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There’s no need for a total overhaul here, as was necessitated by the dismal WWE 2K20.
Mercifully, developer Visual Concepts is in sync with that approach.
New match types such as intergender and underground bouts freshen up your day-to-day options.
Blood is turned off for these bouts, but otherwise anything goes.
One factor fans may weigh in concerns ratings.
It’s like playing Street Fighter when you take a female character and play against a male character.
It just works."
Even so, this year’s instalment feels like a step up from previous iterations.
Showcase now utilises three different match types: you could revisit history, change history, or create history.
Rather than being disqualified, this time around Reigns spears Rollins out of his boots for the win.
Those are examples of revisiting and changing history; it’s creating history within Showcase that’s most novel.
I won’t spoil the match objectives, but it certainly delivers.
Ah yes, Showcase objectives.
Here’s another component that is going to cause fan consternation.
Some objectives are now timed such as using Jax to samoan drop Valkyria twice in 45 seconds.
Fail, and you don’t get your unlockable at the end of that match.
“It’s for challenges and for replayabliity,” says Jinks of this decision.
[We want to] give people a reason to either play it again or have an extra challenge.
A 2K rep tells us the final list will surpass 300, and be the series' deepest ever.
We’ll have a guide to all those names as soon as it’s unveiled.
Hart of Glass
How about last year?
Even at pre-release stage, these feel encouraging.
Even cooler is the option to manually adjust camera angles during entrances.
In this way you end up playing director yourself, watching each intro to a finish.
It’s very cool, although some will notice similarities to AEW Fight Forever.
“Competition is healthy,” he says.
Now we’re like: let’s see what we can do and take it a step further."
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