more than two players. One of the biggest reason why I prefer AKI's wrestling games.
They dont make wrestling games like these anymore, I ended up selling all my 2K games, and buying the old games again like SVR 2007, HCTP and SYM
That’s smackdown 2 at 4:44 Hardy boys had that brood look on the 1st one
Here come the pain and shut your mouth is the best
I have a PS4. How can I get one of these smackdown games
I love the SmackDown! games more than the AKI Games.
Just bring it. Smack down and smack down 2. Shut your mouth. Here comes the pain.
As much as I loved SmackDown 2, it felt near impossible to get a title match in season mode even if you were the #1 contender and had won King Of The Ring, especially if you were in the WWF Title division. If you were in the IC, European, Hardcore or even Tag division, title matches were going on like no tomorrow.
You got to build your rep up
@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject How do you do that in the game? Just by winning matches?
@@dicloniusgames Yeah I played forever and my CAW was in the main event most often
What are you using to make the games look so good?
Emulation
@@TroyVault well of course but which one?
@@chrisman2500 Duckstation for PS1 and PCSX2 for PS2, I'm also using widescreen patches on SYM and HCTP which makes them look a lot nicer
Here comes the pain is not just the best wrestling game ever, it's one of the greatest video games ever made. Period
Being around at releases, Smackdown 1 was unbelievable considering we had Attitude before (and I liked Attitude). Smackdown 2 was even better, looked better, amazing match options and I played career so much. Just Bring It I found a massive letdown, I used to love story mode and JBI was such a let down but I think that was a result of the new console and getting used to it. Smackdown 4 once again broke boundaries and was so good, I still remember seeing the graphics of Hogan's entrance and being in disbelief it was so good. HCTP was a brilliant follow up, but for me it was 2 and 4 that based on the context of release and consoles, were my favourite ever
Just Bring It was a typical early PS2 game that just didn't look anywhere near as good as later games on the console. JBI and SvR06 look so far apart in graphics.
There was a smackdown fist arena you had to unlock it
What's the one you could drive the forklift or am I imagining that
You could do that in SYM and HCTP backstage.
Back then i only bought a PS2 to be able to play Shut ur mouth. 😅
Do best Smackdown vs raw games but the ps2 versions
We all know that Smackdown Here Comes The Pain is 1#
I don’t think there’s been a good wrestling game since HCTP, the 2k games are a lazy joke.
Here Comes the Pain is the best wrestling game of all time, you love to see it
Reversal system was great no need for indicator help
Best roster
Fast paced
you have good taste
11:02 wrong! No Mercy is the greatest wrestling game ever with Here Comes the Pain a close second
i played so much of shut your mouth that i didnt care for here comes the pain so id always go back to shut your mouth. I agree that these 2 games were the best wwe games ever made