Those who want to “Feel the Bang†and “Rack†up the competition one more time get their wish with WWE 2K15’s new “WCW Pack,†but a lack of extra attention to detail hurt the overall product.
To relive the Monday Night Wars in “WWE 2K15,†you need certain characters. While Stone Cold, The Rock, Chris Jericho, Ric Flair, Sting, Shawn Michaels and The Big Show as well as several other characters are in “WWE 2K15,†other big names from the competition are missing.
The game’s latest DLC, “WCW Pack,†released on Dec. 16, adds some names that hardcore fans will recognize, creating far more nostalgia in various game modes. However, some of these choices are baffling ones. Mid-card mainstay and former WCW TV Champion Lord Steven Regal, former WCW TV Champion Fit Finlay and former WCW Tag Team Bam Bam Bigelow are three of the five characters added to the game’s main roster as a part of the DLC, but they achieved far more success in other promotions, mainly the WWE and weren’t huge parts of the Monday Night Wars. That hurts this DLC’s legitimacy right off the bat. No one will argue how influential Diamond Dallas Page and Lex Luger were to the WCW cause though and because of that and for the most part, awesome looking character models, this pack ends up satisfying, but also leaves a lot to be desired in terms of realism and attention to detail.
The biggest problems with this pack are the lack of authenticity. Although the character models for the most part look great (sans DDP’s massively high mullet and lack of a mustache- it’s like they combined two of his looks rather than focus on one.), there’s a slew of overall problems.
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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports.
Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders.
His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023.
Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief.
Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale.
Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.
Those who want to “Feel the Bang†and “Rack†up the competition one more time get their wish with WWE 2K15’s new “WCW Pack,†but a lack of extra attention to detail hurt the overall product.
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