Following rumours that 2K would not be putting out a WWE game later this year, the World Wrestling Entertainment federation has confirmed that this is indeed the case. WWE 2K21 will not be a thing, making 2020 the first year to not play host to an official wrestling game based on the brand since 1998.
However, it isn't too difficult to see why. WWE 2K20 was an unmitigated disaster for developer Visual Concepts, plagued by bugs and glitches which gained a considerable amount of notoriety on social media. As the game blew up through tweets poking fun at it, shared thousands upon thousands of times, the situation only grew worse despite a handful of patches to try and sort the experience out. We have to assume that this backlash played a very, very large part in the decision to cancel WWE 2K21.
Were you hoping that 2K and Visual Concepts would be able to right the sinking ship for this year's entry? Avoid the F5 in the comments below.
[source fightful.com]
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If THQ are back in business and buying licenses, I’d love to see an old-school wrestling game in the vein of No Mercy.
Depending if you count regional releases its actually 1997 or 1988 for last year for no game for the promotion
WWE was so realistic that the wrestling in the game was fake too (invisible hitmarkers)
I just want All-Stars 2. That game was too fun.
Now where will I get my nightmare fuel from?
The better. We all missed those old school semi-arcade style wrestling games.
@sajoey I thought I was the only one who remembers that game.
2k12 and 13 were good.... and its been all downhill since
Thq and yukes should get back in bed and make a better game...or remaster the old classics
@Cutmastavictory It’s a shame getting old licenses is such a minefield, I’d love remasters of classic sports games like WWF No Mercy, Tiger Woods 04, MVP Baseball 05 and NHL 94.
The thing I find crazy looking back at all the WWE annual releases was that Smackdown 1 and 2 were released 7 months apart, imagine if they did that now?
After all that mess with 2K20 this is the right call. Time to lay the Smackdown on this series. Sorry, I couldn’t resist but WWE games just ain’t what they used to be.
@nessisonett AEW keep teasing that they're working with the devs who own the No Mercy game engine. Fingers crossed it works out!
Is it too late to cancel WWE 2K20 as well?
WWE not looking so good atm, i think the xfl has been canceled and they are trying to sell it. I could be wrong but i think i saw something about this.
Just remake WWF Smackdown 2, with the same roster
And nothing of value was lost.
Haven't played a wrestling game since like Smackdown vs. Raw on the ps2, so completely indifferent on this.
Avoiding F5, rather Alt + F4.... this all have no sense to me, why to avoid F5, so I gonna click Refresh icon instead... 🤔
@djlard The F5 is Brock Lesnar's finishing move.
makes complete sense, 2K20 was a massive mess and they've just released a load of the "talent" so the roster would be either very light or massively outdated
Good riddance, I say. WWE games have been in decline for a long time now, and the last game specifically was just lazy trash. The best "modern" WWE game is still Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain from the PS2 era.
WWE games need a hard reboot. Start from scratch with a new developer, give them 2-3 years to get it absolutely right, and fans will be happy to hand over their money.
@nessisonett It's THQ Nordic or Nordic but since they bought most of the IPs from THQ they then took the name and merged it. Its not the THQ well all like for wrestling games back in the days
If every match takes place in the same Performance Center arena with no crowds to render, it's got to improve the performance somewhat, right?
I played WWE 18 on ps now, haven't played a wrestling game in ages, played about an hour, it was pretty bad, can't imagine how bad 20 is.
Last wrestling game I played Raw Is War in PS1 lol
Yuke should get it i just want a new "Here comes the Pain" . 😃
Darn it 2k, you ruined my $60 funny animation video for this year...
(offscreen whispering) Wait, this was supposed to be a videogame?
I have only recently got this in the PSN sale for a laugh with mates, it seems to run pretty sweet to me, maybe because of loads of patching before I picked it up?
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