What Made WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth's Season Mode So Good?
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2020
- In the first episode of The Season Mode Chronicles, I'm looking back at the season mode of a PS2 classic, Smackdown Shut Your Mouth. Here's how this season mode was underrated greatness that really changed the future of WWE games season mode forever.
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Thanks for checking the video out! Make sure to leave some of your memories and thoughts about SYM season mode in the comments. Who's also ready for Episode 2: Here Comes The Pain
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Part 1: Shut Your Mouth. Part 2: Here Comes the Pain. Part 3: SMACKDOWN VS RAW 2005 - When Two Worlds Collide. Part 4: SVR 2006 - Mysterious Betrayals. Part 5: SVR 2007 - The End of Season Mode? Part 6: SVR 2008 - The 24/7 Life. ThisGenGaming, your welcome on giving you these titles for each part.
I actually liked the 24/7 mode in SVR08.
When is Episode 2?
@@1guitarfreak4 April
No WWE game has had a Season Mode as expansive as this.
I remember never, ever getting tired of this game back in the early 2000s and I just enjoyed the hell playing through the Season Mode and all the other game modes. There were a lot of playable characters, unlockable outfits, and new modes + arenas, too!
This WWE game just hit the perfect spot of enjoyability back in the day and I will always be thankful to have enjoyed this game. 👏🏼
SmackDown Here Comes The Pain might arguably be the better game but SmackDown Shut Your Mouth will always hold a special place in my heart
Shut your mouth was better in my opinion but HCTP isn't far off!!!
Here comes the pain a better game but shut your mouth better season
The problem I had with season mode in Shut Your Mouth was it's the same storyline over and over each time you play it at least in Here Comes the Pain there's different stories
@@spencer2745 That's true. But going back on it & doing it again is so fun. I love both games soooooo much. I prefer these 2 games over any wwe game now a days
I will honestly prefer Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth any day over Hctp imo.
I was one pissed off teenager when I realized Just Bring It’s story mode had just 3 matches. I immediately felt ripped off.
Wait what?! Can you elaborate on that cuz I never played jus bring it cuz I never had a PS1
@@MurphyMurks530 Just Bring It is not a PS1 game.
Oh my bad, for some reason I thought it was. I’d still like to hear more bout the story mode only being three matches tho?? Why’d they make it that way? That seems hella strange
@@MurphyMurks530 I'm wondering the same thing. There was so much they could have done with story mode. Hopefully, someone can make a hacked version of this game that could enhance story mode. I doubt it, but it would be nice.
I remember winter of 2003 my parents bought my brothers an I Shut your mouth an weed wake up early in the weekends just to play..those were the best times of my life like ide trade anything to relive those days I think I was in 6th grade.. bad ass times in wwe as well as in my life...just amazing watchn this
Phenomenal season mode! Loved that the guy I took to the top could still be the top guy when I started a new season mode. Made it feel like what I did mattered
I think the same thing happened in HCTP too. It was a feature I liked about WM2000 on the N64 too, then we lost it in SvR'06!
Makes me wanna plug back the ps2 and play season mode all over again
You should. Looks great in 1080i
Instead of building on these absolutely wonderful ideas they had back then and improve them in every aspect, they decided to move on to new but more lacklustre, boring, and plain ideas which backfired to their faces. I hope they got their lesson and WWE 2k22 will reminds us these glorious days of such real gems of the past
I think everyone has their own opinion on what makes wrestling games fun. In my opinion it’s freedom that excels it. Smackdown shut your mouth and here comes the pain had tons of it too. When you can roam around back stage, interact and start your own fueds, your allowed to win or lose any match and based on whether you win or lose could change your story. Climb the ranks and go for titles, defend the title in challenging title defenses and just be able to create your own legacy and your own fueds and rilvaries. That makes them fun. What makes them suck is like 2k18 where you’re forced to win certain matches, stories can only go one way no matter what choices you make, when you have no freedom at all and can’t compete for different titles. When the game ends after you finally win the world title and you can’t defend it at all or when the game forces you to lose in certain circumstances or win. My personal opinion, a good wwe game has freedom and creativity. A good wwe game has the story mode that doesn’t end until you want it to end.
SYM and HCTP had great branching stories that you follow with any wrestler. That was the appeal for me. Even when I knew the story I'd play through with different guys. Then there superstar exclusive stories like Austin choosing brands and Triple H returning.
I remember playing as Hardcore Holly. Winning the Undisputed Championship then a month later dropping it in that 6 man Hell in the Cell battle royal they made you do. It was so hard winning that match and when you did you were rewarded by Triple H coming out and beating your ass lol
The fact that the tune at the end of this video gave me goosebumps, just shows how strong the nostalgia is with them glorious season modes from back in the day. Damn I feel old now...
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Best Season mode out of all the Smackdown games, nothing tops it.
I would argue best season mode of any wrestling game ever made.
@@nigelhighlands3131 I agree
Nigel Highlands that's an opinion my favorite was SVR 2007
Personally I prefer Here Comes the Pain but it wouldn't exist without Shut Your Mouth.
HCTP's was better
It's 2020 and I still have much more fun playing the older games compared to the newer trash games.
2:52 Look at how good that Matt Hardy looks, capturing how he looked in 2002 compared to the one in WWE 2k20, which just looks weird compared to the real Matt Hardy of 2019.
Such an amazing game. I feel honoured to have been grown up with games like this. What I love is that no matter if you're in the major storyline or not, your superstar always feels involved in some way with the season, and especially the use of previous storylines with videogame twists. Despite the ever change landscape of the WWE during 2002, THQ and Yukes did the best that they could to bring about an incredible experience.
Great game, represents the peak of wrestling well. It was all downhill after 2002.
Agreed, I liked the 1st 4 months. Shame they ditched the brand-split later, but I guess they didn't have enough of a roster to fill 2 years of fresh feuds, so they needed you feuding with all of those guys.
You did an awesome job discussing the depth of this season mode. This is the game that got me into wrestling and is my all time favourite game.
Really appreciate the kind comment. Thank you. :)
Dead on about everything about SYM, and the teaser at the end also 100% - HCTP had a season mode I absolutely loved - and my favorite part as a geek who grew up on NHL94 - i LOVED HTCP's rollover stats - having sean o'haire become a 100 time champion was one of my crowning achievements because it just kept looping. Loved both of these games. Can't pick up a 2k game at all by comparison - not as user friendly and not as engaging.
The thing that make me love the season mode....u can pick who ever supertar that u want to highlight on...and the random story inside outside season...
The first 4 months are gold. I used to hate getting to August and having to do the brand changing storyline. Flair Vince storyline was so annoying. Still the best season mode tho
This is my ALL TIME FAVORITE VIDEO GAME.
I remember playing this so much I had my own custom character and I did every single match even went on top of the smackdown fist with Jeff Hardy and did a swanton bomb ooo man so many memories choke slamming people with undertaker's motorcycle
haha FACTS I love getting on that bike and then dragging around a superstar with taker. Oh Yeah, I remember being so hyped getting on the fist for the first time.
These wwe videos make me wish I have a ps2
If you have a Xbox Series X/S you can emulate old PS2 wrestling games
Wow mate, thank you for this video. A big thumbs up. You just reminded me how awesome wwe shut your mouth is. I am definitely going to replay the season mode after watching this awesome video :).
Definitely going to buy this game. Awesome video 👍
I played the SYM Season Mode with my created superstar. Was WWE Champion for 3 years straight. Last match at Wrestlemania was a tag team match with Hulk Hogan and Kane.
This was undoubtedly my favourite Smackdown game of them all. So much detail. I enjoyed the early Raw vs Smackdown games, but this was another level.
I'm glad the first two wrestling games I had as a kid was Here Comes the Pain and Shut Your Mouth.
Shut Your Mouth, Here Comes The Pain and SvR 2006 have my favorite season modes.
I remember playing season mode in sym repeatedly after one is completed, because grinding as a created superstar to a huge level superstar was so fun in this game... and I will never forget the invasions from different brands and NWO was so amazing, while htcp was fun too because it had a lot more better roaster like John cena , Rey mysterio, Goldberg, etc, story mode in both games were awesome! But if I had to pick one it would be SYM!
Imagine if this engine was in 2k21 🔥
This is sadly the only Smackdown game of that time I haven't played
Drafting your own rosters and being able to walk around and interact. The freedom that you had in a game was revolutionary of the time. After this graphics and gameplay got better, but there was less roaming and less of the customizable aspect until GM Mode came along.
This game is amazing, HCTP is great because of the roster and what it brings. But this SYM is so raw its like the pre game of what HCTP became. Mark Henry OP in this one, just like the Deadman.
Could you do a video on the Day of Reckoning season modes at some point?
If there's demand then yeah I probably will do. Currently though, I'm only looking to do SYM-SVR08.
I enjoyed Shut Your Mouth growing up and I would buy it again just for the Season Mode
Mike Shrekowski!
Had a lot of good times playing this with my friends
HCTP had a good season mode what I liked was how the created wrestlers could have a impact in season when you add them. I turned Smackdown into a Cruiserweight only show and many CAWs I created like Kidman, Justin Credible, and X pac have been double champion.
Now I want this game damnit
if you have a good pc get the pcsx2 emulator and download the game's iso
Well said, man. And very comprehensive! I forget the games that far back sometimes, even though I’m guessing I reviewed it for GI. And what an improvement over the year before. You aren’t lying that some ideas take a couple years to come to fruition.
Great video!
I agree 💯 SYM had an amazing season mode
It's total bullshit that we still haven't had a proper season mode return in the 2k series. SYM and HCTP both had amazing season modes with loads of variables for multiple storylines.
Love season mode in this game when I was paying it during my high school years
This game literally taught me how to READ 1.5 years before we even touched literature in elementary school.
How could you figure out how to read from a wrestling game at like 3.5 years old? How bad were your parents? Also, I don’t believe you.
@@LouSassoleSledgecock I knew how each letter was pronounced on its own so slowly I was able to put words together, I was probably 6 years old but still ahead of many many kids!
4:08 Christopher Nowinski
Friend: What is your favourite Wrestling game
Me: Shut your mouth
Friend: I beg your pardon?
I think this mode influenced alot of the newer wwe games that were popular around the attitude era because of the voice acting and having rosters that had amazing superstars and a storyline that could become possible for it to happen if we were to watch wwe during it's mid 1980s
shut your mouth is the goat for me, it has a whole feud between hogan and rock and emulates storylines from real tv like angle and edge hair vs hair.
Love 2k wwe wrestling games! Great video!
it was just a solid overall game. Loved playing the season as a custom character. This, Wrestlemania 18, and No Mercy are my top 3.
The best season mode can’t be topped
I have great nostalgia for SYM's season mode but when I've gone back to play it, I don't think it's perfect. It had amazing features for the time which still shine when compared to today. But nobody talks about certain things like the fixed difficulty when you first start season mode.
Play on the hardest difficulty? Well too bad. The first 2 months of your season will be ridiculously easy before the CPU will eventually show some challenge. The problem with this is that you can play as pretty much any wrestler & you'll be in contention for the Undisputed title in your first few months. There feels no struggle & build to be a midcarder in season mode.
Even the midcard titles feel pointless. IC, European & Hardcore titles can be won. But you'll get sucked into storylines throughout the year constantly to challenge for the Undisputed title, so you'll barely defend your midcard titles throughout the year. Sometimes you'll even forget that you're still the IC/Euro/HC champion because you'll be in contention for the Undisputed title or defending your Undisputed title, or you'll be in a storyline such as the McMahon vs Flair feud & the nWo. It can be months before the game will go "Oh yeah. You're the IC/Euro/HC champion. You'll be randomly defending your title tonight with no storyline around it. If you manage to defend your title, look forward to the next title defence 6-12 months from now"
The season mode also has hilariously unrealistic title contention matchups. I once played as the Undertaker as the Undisputed champion, & I remember being put into a storyline with Spike Dudley in which he was kicking my arse around the storyline that I was put in. Yes.. Spike Dudley, beating up the Undertaker 🤣 & seeing him constantly brag to Taker that he's gonna win his title at the next PPV. Hilarious. You'll get other stuff such as Rico beating up Brock Lesnar, Maven beating up Stone Cold & Test beating up The Rock. It just makes the ranking system in season mode feel pointless at times. Smackdown 1&2 had way better rankings for title contention & divisions.
I noticed you mentioned the brand draft being a great inclusion but it looses its potential throughout the year. HCTP improved greatly on this, as in that game, RAW & Smackdown feel like 2 completely different shows with different rosters.
So yeah, I think the season mode in this game is glorified on its features which were great, but it's no way perfect in my opinion, which is what most people would have you believe. I do feel like it was a great way to show what Yukes can do which became way better in HCTP in every way.
AWESOME video
Just completed it again as Bubba Ray a few weeks ago, forgot some of the great storylines that happened in it.
Best story mode of all time, and to top it off, you get the best credits of all time at the end of it. Just another reason why THQ crap all over 2K when it comes to wrestling games. There's also a cool story if you are WWE champion in the 2nd May where you get offered the chance to take time off to do a film then answer some questions with dialogue of choice from JR. As Undertaker, I told him I was bringing a new album out soon.
Nice video mate
In the nWo storyline or arc, Scott Hall is replaced by X-Pac (because what happened during the "plane ride from hell" incident). Which was kinda of a bummer for me.
I want more videos like this
He is back again!
Loved playing this as a kid, but had no idea they incorporated the NWO into it, guess I just never got that far
Hey You're Back
They add real life events... Draft.. nwo. Austin walkout story. Triple h's return. Edge shaving angle's head Bald.. Shawn Michaels return..
My childhood here
This is the greatest game ever remember playing getting lost in the season mode amazing not like shitty Road to wrestle mania
If the game had the option to play as Ric Flair to defeat Vince McMahon at Year 2 WrestleMania, it would have a secret feature as WCW season mode edition.
That menu music....
Great video bro
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. :)
@@ThisGenGaming You are welcome, like I always say Im a big fan of yours and always enjoy watching your videos
HELL YEAH!!! This is the perferct seassion mode. But is it as perferct as Dota2? 🤔
Great season mode.
I LOVE this game!!!
I loved this mode! It was weird though playing as the ONLY woman on the roster. Can anyone recommend a mod for Shut Your Mouth that update the game and makes other women appear in season mode? My CAW felt out of place in that sausage fest :3
WWE 2k20 allows a female and male story mode. You have to use/create both.
I don't know about mods but I know you can fill the roster with CAWs. If you made enough females you would probably end up in fueds with at least a few of them.
DDP yoga, the fascists, Reverend d-von watching your footsteps and Rico winning the rumble
Might have to plug up the ps2 and play this lol
I really want Foam Hands B
5:38 bruh SUS AMONG US
I like Sym's season mode more all because HCTP's season lasts only a year
In My Heart WWF No Mercy Is One Of the best Game Ever Señor This Gen Gaming
WWE New York is now called the Hard Rock Cafe
Loved the draft
I really wish I could play this game again
The best of wwe wrestling game SYM/HCTP/SVR05
Never leave out 06/07, and no mercy
Damn i miss this game
12 year old me spent hours playing this Season mode lol
Still the best WWE game to date! IMO
Def the best season mode!
Aint gonna lie i got both smackdown shut your mouth and here comes the pain. I never could put here comes the pain long enough to know what the storyline of this was looking back i shouldve gave this game a chance
3:53 dat face tho
Y can't we have this again !!!!
I got the notification 3 days late
YYYYAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I'm a concerned citizen and I'd like to see Johnny, controlling Diamond Dallas Page in the game WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, talk to reverend D-Von about his building fund, because I really wish the youth of America would have a nice place to go someday.
What made story mode in Shut Your Mouth better??
The new development of season with a two year story and character build up compared to 3 matches in Just Bring It
Story's reflect 2001 and half of 2002 story lines during the WWE year
Graphics were great and fun play
Bruh everyone says you get better stories if you aren't a champion but after getting screwed out of my belt the game has stopped giving me stories and stopped giving me any matches on any pay per view shows
Best Season Mode Ever
Still waiting for second episode ☹️
This might be heracy but I feel Shut Your Mouth was more immersive then Here Comes The Pain
Ever thought of doing WWE Video Game Livestreams?
I might bring them back soon!
It had everything