I experienced that in the last two games as well, but I reckon they happen twice as often or more this year and they can occur in a far greater variety of places. ![]() There was a day one patch, but I still get crashes. Even in the cutscenes, oddities such as Tre’s backpack occur, as the straps just sort of hover off of his body by a good half of a foot, giving the backpack a weirdly floating appearance. I have seen videos of props falling through the mat, characters sinking into the floor or clipping through objects and collision detection is just a mess. The ropes have a sort of weird rubbery look to them at times that is inexplicable. They show up all over the place, from character creation to when you are playing the game. What kind of bugs, you might ask? Well, there are plenty of visual bugs. ![]() This, combined with the numerous bugs, really gives the impression that Visual Concepts was just not ready to release this year’s game. ![]() However, right now if you select the option, you’ll be told that it is not available and to come back later. There is supposed to be one new mode called 2K Originals, which is meant to provide episodic content. Yukes has traditionally doubled down on those modes, making them better (I really enjoyed last year’s M圜areer mode for example). Realistically, the WWE games have not added a whole lot of new modes in some time, because the ones they have provide so much depth that it has not felt needed. Most of the modes that I have come to expect from this series are here: quick matches, online play, downloadable content, creation content, Universe (think of it as your own giant sandbox) and M圜areer are the highlights. To that end, WWE 2K20 has given more serious attention to the women wrestlers through the Four Horsewomen in the showcase, allowing for intergender matches and even the M圜areer finally lets you have both a male and a female wrestler that participate in the story. This has been an incredible year for women in the WWE though in real life, often times outperforming and proving to be more popular than their male counterparts. Last year with Rhonda Rousey, it seemed as though there was going to be a larger focus on the women of wrestling, but it never really materialised. Probably the best thing WWE 2K20 has going for it is the focus on womenn. Missing features, bugs and worse visuals all detract – badly – from some of the cool things that WWE 2K20 did implement this year. ![]() If I am being perfectly honest, WWE 2K20 just feels like it should not have been released yet. Here however, the shift in development from Yukes to Visual Concepts did not appear to go very smoothly. With yearly sports title releases, you expect new features and continual, if sometimes only incremental improvements. The most glaring issues are on a technical level. That is not to say this year’s release is not without some merit, but it was very much a case of two wrongs for everything that was done right. WWE 2K20, however is more of a Royal Bumble than a Royal Rumble as this year the series took a major step backwards. The over-the-top actions and personalities are unlike anything else in sports games and I generally have a great deal of fun with them. The WWE series has been showing its age for a couple of years now, but it is one of those cyclical releases I look forward to most each year anyway.
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