We’ll start with what is, for all intents and purposes, THE running WWE game, as 2K20 and 2K Battlegrounds were both hollow replacements for it.

“The Brothers Rivera,” at SPARK Wrestling’s “The Big Showcase V” ( WWE 2K) The reunion of El Numero Uno, Archangel, and Ricky Coyote, a.k.a.

I’m a guy whose list of recently played games on Steam consists of four pro wrestling games and Wildermyth, and who has two PlayStation Network accounts specifically so I could have two rosters of 100-created characters each, so I figured it was only right that I use my very specific knowledge set to guide you through this seemingly never-ending lull between wrestling games. Aside from playing a pair of disappointing WWE games or digging through your closest to grab a copy of Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for the PS2, what can you do to pass the time until something new comes out? WWE 2K22 was delayed until next March, though, and AEW’s unnamed project has no set release date at all. However, with the recent scoop that the fan-favorite GM Mode is returning for WWE 2K22, plus the steady development of All Elite Wrestling’s first console game (which got more gameplay footage shown off during their recent All Out Fan Fest), there seems to be hope within the masses again as we await the “Big 2” wrestling companies’ “Big 2” wrestling video games. And even before WWE and 2K’s series lost its longtime developer in Yukes (which torpedoed the production of WWE 2K20 and led to the cancellation of 2K21), many players had already fallen out of love with the biggest wrestling company’s longest-running franchise and its simulation-based approach to play. 2020’s WWE 2K Battlegrounds was a lootbox-infused nightmare in the same vein as NBA 2K Playgrounds, and it barely left an impression in wrestling and gamer circles.

WWE 2K20 was a broken mess, roundly voted as one of the worst games of 2019.

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