Sounds like a warning
Having taken time out to get its house in order, offeringfurther abysmal waresin the meantime, theWWE 2Kseries will finally be stepping back into the ring on March 11, with the coming of 2K Games’WWE 2K22, which is being marketed as a grand comeback for the increasingly poor wrestling franchise.
Taglined “It Hits Different”,WWE 2K22will be the first officialWWE 2Ktitle since the launch of the notoriously terribleWWE 2K20, which launchedin disastrous fashionin the fall of 2019. Plagued with a huge litany ofutterly bizarre bugsand glitches, the long-sufferingWWE 2Kaudiencefinally tapped out, leaving 2K Games and new developer Visual Concepts to go back to the drawing board in an effort to recapture the glory days of the WWE’sexcellent video gamesof the late ’90s and early ’00s.
But to speculate on the new release is only to waste everyone’s time. TheWWE 2Kseries deserves little attention until it has proven to have learned from past mistakes, evolved its dated concepts, increased its fun factor, and can promise its fans an enjoyable, fully-functioning title worthy of their $70-$120. TheWWE 2Kfranchise has long burned all of its fanbase’s goodwill with a conveyor belt of turgid entries, withWWE 2k20representing a franchise that simply had nothing left in the tank.
I’m certainly not taking away from 2K Games’ decision to overhaul the entire game — Lord knows that it needed to happen — and I’m sure thatVisual Conceptshas been working hard to give theWWE 2Kfranchise an altogether fresh new vibe. That said, it’s completely understandable that the series’ fanbase is feeling trepidatious about this promise of a “return to form”. Every year, the players are promised the biggest and best WWE game ever, with the cycle of disappointmentlongpast the point of exhaustion.
All of the talk, trailers, and screenshots are entirely worthless in the face of real, tangible gameplay. Theyallhad good trailers, theyallhad great screenshots. No more empty talk,WWE 2K22will speak for itself come March 11, when it launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms.
And, hopefully, half the game’s roster will still be with the company by then.
