This game is bullshit, even by the low standards of the series. It's a mess. Weapons half disappear on the ground (especially ladders), collision detection is at an all time low, audio is fucking awful and frequently cuts out, repeats things, gets stuck on loops, talks over cut scenes, talks about 2014 events for wrestlers in 2003, has fans booing faces, huge pops over nothing, then silent. Half the moves in any given match will have no impact noise at all. The ref's counts make no noise. Many of the characters look like straight up CAWS (Bo Dallas, 2002 Kane, 2011 Punk, Vince McMahon, Ric Flair for examples) while some look better than most models from last year (Rusev, Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper). They still can't get hair right, to the point where even guys with stubble look weird.
Glitches I encountered in under 24 hours with the game:
HHH teleporting Kane to the announce table while trying to put him in a casket, with the ropes twisting around them, then teleporting back to the casket.
King and Cole getting stuck repeating the same line for 3 minutes. This happened multiple times.
King and Cole's in game commentary playing at the same time as the cut scene commentary. This happened multiple times.
Weapons getting stuck in the ropes or guard rail, or teleporting across the screen. This happened multiple times.
A wrestler getting stuck in the ropes and unable to move until hit. This happened multiple times.
A wrestler attempting to either pick a grounded wrestler up or apply a hold, but bumping into the ropes, causing them to reset and get stuck in a loop of trying it. This happened multiple times.
John Cena frequently doing the above not anywhere near the ropes in the Proving Ground mode. Just getting stuck trying to pick you up off the mat. Also, his mouth would randomly open all the way up and stay that way for large chunks of the mat.
The occasional sucked inside yourself through your asshole glitch that happened in the last few years.
Adrian Neville's hand spinning around for no reason.
Every now and then, the game just wouldn't respond to grapple or punch inputs. Just flat out wouldn't do anything but walk around the ring for 10 seconds.
Names flashing on the screen after the name plate vanished at Survivor Series 2012 in Showcase mode.
The ref CONSTANTLY getting in the way of corner running strikes.
The announce table sometimes vanishing during cut scenes. King and Cole sometimes vanishing during cut scenes and the game.
WCW/NWO Revenge level slow downs during 6 man tags. Going outside of the ring would cause the camera to pull back and the game would be slow as shit. This happened in 3 different matches.
Pretty consistent hands/fingers clipping through title belts in Showcase mode.
Vince McMahon's irises momentarily disappearing in a cut scene.
In the Rusev/Ziggler match where you can't get to light damage, body slamming Ziggler caused me to go to light damage.
All of that in less than a day of playing. What I'm saying is this game is a piece of shit and if there are any Yukes/2K members on the board who were in anyway involved with the making of this game, they should feel ashamed of their shitty work and think about a different profession.
This game is bullshit, even by the low standards of the series. It's a mess. Weapons half disappear on the ground (especially ladders), collision detection is at an all time low, audio is fucking awful and frequently cuts out, repeats things, gets stuck on loops, talks over cut scenes, talks about 2014 events for wrestlers in 2003, has fans booing faces, huge pops over nothing, then silent. Half the moves in any given match will have no impact noise at all. The ref's counts make no noise. Many of the characters look like straight up CAWS (Bo Dallas, 2002 Kane, 2011 Punk, Vince McMahon, Ric Flair for examples) while some look better than most models from last year (Rusev, Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper). They still can't get hair right, to the point where even guys with stubble look weird.
Glitches I encountered in under 24 hours with the game:
HHH teleporting Kane to the announce table while trying to put him in a casket, with the ropes twisting around them, then teleporting back to the casket.
King and Cole getting stuck repeating the same line for 3 minutes. This happened multiple times.
King and Cole's in game commentary playing at the same time as the cut scene commentary. This happened multiple times.
Weapons getting stuck in the ropes or guard rail, or teleporting across the screen. This happened multiple times.
A wrestler getting stuck in the ropes and unable to move until hit. This happened multiple times.
A wrestler attempting to either pick a grounded wrestler up or apply a hold, but bumping into the ropes, causing them to reset and get stuck in a loop of trying it. This happened multiple times.
John Cena frequently doing the above not anywhere near the ropes in the Proving Ground mode. Just getting stuck trying to pick you up off the mat. Also, his mouth would randomly open all the way up and stay that way for large chunks of the mat.
The occasional sucked inside yourself through your asshole glitch that happened in the last few years.
Adrian Neville's hand spinning around for no reason.
Every now and then, the game just wouldn't respond to grapple or punch inputs. Just flat out wouldn't do anything but walk around the ring for 10 seconds.
Names flashing on the screen after the name plate vanished at Survivor Series 2012 in Showcase mode.
The ref CONSTANTLY getting in the way of corner running strikes.
The announce table sometimes vanishing during cut scenes. King and Cole sometimes vanishing during cut scenes and the game.
WCW/NWO Revenge level slow downs during 6 man tags. Going outside of the ring would cause the camera to pull back and the game would be slow as shit. This happened in 3 different matches.
Pretty consistent hands/fingers clipping through title belts in Showcase mode.
Vince McMahon's irises momentarily disappearing in a cut scene.
In the Rusev/Ziggler match where you can't get to light damage, body slamming Ziggler caused me to go to light damage.
All of that in less than a day of playing. What I'm saying is this game is a piece of shit and if there are any Yukes/2K members on the board who were in anyway involved with the making of this game, they should feel ashamed of their shitty work and think about a different profession.
Funny enough my bro played 11 and 14 and still preferred the older ones, but this is just, wow.
We miss you Aki :-(
