WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role

WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
North American cover art featuring Chris Jericho, The Rock, Triple H, and The Undertaker[a]
Developer(s)Yuke's
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Toshihiko Kitazawa
Producer(s)Norifumi Hara
Designer(s)Toshihiko Kitazawa
Artist(s)Taku Chihaya
SeriesSmackDown!
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
  • NA: November 20, 2000[2]
  • EU: December 1, 2000[1]
  • JP: January 25, 2001
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role, known in Japan as Exciting Pro Wrestling 2 (エキサイティングプロレス2, Ekisaitingu Puro Resu 2), is a professional wrestling video game developed by Yuke's released in November 2000 on the PlayStation by THQ. It is the sequel to WWF SmackDown!, and the second game in the SmackDown series, itself based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) professional wrestling promotion.

Know Your Role achieved commercial success, becoming the best-selling combat sports game on a single format (PlayStation) with 3.2 million units sold.[3] The game was succeeded by WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It in November 2001.

  1. ^ "CTW Game Guide". Computer Trade Weekly. No. 818. United Kingdom. December 1, 2000. p. 32.
  2. ^ IGN staff (November 20, 2000). "THQ Ships WWF Smackdown2: [sic] Know Your Role". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on December 2, 2023. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
  3. ^ "Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2015 (Page 14)". Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2021.


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