![]() Of course you can always grind your way to new wrestlers, but it would take roughly 2 to 3 days of constant play to garner enough in-game cash to make the purchase. Much like NBA Playgrounds, WWE Battlegrounds is rife with microtransactions – to the sound of about $4 per wrestler. Online play supports a surprisingly enjoyable King of The Battleground mode in which online gamers wait in the lobby for their chance to fight the winner in a King of the Hill style competition. This will certainly make those fervent WWE fans blow their tops, but it lends to the accessibility for the casual gamer.Īside from the campaign mode, there are a handful of single and multiplayer exhibition modes, including One-On-One, Tag Team, Triple Threat, Fatal Four Way, Steel Cage Match, and Royal Rumble. Aside from notable signature moves for a given wrestler, the remainder of the move set is shared by all wrestlers within a given style class regardless of whether the wrestler can (or will) perform the move in real life. The wrestlers are each pigeonholed into one of five predefined “style” classes: Powerhouse, Brawler, Technician, High-Flyer, and All-Rounder. The entrances scenes aren’t the only shared aspects of WWE 2K Battlegrounds – in fact, most of the move sets are shared as well. ![]() Sadly, once the wrestling begins there doesn’t seem to be a way to skip the unnecessarily long entrance scenes, which are about 30 seconds each and identical for each and every wrestler in the game. The story is told through a series of still comic book panel pages over which gamers can zoom and pan, but after a short time most gamers will simply skip the unnecessary wordy dialogue. Within minutes, gamers will be pulling off flashy combos, and once they master the random single-button reversal system, they will be pinning opponents like a veteran.īattlegrounds’ campaign mode tells the story of WWE Agent Paul Heyman getting the go-ahead from Vince McMahon to start a new WWE television spinoff series called Battlegrounds, in which a stable of newly-recruited wrestlers fight to defend their local turf against some of the biggest names in WWE. Moves are broken down into simple strike, kick, and grappling combos that fill a special meter leading to tiered-layers of increasingly spectacular special moves festooned with fireballs, lightning bolts, and shockwaves. It does away with the overly-complex button combos and timing of the previous titles. WWE 2K Battlegrounds is by far the simplest wrestling gameplay in the industry. ![]() That being said – where games like these lack in depth and substance, they generally make it up in accessibility and enjoyment. This approach certainly isn’t new NBA Playgrounds was little more than an updated NBA Jam, and WWE Battlegrounds looks an awful lot like an updated WWE All-Stars. Developed by Saber Interactive, Battlegrounds follows in the vein of one of Saber’s other popular releases – NBA Playgrounds – with a bobble-headed, high-flying, over-the-top take on the sport. Even though Visual Concepts had been assisting Yuke’s on WWE development since 2K took the franchise over from THQ with WWE 2K14, fans (and critics) universally pan WWE 2K20 as the worst game in the franchise’s 20-year run.Īll news was that the WWE 2K franchise was canceled, but 2K surprised us all with an announcement of a new take on the franchise with WWE 2K Battlegrounds. The folks at 2K Sports experienced this last year when after two decades yearly Yuke’s development, the development of WWE 2K20 was switched to Visual Concepts. On the other hand, well…you have those same thousands of fervent WWE fans who are going to be hyper-critical of every aspect of the game they just slapped down $60 for, because it couldn’t possibly be anywhere near as good as a Yuke’s-developed WWE game. Developing WWE videogames nowadays has to be a tricky task. On one hand you have an entire universe full of colorful characters that have already been developed, wacky storylines that have already been written, and thousands of fervent WWE fans who have already decided that they will be buying the next WWE title regardless of what the critics say.
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