Then there’s Golden Bucks, which can be bought with real money and effectively speed up all those pesky unlocks. The game has two currencies Battle Bucks, which are earned by playing and can ultimately unlock all game content, albeit only by slogging it out over-the-odds.
True to form for the series, WWE 2K Battlegrounds is clearly constructed with a heavy consideration towards microtransactions. The campaign also allows you to level up and unlock wrestlers, arenas, and other peripheral gumph, at which point it becomes clear just how much of a grind it is for players to obtain everything the game has to offer.
However, the generally breezy, straight-forward gameplay at least ensures 1v1 matches only last a few minutes – or far less if you’re savvy enough to force a count-out – and so the entire campaign can easily be cleared in a casual day of play. Sadly this mode is only fractionally more interesting than base exhibition matches against the CPU, even with the player assuming the persona of several absurd fictional wrestlers throughout.
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What passes for a story mode here is presented through a series of 118 stages, many of which aren’t actually matches at all but either cheap-looking comic strip story beats – which, to their minor credit, are ridiculous – or the rewards received for winning matches. Playing against the CPU quickly becomes a dull slog, especially during the programmatic 1v1 matches which make up the bulk of the Campaign mode. Rather, it’s better thought of as a bite-sized excursion to dive into for two or three matches every now and then, because there’s desperately little to its simplistic beat ’em up mechanics. Players fill up a heat bar by mounting an offense against their opponents, allowing them to pull off special moves and flex power-ups (such as damage-dealing flaming hands and health boosts), before building up to a devastating finisher.Īn arcade-y wrestling game is certainly welcome in the era where photo-real “simulation” sports games tend to feel rather joyless, though it does also have to be said that WWE 2K Battlegrounds isn’t a game which sustains interest for extended periods. There’s not much more to it than that, but in the quest to spruce things up, the in-ring sparring is also in no way tethered to reality you’re able to hurl opponents 10 feet into the air and then punch them another five, because why the hell not?
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With an over-the-top gameplay style and aesthetic reminiscent of 2011’s WWE All Stars, 2K Battlegrounds at least has the good sense not to take itself too seriously, and to that end may earn a decent share of forgiveness, even goodwill, from fans – especially as 2K isn’t charging a full AAA retail price for it.Ĭore in-ring combat is incredibly simple, lacking the more convoluted control setups of the core WWE 2K titles you can grab, kick, punch, perform specials, pick up objects, and pin. While evidently cobbled together quickly and struggling to entirely evade the whiff of a mobile game given the AA upgrade, WWE 2K Battlegrounds’ unassuming quality is likely to disappoint few.Īnd you know what? It’s not a bad game the worst thing that could be said is that it’s unambitious and a little greedy. Many fans of the WWE 2K franchise had been hoping it would take a year off following the release of last year’s shambolic WWE 2K20, and between the game’s poor reception and the realities of developing a new video game in 2020, the planned WWE 2K21 was indeed eventually cancelled.īut this isn’t an entirely fallow year for the series, with 2K putting out an arcade-style romp to plug the gap. Shaun Munro reviews WWE 2K Battlegrounds…
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