評論

• gamedeal user

  Mar 11, 2022

  The Bad - Online is terrible, server issues make it impossible to connect to a game. - There are some bugs but nothing game breaking (which is expected from a new game) - GM Mode is watered down with only two belts and a random pool of wrestlers to choose from during draft (Key words during draft, others are available after draft week to week) - MyFaction didnt interest me at all, its a single player mode about collecting cards and playing with those cards in matches with different objectives to complete during the match. This time spent could have been directed more to GM Mode. The Good + Graphics and Entrances are "Stupendous" ;] + GM Mode, although its watered down I have spent almost all my time in this mode, The amount of strategy that goes into this is wonderful for a simulation nerd like myself. + MyRise is easily the best game mode, to the creative process of your own wrestler to the fully voiced story line that will keep you on edge throughout the process. + Gameplay is crisp and smooth. There is a balance between simulation and arcade, and 2K delievers on the new control feeling, it does hit different in a much better way. + Showcase is about two hours long and i love how they have interjected footage of the live match into the game match, as a Mysterio fan i loved it. Final Thoughts I have spent most of my time in GM Mode, though watered down there is something that keeps me coming back to this mode. THe simulation of figuring out what role you want your superstars to play and the classes that you constantly have to keep track of to make a great match. No longer is it just about popularity, putting two of your highest wrestlers ibn the ring and getting the best match. There is strategy that goes into it and with the addition of power cards that can disrupt the other GM's show while trying figure out how to set up your own show with entrances, ring crew etc... makes for a good solid game mode even if its watered down a bit. 2K22 is a step in the right direction after the disaster that was 2K20. I fully recommend this to anyone who hasnt played the series in awhile, or is still play 2K19, its time to upgrade.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 11, 2022

  Alright here we go. This is my best Pat McAfee impression: This is the most STUPENDOUS wrestling game out there. It certainly hits different! (they got me good with their catchphrases) Let's get the most important fact straight out of the way. The roster is outdated. This is certainly not 2K's fault. Actually I am glad people like Keith Lee, Cesaro, Jeff Hardy, Karrion Kross, Mia Yim (and Reckoning is playable aswell), Ember Moon, Toni Storm, Lana, Nia Jax, Peyton Royce and Billie Kay... um i mean Cassie Lee and Jessie McCay are in there. This is certainly IIconi... Wait no, it's rather IInspirational??? I dont know. Anyways. This is certainly no problem to me. However the cuts are rather interesting, since there's no Fiend or Bray Wyatt, no Adam Cole, no Bobby Fish in the game, yet there's Kyle O'Reilly. It's puzzling, maybe it has to do with their departure/release dates. But let's be honest, we should be thankful they are included, since it would have just depleted the number of possible wrestlers. And playing with a community contributed wrestler is nice, but not having their official theme there with their trademark animations? Call me a mark, but I am fine with this! I've played several matches now during the 3 days early access, played different match types and I have not encountered one bug so far. Nothing gamebreaking either. (Compared to WWE 2K20, when the game crashed in my first match, this is certainly an awesome improvement) I am enjoying the new game engine and controls alot. It takes a little time to learn blocking/reversing/combo breaking with these new controls, but it feels rewarding to excercise these things in a match. The presentation is very cinematic and gameplay is animation heavy, but that's okay to me. It looks very beautiful, camera placement is great (although one of the replay angles in the Smackdown Thunderdome Arena had something block one of the replay angles so I couldn't see one of those replays). After all this is a wrestling game and wrestling is "Sports Entertainment" to the WWE. And I feel entertained. Submissions and Pinfalls use button mashing, this is also working very great. The game finally removed the, in my opinion, annoying stamina restriction from the earlier titles that depleted whenever you reversed. You can finally reverse as much as you want, if you hit the right buttons. In this game, on legend difficulty, you can have awesome back and forths with the CPU or probably even more fun with your friends (try Remote Play Together) There are several modes: There's like the exhibition mode, where you can basically chose from several match types (One on One, Tag Team, No DQ, Falls Count Anywhere, Backstage Brawl, Hell in a Cell, Royal Rumble, etc). It's the mode to just jump in and make people acknowledge you. Oh yea talking about acknowledgement, there's even an achievement for that. Beat Roman Reigns One on One vs. AI on Legend difficulty. Man this is fun. Then there's MyRise which basically serves as the story mode of the game. You chose either a male or female wrestler and are supposedly told different stories. I am still in the female story line so I can't really elaborate alot on it, but it's fun to play. But don't expect too much from it. You basically go from Hub to Accept Story Mission to beat somebodies you know what to Hub etc. You start at the Performance Center and then assigned to a Brand. To me it's worth playing because I just like this game and the matches so much, i'll take any chance to play a game. There's also MyFaction, basically the card collection portion of the game. Thankfully this plays offline vs AI, or else I fear this mode would end up like Ultimate Team does for FIFA... There's challenges like weekly towers and several challenges that earn you ingame coins. With those you open packs and improve your team. Unfortunatly it does not entirely refrain from offering people a premium currency for cash. It is supposed to lure players into buying them and open packs with those. Do yourself and your parents a favor kids, do NOT support this. No offense towards 2K, this game is great, but the annoying practice of offering premium currency... seriously? I paid over 100€ for the NWO Edition, you still want money from me? They must've played Shance O'Macs Theme when implementing this into the game... Rey Mysterio has his own Showcase mode which has 11 matches to offer for the start. The final 12th match unlocks after finishing all the other matches and doing all the objectives in those matches. Rey sits down and tells you about his feelings and how the match played out. When doing the objectives the game transitions from ingame animation to the real show back to animation smoothly and Rey keeps explaining about his feelings and why certain matches were important to him. Especially the first few matches that explore his relationship towards Eddie Guerrero are very emotional, even incorporating the RAW Episode after Eddie's passing which was especially heartbreaking. Altogether there are great matches but some of his more meaningful matches, especially the custody for Dominik storyline ladder match, is excluded. Probably they didn't want to tell the story in 2022 because today this would be an impossible storyline I guess. MyGM let's you pick a GM from Sonya Deville, Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Adam Pearce or William Regal (yea the one who got released and joined that other company just last weekend). You will pick a show (Smackdown, Raw, NXT, NXT UK) next. Both the GM and the Show have a specific bonus card that is giving you an advantage. Then you will do the draft. You have some initial cash to spend on the draft and pick your superstars. The AI or another player will do the pick after you and so on. After that you will need to set up a show, matches and promos. These advance rivalries. You need to place faces against heels (although it's not called like that ingame) and wrestler's role play an impact aswell. Fans will rate your matches (although I think it's Dave Meltzer secretly coded in which would make things alot funnier let's be honest) and based on the outcome you will earn some money for the upcoming weeks. Your goal is to beat the rival show. I didn't finish MyGM yet so I can't really elaborate more than that. There's universe mode but I didn't try it yet. You can play online aswell or download curated wrestlers/arenas/championships by other players. This worked nicely in early access and there's alot of content already to download. Let's just say that other company with the Demogod, you know which one I mean, it has a strong presence there unsurprisingly. Let me also tell a few words about the soundtrack. I like it, especially Bad Bunny's "Booker T" song made it in, although it apparently seems to be censored which is funny because I don't understand what he says anyways, so this is kinda weird but okay, this is a PG Show. So all in all I am enjoying this game alot so far! I am enjoying it alot more than the previous WWE 2K titles. It feels alot more casual and approachable to players new to the series but still has that depth that requires to anticipate reversals and combo breakers. Personally I can recommend this game to anybody from a true wrestling fan to the occasional viewer who just wants to play this game and have some fun rounds with it. And that's the bottom line.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 11, 2022

  It's better than 2k20, but still suffers from fps locks in entrances and mid match animations Edit: As of the last patch you can unlock the entrance and other animations to 60fps
• gamedeal user

  Mar 12, 2022

  2K is lucky they don't have any actual competition (yet). This is a TERRIBLE pc port. Like, genuinely awful. You boot up the game to ridiculously barebones graphics options only to quickly realize that you have to quit and force vsync with external software to avoid screen tearing. Cool, let's wrastle! Wait...the game is locked to 60fps? Weird, but not a deal breaker. Oh wait....for random moves/camera angles it switches to 30 fps (mid match)? Well that's nauseating. But behold! A fix in the Steam forums! A simple .ini edit! Yay! Oh...that breaks the camera in MyRise mode. Fun. It's a bummer, this is the first wrestling game I've played in a decade and while it can be fun, it's also a slap in the face to PC owners in its release state. It's getting positive reviews because fans of the series are largely only comparing it to the last release (and fair enough, it was by all accounts a legendary-tier trashfire), but 2K22 is objectively an EXTREMELY lazy port. If the port wasn't such a mess, it'd be an immediate recommend from me for wrestling fans. That being said....it is such a mess, and on top of that the online portion is completely broken. I can't recommend you hand $60 to developers who pretty obviously just don't care. Visual Concepts/2K, at least put in the bare minimum. This is embarrassing.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 13, 2022

  I f****ng love beating the s**t out of people as kermit the frog or walter white
• gamedeal user

  Mar 13, 2022

  great game! However, 30 FPS Cap on Cut Scenes and special Moves alongside that screen tearing issue with no V-SYNC Option available for PC Users is killing the intensity of this game, 2K did a nice job, this instalment indeed a step forward in the right direction. JUST ADD THAT DAMN V-SYNC Option for PC Users!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 13, 2022

  big improvement after 2k20, but still my favorite is SvR series
• gamedeal user

  Mar 14, 2022

  A step in the right direction for sure - But by itself It's not an amazing game like people say it is, just an okay one.

  I honestly heavily believe the majority of people raving about how good this game is are in a honeymoon phase. 2K20 was an awful game and I think the wrestling games community would treat anything even slightly better with the praise that 2K22 has. I'll admit, there was a honeymoon phase for me, too, and I was VERY hyped for this game, since the development team seemed so proud of the product they created with how much promotional content they uploaded leading up to the release of this game My summary of this review is that 2K22 is definitely a step in the right direction - The gameplay was overhauled to be fast and seamless, with a lot of the strikes and moves flowing into eachother and rarely is there any janky movement. With the focus on combos, you can press any random sequence of buttons and get something awesome to happen, it makes just about any match a clinic, with CPU and others alike. There's lots of small attention to detail improvements like better match commentary and PPV specific entrance commentary. The version of the characters actually matter on commentary, too - For example, if you were to play as the 02' version of Undertaker, the commentators will actually talk about him like that's the most recent version of him, and as if the streak never ended. They definitely put a lot of love in the small details in this game. I do however have some gripes with the gameplay. The choice to switch over the pin system to button mashing was a bold one, but I understand the thought process behind it - It's beginner friendly. Though I found myself unable to lose any match because I'm just that decent as mashing, and I know others who had this same problem and chose to change to the old system. Characters also recover and get up a lot faster this year, making ladder matches and tag matches an absolute hell. I like how you can spam the insta-recovery ability and pretty much nosell everything, but it can get kind of annoying in PVP matches. Speaking of, online match making is still buggy, laggy and as bland as ever, with hardly any new match types or options to use. You'll still run into just about as many gameplay glitches as you would in any other past 2K game. My main issues however rely in the actual content of the game. To me it feels like in order to bounce back from 2K20, they had to shove some new modes into 2K22 to reel in the fans they lost, even if it meant finally having to include GM mode, a mode we have been begging to return for over a decade now. After spending a couple hours in each mode it felt to me that ALL of these modes were rushed in some capacity, and it made the overall experience of the game feel very hollow and lifeless. I'll be leaving an in-depth review of each mode below.

  MyGM

  Starting with this one since it was the crown jewel of most players that planned on buying the game. I got to say, the expectations were incredibly high. With 2 whole years to work on this mode with improved technology, you'd THINK it would have all the features and depth of the GM modes in games that were made over 10 years ago - But it simply doesn't. For starters, all of the titles aren't even in the mode. Each brand gets 1 male title and 1 female title. There is no calendar, and you cant send your superstars to do other things on off days (they don't exist apparently). Every card only has 3 matches and 3 promos (to which the options are incredibly bland). You can only do 1v1 & 2v2 matches. You can't set specific storylines or hire writers. You can only sign around 10 superstars because the budget is super low. If you ask me, the time they spent adding new features like GM character select, ability cards and venue purchases should have been spent adding features that were EXPECTED to be in the mode, as they were in previous editions of the mode. Without them, this mode feels very unfinished and off-putting to play, and in my opinion It's very clear they only put this in the game to reel people back in. It's a very unbaked mode that you will be disappointed by and left wanting more. Hopefully they improve upon this foundation and turn it into a more complete mode in 2K23.

  MyRise

  It almost hurts to say...but this mode really reminds me of 2k15's my career...and that was REALLY bad. There's absolutely no cohesive over-arcing story like there was in 2k19 & 2k20, and most of your experience will be you fighting random matches with a couple sentences of bland backstory slapped on to give you a sense of reason to go on. There's hardly any cutscenes EVER - The first actual cutscene I saw that wasn't the intro was when I was already on RAW...And they looked more like universe mode cutscenes than anything interesting or cinematic. Remember what I said about story? Yeah, well, most of the storylines you'll play will start over corny tweets in a Twitter feed that you access through the options menu. I'm not kidding. No interesting ways to start or encounter rivalries, no voice acting, nothing. Like I said, it reminds me HEAVILY of 2k15's career mode with a Twitter feed breaking up the matches rather than Vickie Guerrero. A very disappointing step back from 2k19 & 2k20's career mode. They were both linear and had no freedom whatsoever but at least they had a story to go off of and felt like they had a direction.

  MyFaction

  This was 2K22's dark horse. Nobody expected this mode, and it wasn't really talked about very much as a wanted concept until it was officially revealed. It's basically NBA2K's MyTeam, but in a wrestling game - You buy card packs with players to build the ultimate team and take it online to test your strength and show off your collection. Sounds cool, right? Well the experience is immediately soured right off the bat once you realize that there is no multiplayer in this mode, making you question why you should even put the time and effort into collecting anything If you can't show your collection to anybody or use your cards against other people. It makes the mode ENTIRELY aimless. The way you earn currency to buy cards with in the mode isn't very fun, either. Normal VC doesn't work in this mode, you only earn the special currency used in this mode in one of their 2 mini-modes. 3v3 matches, and 1v1 matches. The 3v3 matches are an absolute chore for reasons I've already stated. You're pretty much forced to end every tag match with a submission unless you want to sit there for an hour straight hoping to get lucky for a 3 count before someone breaks up the pin, and even then the matches can sometimes take ages, only for you to gain a small amount of currency for each one. The 1v1 matches SHOULD have been fun, but there's a very unfortunate, unnecessary catch - You can't simply win these matches your way, you have to do certain objectives before you win, or else it will be treated as a loss. You heard me. You can't even play the mode the way you want to. And with such boring, aggravating game modes, you again question why you put yourself through the torture If you can't even use your spoils you gain from it against real people. This mode can EASILY be fixed by adding an online feature to it next year, and can be made better by taking more inspiration from NBA's MyTeam. REACHED THE CHARACTER LIMIT, SEE THE REST OF MY REVIEW HERE
• gamedeal user

  Mar 18, 2022

  This review is coming from someone who has purchased every WWE game at full price, on release since 2006, and I've played every one before that, owning several more. For the casual fan, someone who just wants pick up a game and have some good old fashioned wrasslin' fun, this is a good game. You'll enjoy the gameplay, you'll find it's wacky customizations hilarious and will have a blast putting cat ears on The Undertaker, or downloading Donald Trump off Community Creations and having him wrestle Batman. However...if you're someone like me, a huge wrestling and video game fan who has been a fan of the series for many years...I just don't know. I've described my views on this game as generally 50/50. For every time I've been annoyed that a feature is removed, I've seen a bit of attention to detail that has me audibly saying "Wow." Hands slapping the steel steps in entrances make a great noise, the commentary is MUCH improved and they often talk about specific history or style matchups between the two specific wrestlers in the ring. They put a lot of time and care into these aspects of the game to make it FEEL like not just another rehash of an engine they've been using since the very first Smackdown! game for the playstation 1. So, if I have all of these great things to say about the game, why am I also displeased with it? I'm going to list some missing features, inaccuracies that are inexcusable, and other things I've noticed that..I just can't justify. No D-Generation X. The music is not there, HHH's entrance motion isn't there that I've seen, no entrance video. I can forgive them removing custom entrances for a year "because it caused bugs in 2k20", but why remove options and templates for superstars still in the game? No retro versions of characters already in the game in other forms. We have current Kane, but not retro. We have current bald HHH, but no long haired 90's or 2000's version. We have 2006 HBK, but no 97-98. All of these characters were in last years game...Which...brings me to the reason I've seen that they've been removed. Myfaction. They have removed these aspects of the game to place them exclusively in Myfaction mode. You can't use 2001 HHH in universe, but you can pay real money or spend countless hours to play as him in their card based, pay to win or grind it out mode. To me this is the ultimate greedy money grab technique, and has me wanting to boycot this franchise. Jeff Hardy's music no longer aligns with his entrance motions when he begins dancing. HHH's music no longer aligns with him spitting the water. Why? That was a detail that has been right in EVERY SINGLE wrestling game for years, all the way back to the ps2. Why is that suddenly wrong? MyGM is back, but extremeley limited. No secondary titles, only a men's a women's title with limited matches per card. If I literally can't have a mid-card title, I just don't see the point in a watered down version. Most of the DLC wrestlers have literally been in the game, some as recent as 2k19 or even 2k20, yet now I have to pay to have them again? YOU LITERALLY REMOVED WRESTLERS FROM THIS GAME FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT, TO HAVE THEM AS DLC? Rob Van Damn, Yokozuna, The British Bulldog and others have all been in recently, and I can't believe I haven't seen these things being complained about in other places. As far as the gameplay goes, not having a single counter button and having to match to what type of grapple they are doing makes it to where I can't keep my finger on a single "no" button as I call it, and just perfect the timing and instantly counter everything thrown at me. It makes matches a bit more challenging, and something I've enjoyed. I DO NOT agree with their claims that the controls have been simplified this year to allow more people to pick up and play. Perhaps it's that I've mastered them in years past, but this control scheme seems more complicated than every, though I've gotten used to it. I have ran into some bugs and random crashes. Hollywood Hogan's leg drop finisher does no damage and is difficult to get a win with. I've had my finisher bar freeze so that I can no longer tell how much momentum I have. Downloaded arenas off of Community Creations do not show up when I try and select them in Exhibition mode, but they are there when I try and put them on a show in Universe. In conclusion, if all of these little..off details don't bother you, then by all means, get this game. Enjoy. Just don't pay them a DIME on Myfaction, and be wary if you are like me, a long time series fan looking for details that you just expect a game like this to have. Again, absolutely no reason to have HHH, HBK, Chyna and X-Pac in a video game, but no D-X entrance. Inexcusable. Happy wrasslin', friends!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 19, 2022

  I have all the WWE games from the very first smack down to this one. I can honestly say 2k20 was a dumpster fire. 2k22 is great. A little tricky getting used to the button layout but manageable. The entrances are awesome, and they have ponytail Brock! I like this game. Better if the 2k series. Not the greatest wrestling game of all time, but definitely an improvement from the last couple games. I recommend to any WWE fan.