Wrestling Games 2013

[vivisectvi]

http://kotaku.com/rumor-ultimate-warrior-returning-to-wwes-flagship-gam-693929104

Not in the 13-year history of the Smackdown/Smackdown vs. Raw/WWE/WWE 2K series has The Ultimate Warrior—one of professional wrestling's most intense, controversial, and just plain weird superstars—made an appearance. Apparently that will change with WWE 2K14.

The forums of SmackDown Hotel, a wrestling enthusiast site, last week published an image of the August edition of WWE magazine, carrying an ad for WWE 2K14 that lists Warrior (as he is now known, legally even) as a preorder bonus.

The Ultimate Warrior last appeared in 2009's Legends of Wrestlemania and 2011's WWE All-Stars, both of which were more arcade-style wrestling games, with cartooned player modeling and over-the-top moves. The WWE 2K line is (yes, non wrestling fans, I can hear you snickering) the simulation version, featuring storylines, more realistic moves and whatnot.

Warrior and the WWE have had an at-times strained relationship, but so did the WWE and the Macho Man, Randy Savage; those two managed to patch things up before Savage's death in 2011, and get him into All-Stars and WWE '12. (Savage also appears in WWE 2K14.)

I've pinged a 2K Sports representative to ask if they can go ahead and confirm this. You can see the image of the magazine page for yourself at the link. WWE 2K14 hits shelves on Oct. 29.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

They're two for two on the legends front. I know it's a pipedream but I'd pop if Tito Santana was included in this game.

 

[Danville_Wrestling]

I might buy this only after several months of good feedback from others. If you get two counts that's definitely nice, but I fear that this game will have lots of issues since its 2K's first wrestling game, right?

 

[vivisectvi]

Also, so much for that supposed "patch" that they were always talking about for WWE13.

 

[Danville_Wrestling]

Yeah, I have a pretty sour taste in my mouth over the last game. Great concept and fun roster, but how in the hell was the fact that there were rarely 2 counts not caught in developmental? Stuff like this is why I'm quickly souring on video games as part of this "patch generation" where something is released before its ready and then they gradually decide to fix the damn problem.

 

[fazzle]

I'm still holding out hope that 2K is just having Yukes produce the same old shit this year to make sure they get something out, and are having some other studio working on something all new for the next gen systems next year. HOPEFULLY. I'll probably wind up being wrong, but I can dream, right?

 

[FLAM]

I'll mostly skip this one and wait for the 2015 game to see if my friend gets called up to the main roster by then and gets included in the game to justify the purchase. I've been playing WWE 13 lately though. I scored a two count the other day and got pretty excited. Kinda sad.

 

[vivisectvi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9l2FeI5GMg0

Why do they always use that dumb looking version of Warrior with the giant hairdo? Pre-WWF Champ Warrior, plz!

 

[vivisectvi]

 

[Sabre]

Seems like yet another year of the same game but with different attires.

PLEASE make it a bit more enjoyable to play.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Some website was making very strange DLC claims (Paige, Shelton Benjamin) but who knows what that was about. It also called Savage January DLC when current advertising suggests he is there from the get go.

 

[vivisectvi]

That Macho Man robe is pretty swanky looking, gotta say.

Also, Papa Shango for DLC or I riot!

 

[fazzle]

I don't know if it's the robe, or the angle the shot was taken from, but Savage looks about 4 feet tall there.

 

[Danville_Wrestling]

I'd buy the game if they had a 90's gimmick pack of Papa Shango, Repo Man, The Mountie, etc. That would be pretty fun.

 

[Angle-plex]

Those graphic look....pretty bad.

 

[vivisectvi]

Instead of saying they look bad, how about saying what looks bad about them? They look on par with last year IMO (which I wouldn't exactly call bad either). I realize that everyone loves the hyper realistic character models from that shitty TNA game, but that level of detail isn't always necessary. Unless you're pausing the game every 30 seconds to make sure that the laugh lines on the Rock's model match up to his real life face, etc.

 

[Dobbs3K]

Instead of saying they look bad, how about saying what looks bad about them? They look on par with last year IMO (which I wouldn't exactly call bad either). I realize that everyone loves the hyper realistic character models from that shitty TNA game, but that level of detail isn't always necessary. Unless you're pausing the game every 30 seconds to make sure that the laugh lines on the Rock's model match up to his real life face, etc.

They look a bit too smooth and shiny to me. They don't look like they fit with the graphic style of the arena either. The backgrounds look more realistic than the characters do, to me.

 

[vivisectvi]

They definitely have become more... "cartoony?" I guess that is a good way to describe it? I don't really mind to be honest.. I just want a good current wrestling sim that I can book a "universe" around.. I'm doubting that will ever happen at this point.

Speaking of cartoony... I kind of wish they would make a sequel to All-Stars already.. had way more fun then I ever expected to with that game.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

All-stars had an incredibly fun reversal system.

 

[Angle-plex]

Instead of saying they look bad, how about saying what looks bad about them? They look on par with last year IMO (which I wouldn't exactly call bad either). I realize that everyone loves the hyper realistic character models from that shitty TNA game, but that level of detail isn't always necessary. Unless you're pausing the game every 30 seconds to make sure that the laugh lines on the Rock's model match up to his real life face, etc.

They look a bit too smooth and shiny to me. They don't look like they fit with the graphic style of the arena either. The backgrounds look more realistic than the characters do, to me.

That's what I was thinking. That pic with Warrior especially looks like he doesn't fit in the with arena. That said I thought the graphics last year weren't bad, so maybe they will touch them up before release.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

For reasons I can't figure out, WWE's YouTube channel put up a match from WWE 13 some random dude did (maybe for a contest?) between Warrior and Sheamus, and his created Warrior might actually look better than 2K14's Warrior model (mostly because of the hair).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87vr-8jDZm4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr22KPupEMs

 

[MillenniumMan831]

They have the balls to list "Two-Counts" as a feature in WWE2K14

http://wwe.2k.com/news/us-gameplay-improvements.php

 

[vivisectvi]

LOL, brutal. I actually feel kind of vindicated that it's mentioned in a press release/promo. Especially after having that dick head Aubrey deny it to everyone, telling us we were playing the game "incorrectly." Yet, somehow that guy still has a job as community manager, even after the company transfer.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Unfortunately they had to remove 3 counts.

I also like the new "Cena can easily win handicap or triple threat matches with a Double AA" feature. That's not sarcasm, I really do.

 

[Danville_Wrestling]

They have the balls to list "Two-Counts" as a feature in WWE2K14

http://wwe.2k.com/news/us-gameplay-improvements.php

I guess that's a shot at THQ. Still, I wish they could have PATCHED THAT, but from what I read a patch might've been impossible. I just can't believe that escaped development. You'd think that would be on the first page checklist. I don't see how the character models subsumed it because Bret Hart looked like crap compared to other games.

I don't play online, but I imagine the use of quicker strikes that are harder to reverse is going to lead to a lot of spamming of that.

 

[vivisectvi]

The funny part is, is if it IS a shot at THQ, then it's really a shot at themselves as the WWE Games team is pretty much the exact same group of people.

As far as the models go.. some of them are way off base. Like you said, Bret Hart.. he just looks bizarre compared to the rest of the models in WWE 13. Same with Booker T.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Someone (can't remember who or where, or if it was posted here or somewhere else) provided a comparison with a PS2 model for Bret that looked on par or perhaps better than the WWE 13 one.

 

[vivisectvi]

Booker T kind of looks like Jar Jar in that WWE 13 screen.

 

[Kageho]

??? Uh, that's because the Booker J is listed from 12, not 13. Still, both of those are horrible models.

 

[vivisectvi]

Derp. Reading fail.

The WWE 13 model is actually pretty much the same as the WWE 12 one.. they just made him darker.