![]() What is LESS forgiveable is the feel that Battlegrounds has been built around microtransactions. ![]() However when a game is this much fun things like slow load times and excessive amounts of loading can be forgiven (somewhat). ![]() – put a strain on load times because the load times are remarkably long pre-match, especially when you’re playing couch co-op. However I dod wonder if the OTT graphics – the backgrounds, lighting effects etc. Graphically I had zero complaints – this is not a perfect recreation of your favourite superstars and as such it allows for both more flexibility in the gameplay and in the quality of the graphics. Then comes the various two-button combos – still easy to learn, but a lot more satisfying a result AND a lot more damage to your opponent! The easiest moves to learn are the punch and the grapple, both triggered by pressing a single button for each move. For the majority of the time WWE Battlegroundswants nothing more than for players to bash away at buttons, but doing allows you to fill up the heat bar – think of it as akin to a special move bar in side-scrolling beat em-ups – which then lets players pull off special moves, boost health AND unlock bizarre power-ups such as LITERAL flaming hands… before building up to a devastating finisher! However once you play throught the story mode, you’ll be given hints and tips on new moves, so stick with it and you’ll discover that there’s actually a deeper element of skill required to truly progress through the games numerous matches. It’s not just the characters that are hyper-real, the gameplay is too… The game mixes traditional wrestling maneuvers with glorious OTT combos that wouldn’t look out of place in a superhero videogame. And with more characters coming via DLC, Battlegroundslooks like its going to allow you to pit old vs new and find out just who is the ultimate WWE superstar… Making this fanboys dream come true! Well now 2K are taking things back to basics with WWE 2K Battlegrounds, with an arcade-style wrestling game, a la 2011’s WWE All Stars game, which will no doubt appeal casual gamers MORE than wrestling fans – for this is no sim, this is sheer pick up and play fun!įeaturing caricature recreations of some of the greatest WWE wrestling superstars, more focused on modern stars than classic wrestlers, WWE Battlegrounds is a who’s who of WWE wrestling history, with some 70 characters all rendered in a beefed-up, over the top hyper-real fashion. The early days of the button-bashing NES game Wrestlemania Challenge have slowly lead to the wrestling sim-esque 2K games. Over the years there has been a plethora of wrestling-related videogames, each game becoming more and more complex and more simulation-like. ![]()
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