![]() But it feels like the release is a year too early, with Visual Concepts’ rep for nailing minor details now dealt a huge, Braun Strowman-weighty blow. WWE 2K20 plays like a work-in-progress demo that’s yet to be stress-tested - but there’s a decent game somewhere under the hot mess. Initially that news delighted the community, given VC’s grade-A reputation, tied to the on-court authenticity and graphical excellence of NBA 2K. WWE 2K20 traces its lineage back to the still-revered WWF Smackdown series on PS1 – and this is the first entry to have zero involvement from Japanese studio Yuke’s, after 2K and Visual Concepts cut ties earlier this year. Without excusing it, there’s a reason for this head-scratching inconsistency. ![]() Worse still, there’s no option to switch back to 2K19 controls. Following the news that its physical sales were down from WWE 2K20 by 32, it is something of a surprise that 2K22 has sold over double that of 2K20.Presumably, wrestling fans were eager for the. Now they instead require Olympian thumb reflexes: square + cross (again, why?) to try a finisher, then an immediate switch to triangle if the AI counters and you wish to counter back, and so on. Such scenarios made for great fun in previous games, with your thumb on a move button, and finger (R2) primed to reverse. For instance, many championship matches in 'real' WWE end with an attempted finisher triggering a sequence of back-and-forth reversals. It could be the last one exclusively available for PS4 and Xbox One (from a console standpoint), and it’s the. WWE 2K20 is out now for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.Your muscle memory eventually adapts, but there are too many instances where button selection becomes convoluted. WWE 2K20 is an important version in the series’ history. We will keep you in the loop once we hear an official update. Neither developer nor publisher has affirmed any of the above, so we must take the report with a pinch of salt. However, Leeper also mentioned that 2K Games is working with a “different kind of game developer” to deliver a “different kind of WWE game” during this year. He also iterated the impact of the pandemic on the development of a possible WWE 2K21, and expected that employees and resources are stretched thinly, like many other industries right now. He said that missing out a year in the series may refresh and rejuvenate the experience of a WWE game. Leeper qualified that the cancellation of WWE 2K21 is “not a bad thing, that’s a good thing.” In a recent financial call, publisher 2K Games stated that WWE 2K20 “did not meet our expectations, both in terms of sales and quality,” but that there is “a substantial long-term opportunity to grow our WWE 2K series by improving the quality of the game.” Combining these two facts together, it seems like the companies are taking time to identify what went wrong with WWE 2K20 and how to avoid these errors in a future entry. Notably, there was no announcement for a new WWE game during Wrestlemania. It was the first WWE game to not be developed by Yuke’s since the start of the series in 2000, and it was unfortunate that the new developer shipped a game riddled with bugs.Īnother quality glitch from WWE 2k20 /DgoGQ9W9vw Though its sales were not to be sniffed at, WWE 2K20 wasn’t a shining star in developer Visual Concepts crown. There will be no game this year,” said Justin Leeper, former writer of Road To WrestleMania modes for WWE entries in 2009, 2010, and 2011. “I have heard from reliable sources and I truly believe that WWE 2K21 has been cancelled. New WWE 2K20 Smackdown Ring Skirt Relic Plaque (2002-2008) 5166/30000 p3. ![]()
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