I gotta say when I first saw this announced, I did not expect much from it. I treated this really harshly but I will be honest when I say: I actually consider this to be a decent game.

The gameplay's a lotta fun. Lot of chaos in the matches and the graphics are excellent. The matches they got are really cool especially the Cage match which for some reason give me good old CZW vibes for some reason so thats cool.

Only downside? Microtransactions. And the gameplay can get a little tedious and repetitive at times.

Overall, pretty good. It might just keep me going till 2K22. lol.

This has to be one of the worst wrestling games ever. The only positives I can say are the controls are simple, and the combat is easy to pick up and play. During matches, you can get access to power-ups like health buffs, freeze your opponent, damage buffs, etc. Some of the environments are pretty cool like a chop shop, swamp and subway. It goes downhill from there. Every wrestler has the same move-set. Only difference is maybe one move and a finisher. Graphically, it's worse than WWE All-STARS, which looked way better. Severe lack of match types and glaring omissions (no Triple Threat or Fatal 4 Way Cage, no Ladder, no Elimination style modifier). No Create-a-Move-set. Create-a-Superstar/Woman is super bare bones, even more limited than WWF War Zone. Campaign mode is decent, with a comic book style story presentation. Too bad the difficulty ramps up to the extreme near the end and trades fun and skill for frustrating cheap tactics. There are a ton of playable characters including a lot that were added via post launch updates, but they are all so expensive with stingy in-game currency payouts that make it a boring grind. Not like it would be worth unlocking AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, John Cena or anyone since they all play 99.9% identical to each other. Worse? Game would even crash and slow to a crawl at single digit frames in multi-man matches.

This would be perfectly serviceable PS2 fodder if not for one of the most vehemently ugly gaming art styles in recent memory and a 'campaign' with bland progression that becomes flat-out unplayable in the last couple sections. I mean seriously take one gameplay video of this and tell me what the hell I'm even looking at. Not sure why this needed to exist considering they gave up on quality of life support for it in like a nanosecond anyway. Also tons of stupid .png cutscenes. Can confidently call this distracting.