Count me in as one of the few people who's hyped. I didn't play last years, but I thought the gameplay of 2k16 was good, and this new one seems to fix my main issues with career mode in particular, plus the roster looks amazing. I know this series is easy for a lot of people to rag on, but personally I love some of the little things they've added throughout the years, like limited reversals for one thing. Here Comes the Pain and Day of Reckoning were amazing, but they could quickly turn into reversal fests. Also, I love Fire Pro. I have almost 100 hours on the recent game, but let's not pretend that series doesn't have it's own problems, such as striking, and the fact that it almost looks indistinguishable graphically from the 17 year old Dreamcast version, and plays basically the same too. For whatever reason, that series seems to get a free pass with it's failure to innovate, while WWE 2K catches all the flack.