![]() ![]() They’ve absolutely captured the arcade style that makes WWE 2K Battlegrounds feel easy, breezy and very accessible as I stated in my preview, my partner – a non-gamer – had a lot of fun grappling in the ring with me and the AI, cackling maniacally during those first few matches. Every slam is overly stylised and it’s neat, combined with the hazards outside the ring that make it easy to have a car fall on someone’s face or have them temporarily snapped up by a giant alligator watching from the sidelines. The moves are crazy fun though, and it’s always satisfying throwing up your opponent 20 feet in the air before slamming them down on the mat. Considering how far we’ve come with women’s wrestling over the years and the huge focus on women in WWE 2K20, it’s disappointing. Women get the short end of the straw here mostly, like poor Mandy Rose who looks like an inflated Barbie doll and Nikki Cross who looks devoid of personality, despite her unhinged real life character. While The Fiend mask is pretty much perfect, Baron Corbin just looks like a generic face from the create mode has been slapped on. ![]() While their costumes are on point and most of the roster look recognizable, there are definitely some wrestlers where little effort has been made, to the point where different ring attire would make them impossible to pick from a line-up. Wrestlers are action figure versions of themselves, with enlarged limbs and colourful style that heightens their real-life look. The in-ring action is absolutely a cool art style and visually striking. While this is an enjoyable diversion, it’s just not deep enough to satiate the obsessed wrestling fan in me for another whole year. While the concept is fun for a while and definitely enjoyable as a multiplayer slam-fest with friends, the single player components fall a little short of being memorable and the crazy elements wear thin, definitely far less crazy the tenth, twentieth and hundredth time you do them. This would seem like an exciting prospect, being able to use superhero-esque moves and special effects in fights that look pulled out of Street Fighter and Dragon Ball Z. While WWE games normally have a more simulation style, with complex gameplay, motion-captured superstars, gigantic lists of move-sets and create-your-own features as far as the eye can see, although they have dabbled in a more arcade style in the past with WWE All Stars back in 2011. WWE 2K Battlegrounds steps into the ring with an over-the-top action figure style of arcade wrestling mash-up, targeting a more casual gamer and attempting to right some of the wrongs caused by last years glitch-filled WWE 2K20. ![]()
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