WWE 2K22 Ringside Report #1: Gameplay Deep Dive

The first WWE 2K22 Ringside Report is here! Learn from the Visual Concepts team about the game’s dynamic animations, stunning gameplay, and more!

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[GRNE]

This is what we need from the Devs. Open and honest conversations about the status of the game. Wrestling video games are such a unique genre of games that we need things like this!

[LoneCamo]

Show as much as possible, not everything. But just enough of a lot of the main parts we use so we can get a good judgment of what it will be like. Anyways thank you guys 🤝

[IAmRockReigns]

Doing a lot more than they did for WWE 2K20. Must have a lot more faith in it.

[RaheemD]

Finally some gameplay footage! It looks really interesting. I'm unsure about the camera angle for couch co-op, I hope there's an option to change it but everything looks promising so far. I hope they add more options to do tag team moves and more options when using weapons e.g. Setting up a chair and running onto it, putting an opponent ONTO the ladder like old times, taunting with certain weapons. Just all the small details that will make the game more enjoyable.

Edit: I also realised no mention of the announcers, I hope they actually react to OMG Moves and tables being broken. It's depressing when you do an amazing move in 2k19 and the announcers couldn't care less lol

[MANIACITV]

Gameplay looks a lot smoother and the lighting has definitely improved! Can’t wait!

[stecknadelfm]

I absolutely love how the old arenas look! That Mysterio vs. Kane match looked so damn good. Even that few seconds from the Guerrero vs. Mysterio match in the previous trailer looked so real! I mean the new arenas look great but the old arenas look so beautiful. I'm really looking foreward to relive some childhood wrestling memories:D.

[jahmeirduncan]

Ring looks smaller but the game looks smoother, I like how fluent everything looks, I saw HBK in the MYRISE peak y’all gave as well. Hope the game feels fluent too could be an instant classic

[caleb_clay]

I'm absolutely loving the confidence & high hopes from the dev team this year around in comparison to what little we saw in 2019 for 2K20. Hoping they can hit a home run tomorrow. 💯

*Just got through watching: I'm definitely even more excited for this game now. 😎 Huge shout out to all of the devs. Thank you guys so much, and I can't wait for the next episode.

[alphabeats]

The showcase Arena light looks so realistic, hope we can select this "filter" in custom arena's

[raidenpo]

The animation actually looks more fluid & slightly faster than its predecessors. I like the new camera angle too. I'll just nitpick on the referee counting a bit slowly and the animation looks kinda stiff but it's just a minor thing. Hopefully this will become a new ground for the game which will keep being improved for the future titles. I would say well done with this one. I might also need to see the differences between current & last gen if possible :)

[dend]

They should release a new wwe game every 2 years going forwards. Rushing them out year to year is what got us to this point in the first place

[TimeBucks]

The showcase Arena light looks so realistic

[xKingx]

I like how much energy there putting into this game and trying to prove us that it ain't nothing like the previous ones.

[Wandering_Nowhere]

Like how the camera is closer to the action, following you as you move around. Makes the gameplay flow a lot better and it's more engaging.

[daridingleberry]

praying that the gameplay shows full entrances, the highlight reel feature, post-match breakout, weapons being used, rope breaks, the submission/kickout system. overall this truly will make or break if the game is worth it or not.

[mody]

The game looks smooth and fresh 🙌🏼🙌🏼
We only need a demo 🙏🏼

[brownsugarcandie]

First off, I'm sure many people will agree with me when I said, I'm glad we're getting gameplay footage that isn't edited. Just raw, footage! Definitely love the new camera angle! Huge improvement over 2K20's. Gameplay looks smooth, and nice! Loving that. And controls don't look so difficult now that it's been explained, a bit more. The lighting was one of my #1 biggest issue, on 2K20. Glad that got dealt with. Also, take a look at those pants. The chain is actually moving. Hair physics look amazing, too! The button mashing tho? Not a fan of that, and my fingers are TIRED after the many years of button mashing in games that have them. Hopefully there is a way to change that? Besides that, these are the type of video's I wanna see more of, omg! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😭💯

[clspectre]

I'm intrigued by this. The ref count is too slow though - I would hope this is something you can set/control if they don't change it.

[reaperztm]

There's some good little details that we can see in the reversal of Priest when he hit elbows on Rey, the elbow strike really seems to go at the right height making it feel a lot more realistic in my opinion (but to be sure that it's not only a simple new animation we'll have to wait for other gameplay with this counter) but at least it's a cool improvement because it gives more realism in the game and i personnaly like that, and show that they worked on little details too

[DamnWhoAsked]

Showing full match gameplay a month before release is honestly a good sign. If they’re confident enough for their own game, we should be confident ourselves. So ready to see this.