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2002 video game
WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth
The cover art for the US version of WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth.
The cover art for the US version of WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth.
NTSC cover art, featuring Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, Triple H(pointing), Chris Jericho, and Booker T, inset.
Developer(s)YUKE's Future Media Creators
Publisher(s)THQ (WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth)
YUKE's Future Media Creators (Exciting Pro Wrestling 4)
SeriesWWE SmackDown! series
Platform(s)PlayStation 2
ReleaseUnited States November 13, 2002
Genre(s)Professional wrestling, Fighting
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth (Exciting Pro Wrestling 4 in Japan) is a professional wrestling video game released on the PlayStation 2 console by THQ and developed by YUKE's Future Media Creators. It is part of the WWE SmackDown! video game series based on the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). This game was the sequel to WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It and was succeeded by WWE SmackDown! Here Comes The Pain.

Gameplay

The game had many improvements over its predecessor in terms of its Season Mode, roster, graphics, animation, sound, and Create-A-Superstar mode.

Season mode was re-lengthened to two game years, as opposed to the abbreviated season mode in its predecessor. It was the first game to feature the Brand Extension featuring Ric Flair's RAW or Vince McMahon's SmackDown! Players compete exclusively on the show they are drafted to for the first few months of year 1, consisting of four RAW or four SmackDown! events, plus a pay-per-view event per month. If the superstar is a created superstar, or if the original superstar is below a rating of 60, he will start (or be demoted) to wrestle on Sunday Night HEAT. Eventually, the player will have the freedom to fight on the two major TV shows, appearing on two RAW and two SmackDown! shows and the PPV event, even if he did not hold the Undisputed Championship. One of the major storylines featured is based on an nWo storyline featured in early 2002 that included Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and X-Pac, who replaced Scott Hall from the original televised storyline, after Hall was released for his problems arising from his alcohol-related actions.

Unlike its predecessor WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role and Nintendo 64's WWF No Mercy, Shut Your Mouth's championships cannot be contended for in Exhibition mode and can only be defended in season mode. All of the major titles of the time, except for the Women's are included in the game: Undisputed, Intercontinental, European, Tag Team, Cruiserweight, and Hardcore championships.

The roster consists of 60 playable characters, up from the 46 of Just Bring It. The roster grew to include wrestlers previously from The Alliance (such as Booker T and Rob Van Dam) after WCW and ECW were acquired by the WWE. Originally THQ planned to have many more superstars, such as Crash, Funaki, Justin Credible, Chavo Guerrero, and Rey Mysterio. However, the developers were unable to finish their models in time and instead left their movesets and premade Create-A-Wrestler faces. As opposed to previous titles, all of the wrestlers in the game are instantly accessible. However, attires, arenas, movesets and weapons were unlocked by completing certain goals during season mode.

In terms of graphics, some wrestlers were greatly improved, and included realistic facial features. Fully animated entrances for each character are featured, with their entrance video playing on the TitanTron, and their respective themes playing in the arena. The title belts are also displayed in the entrances realistically (i.e. if The Rock held the title, he would carry it to the ring and toss it above his head in his salute to the people, as opposed to wearing the belt on his shoulder or around his waist). The belts move according to natural physics, as well.

Televised and pay-per-view events are televised from the SmackDown! Arena, which is based on Madison Square Garden, as seen from outside the arena and within the main foyer. Though each week, each event takes place from a different city (as announced by Jim Ross at the start of the events), the areas outside of the arenas remain in Manhattan, New York. Notable areas are a New York Subway stop (named SmackDown! Station), Times Square and WWE's restaurant, The World.

For wrestler entrances, most of the themes used in the televised and house shows were incorporated into the game. Along with the in-house music from Jim Johnston, remakes of Johnston's originals from bands such as Breaking Point (for Rob Van Dam), Our Lady Peace (for Chris Benoit), and Saliva (for The Dudley Boyz) were featured.

Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler provide sporadic commentary. While a step up from Just Bring It's commentary from Michael Cole and Tazz in terms of relevance to the match or superstars, its sporadity did not sit too well with fans of the series. Some calls of big moves are missed, as well. However, ring announcer Howard Finkel returned to provide his voice for match introductions and wrestler entrances.

Gameplay is similar to previous titles, with the Circle button (along with the direction button) for grapples and the X button for strikes. The fast pace of wrestling action is also retained. This was the last SmackDown! game to feature this control system.

Create-A-Superstar mode gives the freedom to manipulate any part of the superstar's body. It also offers over 58 move sets from a combination of wrestlers in WWE not featured in the game or working in different promotions. A gripe, however, is that it is impossible to give CAW's teeth. So, they look rather silly when they talk or move their mouth during their entrances and in season mode.

Although this game was seen as a vast improvement over Just Bring It, it still had several problems and limitations, many of which corrected by its successor, WWE SmackDown! Here Comes The Pain.

Roster

Divas

Can be played with cheat device



In-game arenas

Weekly shows
Pay-per-view events
UK pay-per-view events

Trivia

This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. (June 2007)
  • Despite doing commentary with each other for several years before this game was released this is the first videogame where Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler did commentary together.
  • This would be the last time this grappling system is used. It's also the first game of the series to contain the "WWE" symbol rather than the previous "WWF" symbol.
  • Shawn Stasiak has Steven Richards' moveset, with the exception of the two finishing moves.
  • This game features more interactive backstage areas than any other SmackDown! game does in the series to date, including a full 360 degree backstage arena replicating Madison Square Garden.
  • In Previews of this game there were screen shots of the World Heavyweight Title and the WWF World Title though clearly when you play the game there is no way to unlock or win these titles any way.
  • Music from the airship levels in Super Mario Bros. 3 can be used as entrance music for created wrestlers.
  • On the side plates for the European Championship, the old WWF scratch logo can be seen.
  • On the Champions screen in Season mode, the Intercontinental Championship belt features a visible WWF scratch logo, although the actual belt in the game features the WWE logo. On the same screen, the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship belt is shown while viewing the Cruiserweight Championship. The actual belt in the game is the WCW version, although the WCW logos have been removed and the WWE logo has been added to the sideplates.
  • Inside The World and before entering the subway, there is a black sign containing the WWF scratch logo with the "F" removed. Underneath the logo, there is blurry white text that appears to say "World Wrestling Federation." The carpeting inside The World also features WWF scratch logos with the "F" removed.
  • This is the second wrestling game to feature the actual nWo theme music. The first game, WCW Nitro for the PlayStation, features a sample of the nWo theme that loops in the menus. All other WWE and WCW games that feature members of the nWo use various knock-off versions of the theme.
  • This was the first PS2 WWE Video Game which included HBK on the original roster since returning from a 4 year absence.
  • HBK appears to act as the RAW General Manager during the McMahon/Flair feud in season mode.
  • This is the first game to feature a bald Kurt Angle. It is also the last game to feature him with hair.
  • The first game in series not to feature The Rock on the cover. (For U.S. cover he was featured on the U.K. art cover)
  • This was the first game to feature Brock Lesnar on the cover and in the game.
  • This was the last WWE game Until Smackdown Vs RAW 2008 to feature Jeff Hardy as a playable character.
  • The game also features a remixed version of The Hardy Boyz theme song.
  • This is the last game to feature the WWE European Championship.
  • Instead of being called "The Crippler Crossface", Chris Benoit's finisher is simply listed as "The Crossface".
  • The Hardy Boys, Stacy Keibler, Tajiri,and Maven do not have their current theme songs on this game.
  • The Armageddon (2000) arena has the WWE logo. This is the only arena that appears in both Shut Your Mouth and Just Bring It.
  • This is the first appearance of John Cena (But as a sample CAW) and Randy Orton.
  • This was the last game to feature Raven in the SmackDown! series.
  • This was the last game to include any other superstars name to be announced (eg. D'lo Brown, Steven Richards).
  • This was the last game to feature one of The Rock's catchphrases in the title

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