WWE 2K24 is a whole lot of enjoyable (our reviewer Matthew Schomer thought so too), I’ve been having fun with duking it out within the MyGM mode and messing round with my very own storylines in Universe. For me, the actual star of the present is that this yr’s Showcase mode.
With Wrestlemania 40 occurring subsequent month, WWE 2K24 has chosen ‘40 Years of Wrestlemania’ as its Showcase theme. The mode has you enjoying varied iconic matches that occurred at WWE’s final occasion, finishing targets to ‘recreate’ the occasions of the match.
40 Years Of Historical past
Earlier than you start a match, you get a clip reel narrated by Corey Graves documenting the occasions main as much as the match. Then, you’ll get footage of the real-life match interspersed all through your in-game match after finishing targets, additionally narrated by Graves.
This mode could be very cool, and it serves a perform past simply being an satisfying online game expertise. It’s a fantastic historic and academic useful resource, documenting key occasions in wrestling historical past in an illustrative method.
There isn’t one match from each Wrestlemania or something like that, there are sometimes two matches from the identical occasion after which a few years are skipped. I used to be a childhood wrestling fan, and have a tendency to solely watch Wrestlemania and the Royal Rumble lately. I’ve heard of those matches, nevertheless it has been wonderful to play via them and find out about how the matchup happened within the first place.
I knew of matchups like Ricky Steamboat towards ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage at Wrestlemania 3, or Final Warrior towards Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 6 however with the ability to watch the footage whereas enjoying as the 2 wrestlers is enlightening.
When you’re a brand new fan of WWE then enjoying via Showcase mode is a fast schooling for a few of the most essential matches within the firm’s historical past. From Andre the Large vs Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3, to Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 30, you get a really feel for the way essential these matches had been in shaping the course of the corporate and wrestling as an entire.
It’s a fantastic consequence of how far sports activities simulation video games have come, you’ll be able to find out about sporting moments in an interactive, thrilling manner. You won’t at all times have the willpower to hunt out and watch traditional matches, however enjoying them certain is enjoyable. You get rewarded for finishing each match goal, unlocking wrestlers, entrance themes and arenas.
It isn’t with out its frustrations. At one stage, I’m dominating Shawn Michaels as Kurt Angle, I’d have him overwhelmed 20 minutes in the past if it wasn’t for the targets, however the real-life footage kicks in and it transitions again to the sport with the Heartbreak Child on prime. He picks me up, and I’m nonetheless dazed — Candy Chin Music, 1,2,3, sport over. I misplaced management via a scripted occasion and by no means recovered, forcing me to begin the match over once more.
Nonetheless, the Showcase Mode is purpose sufficient to buy WWE 2K24. As WWE and the ‘wrestling enterprise’ proceed to age, sources like 2K24’s ‘40 Years of Wrestlemania and even 2K14’s ‘30 Years of Wrestlemania’ are going to be pivotal academic and historic sources for educating new followers.
