WWE 2K22

Back on track after the horrendous WWE2K20. Not necessarily the best game they've done, but it is one of the better wrestling games released in recent years.

Definitely enjoyable for some mindless wrestling fun. Can definitely tell that since my last title in the series that they've made some upgrades to the play and overall engine that made it pretty easy to just pick up and play whenever. It's not going to win game of the year or anything but it definitely has it's moments. The showcase mode wasn't really all that interesting to me because Rey Mysterio is pretty lame in my opinion and it takes itself way too seriously while the controls make some of the tasks way more challenging than they should be. I get the whole kayfabe thing and you have to pretend it's all real but it made the mode pretty obnoxious to play through with him pretending like he had to outsmart the opponent like it's not all scripted oiled up, steroid boys doing soap opera drama. The MyRise mode is kind of fun but it really likes to crash during character creation while modifying their body and face. Literally if you go too extreme with changes it seems to crash every time. It took me several attempts to actually get to play and finally I just slapped on attire and a mask to cover up the generic starting body just to get through it. That kind of sucked because you don't actually wear the outfit through the PC training part or in a lot of cutscenes so I had to look at the ugly generic dude the whole time. MyGM was pretty boring overall. Felt like playing a spreadsheet almost. Didn't really feel like a rewarding game mode. The thing that really stood out though was the community creations. You can basically find any wrestler or famous person ever to download and play as. Even wrestlers I forgot about entirely like Mosh and Thrasher. I ran into a Harambe at one point too. The game itself has made so many options available for moves and outfits that you can basically make anyone with a little effort and it looks like the players really have. My biggest disappointment with the game though is the music selection. I always start out these titles with making my own custom character and by the time I was done with just the overall basic body type and started working on fine tuning I had heard every song in the game already. I actually stopped after attire just to go to the menus and find out how to turn off all the songs because it felt like I was listening to the same 5 tracks over and over. It got really grating, really quickly especially because none of the songs were very good. Like if you aren't going to use basic background music and...

game seems to work well and look good enough but the new controls are something to relearn so engine wise seems good but having not played much apart from random matches with my son means I can't say about all the extra modes