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Xbox: The Official Magazine
|Christmas 2016
Brock Lesnar? Crock Lesnar, More Like
Wrestling games are weird. Outside of the Japanese classics, like Fire Pro and King Of Colosseum, they never really capture the feel of the ‘Sports Entertainment’ they’re trying to emulate. Sure, they capture the look – and never has the series aped the visual style of WWE television as accurately as this – but the in-ring content still falls short after all these years.
This is 2K’s fifth bite at the WWE apple, since it acquired the rights from THQ, and it definitely is better than last year’s release. There’s no doubt about that. The visuals are better, the menus are slicker and more user-friendly, the MyCareer and Universe modes are improved and full of extra content, but the wrestling is still a bit of a mess.
This story is from the Christmas 2016 edition of Xbox: The Official Magazine.
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