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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.[citation needed] 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

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In-game arenas

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