Noctis33

No entrance music while streaming, no DLC packs, a micro transactional hell scape, the island feels like DC online with a wrestling mini game, My Rise feels like a mobile game, in this modern age and at its price point 2K26 shows everything you love about a game can be put behind paywalls and stripped of there essence now the graphics, performance and overall feel of gameplay has improved unfortunately not enough to seperate this game from the previous year, you will essentially be paying handing 2K your hard earned cash to watch your wrestler hit a newly introduced purple stamina bar that leaves you completely defenceless against a A.I that doesn’t suffer the same problem What about the Creation suite? Well, it’s the same, no improvements have been made to the very limited face editor, body type has now been broken down in to body parts (didn’t we have this as a standard years ago?) I think my personal pet peeve on this game is the face you can’t do a simple edit on a characters nose ‍♂️, if your excited about WWEs acquisition of AAA and its roster of Lucha stars and how that would translate into the new game well here’s more bad news, most of the new additions are locked behind the ring side pass, a gruelling grind of “Tiers” that will have feeling like your in a Groundhog Day of matches just to unlock content that should of been available at launch, They haven’t updated the mask system in CAW so the dream of having a Luchador Superstar tend to look like a budget S&M partygoer has stormed the ring, although the island introduced a string of new streamlined masks that could remedy this, they are also locked behind either a micro transition or there new Towers mode that essentially forces you into a pay to win scenario, if you manage to pay your way to these cosmetic your then faced with another brutal reality, non of the island cosmetics are customisable, To summarise, it’s not a terrible game if you love wrestling at its core, but for the WWE super fans and creators this game falls incredibly flat, my advice? Hold onto 2K25 until this one goes on sale, and don’t bother with the “Editions”