![]() ![]() This unfortunately highlights an issue that WWE games have had since the beginning – they always feel dated upon release. Watching the games AI put on a banger of an all-Australian women's tag match between The IIconics and the team of Toni Storm and Rhea Ripley frankly just made me sad for how three quarters of them were left to rot in catering for weeks before being released. The eye-watering number of recently fired talent in WWE 2K22’s roster makes fantasy booking into a pretty depressing affair however. Wwe 2k22 e3 simulator#If MyGM isn’t your particular bit of the fantasy booking bubbly then Universe mode returns much the same as every year for all your Vince McMahon simulator desires.Īs well as the traditional sandbox mode, Universe now features the option to play through your own hand-crafted WWE programming as a Superstar of your choice, which is nice for those looking for something of a meta wrestler roleplaying experience. It’s… fine? MyGM has successfully pulled me into a few spells of ‘just one more turn’, but even during those periods I couldn’t help but feel like the whole thing lacked some of the depth and detail I wanted. MyGM, the hugely anticipated return of a ‘General Manager’ mode, largely underwhelms. ![]() I popped massively when I saw the digital Rhea Ripley pretty perfectly do the smug little grin and head wiggle thing she does in real life before she climbs into the ring. Some of the specific subtleties of Superstar’s body language have been impressively translated. None of the talent have that creepy half-melted Action Man feel anymore, though everyone's hair does still look like it’s made of crepe paper. The game's visuals have thankfully received a significant upgrade. Mercifully, they no longer act like marionette robots thanks to significant improvements in response timing and animation. WWE Superstars on the whole maneuver and collide with one another in a much more natural fashion. Similarly, breaking out of a pin or submission hold no longer requires mastery of needlessly punishing minigames either and are now just based on good old fashioned button mashing. Options for countering enemy offense have been improved with the ability to block, dodge-roll, and even break your opponents combos through a well-timed, or just lucky, matching strike of your own now existing as effective options. There’s a notable degree of improved fluidity in how light and heavy strikes can combo and flow into a grapple, and pulling off a sequence of attacks such as this no longer makes you feel like you're pushing your character through a river of sludge. The fundamentals of WWE 2K’s brawling system have been re-worked so as to be much more rhythmically familiar to anyone who has played a more traditional fighting game. The fact that these changes don’t push so far as to alienate existing 2K fans or do any damage to the skill ceiling is quite an achievement. Wwe 2k22 e3 series#This fundamental shift in design philosophy goes a big way to bringing the series more in line with the all-audiences branding of modern WWE. On an absolute base level, 2K22 is an enormous step up from its predecessors in terms of simply being something a newcomer to the series could pick up and play. The fact that it’s all presented in character by “wrestler’s wrestler” Drew Gulak is a delightful touch for fans. This offers a simple but clever system that will hopefully help new players from being too overwhelmed out of the gate. More advanced techniques are taught contextually as they arise during your first few hours of play. Wwe 2k22 e3 how to#The basics of how to brutalise, counter, and pin your opponent are taught step-by-step. WWE 2K22 presents players with an excellently paced tutorial system right up front. The disconnect has long been weirdly jarring.Įven before WWE 2K20 landed upon fans about as horrifically as Mick Foley off the Hell in a Cell, the series had been widely regarded as having grown stagnant under the mandated annual release cycle.Īfter a change in development studio and an almost two and a half year break, does WWE 2K22 truly ‘hit different’? Yes! Ruthless Aggression meets the PG era The games, meanwhile, pushed further with each annual release into becoming complex fight simulators that made little attempt to appeal to anybody outside their existing audience. World Wrestling Entertainment has spent much of the last decade reshaping itself into a Disney-esque family entertainment empire, engineered to help anyone jump on board and understand the product with ease. For years the WWE 2K series has been barrelling down an increasingly divergent path to the very company it represents. ![]()
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