Yeah and it ended up being a shit game there was to be some WCW and ECW Wrestlers in but they got cut at the last minute and the game wasn't even a challenge
@@ChaseMC215 Ahmed Johnson I still have the game magazine and i took a while for me to notice that it says on Ahmed Johnson page he ain't longer with the company
The roster is NOT any more out of date than any other roster, as it is quite clearly an Spring 2001 roster with some last minute additions like Tajiri and Jerry Lynn shockingly making it in considering when they debuted
Same. I know on the CAW moveset they had RVD, Booker T, and DDPs taunts. Even better, I remember Just Bring It had both Jeff Hardy and Sean O' Haires Swanton bombs finishers. And weirdly, in the CAW appearance option, had a Bam Bam Bigelow costume with the cartwheel taunt in the moveset menu. 😳
**Please excuse some false information I had in the video, Smackdown: Just Bring It was not the final console game under the WWF Umbrella. That would actually be WWF WrestleMania X8, released in June of 2002. My mistake!
It also probably has the worst story mode pre-SVR. It only ran maybe 4 or 5 matches total and you had to select specific characters and select specific paths in order to get unique cutscenes exclusive to your chosen character. The commentary on Just Bring It is 100 percent the best though lol
Oh yeah I remember that, some of the shit you had to do for certain titles that you would never guess without the old guides 😂😂 I still remember trying to get the hard-core title match SHIT some of the hoops you had to jump through and matches you HAD to lose... and the CPU wasn't great at kicking your ass ever on hard lol. Yeah the story mode was crap, remember Austin's default theme 😂 did he ever even use that? You had the option to change it to the glass shatter one he WAS using but that never made sense to me Edit - As for the commentary RAVEN..... is the best world wrestling federation heavyweight CHHHHHampion we've ever had = said tazz... and raven wasn't the champion but hey ho 😂
What they should’ve done and what would’ve made a LOT more sense, would’ve been to have just done a carbon copy of SD! 2: KYR!’s Career/Season Mode. That’s still the best Career/Season Mode, to this day.
Jeff Hardy was released on December 9th, 2021 making it too late to remove him as he was an important part in its MyRise and it's Base game John Morrison was released too late being an important figure for it's Female MyRise and The Brian Kendrick had an important role in the MyRise story as well as being in the base game and transition to a Backstage produce that left in 2023
@@qavix6089 Jeff Hardy was released on December 9th, 2021 making it too late to remove him as he was an important part in its MyRise and it's Base game John Morrison was released too late being an important figure for it's Female MyRise and The Brian Kendrick had an important role in the MyRise story as well as being in the base game and transition to a Backstage produce that left in 2023
So was I. Even though Eddie Guerrero was going through it in his personal life, I was generally surprised he was in the game right before it was released. Terri Runnels wasn't in the game even though she was manging with Saturn and Malenko at the time.
@@kamiloalvarez5800 About to sound like a real nerd here but there’s a reason for that: The system before used to be that the arenas were from May of the previous year leading up to Aprils PPV. That was normally the cut off date. SvR 2008 - Based on 2007 WWE had May 2006 - April 2007 PPVs & shows
@@kamiloalvarez5800 what I was talking about was 2008 came out in late 2007. A few months later WWE went HD and had the brand new HD stages and we had to wait a whole year later. Same way 2K17 came out and we had to wait till 2K18 to get the Brand Split Stages from 2016/17
There's a few inaccuracies. X-pac forgot to sign his deal for Just Bring It thinking he already did for the RAW game which is why this is the only game he's not in and he's in RAW for Xbox the same year w/the x-factor gimmick just as he would've been in Just Bring It and then proceeded to be in SYM the next year w/the nwo gimmick. Also, Bossman left the company wayyyyy back in 2000 after Mania. He was rehired over a year later in December 2001 so he wasn't even in the company to be considered for the game.
@chrisdavies5253 Yeah, he didn't come back until early 2002. I think he was injured around the fall of 2000. There were a lot of wrestlers getting released around that time. D-Lo Brown and Chaz were barely on television.
Oh definitely. Oddly the roster on that game was little bit bigger which included, K-Kwik (Ron The Truth Killings), all three X-Factor members (with the actual Papa Roach theme song), Al Snow, members of Right To Censor, and the tag team that was mentioned in the video Kientai.
@user-pf1ln1hn1m Big time. The Big Show was the most infamous in that category due to being erased from the No Mercy roster on the N64 but was on TV throughout 2000.
My issue with the roster was that it was stuck between Mania and KOTR but doesn't really complete either side of what the rosters looked like. If it had had DDP, Bagwell, RVD and Booker T to round out the Alliance and also Chyna, X-Pac, Justin Credible and the rest of RTC then the roster would've come together.
@@NearFallGaming As great as HCTP is, it would've been nice to have Jeff Hardy & Hulk Hogan & Ultimate Warrior etc. in the actual in game roster. It also would've been nice if they kept the SYM Smackdown! Camera Angles L1/L2 instead of the cinematic angles in HCTP. HCTP also has no commentary which is trash! Overall I still have/play this game today. It's still solid. I got all the Smackdown! Games PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 Thinking about getting a PC instead of the 5, that way I can have a modded roster with gfx mods, theme/tron mods, facial textures etc. PlayStation & Xbox controllers are PC compatible too! 🤷♂️
I hated that the ppvs featured in the games were so outdated. For example: SVR 2010 was released in october 2009, but would have ppvs being as old as Backlash 2008. That meant we were playing a game that has 2010 on the cover, but has wrestlers, ppvs and storylines based on 2008 - early 2009. IMO that was the main reason to why these games got outdated so quickly. Just imagine if a sports game like FIFA or NBA 2K got that treatment
@@gustavomendes3078 I hear it. The cut off point was usually just after Mania. That’s why I don’t mind the current system of 2K where it comes out in March and we get the ENTIRE calendar years PPVs if I’m not mistaken
I'm glad someone else has these thoughts about Just Bring It. Considering Tajiri didnt debut until June 2001, it amazes me that he made this roster. In Create-a-wrestler, there's actually many names that the ring announcer uses. Justin Credible, Kaientai, Essa Rios and the other members of RTC to name a few. I think with the invasion angle, the developers of JBI were always fighting an uphill battle with new talent debuting every week!
im mad at myself for thinking we were going to have these graphics back in 01 lol the intro alone had me sold.. game was still fun tho as a kid i remember creating a bunch of wcw guys sean ohaire was one of my favorites wish he had a bigger push in 03
The game was still fun despite the graphics. Y'all are annoying graphic whores. I rather play a fun game 🎮 with decent graphics than games that are below decent and have great graphics.
Apparently some wrestlers were in internal files of re-release builds (which we don't have atm), Scotty 2 Hotty being the only one I've been told for sure. There were rumours of X-Pac being in the game before release, so wouldn't surprise me if he were in there, too.
@lollycarola It's funny about Scotty 2 Hotty. RAW 1 on the original Xbox and Just Bring It didn't have him on either game. Even though he came back from injury during the summer of 2001. The name creation option on Just Bring It didn't even have his name, which was strange. But XPac (and the X-Factor crew) were on RAW 1. And his name was in the name creation option on Just Bring It.
Take this for what you will, but I do remember reading in a video game magazine. That there was to be an Alliance game on the PS2 that featured which had WCW & ECW wrestlers in the game. It was pretty much the same set up, but with WCW & ECW title, Arena's & so on. The idea was apart it would play we played Just bring It, but with both save files it would combine the roster, but also feature some extra WWF guys as an early form of DLC. The problem became that WWF at the time didn't want to pay for the extra game, so it never got made. This idea would eventually work on a Japanese Wrestling game the came out not to long after Just Bring It did. If true & this happened jt would have been cool to see.
*@sdd619* I read about that too, I thought it was a rumor. Imagine WWE being the first to test the term "DLC" on PS2 consoles that is the norm of today. I'm guessing after the infamous Booker T and Buff Bagwell match in late spring of 2001, Vince McMahon canceled all those WCW/ECW having their own thing and video games were included in the package. Gamers had to wait for Shut Your Mouth and Wrestlemania X8 to play the WCW/ECW wrestlers.
@@dreammatch2000 it is probably more a rumour, but there was also a lot of contracts coming due that year too. With hiring the WCW guys. Maybe WWE was deciding on who to keep. Then the invasion failed.
what's really weird is that most of the superstars you mentioned were featured in wwf Raw for the original xbox. sadly the wcw/ecw alliance was not featured in either games
i got this game for christmas 2001 along with gta 3, NFL 2k2, and metal gear solid 2. solid holiday. Although i felt lied to by the intro graphics and how short the story was, i was just happy to have a wrestling game on my new PS2 and enjoyed playing it on Christmas morning. The smackdown games on the ps2 really took off full steam after this one.
Most of not all the the roster was at least still under contract. WWE 2k22 had people that had been released almost an entire year before the game came out. With people like Billie Kay and Peyton Royce both of whom also had their iconic gimmick which hadn't been seen since 2021 about a year-and-a-half prior at most.
I think the most interesting part of this is that through all the omissions, Jerry Lynn made it in. No disrespect to Lynn, but you think of WWE in 2001, he's not the first name that pops up in my mind
My least favorite from what i consider the Attitude Era trilogy. I remember being very disappointed after playing it. It didnt have the charm or fun of 'Know Your Role.' They bounced back in a MAJOR way with 'Shut Your Mouth' though and we all know how great HCTP was.
The roster wasn't the problem. I skipped on this because it was a bad PS2 game. Fortunately, THQ delivered some of the most fun wrestling games ever with the other PS2 sequels.
I’m under the belief that Al Snow, unlike Regal..has an actual sense of humor. Hence why Regal succeeded as commissioner & was good enough to become a GM.
This game was definitely rushed & is easily the weakest game of the smackdown series this game was also not properly optimized cause of how much space it required on the memory card
Just Bring It, was NOT the last WWF console game. That was WWF Raw on the Xbox, which came out in March 2002. It was a couple of months before the WWE name change. Technically, it was WrestleMania X8 on the Gamecube, because even though it was called WWE WrestleMania X8 when it came out, the game was made when the company was still WWF.
Also Big Boss Man wasn't really active in the late 2000s to early 2001. Also you added The Goodfather but not Val Venis or Bull Buchanan. Not to mention Jacqueline was around quite a bit at the time.
@chrisdavies5253 Yeah, the Big Boss Man was injured in late 2000. The Goodfather, Val Venis, Jacqueline, and Bull Buchanan were in the name creation suite in Just Bring It, but the actual playable characters are on RAW 1 on the original Xbox.
The trailer of the game looked realistic at that time but the gameplay looked nothing like the trailer it was like a better version of smackdown 2 graphics
It didnt contain a lot of the roster at the time HOWEVER if you could figure out the move sets and creation items you could create sting, rvd, goldberg, booker T, Justin credible and x pac as well as a few ive forgotten but the devs always had a way of making it that you could create some decent wrestlers
It may not have been outdated by the time it was released in North America but WrestleMania X-8 on the Gamecube but by the time it was released everywhere else in the world 3 or 4 months later it was pretty outdated to the point the WWF had become WWE. So that generation the first WWE games on each console was pretty outdated by the time of release just due to them having really long development periods.
I didnt play Smackdown shut your mouth until 2007 when I was about 8 or 9 years old. For people that played shut your mouth as it came out, how did it feel to finally get guys like rvd, nWo xpac, Kevin Nash, Brock Lesnar, etc in the game ?
This game had a clear cut off of Wrestlemania 17 (even tho somehow SCSA had his Alliance theme lmao) and should’ve been released around that time like the 1st Smackdown game was. Maybe they wanted Xmas sales? Idk but an April release would’ve done the game wonders.
some omissions like the alliance roster are a bit too exagerated, lets remember that yukes had to make a new game on a recently new console and try to put many people as possible but some of those omissions might be due to injuries so they couldnt be scanned but some of these characters are weird why they dont got included
This game was a bit of a disappointment since we thought it would be a lot better on the next gen at the time.. but still I’ll edge it over know your role. Just the inclusion of 6 players alone makes it better. We also got real entrances and the career mode was better
Half of those are DLC, which is planned before the game is released, and finished months before the game is released. These are left out by choice because people continue to buy them year after year; hugely different than someone missing the game (and the royalty checks that came with it at the time) completely. There's also a much bigger disparity when you have nearly 200 people in the base game, compared to ~40.
*@vze38bss* Yeah, majority of guys that was missing on Just Bring It is on Raw 1 on the original Xbox. If I remember correctly, K-Kwik, Terri, Tori, Shawn Micheals, Jacqueline, The Goodfather, and Bull Buchanan are by name only. It's a bunch people they could have crammed into that game.
Warzone was rough. But imo the worst rassling game is an will forever be wcw nitro and wcw thunder. Them 2 was just a heaping pile of smelly shit. Hell jbi is golden compared to thunder an nitro.
![WWECW: The Relaunch That Didn't SUCK! [2006]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Te_R0LIcDMI/mqdefault.jpg)
actually, the last game under the WWF banner was WWF WrestleMania x8.
You're right! Thanks!
And first under wwe to
I went to WM X8 live in person
It depends on what copy you get lol. I had one that had a wwe logo. But I think it was a remake tho.
Only wwe logo on the box right? I have a copy of Smackdown 2 that has WWE on cover but has WWF in game. @KerryPoindexterJr-ir7mx
Who else was tricked as a kid by these cut scene graphics thinking it was how the game would look 😅
Yeah and it ended up being a shit game there was to be some WCW and ECW Wrestlers in but they got cut at the last minute and the game wasn't even a challenge
I’d say up until in the more recent WWE games that the graphics never measured up to those cut scene graphics
Me and it sucked, I was trying to buy Here comes the Pain lol
Easily one of the biggest childhood letdowns 😂
I was super tricked! And the preview images the game magazines ran were images from that opening cut scene too!!!
Did everyone forget about WWF Warzone which had about 6 wrestlers who weren't in the company when it released?
Mainly Bret Hart and The British Bulldog.
6 out of 16, that might be a record. 😂
Remember coach? 😁
Nobody wants to remember that game, it was straight ass.
@@ChaseMC215 Ahmed Johnson I still have the game magazine and i took a while for me to notice that it says on Ahmed Johnson page he ain't longer with the company
The roster is NOT any more out of date than any other roster, as it is quite clearly an Spring 2001 roster with some last minute additions like Tajiri and Jerry Lynn shockingly making it in considering when they debuted
Where's Justin Credible
@@CeemPlay Raw 1 on the first Xbox.
I only wish RVD made it in the game.
Same. I know on the CAW moveset they had RVD, Booker T, and DDPs taunts. Even better, I remember Just Bring It had both Jeff Hardy and Sean O' Haires Swanton bombs finishers. And weirdly, in the CAW appearance option, had a Bam Bam Bigelow costume with the cartwheel taunt in the moveset menu. 😳
His move set made it
We all did man , RVD and Sting were the first wrestlers I always created first 😆
**Please excuse some false information I had in the video, Smackdown: Just Bring It was not the final console game under the WWF Umbrella. That would actually be WWF WrestleMania X8, released in June of 2002.
My mistake!
It also probably has the worst story mode pre-SVR. It only ran maybe 4 or 5 matches total and you had to select specific characters and select specific paths in order to get unique cutscenes exclusive to your chosen character.
The commentary on Just Bring It is 100 percent the best though lol
Oh yeah I remember that, some of the shit you had to do for certain titles that you would never guess without the old guides 😂😂 I still remember trying to get the hard-core title match SHIT some of the hoops you had to jump through and matches you HAD to lose... and the CPU wasn't great at kicking your ass ever on hard lol.
Yeah the story mode was crap, remember Austin's default theme 😂 did he ever even use that? You had the option to change it to the glass shatter one he WAS using but that never made sense to me
Edit - As for the commentary RAVEN..... is the best world wrestling federation heavyweight CHHHHHampion we've ever had = said tazz... and raven wasn't the champion but hey ho 😂
*"OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!!!"*
*"Nova, has a great....EVENFLOW!!!"*
What they should’ve done and what would’ve made a LOT more sense, would’ve been to have just done a carbon copy of SD! 2: KYR!’s Career/Season Mode. That’s still the best Career/Season Mode, to this day.
@@DamianHowardTV fuck aye brother I agree 100% sd2 career mode went on for ages it seemed to never end it was great.. they won't top that ever
WWE 2k22 was probably the most outdated. Jeff Hardy, John Morrison, even The Brian Kendrick was in the game.
Like, this game was supposed to release in fall of 2021 but got delayed and never bothered to remove them.
warzone is
and itd have been even more outdated if not delayed, people like adam cole were meant to have an ic title storyline in myrise
Jeff Hardy was released on December 9th, 2021 making it too late to remove him as he was an important part in its MyRise and it's Base game John Morrison was released too late being an important figure for it's Female MyRise and The Brian Kendrick had an important role in the MyRise story as well as being in the base game and transition to a Backstage produce that left in 2023
@@qavix6089 Jeff Hardy was released on December 9th, 2021 making it too late to remove him as he was an important part in its MyRise and it's Base game John Morrison was released too late being an important figure for it's Female MyRise and The Brian Kendrick had an important role in the MyRise story as well as being in the base game and transition to a Backstage produce that left in 2023
I’m honestly surprised they put Jerry Lynn in the game lmao
So was I. Even though Eddie Guerrero was going through it in his personal life, I was generally surprised he was in the game right before it was released. Terri Runnels wasn't in the game even though she was manging with Saturn and Malenko at the time.
Just Bring It, WWE 2K17 and SvR 2008.
Roster/Arena which were outdated
half of ppv arenas in svr 2008 are from 2006
@@kamiloalvarez5800 About to sound like a real nerd here but there’s a reason for that:
The system before used to be that the arenas were from May of the previous year leading up to Aprils PPV. That was normally the cut off date.
SvR 2008 - Based on 2007 WWE had May 2006 - April 2007 PPVs & shows
@@kamiloalvarez5800 what I was talking about was 2008 came out in late 2007. A few months later WWE went HD and had the brand new HD stages and we had to wait a whole year later. Same way 2K17 came out and we had to wait till 2K18 to get the Brand Split Stages from 2016/17
The issue was wwe games started to add years to their name like other sports’ games!
@@torch469 that’s fair. It is what it is. It only bothered me when games came inbetween era changes such as 2008, 2K17 etc
"THE LAST RIDE!!!"
"THE LAST RIDE!"
You would pause the game and every time you would unpause tazz would say let’s get to it 😅
Didn't matter, it was still AWESOME.
better than wwf raw on xbox
There's a few inaccuracies. X-pac forgot to sign his deal for Just Bring It thinking he already did for the RAW game which is why this is the only game he's not in and he's in RAW for Xbox the same year w/the x-factor gimmick just as he would've been in Just Bring It and then proceeded to be in SYM the next year w/the nwo gimmick. Also, Bossman left the company wayyyyy back in 2000 after Mania. He was rehired over a year later in December 2001 so he wasn't even in the company to be considered for the game.
I didn’t know that about X-Pac! Thanks!
2K22 was the most outdated 😂
2k15 would like a word with you
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716atleast they kept in cm punk
Ok and lol we know that
I wouldn't say that
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 that one wasn't that outdated.
Also Big Boss Man wasn't really active in the late 2000s to early 2001.
@chrisdavies5253 Yeah, he didn't come back until early 2002. I think he was injured around the fall of 2000. There were a lot of wrestlers getting released around that time. D-Lo Brown and Chaz were barely on television.
I would say Raw 1 on Xbox had the most outdated roster
Oh definitely. Oddly the roster on that game was little bit bigger which included, K-Kwik (Ron The Truth Killings), all three X-Factor members (with the actual Papa Roach theme song), Al Snow, members of Right To Censor, and the tag team that was mentioned in the video Kientai.
@@dreammatch2000 no RTC members made WWF RAW on the xbox
They redeemed themselves by putting Scotty 2 hotty in svr06
Keeping out wrestlers due to injury is just so weird
I agree 100%!
Exactly that means they miss money too
@user-pf1ln1hn1m Big time. The Big Show was the most infamous in that category due to being erased from the No Mercy roster on the N64 but was on TV throughout 2000.
@@dreammatch2000him not being in No Mercy was punishment.
@@ECW5320 That's right. Well, anyone that knows the story about the Big Show, weight, and the No Mercy video game.
My issue with the roster was that it was stuck between Mania and KOTR but doesn't really complete either side of what the rosters looked like. If it had had DDP, Bagwell, RVD and Booker T to round out the Alliance and also Chyna, X-Pac, Justin Credible and the rest of RTC then the roster would've come together.
7:47 That theme is in the game though as Rikishi’s selectable second theme. 💀😂
@giarichards8379 Yep. Turn it up, and Bad Man. I was disappointed they didn't have You Look Fly Today when Rikishi turned face soon after. 😢
Technically every game since Just Bring It had a somewhat outdated roster.
I wouldn't disagree with that.
@@NearFallGaming As great as HCTP is, it would've been nice to have Jeff Hardy & Hulk Hogan & Ultimate Warrior etc. in the actual in game roster. It also would've been nice if they kept the SYM Smackdown! Camera Angles L1/L2 instead of the cinematic angles in HCTP. HCTP also has no commentary which is trash! Overall I still have/play this game today. It's still solid. I got all the Smackdown! Games PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4
Thinking about getting a PC instead of the 5, that way I can have a modded roster with gfx mods, theme/tron mods, facial textures etc. PlayStation & Xbox controllers are PC compatible too! 🤷♂️
@@pjleon8391fr they should have never removed Jeff hogan and warrior from here comes the pain especially Jeff they showed him in the trailer
I love when people say "X wouldn't fly today" and when it does it is all silence
I hated that the ppvs featured in the games were so outdated. For example: SVR 2010 was released in october 2009, but would have ppvs being as old as Backlash 2008. That meant we were playing a game that has 2010 on the cover, but has wrestlers, ppvs and storylines based on 2008 - early 2009. IMO that was the main reason to why these games got outdated so quickly. Just imagine if a sports game like FIFA or NBA 2K got that treatment
why is that important?
@@gustavomendes3078 I hear it. The cut off point was usually just after Mania. That’s why I don’t mind the current system of 2K where it comes out in March and we get the ENTIRE calendar years PPVs if I’m not mistaken
I could have SWORN Al Snow was in just bring it, that was my first wrestling game as a kid and has a huge place in my heart
Raw 1 on the Xbox was pretty outdated too
I'm glad someone else has these thoughts about Just Bring It. Considering Tajiri didnt debut until June 2001, it amazes me that he made this roster.
In Create-a-wrestler, there's actually many names that the ring announcer uses. Justin Credible, Kaientai, Essa Rios and the other members of RTC to name a few.
I think with the invasion angle, the developers of JBI were always fighting an uphill battle with new talent debuting every week!
im mad at myself for thinking we were going to have these graphics back in 01 lol the intro alone had me sold.. game was still fun tho as a kid i remember creating a bunch of wcw guys sean ohaire was one of my favorites wish he had a bigger push in 03
The game was still fun despite the graphics. Y'all are annoying graphic whores. I rather play a fun game 🎮 with decent graphics than games that are below decent and have great graphics.
Just Bring It needs more love, it’s actually a lot of fun.
Federation Defectors!
Apparently some wrestlers were in internal files of re-release builds (which we don't have atm), Scotty 2 Hotty being the only one I've been told for sure. There were rumours of X-Pac being in the game before release, so wouldn't surprise me if he were in there, too.
@lollycarola It's funny about Scotty 2 Hotty. RAW 1 on the original Xbox and Just Bring It didn't have him on either game. Even though he came back from injury during the summer of 2001. The name creation option on Just Bring It didn't even have his name, which was strange. But XPac (and the X-Factor crew) were on RAW 1. And his name was in the name creation option on Just Bring It.
0:00 fun fact: this was the intro from their WWF pay per view, no way out (2001)
Take this for what you will, but I do remember reading in a video game magazine. That there was to be an Alliance game on the PS2 that featured which had WCW & ECW wrestlers in the game. It was pretty much the same set up, but with WCW & ECW title, Arena's & so on. The idea was apart it would play we played Just bring It, but with both save files it would combine the roster, but also feature some extra WWF guys as an early form of DLC. The problem became that WWF at the time didn't want to pay for the extra game, so it never got made. This idea would eventually work on a Japanese Wrestling game the came out not to long after Just Bring It did. If true & this happened jt would have been cool to see.
*@sdd619* I read about that too, I thought it was a rumor. Imagine WWE being the first to test the term "DLC" on PS2 consoles that is the norm of today. I'm guessing after the infamous Booker T and Buff Bagwell match in late spring of 2001, Vince McMahon canceled all those WCW/ECW having their own thing and video games were included in the package. Gamers had to wait for Shut Your Mouth and Wrestlemania X8 to play the WCW/ECW wrestlers.
@@dreammatch2000 it is probably more a rumour, but there was also a lot of contracts coming due that year too. With hiring the WCW guys. Maybe WWE was deciding on who to keep. Then the invasion failed.
Very interesting! What a game that could have been. Thanks for sharing!
@@sdd619 That's true as well. One of those, "What could have been if WWE did this instead...".
Back then I didn't give a F*** I was 11 I just wanted to play the game 🤣🤣
what's really weird is that most of the superstars you mentioned were featured in wwf Raw for the original xbox. sadly the wcw/ecw alliance was not featured in either games
i got this game for christmas 2001 along with gta 3, NFL 2k2, and metal gear solid 2. solid holiday. Although i felt lied to by the intro graphics and how short the story was, i was just happy to have a wrestling game on my new PS2 and enjoyed playing it on Christmas morning. The smackdown games on the ps2 really took off full steam after this one.
Most of not all the the roster was at least still under contract. WWE 2k22 had people that had been released almost an entire year before the game came out. With people like Billie Kay and Peyton Royce both of whom also had their iconic gimmick which hadn't been seen since 2021 about a year-and-a-half prior at most.
I remember some of these still having their "nicknames" in the CAW, which the ring announcer would actually say. Namely Al Snow, and X-Pac.
I think the most interesting part of this is that through all the omissions, Jerry Lynn made it in. No disrespect to Lynn, but you think of WWE in 2001, he's not the first name that pops up in my mind
Totally agree! Talk about right place at the right time.
I say they should have put in a couple of the WCW Guys they got in March, X-Pac, Bossman, and Al Snow.
My least favorite from what i consider the Attitude Era trilogy. I remember being very disappointed after playing it. It didnt have the charm or fun of 'Know Your Role.' They bounced back in a MAJOR way with 'Shut Your Mouth' though and we all know how great HCTP was.
The roster wasn't the problem. I skipped on this because it was a bad PS2 game. Fortunately, THQ delivered some of the most fun wrestling games ever with the other PS2 sequels.
My favorite wrestling game of all time! Grew up playing this everyday
I’m under the belief that Al Snow, unlike Regal..has an actual sense of humor. Hence why Regal succeeded as commissioner & was good enough to become a GM.
This game was definitely rushed & is easily the weakest game of the smackdown series this game was also not properly optimized cause of how much space it required on the memory card
Man the graphics in the trailers of the games of this era really set you up for a huge disappointment 🤣
This game was my childhood
My intro to wrestling.
No, Warzone
At least this game got released. Too bad that pesky WCW buyout ultimately cancelled their supposed PS2 debut
All these guys were sunday night heat material at the time
Just Bring It, was NOT the last WWF console game. That was WWF Raw on the Xbox, which came out in March 2002. It was a couple of months before the WWE name change. Technically, it was WrestleMania X8 on the Gamecube, because even though it was called WWE WrestleMania X8 when it came out, the game was made when the company was still WWF.
You're right! Thanks!
@@NearFallGamingYou're welcome !!
Also Big Boss Man wasn't really active in the late 2000s to early 2001. Also you added The Goodfather but not Val Venis or Bull Buchanan. Not to mention Jacqueline was around quite a bit at the time.
@chrisdavies5253 Yeah, the Big Boss Man was injured in late 2000. The Goodfather, Val Venis, Jacqueline, and Bull Buchanan were in the name creation suite in Just Bring It, but the actual playable characters are on RAW 1 on the original Xbox.
A few of the firsts you mentioned were in WWF Attitude
2k20s roster was the only roster that became aew Vs WWE when the main cull of 2020 happened
The trailer of the game looked realistic at that time but the gameplay looked nothing like the trailer it was like a better version of smackdown 2 graphics
It didnt contain a lot of the roster at the time HOWEVER if you could figure out the move sets and creation items you could create sting, rvd, goldberg, booker T, Justin credible and x pac as well as a few ive forgotten but the devs always had a way of making it that you could create some decent wrestlers
WWF Warzone had the most outdated roster.
This was not the last WWF branded game, it was WWF RAW for the Xbox on February 12, 2002.
It may not have been outdated by the time it was released in North America but WrestleMania X-8 on the Gamecube but by the time it was released everywhere else in the world 3 or 4 months later it was pretty outdated to the point the WWF had become WWE. So that generation the first WWE games on each console was pretty outdated by the time of release just due to them having really long development periods.
Make sure you do Smackdown SYM & Smackdown HCTP please
I loved this game so much
For me, Shawn Michaels, Chyna.
I really told all the homies back in the day yeah the game kinda trash but look at the opening cutscene this is peak ps2 graphics
I dont know RAW 1 for the Xbox was pretty outdated , It had Haku ,K kwik , kaienti (Really Taka), steve blackman
I didnt play Smackdown shut your mouth until 2007 when I was about 8 or 9 years old. For people that played shut your mouth as it came out, how did it feel to finally get guys like rvd, nWo xpac, Kevin Nash, Brock Lesnar, etc in the game ?
Trust me the outdated roster an ugly graphics are just the least of this games problems. Three matches for season mode. Are you kidding me?
This game had a clear cut off of Wrestlemania 17 (even tho somehow SCSA had his Alliance theme lmao) and should’ve been released around that time like the 1st Smackdown game was. Maybe they wanted Xmas sales? Idk but an April release would’ve done the game wonders.
I had much more fun with this than I did with HCTP
I could’ve swore xpac was in the game lol. Haven’t played this game in ages
some omissions like the alliance roster are a bit too exagerated, lets remember that yukes had to make a new game on a recently new console and try to put many people as possible
but some of those omissions might be due to injuries so they couldnt be scanned
but some of these characters are weird why they dont got included
This game was a bit of a disappointment since we thought it would be a lot better on the next gen at the time.. but still I’ll edge it over know your role. Just the inclusion of 6 players alone makes it better. We also got real entrances and the career mode was better
Dare i say wwe2k14. Wyatts, usos, Goldust, New Age Outlaws, Primo, Epico and Rob Van Dam
I thought X PAC was a unlockable character in the game….or am I trippin?
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Yea....def the most outdated game I've ever seen...not to mention the worst roster. Hell, Shane McMahon's theme wasn't even updated
Did you just refer to Limp Bizkit as a person?
Yes I did. Didn't even realize it until after I posted the video as well. All bad.
What if ? ….
There was a season mode longer than a month Lol
I got this when I was 4 years old wth
Thay atleast put the preset movesets for creating wrestlers a.k.a. Caws
Wait I thought xpac was on just bring it it’s been so long since I played it
wwe 2k24: no CM Punk, Jade Cargill, Carlito, AOP, Kairi Sane, Naomi, Andrade, Nia Jax, Odyssey Jones, Dragon Lee, Elektra Lopez on release (main roster)
Half of those are DLC, which is planned before the game is released, and finished months before the game is released. These are left out by choice because people continue to buy them year after year; hugely different than someone missing the game (and the royalty checks that came with it at the time) completely. There's also a much bigger disparity when you have nearly 200 people in the base game, compared to ~40.
Odyssey jones not making it
They had a website back then for caws to make on this game... they were some look like the real superstars thatvwas not in the game ..
6:05. I don't think the trailer is part of the game, is about as accurate as Toad or Sonic in Melee
Nice
Lmaoo Shane helms is hurricane…. But K-Kwik and x pac , booker t was surprising to me as their move sets and entrances where in game
K-kwik was also missing. His name and finisher is still in the game
Another great name!
*@vze38bss* Yeah, majority of guys that was missing on Just Bring It is on Raw 1 on the original Xbox. If I remember correctly, K-Kwik, Terri, Tori, Shawn Micheals, Jacqueline, The Goodfather, and Bull Buchanan are by name only. It's a bunch people they could have crammed into that game.
@@dreammatch2000 yup and Raw got delayed like crazy
@@dreammatch2000 only yukes employes might know why these characters got removed
@vze38bss I mean, RAW 1 was released in early 2002? And a couple months before the company went from WWF to WWE.
Worst commentary ever. "The Rock... (pause for 5 seconds) looks great"
Only one I never bought
Warzone was rough. But imo the worst rassling game is an will forever be wcw nitro and wcw thunder. Them 2 was just a heaping pile of smelly shit. Hell jbi is golden compared to thunder an nitro.
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@@Flyboy520 lmmfao. Yeah that game is the prom night dumpster baby. Lmmfao
Funny thing is this was the worst smackdown imo..it was boring
Disagree. After HCTP the downfall began.
Pointless video. Create each character exists. Done.
I could’ve swore xpac was in the game lol. Haven’t played this game in ages