![]() The shoulder buttons are used for special moves and the d-pad for power-ups (yes, power-ups), and… that’s about it. There a couple of others that are contextual, enabling players to climb ropes and pick up weapons. WWE 2K Battlegrounds Reviewīutton wrangling, which was where the 2K series was getting out of hand, has really been simplified down to just a few buttons one to punch, one to kick and one to grapple. ![]() The art style is cartoonish (some may describe it as wacky or zany, but I’ll restrain myself), with each wrestler rendered incredibly out of proportion, but still recognisable.Īnd the Arenas? Now called Battlegrounds (obviously), these are not perhaps what you’d expect, with fires to avoid in one, and huge alligators at the side of another, waiting to take a bite out of the next fool stupid enough to get close. WWE 2K Battlegrounds takes a very different approach, turning humble sports entertainment and simplifying it down to its roots – hitting things and throwing things in a spectacular fashion. ![]() More recent titles have focused far too much on technical aspects for my liking – not because there aren’t a lot of technical moves in wrestling (of course there are), but more because it was too much for my feeble brain to come to grips with. As a wrestling fan, I’ve always wanted to play a really enjoyable wrestling game, but for my money, the last good one was all the way back on the arcades in the 90s – WWF Wrestlefest – and even that hasn’t aged well. When I first heard the news that 2K Games was going to take a break from the standard WWE 2K series to make something more casual and arcadey, I was instantly excited.
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