WWE 2K22

I decided to get it based on all the ads focusing on how the gameplay has been completely reworked. It hasn't in any meaningful way.

Recent additions had an increasingly prioritised focus on 'hit the reversal button at the right time to take control or you can effectively do nothing since you're dizzy or stunned'. All the cool abilities, in strikes and combos and grapples and ring-techniques were mostly irrelevant because it's all decided by quick timing with the single reversal button.

The supposed new gameplay seems to be the addition of extra combos and additional ways to do reversals... but none of that matters because it's still all about pressing the one, main reversal button at the right time. Such boring gameplay.

A minor additional frustration is with the special events. The very first one I tried had a challenge/requirement to put Batista on the top rope, assuredly near the end of the match since it was about the 7th or 8th challenge. But I couldn't find any information about how to put someone on the top rope. It's not clearly explained in the tutorial, nor any of the standard control pages, nor the wrestler specific pages. While trying and trying and trying, Batista eventually lucked out and pinned me.

Just as bad as any of the recent 5-10 expensive, annual rip-offs. Will they ever bring back the great gameplay from 20 or so years ago?

WWE didn't have try too hard to beat their previous video game outing, considering for the first time since I have been playing I can remember they had to skip an entire year without making one. Well, they didn't have to yet somehow after the disaster that was 2K20 they might have lost a lot of revenue. Lucky for them the new generation console was on its way giving a chance to redeem themselves. I remember playing WWE attitude first then moving on to the smackdown series which later became smackdown vs raw. Since then I would say there has been some improvements with regards to graphics and most noticeable improvements in gameplay. However I still find that THQ have the title for being the best wrestling video game makers and let me tell you why! Since playing more recent instalments I can't help avoiding major mechanical problems, problems I never came across in the early THQ games. There are still odd glitches here and there although the extra year taken has fixed many more. The main issue for me is the guessing game of which button your opponent will press, if you guess correctly you will counter their move. I don't like the step up to be honest, it makes thing turn more into luck than skill. THQ had it right back in the day with the R2 to counter a grapple and L2 to counter a Strike, now we see ourselves trying to guess three buttons. Often if it isn't broke don't fix it and whilst the game isn't terrible like 2k20 it still is a long way from previous 2000s wrestling games. So do I constantly rely on triangle or do I take a chance on square or circle? What's more is the pin fall, submission setup is also considerably weaker. Rather than battering a controller to kick out or playing people online who could have turbo boost controllers; surely they could have stuck with the kick out metre with the zone? Another suggest would be rotating the sticks in submissions?

Okay so that first part is much to do with what I don't find good about 2k22 yet juxtaposed with the positives this is still a worthy game. The variety of game modes make this barrels of fun for hours on end, The showcase, The Gm mode, the universe mode, My rises are all positives accompanied by an incredible roster. Most my favourite are already in the game or can be brought per win. There are various extension packs to buy others wrestlers which I don't agree on and never will, I'm always of the mindset of once you buy a game everything should be available to unlock for free. As I learn of AEW currently in the works of their own game by THQ I do feel WWE is finally starting to get competitive once more which can only keep them on their toes, that's good news.

Overall I still feel this isn't the best experience of playing a wrestling game I remember yet the nostalgia is nice. I would like to think they realise this whilst working on ways to improve it in the future. 2020 was a terrible year for WWE, I don't really watch it anymore as you lose interest when you get older however the games are usually a nice consolation to make up for it. Most of the ones I grew up watching are in the games so occasionally I will play one from time to time. If you like this type of game then you will prefer it to the previous, whilst if you played some of the old ones as long as me then you'll still be wishing a bit better.

WWE 2K 22 is such a step up from the previous game. Starting with the gameplay, the matches feel smooth and realistic and the flow is so much better. Entrances look fantastic and the character details finally look like they're real life counterparts. Since playing this video game franchise starting back in 2008 with smack down versus raw, i've been through all the ups and downs with these games but this is definitely a fantastic entry and I hope they continue to build off of this impressive comeback.

I've been playing the new game, wwe 2k22 nonstop for the past two days, while playing, I've noticed quite alot of improvements, the graphics look fantastic, and the gameplay feels so smooth, I know some people would disagree with the new controls though. I have however noticed that alot of gameplay, is a copy and paste from recent games, which can be quite repetitive, however, I can definitely see an improvement from past games, my rise is fantastic so far, and universe mode is solid, I've seen a few glitches, but nothing compared to 2k20, my gm could be improved, however I am very happy with the game produced.

This game is super trash. This game feels like it's using dead and retired wrestlers to sell a game and it feels very weird. Roster is filled with no name wrestlers that look like high schoolers. I can only name like 10% of the roster.

The layout is hash.

All I care about is playing on universe mode where I can I have freedom to do whatever I want. You can't even edit match rules. In 2k14 you had so much freedom and it was simple. This game is just complicated hash. They couldn't even make a damn calander like 2k14. 2k14 was soooo simple. They were not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Universe mode is as confusing as hash.

Wrestlers move like stiff hash.

Reverse system is filthy. 2k14 reverse system was basic and great.

Tag teaming was a nightmare.

Mitb match took a whole hour to win. I was taking breaks whilist the match was going on that's how long it took.

When you try to pick up items like a ladder it doesn't register. Instead causing the cou to attack you.

In 2k14 it was so easy to push over a damn ladder.

In this game you can't. Well I couldnt. Really 2k? I can't push over a bloody ladder?

Make an entrance use to be so creative. Now it's so basic. Not cool.

Don't get me started on the annoying soundtrack. The music was horribly hash. I had to mute the music within only 10 minutes. Usually I can tolerate bad music not this time.

I quit this game after I couldn't control my partners anymore. My gosh an easy feature turned into a disaster. In 2k14 I didn't have this Problem.

I bought delux and did not get what was offered. In 2k14 I didn't have this problem.

Downloading caws was also a nightmare.

Who ever worked on this game should 38.

I wasted my money on this crap game thinking it would be fun. It was not. I'm probably gonna trade it in for Pokemon cards.

Last best wwe game was 2k14 and 2k didn't didn't even make that game.

I tried 2k15 back in 2015 for an hour and returned it the next day.

It took me 2 weeks to play 2k22 and I wish I could have at least waited longer because this game is hash.

Don't buy 2k games.

Even their nba games are recyclable.

Horrible experience. How hard is it to get a damn wrestling game right? Jesus Christ. This is why I hate people so much. They disappoint me.