It’s great gameplay made me feel like this is a complete version of 17 and 18 and it’s career mode is finally entertaining compared to before it and-commentators finally for the most part understand what they are saying in matches.

If 2K23 is an 82, then 19 deserves a rescoring. It's by no means groundbreaking and the lack of additions of things that were lost in these games years and years ago when the development changed hands is certainly a pitfall. Universe was good in concept but needed tweaking, variety and customization that 19 just doesn't provide. It lacks a few significant features compared to the aforementioned more modern and at this time current WWE game such as GM mode. But maintains a semi-familiar control scheme and gameplay style that kept it true to the series as well as keeping to WWE's (more specifically their games franchise) title as leader in a niche market. I mention controls and gameplay because it's the very core of what is wrong with 23. Though on base settings the counters can be horribly difficult at times it also has no shortage of sliders to fine tune the experience so you don't feel the obvious trend chase to turn 2k19 into Dark Souls. The counters really seemed imprecise, clumsy, sometimes never showing prompt, Timing was very difficult to attune oneself to with the sheer amount of different moves and each one having the counter at different times during the animation. In at least one case, I had a wrestler with a lower overall rating counter special and finisher at least 3 times each in a single match with barely any stamina or "HP" left. Though in real life it would have made a great spectacle of a match to watch Not Ideal, especially for a game where I wanted to Vince McMahon my entire Universe and control every aspect, and Easy difficulty is still ridiculously unforgiving. (yes I know I don't play on high difficulty especially in wrestling games, but ones ability to play a difficult game shouldn't alienate them from a product they've already purchased, and why I stand by my opinions that Dark Souls is horribly overrated purely because people think hard = good, which is only ever true when two consenting adults are naked together, I further assert that that opinion is entirely objective) Luckily 2K at least had the foresight to offer players an INSANE amount of difficulty and match setting sliders from momentum rate (the resource used for finishers etc.), though this may feel a bit lazy, adding balance sliders rather than balancing the game, it's nice to be able to use them. As far as I remember you could get very granular adjusting how often the AI will counter strikes, diving moves, grapples and even specials/finishers.

The best 2k game in my opinion. It got the best roster, gameplay is pretty good except some gameplay limitations that kinda ****. My career is alright ig nothing that good really. Showcase was pretty good and just the overall gameplay and simulation is still fun to play to this day