• Face Parts
• Body Parts
• Jackets
• Pants
• Skin Colors
• Figures
• Objects

Face Parts
Face Parts is further divided into four subcategories: Eyebrows, Eyes, Noses, and Mouths. Each of these covers a little more than the label might indicate, though. Eyebrows affect the shape of the forehead as well as the design of the eyebrow textures. Eyes have some influence on the cheekbones, as well as offering a staggering variety of weird eye shapes. The Nose option covers the nose and most of the central part of the face, including the upper lip and cheekbones. Mouth, finally, affects the entire chin and jaw, up to and including a pretty credible Popeye impersonation. The accounting of total parts so far is:

• Eyebrow: 82
• Eye: 45
• Nose: 65
• Mouth: 42

Let's give our wrestler some nice big eyes, big peaked eyebrows, a giant smashed nose (he's had a rough life) and a hulking lantern jaw. Now, as you exit the Face Parts section with all your choices made, you can affect the color of certain elements (in this case the eyes and eyebrows) with a set of TV-style color sliders. Transparency affects the opacity of the element (how well the color beneath shows through), Color Change affects the hue of the elements, Shade affects the amount of black or white in them, and the related Brightness can make them a bit darker or lighter.

Body Parts
Body Parts is deceptively simple. There are, at first, only two options here: Skin and Underwear. However, these may form the core of your wrestler's appearance, and offer a lot of choices. Skin, to begin with, determines the texture of the wrestler's exposed flesh, his body hair and muscle definition. Underwear determines the pattern of his tights, from basic colors to famous superstars' patterns to national symbols. Altogether, the total choices are:

• Skin: 19
• Underwear: 89

Lots of different trunks to choose from here. Let's go with a whole hell of a lot of hair, and a set of nice Brazilian flag trunks. On the way out, we'll boost the hue in the color change, turn that globe in the middle a snappy hot pink.

Jackets
Now it's time to give him some outerwear, if we so choose. And we do so choose, since that much hair isn't liable to get over any time soon. There are two options here: Jacket, which just covers the upper body, or Coat, which goes well past the waist. Note that in the Jacket category, there are several options for "Gown" -- those you'll need to combine with a skirt later in the creation process. Coat, meanwhile, includes everything from the Undertaker's duster to a long red cheong-sam. Total choices here are:

• Jacket: 107
• Coat: 37

Our man will go with this snappy blue and red baseball jersey, I think.

Pants For "pants," read "anything worn below the waist." The Pants category includes Short Pants, Pants, Mini Skirts, Skirts, and Long Skirts. These are pretty self-explanatory, although Pants also includes overalls, and the Skirts include both one-piece dresses and the lower halves that you combine with the Gowns up in the Jacket category. Plenty of choices here, of course.

• Pants: 80
• Short Pants: 61
• Mini Skirt: 82
• Skirt: 71
• Long Skirt: 222

We'll resist the temptation to kit out our guy in a snappy Budweiser minidress and instead go for these rockin' tiger-print pants. Note that once you leave the Pants section, you have a choice between three pants types: straight-leg, tapered, or bell-bottoms. You know which one we want, baby.

Skin Colors
There are 8 basic colors, although remember that these will be affected by what you picked in the Skin section of Body Parts. Also, you can go absolutely wild with these colors when you get to the Color Change slider. Yeah...temptation is getting the better of us. Gotta go for some Deep Purple.

Figures
This is where you fiddle with your wrestler's body shape in detail. There are, to begin with, three basic categories: Form, Height, and Length. When we get to the details, though, this is going to require something a little complicated. Here's an outline tree for the options inside the Form section:

Head
-- Mass
-- Width
-- Thickness

Upper Body
-- Chest
---- Mass
---- Width
---- Thickness
-- Abdomen
---- Mass
---- Width
---- Thickness
-- Arms
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness
-- Forearms
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness
-- Hands
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness

Lower Body
-- Thighs
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness
-- Legs
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness
-- Ankles
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness
-- Feet
---- Both/Right/Left
------ Mass
------ Width
------ Thickness

In short, you can affect the size of your wrestler's head, upper and lower torso, upper arms, forearms, hands, upper legs, lower legs, ankles, and feet. Given the choices between left and right arms/legs, it's also possible to make one limb or extremity differ in size from the other. This is insanely complicated, though, so we'll pass on seeing what we can do here with our created wrestler

Height is very simple: one slider between Short and Tall. We'll make our guy nice and tall.

Length is interesting, in that it lets you selectively alter the height of your character by just stretching out certain body parts. It offers you the chance to mess with:

• Neck
• Chest
• Shoulder
• Arms
• Legs

One slider is available for each, so you can make your guy a fireplug on massive spindly legs, a no-necked dwarf, a natural shot-blocker with huge arms, or whatever your heart desires. Our guy is already as tall as we want, though, so we'll move on now.

Objects
Time to accessorize. "Objects" is a catch-all term for anything that's not a core item of clothing. In our current build, it's divided into four categories: Weapons, Junks (?), Hat & Cap, and Horns.

Weapons are exactly that, a wrestler's signature international object. Junks covers everything from funky sunglasses to tiaras to Hannibal Lecter masks -- it's just a collection of random stuff. Hat & Cap is simpler, including baseball caps, tie-dyed witch's hats, Buff Bagwell-esque Dr. Seuss hats, and plenty of other headgear. Finally, Horns is just plain weird. This category includes actual horns, plus weird little sentai-esque forehead accessories, question marks mounted on the forehead, bat wings replacing the ears, and plenty more. Gack. Anyway, your selection amounts to:

• Weapon: 19
• Junks: 36
• Hat & Cap: 113
• Horn: 79

Okay, let's go hog wild. Our man will get a shinnai (or "kendo stick" if you must use the vernacular) as his signature weapon, a set of funky silver sunglasses, a big green and yellow Cat in the Hat hat, and from the Horn section, a little red question mark on his forehead. Very stylish indeed.

Profile
And now we're done with the Appearance section, which means half of our time is spent. Next, we move on to Profile, where we can give our wrestler a name and some other identifying marks. Profile offers four options:

• Name
• Ring Name
• Biography
• Crowd Signs

These are pretty simple. Name is the character's real name. Ring Name is the name he's announced by when he enters the ring. Biography consists of three options: gender, weight class (heavy or light-heavy), and nickname, where you can call your wrestler anything from "Blue Lightning" to "Hell's Guardian." Finally, Crowd Signs lets you pick two signs that will appear in the audience when your wrestler joins the fray.

Let's see...our man will get a Kaientai sign, and the Japanese character "aku," meaning "evil" (allow me a little ostentation). He'll be male, nicknamed "Lyger" in honor of the Japanese junior star, and for a name...yes, we'll call him GRAPE APE. Fitting indeed.

Personality
Personality is dead simple -- it just lets you pick three traits that mark the weaknesses and strengths of a wrestler. Specifically, these characteristics give them an edge or a disadvantage in certain match types, certain style types, and certain title matches. For example, you can make a wrestler who's good at Technical attacks, in Submission matches, and when fighting for the Intercontinental title. This should also affect his fate in the Story Mode to a degree. The choices are:

• Powerful Attack +
• Speedy Attack +
• Technical Attack +
• Rough Neck Attack +
• Powerful Defense +
• Speedy Defense +
• Technical Defense +
• Rough Neck Defense +
• Single +
• Tag +
• 6 Man Tag +
• Handicap +
• Royal Rumble +
• King of the Ring +
• Hardcore +
• Falls Count Anywhere +
• Survivor +
• Cage +
• Hell in the Cell +
• I Quit +
• Ironman +
• Ladder +
• Lumberjack +
• Slobberknocker +
• Special Referee +
• Table +
• TLC +
• Last Man Standing +
• 3 Stages of Hell +
• Street Fight +
• Submission +
• WWF Title +
• Intercontinental Title +
• Hardcore Title +
• European Title +
• Light Heavyweight Title +
• Women's Title +
• Tag Title +

Whew. Skip this for our boy, since he's just an example.

Ability
Here you can distribute a set of 144 ability points among the four main areas of attack and defense, in order to create a specialized or well-rounded wrestler. Powerful refers to power moves, like drops and slams. Speedy covers quick moves, the sort used on the ground by lighter wrestlers like X-Pac and the Hardys. Technical covers mat wrestling and submission moves, a la someone like Bret Hart or William Regal. Finally, Rough Neck covers brawling moves, the domain of wrestlers like the Dudley Boyz. You can make a wrestler that conforms to one particular category or none at all by picking one of the five Auto Settings, but it's better to tailor these points with an eye toward what you want your moveset to be. If you'd like to go the long way around, it's not so hard. Just spend points to open up a certain maximum level in a category, and then spend toward that max in Attack or Defense. The graphs will show you a shorthand description of what your wrestler's strengths and weaknesses are.

Let's see...let's give GRAPE APE some power moves, some mat skills, and a little brawling. He's too big for the quick stuff, so leave that alone.

Moves
Simple section here. If you're too lazy to make a custom moveset for your wrestler, just pick one of five (Average, Powerful, Speedy, Technical, or Rough Neck), or substitute one of the pre-created movesets for a real WWF superstar.

Logic
The end of the road, as far as this half of creating your wrestler. Logic determines the AI routines that make your wrestler behave when he's under computer control. You can pick two, and that determines more or less what moves he uses. Here's the list to select from:

• Attack (strikes)
• Grapple
• Aerial
• Ground
• Hardcore
• Average (no specialization)

Moves
Okay, go back and get some rest, and now it's time for some more hard stuff, filling out your wrestler's entire moveset. Just Bring It has a huge catalog of moves, far more than can be listed here (very sorry), and a surprising number of those can be added to a created wrestler's arsenal. You can do anything a WWF superstar can, and in fact a good deal more.

Moves are divided up by category, and within the category they're split up further by where and how you do them, and which of the basic four move types they fall in (Powerful, Speedy, Technical, Rough Neck). When you're picking your wrestler's moves, remember to select ones that fit the strengths you gave him in the Ability section. Also, remember that if you can't remember what a particular move looks like, just hit the Square button and you can see your wrestler perform it in real time, with zero loading.

Bases
Bases are, essentially, every move that's not actually a move -- how your character stands, taunts, walks to the ring, etc. There are six of these: Fighting Stance, Ring In Move, Ring Out Move, Taunt, Winning Move, and Entrance.

GRAPE APE will have...lessee...a Capoeira fighting stance, a Jumping ring in, a Handstand ring out, lots of Japanese junior-style taunts (you can pick five of those, one for each direction you can combine with L2), Chris Jericho's winning pose, and a generic entrance. For Entrances, you can pick from three categories: Moves, Movie, and Music.

Ready Moves
Here's anything you can do with your opponent standing in front of you. There are three categories: Attack (basic strikes), Grapple (O-button grapple moves), and Back Attack (Grapples performed at an opponent's back). The number of slots available, taking into account moves dependent on an opponent's degree of grogginess, are:

• Attack: 6
• Grapple: 14
• Back Attack: 10

Ground
These are moves performed on a grounded opponent. In this case, there are just two categories, Attack and Grapple. Grapple, in this case, includes pinfalls and submissions as well as conventional grapple moves, and can vary depending on whether an opponent is facing up or down. Available slots are:

• Attack: 3
• Grapple: 10

Turnbuckle
These are moves performed on an opponent who's been whipped or knocked into the turnbuckle. A variable here is whether or not they're facing in or out of the turnbuckle -- that determines whether you're performing a Grapple or Back Attack. Three categories are available: Attack, Grapple, and Back Attack. Available slots are:

• Attack: 3
• Grapple: 7
• Back Attack: 5

Rope Opponent
Here's a sorta tricky category. There are three categories in Rope Opponent: Rope Down, Rope Rebound Attack, and Jump Down Over. Rope Down is where an opponent is tied up in the ropes. Rope Rebound Attack is when you attack an opponent who's just bounced off the ropes. Finally, Jump Down Over is the move you do when you're charging over the ropes, like a tope or springboard move. Available slots are:

• Rope Down: 1
• Grapple: 3
• Back Attack: 1

Aerial
Here's one for wrestlers who like to fly those friendly skies. Aerial includes two categories of top-rope moves: Stand and Down. Respectively, these cover moves against a standing or prone opponent. Available slots are:

• Stand: 2
• Down: 3

Running
Press the triangle button to run on command in eight directions, and press all kinds of buttons to attack on the run. There are actually five categories here, which requires some careful accounting: Attack, Grapple, Back Attack, Squatting Attack, and Counter. Attack, Grapple, and Back Attack we've covered before. Squatting Attack, I believe, covers attacks on opponents who are waiting to counter a running opponent. Finally, Counter covers the moves that you can use to counter a running opponent. Available slots are:

• Attack: 2
• Grapple: 4
• Back Attack: 2
• Squatting Attack: 2
• Counter: 3

Double Team
Aha, here's some fun stuff. These are tricky to pull off in an actual match, since they require to position yourself just right with a tag team partner, but they're great fun when you can get them to work -- it's this category that includes fan favorites like the Dudley Death Drop. There are two categories of Double Team moves: Stand and Turnbuckle. Stand is against an ordinary standing opponent, while Turnbuckle covers an opponent who's been knocked into your corner. Available slots are:

• Stand: 5
• Turnbuckle: 5

Triple Moves
Now that you can do six-man matches, triple-team moves are in store, but there only appears to be one in the catalog as yet, and you can only give your character one as well. More details to follow later on, perhaps.

Special
The moment you've all been waiting for, the chance to pick your wrestler's finisher. You can pick practically any move in the arsenal as a signature move, from an ordinary punch all the way up to something called the "Osaka Street Cutter," which we can't identify to save our lives. By no means are you limited to the big moves of WWF stars -- I count, for example, two versions of Mitsuharu Misawa's Emerald Frosion on the list here, not to mention the old Razor's/Outsider's Edge. There are two categories here: Special, and Combination. Special covers the L1 "Smackdown" moves. Combination, I believe, are follow-up moves to counters, which you can perform if your timing is good. Available slots are:

• Special: 2 (yes, you have two finishers now)
• Combination: 3

Autosetting
Again, for complete and total losers, you can select a basic moveset for your character: Average, one of the four style types, or that of a pre-created superstar.