You’ll have a wealth of custom options for your wrestler’s face, as well as his gear. It makes finishers feel not as powerful as they should be.Ĭreate-a-wrestler is back and better than ever. You can perform multiple finishers on them in one match and they will stay on the ground for maybe a second or two before hopping up off the mat to get right back at it.
One major complaint though is how hard it is to keep an opponent down. Wrestling games should always put fun first, so it’s hard to complain about it too much.
This really isn’t a critique, rather than an observation. You attack, move, and recover extremely fast, making the game closer to an arcade game rather than a wrestling simulation.
The gameplay of the Smackdown series has always been fast and loose. The gameplay is very similar to the first two games, if not the same. However, it’s not necessarily what we got in Just Bring It. With the graphics being updated for the move to the PS2, it was expected that we’d see vast improvements to the gameplay as well. This really showcased the game’s engine at the time, although it's hard to appreciate it these days. When Triple H comes onto the stage, the lights are strobing as he spits the water straight up into the air, just as he would in his actual intro. This means when the Undertaker comes out, he’s rolling out on his iconic motorcycle and circling the stage. On the PS1, you had to watch a recorded scene from the actual show in low quality. They are identical to their introductions back in 2001, but for the first time, they are actually animated with the in-game engine. In fact, the intros are some of the best parts of the game. Where the animations do look great is in the intros themselves. You can easily tell each Superstar apart, although their animations can look a bit clunky during some parts. The 40+ Superstars look great on the PS2, showing more detail than ever before. The first thing we should talk about is the Superstars themselves.
Luckily Yuke’s delivered on the graphics, although maybe not to the extent most of us were expecting. After all, the PlayStation 2 was the latest and greatest at the time this game was released.
The major upgrade fans were expecting for Just Bring It were the graphics. Developer Yuke’s had to follow through, so they released WWF Smackdown Just Bring It in 2001 to appease their eager fans. Once it came time to transition to the PlayStation 2, fans of the series expected big things for the next entry. The gameplay was fast and fun, all while having some of the most impressive graphics to that date. When the WWF Smackdown series first made its way onto the PlayStation 1, it was considered groundbreaking at the time.