

Want to play a game without spending any money? This is the way to go! The lack of depth and buy-ability will be quickly lost on you, too. There’s nothing special about its moves or abilities, and that’s something that hurts inside. The spectacle of the WWE always overshadows its game. But it offers exploitative microtransactions to help pay for things. It is not as much like the old-school games that we grew up on, nor does it offer a compelling experience. Like previous entries in the series, Benoit’s fatal-4 way match at Mania ends up being. The technical side of Battlegrounds is at times complicated and problem with it, but things are much better now.įrom numerous bugs and framerate drops, even with this simplistic art direction and graphical style, Game was ultimately a mess. In order to unlock the full roster, you must either pay up or slowly grind it out.

For context: You earn a few hundred a match on average, dailies only reward around a thousand, and the rewards for leveling up each week are around 1k. Legendary characters, for example, cost roughly 12,000 WWE Bucks. The whole process is incredibly slow going. Unfortunately, you will have to unlock most of the characters in WWE by spending real world money. You can do grapple and throws, finish, or even grapple and throw simultaneously! You can perform moves by holding down L2 while you’re on offense or defense. The combos that are given become incredibly easy to break down into pieces. But hey, at least their use of mundane words is standard across a plethora of titles.Īfter you’re in the ring, gameplay can feel quite repetitive and boring. It can be difficult to follow the storytelling in Battlegrounds because it falls into repetitive generic fare. Paul brings Stone Cold Steve Austin out of retirement for his Battlegrounds show. The campaign tells the tale of Paul Heyman creating new TV programming, including “Battlegrounds,” a bizarre underground wrestling show. This is anything but a simulation of modern professional wrestling I can assure you!īattlegrounds still offers some charming qualities, like the way wrestlers have been placed inside toy boxes and the campaign mode is presented in a comic book. WWE 2K Battlegrounds features a wide cast of WWE superstars new and old, throwing each other dozens of feet into the air, into cars, and alligators (also known as crocodiles in this title), all with over-the-top power-ups and abilities. The WWE games are usually annualized and typically released in an almost simulated way, but this year is the first time they’ve made something different in a long time.
