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WWE 2K is a series of porfessional Wrestling video games currently developed by visual concepts and yukes and publised by 2k sports.The games in the series are based on the porfessonal wrestling pormotion wwe and feature porfessinal wrestling match types storylines and playable characters based on wwe programing. The series was originally named SmackDown! after WWE's Smackdown television program. The first release in the series was WWF smackdown in March 2000, which, along with subsequent titles, remained exclusive to Sony's Playstation consoles. With the release of the 2004 game WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw, the series was retitled SmackDown vs. Raw to include WWE's other flagship television program Raw. Within a few years, the series had expanded to a yearly release cycle for various seventh-generation consoles as well as mobile devices. Yuke's had also released the games in Japan under the name Exciting Pro Wrestling.The first game in the series, WWF SmackDown! had a clear cut system for moves such as combining an arrow key with the circle button for grappling moves and combining an arrow key with the X button for striking moves. Most of the later games, from WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role to WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 used the aforementioned control scheme. When WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2007 was released, new game mechanics were introduced, in which a new control scheme altered the grappling system of the game, called "Ultimate Control moves." Unlike the previous games, where the player pressed two buttons to perform a grapple or an attack, players were able to place their opponents into a grapple position and then choose to perform a move by moving the directional buttons of their system's controller. For example, the player could place their opponent in a suplex grappling position and then either perform a normal suplex or an inverted suplex slam. Before the release of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008, in order for players to force a superstar to submit, they had to tap buttons to move a marker towards the end of the meter labeled "Submit", and the only way for opponents to escape was for them to move the meter towards "Escape". Included with the release of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 was a new submission system, in which the player had to move the analog sticks of their system's controller in different directions to force the opponent to submit, while the opponent could do the same to escape the submission hold