![]() Combining this with some recycled items and a lack of new match types can make some areas feel a little sparse. The ability to create my own finisher is absent and custom championships aren’t going to be added until later (so they say). No matter how goofy these things look when I’m done, I have a good time going through all of the items and just creating something unique, even if some of the layers can be annoying to line up. It’s very annoying during the story mode when they have even less to say about the player-created characters.Ĭustom creations are fun as usual. The commentary doesn’t stick out as being awful, just disjointed like most iterations, but it almost seems like they are repeating lines even more than usual. Not really issues, but as per usual, some of the voice acting isn’t bad and then there is a lot of it that just feels so canned and stale. Sound effects are good, but they don’t always trigger when they should. ![]() There are some issues with sound as well, like having the crowd audio or all of it just stop and come back randomly. If this is the state of WWE 2K20 after a patch, I dread to think what it was like before. The game received a day one patch to help with some of these issues but after playing, I’m not sure how anyone could tell. I wonder what the threshold of glitches is, where people stop buying the game at release because of how ridiculous the engine and coding imperfections get. They’re all pretty humorous and have almost become a thing we look forward to seeing how crazy they can be every year, but eventually, the realization sets back in that this is a sixty dollar or more experience that will only get patched to a certain extent. I’ve read of others having much worse luck. Somehow, the game only crashed on me twice. Most of my experiences involve the ropes and hair breaking physics, but at any point where there are matches with more than four people and several items involved, it always looks like the game is simply shaking apart at high speeds. The glitches players are experiencing are getting wild and looking through the various posts is mesmerizing. Those would be considered the simple ones, though. There are parts where things just disappear, the text doesn’t pop up, items vanish, and sometimes entire characters blip out for a moment. ![]() It is hard to draw the line between what is a visual issue, some failing of the game engine, or simply a glitch. I’m not even talking about the fact that the mouths are frightening at times and don’t move right with the dialogue, or that everyone who came in my stream first asked, “what’s wrong with that character’s face?” ![]() The rise and fall in quality can make me queasy at times and I found myself wondering if I had identified the correct wrestler. Some elements look even worse this time around though, like hair and certain character portraits or profiles that don’t match the superstar at all. This is especially true in the story modes or anything involving custom characters, where the models look copy and pasted and their accessories are painted on with bad layering. Then, there is that flip side of the coin where things look like garbage. I am frequently amazed at what the developers can do to make these entrances for certain superstars look so good, how authentic some of the moves look when hit right. The visuals often go from looking absolutely stunning to incredibly hideous with an odd balance for in-engine gameplay. However, this year managed to upgrade some of the classic issues and add a few that 2K19 seemed to have taken care of. So, once again I argue that there are too many loading screens, that arenas are boring and aren’t as interactive, and the superstar rankings are still all over the place and a bit ridiculous. I think everyone knows the usual suspect issues before a new entry is even announced. Yes, I too agree that they should take a year off and fix some of the more nagging issues with the series, but I have a suspicion that WWE demands that annual release and its revenue over anything resembling long-lasting quality. Whereas WWE 2K19 was a game that took everything the developers had learned from the previous years and improved on the inner workings, this new edition feels like a monkey wrench in the gears. Another yearly installment and a nice round number with WWE 2K20 this year, but not everything is as expected.
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