![]() ![]() Playing as Dominik Mysterio and dropping Cody Rhodes through a flaming table inside the caged twin-rings had me genuinely hooting in my seat, and I know it’s going to be the match type I revisit most by far. In a move sure to delight NXT fans, the iconic WarGames match type finally makes its game debut, and it’s every bit the chaotic blast that you’d hope. The returning and slightly revamped MyGM mode also features his UUDD co-presenter ‘Prince Pretty’ Tyler Breeze, both in its intro video and as a playable general manager, allowing fans to roleplay the duo’s immensely popular ongoing “Battle of the Brands” series. None of these improvements are particularly significant in their own right, but cumulatively they make 2K23 feel like the slickest and most polished entry in the series yet.Īs a treat for fans of WWE’s video game YouTube network UpUpDownDown, the tutorials, tooltips and introductions to the various game modes are hosted this year by WWE Superstar Xavier Woods in his closer-to-real-life gaming presenter persona of Austin Creed. Every facet of the overall presentation has been lifted in some way or another. There are occasions where their back and forth flows quite naturally, which is something I can’t say that I ever felt in previous titles. Hair still tends to look weirdly like flattened straw, but even it is definitely better than we saw in previous years.Įven the commentary feels slightly more natural than it did it’s still repetitive and sometimes outright grating, but it feels like they may have at least gotten Michael Cole, Corey Graves, and Byron Saxton in the studio to record some of their lines together. It’s absolutely an “even stronger” version of that game though, which is really about as good as can be expected and hoped for from any annual sports title.Īnimations are smoother and more fluid, hit detection is better and impacts feel more weighty, character models are on the whole a notch above, and for once there’s really no talent whose digital avatar stands out as being outright bad. We’re now back to the series being on its traditional yearly cycle, and so unsurprisingly WWE 2K23 is not the quantum leap in quality over its predecessor that 2K22 was. The gambit well and truly paid off, with WWE 2K22 being received as the best entry in the series yet. ![]() ![]() That game launched in a such an utterly broken and unfinished state that the decision was made to cancel the un-announced but inevitable 2K21 to allow the new studio time to give the series a sorely needed overhaul for the following year. WWE 2K23 is utterly and entirely WWE 2K22 but even stronger.Ī little history: midway through the production of WWE 2K20, development duties for the series switched from Yukes in Japan over to Visual Concepts in California. The marketing slogan of this year’s WWE 2K title is “Even Stronger”, and it may be the most accurate and apt one-liner for a video game so far in this generation. ![]()
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