The Authority storyline ended several months ago with the brand split (though Stephanie McMahon refuses to let it go on RAW). Looking at the roster: This game focuses on things that happened before and around Wrestlemania this year. Trying to get a five star ranking for your match is tedious, and damn near impossible to do with the women because of their limited move sets. My Career is interesting, but you can easily simulate entire months leaving little reason to actually slog through every match. There’s a decent base game here, but instead of expanding on it to create a better experience, these games feel like they’re taking a tremendous step backwards.

A terribly lazy part of last year’s boring and uninspired title with a few changes tacked on as if that’s worth paying $60 for.Īs a fan, it feels like the developers only seem to be partially paying attention to the product they’re emulating. In fact, the whole damn game is nothing but lazy. It’s great that reversals are limited, but they’re still fairly abundant which gives those who learn the animations the upper hand, as they can easily reverse everything you do – especially at critical moments.įor a game that’s now tried to emulate the back and forth pace of a wrestling match, they’ve done a fairly terrible job because of how lazy the whole system is. Punches and kicks feel pretty much worthless now, since they’re easily reversed. Other times I’ve hit someone with a chair only for someone else to sell the hit. One of the first matches I played, Apollo Crews somehow got randomly stuck walking back and forth on the middle rope. The same silly glitches from last year return, with virtually no addressing. While I can appreciate what 2K has done trying to turn WWE games into a simulator so that it falls in line with NBA 2K, the changes have made this franchise go from a fun and fast-paced brawler into a sluggish abortion of writhing bodies that sometimes stay near each other in motion. Some would even argue that they’ve been garbage since Yukes took over from AKI. It’s no secret when it comes to wrestling fans – WWE games have suffered from a severe degradation in quality since leaving THQ and going to 2K.

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