I decided to come back to playing this after going on it for quite a while not long before the end of 2022. While I'd not say the game is "great" per se, I think the reviews on here are very harsh for what it is. Also, the only WWE 2K games I have for comparison to this is 2K16 and 2K18.

Positives:
The Story mode's (MyRise) inclusion of a female MyPlayer is nice and adds to he story as well as being a sign of gender equality within the WWE games

Graphics are improved slightly from 2K18

The Royal Rumble allows female wrestlers to be used which I find enjoyable because it allows variety in matches

The reversal button being made triangle on PS4 is an improvement and I remember it more easily than pressing R2 in 2K18

Negatives:
For all the graphics are improved, the atrocious hair physics this series suffers from sadly continues here.

Some wrestlers, i.e Paige, aren't immediately available on the roster and have to be unlocked in the showcases

Characters in MyRise, including your MyPlayers, don't have much depth to them as well as being forgettable with the only memorable characters being the actual wrestlers from the game

6/10 overall

half a star is too high

Crashes before every match, what an absolute joke to release it like this.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS

WWE 2K20 por mais que siga uma certa receita de jogos (especificamente de luta) que quase não dá para errar (por serem divertidos pela sua mecânica) obviamente foi decepcionante em vários aspectos, seja pelos gráficos e pelos detalhes que parecem ter sido piorados a respeito do seu antecessor e de brinde um nível inaceitável de bugs e problemas de crashes que virou motivo de piada pela própria comunidade do jogo, tudo isso devido a uma pressa desnecessária da 2K só com o intuito de lucrar com essa ideia idiota de lançar um jogo a cada ano mesmo que esteja extremamente quebrado e que não cumpra nem o mínimo do aceitável. Além desses tantos problemas conhecidos do jogo, temos um enredo no "MyCareer" quase sem vida que só fica bom nos capítulos finais já que antes ele se resume em você espancar o seu adversário na gameplay e quando passa para a cutscene você acaba perdendo por alguma besteira inacreditável do protagonista trazendo uma frustação enorme ao jogador por ser feito de palhaço a todo o momento, repleto ainda de piadas sem graça e momentos galhofas/de vergonha alheia dignas de um daqueles filmes antigos da Sessão da Tarde. Por isso e mais que acho inviável de recomendá-lo pois se tiver vontade mesmo de jogar algum WWE recente jogue o 2K19 que parece ser muito mais digno do que esse aqui...

I honestly don't know why this is even in my library. I enjoying repeating a certain timeline in the universe every now and then but that's about it. The port is broken as hell and the developers spare any concern for such tabulating issues. I perhaps won't buy another 2K or, WWE game for that matter on PC ever again. It's only as enjoyable as it gets on console and, I think almost everyone can chime in their 2 cents on how much they care about producing an efficient port for the PC.

That ends my complaint about the port; as for the game, I don't I've seen a game as depressingly sabotaged as this in years - cough, cough, WWE All Stars - not to mention Battleground. I'm not a big wrestling fan but, I did own every SVR game on PS2 and own WWE 2K19 on Xbox. I can't say I love those games but they do provide me with enough enjoyment to keep kicking the bucket again. I can't seem to express any interest in the design philosophy of this game, it's intrinsically dead and hollow. There is barely any change to the system and where there is, it's worse. For god's sake, add multi-championship title options to Universe mode already: what's so wrong with having an undisputed title system ?

VC, please stick to one set of controls, don't keep changing them every other year. I literally had to train my muscle memory to react to the reversal cues between 2K19 and 2K20: they leave me in utter confusion every now and then. While I admit that this is a thing every developer or console industry does, it's more of a generational thing rather than frequent. Remember when inverted controls were the 'norm' ? Yeah, me too. I didn't like it at all. They filled me with the most devastating nightmares- even worse than the likes of any Lovecraftian or Shelley novel.

To sum it up, Visual Concepts needs to know that its audience isn't expecting another SVR or WWE 'XX game. It wants all the fluidity and freedom those games offered, along with some innovation that doesn't have to interfere or get in the way of our enjoyment. At this point, 2K games are nothing more than mid-ranged EA excuse notes.

honestly kind of a beautiful disaster

when it works (which is not often) the myplayer mode is funny as all hell, including the part where samoa joe gets turned into the winter soldier

but the game is so poorly held together that i cant in any good conscience give it more than like 1 star