

Next is M圜areer, in which you create your own Superstar to take from spotlight-seeking in NXT to induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. Almost any kind of match type you can imagine can be set up, from one-on-one’s up to a 30-man Royal Rumble, and with 120 playable Superstars and Divas toted by the game’s Steam page, there’s a hell of a lot of room for creating your own matchups. Play mode has your standard exhibition matches, unconnected to the larger modes, but is by no means lacking in content. From the main menu, the first four options are your offline modes - Play, M圜areer, 2K Showcase, and WWE Universe. To kick off, I’ll look at what you can do in WWE 2K16. The one I did spot was so minor that there may be more that I didn’t. There’s also your standard bump in visual spectacle, with higher resolution options and the like, along with at least one gameplay change. We’re reviewing here the PC release of WWE 2K16, that has dropped almost five months after its current and last gen console siblings - so what’s different? For a start, it’s releasing at a budget price of £34.99 in the UK, while still also carrying all of the season pass content - the Legends and Future Stars “character” packs, the Terminator pre order bonus (You can play as two versions of Arnie, from the first two films), the Hall of Fame Showcase, and some bonuses for the M圜areer mode. The same was said again last October: despite this being a new game in the series, it carries many of the issues that fans have berated for years. It has long been spouted that the WWE games haven’t changed enough, and certainly haven’t improved, since the PS2 era. I think somebody needs to remind the developers at Yuke’s and Visual Concepts that this is the case.

In case you don’t know, Father Christmas isn’t real, and wrestling isn’t decided in the ring - it’s decided by committee behind the scenes. I don’t want to see a single “Wah, wrestling isn’t real!” comment beneath this review - as the saying goes, “It isn’t fake, it’s predetermined.”. Reviews // 24th Mar 2016 - 6 years ago // By Tom Bickmore WWE 2K16 Review
