‘WWE 2K’ Review: Beautiful, But Shallow

Although it’s pretty and it may even have a few more options than you might expect for a tablet or phone game, “WWE 2K” is essentially a mid-carder once the ring bell clangs.

With a dated roster and powered by a control scheme that is more gimmicky than intuitive, “WWE 2K” feels more like a mobile version of “WWE 2K15” than its own separate entity. That being said, the biggest problem with 2K Sports’ “WWE 2K” is that it unsuccessfully tries to provide a console experience on a tablet or phone. While it’s a deeper gameplay experience than you might expect at first, especially for an iOS game, it’s ultimately still a shallow journey that gets old fast.

2K Sports’ first wrestling sim on the iOS is clunky- and for good reason. The iOS isn’t exactly the first place you’d expect a wrestling sim. Other developers, a-la Mat Dickie, have been successful in the genre in the past, using pinching and swiping gestures in their games to represent strikes and grapples and what 2K does in “WWE 2K” is an absolute homage or extension of that. While it works well enough, the limited amount of moves and lather, rinse, repeat gameplay runs itself thin quickly.

Simply put, if you’re the type of wrestling fan that gets bored during a John Cena match, thanks to his three moves of doom, imagine playing a wrestling game where every character has about a dozen or so moves. It just gets old fast.

Continue Reading This Article From Review Fix Editor-In-Chief Patrick Hickey Jr. on Examiner.com

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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.

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