WWE 2K15 First Footage and Gameplay changes

Everyone in story modes have horse eyes and it is creepy as fuck. When you beat Rey with Cena (and that reminded me how shitty that angle was for the night), Cole's audio is cut off by the start of the cut scene. And when the cut scene ends, it finishes the clip. Then it shows Cena and Punk with HHH between them, but it is 2003 Evolution era HHH.
 
I wish we could give you a definite answer. It's mind boggling. Maybe to make the next gen versions seem more superior?

Kind of, I think it's for parity because they couldn't get story, finisher and any entrances other than the main rosters done in time on next gen. We'll see in 3 weeks!
 
The new entrances are fun.

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Kind of, I think it's for parity because they couldn't get story, finisher and any entrances other than the main rosters done in time on next gen. We'll see in 3 weeks!

The way they are hiding the game, you know something is up. The game has to be gold already by this point to be in stores by the 18th. The gameplay that was leaked from August looks like garbage and I'd guess it won't get much better than what we saw there.
 
Wait so apparently there is an issue where the audio sound effects happen about 1 1/2-2 seconds after the move happens? hahaha

I seem to recall that happening every now and then on 2K14 too. Also I don't know if it's just for the Who Got NXT mode but when the referee counts, the mat doesn't make any sounds.
 
The day 1 patch for the game didn't fix any issues. It just adds support for the season pass. Obviously that is more important for 2k than to fix the numerous glitches with the game.
 
Sounds are fucked up all over the place. Sometimes impact sounds are delayed. Sometimes there are no sounds. The crowd boos faces and randomly goes insane over nothing and then quiet a second later. Twice I've had Cole and King get stuck looping the same phrase for 1-3 minutes. They frequently will say the same phrase after one another anyway. I've had Cole's audio cut out during a cut scene, then resume mid sentence when it is over. I've had Cole and King's audio NOT stop during a cut scene, so it had 2 different audio streams talking over each other. Then you have silly things like using the real audio from shows, which means random Booker T talking when only King and Cole are at ringside.

Unrelated to audio, the 2K Showcase is sloppy as shit. Especially when you play one of the matches and then they show clips of the real thing, which points out how many little things they got wrong. MITB '11, for example. Cena has white shoes in the game, black in real life. Punk has a beard in the game, clean shaven in real life. For Summerslam, HHH's hair is down, while it was tied back in real life. Even worse on that front is that more than once, on the loading screens the 2003 Evolution era HHH (with dark brown hair) is used instead of COO 2011 HHH. 2003 HHH standing between Punk and Cena in 2011. THe loading screens all appear to be from the next gen version. They all look off as well, but not as bad as the models in this. Some look pretty good. Cena nad Punk both look awful in the Showcase. Everyone has the wonkiest eyes. Punk often looks like Cobie Smulders. Cena looks like Barney Rubble. Vince looked HORRIBLE and even worse in motion, which is really weird because Johnny Ace beside him looked pretty great.

Other issues in Showcase: Commentary that talks about things that happened after these matches. Time inappropriate shirts/signs. Bray Wyatt, Eat/Conquer/Sleep/Repeat, King of Swing shirts in 2011. Weirdly, the 2014 YES movement shirts in a 2011 match with Bryan, yet the audience full of NO shirts in an exhibition with 2014 Bryan.
 
Sounds are fucked up all over the place. Sometimes impact sounds are delayed. Sometimes there are no sounds. The crowd boos faces and randomly goes insane over nothing and then quiet a second later. Twice I've had Cole and King get stuck looping the same phrase for 1-3 minutes. They frequently will say the same phrase after one another anyway. I've had Cole's audio cut out during a cut scene, then resume mid sentence when it is over. I've had Cole and King's audio NOT stop during a cut scene, so it had 2 different audio streams talking over each other. Then you have silly things like using the real audio from shows, which means random Booker T talking when only King and Cole are at ringside.

Unrelated to audio, the 2K Showcase is sloppy as shit. Especially when you play one of the matches and then they show clips of the real thing, which points out how many little things they got wrong. MITB '11, for example. Cena has white shoes in the game, black in real life. Punk has a beard in the game, clean shaven in real life. For Summerslam, HHH's hair is down, while it was tied back in real life. Even worse on that front is that more than once, on the loading screens the 2003 Evolution era HHH (with dark brown hair) is used instead of COO 2011 HHH. 2003 HHH standing between Punk and Cena in 2011. THe loading screens all appear to be from the next gen version. They all look off as well, but not as bad as the models in this. Some look pretty good. Cena nad Punk both look awful in the Showcase. Everyone has the wonkiest eyes. Punk often looks like Cobie Smulders. Cena looks like Barney Rubble. Vince looked HORRIBLE and even worse in motion, which is really weird because Johnny Ace beside him looked pretty great.

Other issues in Showcase: Commentary that talks about things that happened after these matches. Time inappropriate shirts/signs. Bray Wyatt, Eat/Conquer/Sleep/Repeat, King of Swing shirts in 2011. Weirdly, the 2014 YES movement shirts in a 2011 match with Bryan, yet the audience full of NO shirts in an exhibition with 2014 Bryan.
This game sounds like a mess.O_o
 
Holy fuck Heyman looks horrible. Doesn't look like him at all. It's like Michael Corleone in The Godfather games level of "We don't have the rights to his likeness, so make a generic balding middle aged guy with a skullet and suit". GM AJ looks like AJ if you squint really hard and she got hit in the face with a frying pan 3 or 4 times.
 
IGN review of WWE 2K15 (360/PS3):



http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/28/wwe-2k15-review


WWE 2K15 is like seeing Brock Lesnar going from breaking the Undertaker's streak to losing to Hornswoggle during the pre-show in back-to-back WrestleManias. Not only is it surprising, it's also pretty sad. I would frequently grab my copy of last year's grappler with the intent to quickly check some changes, only to find myself reluctant to switch back due to the far better roster and single-player experience. Do yourself a favor, save your money, and buy WWE 2K14. The minor improvements to combat and commentary in 2K15 don't even come close to making up for what was lost.
 
At SS 2012, the name of the wrestlers flash on screen after the name plate is gone. The opening shot also makes it appear that the entire arena is bleachers only. So much jank and slop in this game, and the last 2 years were super janky and sloppy. There is also sometimes terrible slow down coming out of a cut scene during a match. Other notes from this match: Ryback is in the ring 20 seconds after the triple powerbomb from Shield. Cena and Ryback get stuck in a loop of Ryback trying to pick Punk off the mat and Cena trying to back grapple him to break it up. That went on for about a minute. I almost restarted the match because I thought it was going to go forever. Cena getting frozen in the ropes trying to do the STF.

Looking at the next gen models in stills in Showcase, Rock and AJ look much better in the 360 version, even though GM AJ looks awful. She's somehow going to look significantly worse in the next gen version.
 
Death Drop and Stinger Splash animations leave something to be desired.

The former needs more underhook and the latter should be like the spear finisher.

Also the audience noise is louder than the song.

Boo you whore.
 
All of this is over the LAST GEN versions. Who fucking cares honestly. If the next gen one's are like this then yeah its a big deal but these downgrades? Who gives a shit, they're two different games.
 
All of this is over the LAST GEN versions. Who fucking cares honestly. If the next gen one's are like this then yeah its a big deal but these downgrades? Who gives a shit, they're two different games.

1. Why do you think these downgrades happened?

2. Have you seen the games com footage of the PS4 version?
 
All of this is over the LAST GEN versions. Who fucking cares honestly. If the next gen one's are like this then yeah its a big deal but these downgrades? Who gives a shit, they're two different games.

I need to get a sticky note and put it on my forehead with this: The thing is, these LAST GEN versions are the same exact game as WWE 2K14 with removed features for absolutely no reason at all to justify it other than feature parity with the current gen version, or to make the current gen version look better by comparison.

I'm not expecting all the features of the old gen version to match the current gen one, it's just a ripoff to charge $60 for a reskinned 2K14 that's worse in every way. If the old gen version is this bad with the same exact engine, what's the current gen version going to be like?
 
Last Gen sting looks awful. Especially surfer version. How'd did the fuck did they let this be this bad?

I Still say 2k should let the new legacy guys focus test the games before release. These glitches coming to this Gen is unacceptable.
 
More fun shit from Showcase:

2002 masked Kane's Titan Tron video is 2003 maskless Kane. Also, HOLY SHIT he looks awful. 100% have seen better looking CAWS of Kane. In this casket match, HBK pops out and suddenly has long, mostly blond hair. HHH tries to put me in the casket. It teleports PAST the casket, so he's actually shoving me more into the announce table, and then it teleports back.

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On top of that, you can win the match without ever using the casket mini game if you do a second chokeslam. You automatically win. And THEN, the picture of HBK for the next gen version of the same scene has him wearing a completely different outfit, with a different hair cut, and different color of hair.
 
All of this is over the LAST GEN versions. Who fucking cares honestly. If the next gen one's are like this then yeah its a big deal but these downgrades? Who gives a shit, they're two different games.

Great idea. Let's give companies free reign to do whatever they fucking like because it's not on the latest and greatest companies. Congratulations 2k, your effort on consoles that are in no way obsolete yet are free from criticism.

If Ubisoft are being a less shitty company than you, you've got issues. They're at least putting effort into Rogue.
 
I've been saying pretty much since Know Your Role that this series has a habit of going two steps forward and three steps back. I guess this time they decided to skip the two steps forward and just took the three steps back.

What will people who keep saying "wait for next gen" do when it comes out and is the same shit show as the last gen version, just with upgraded yet still questionably quality graphics?
Looking for reviews i came upon this now priceless gem FiRST

I remember that, even commented it seems.


Bring back Sanders Keel.

I've been saying this pretty much since he left.
 
More fun shit from Showcase:


HBK's black tights have visible red streaks because it is just a rushed palate swap. During some cut scenes, the announce table vanishes. If it doesn't, then Cole and King vanish and reappear at random. King gives commentary about the 2014 Royal Rumble during HBK/Batista set in 2003. Sheriff Austin is shown in a next gen picture with HHH and HBK...in his wrestling gear. In some of the videos, the WWE scratch logo is blurred. Not the WWF one. The WWE one. There is one video where the water mark is blurred, but the giant WWE logo on a truck isn't. Some videos show blood, some are in black and white. It seems like a couple just slipped through. Benoit's leg made it into the WM20 video. Batista goes from a suit in a video to track pants and shirtless in the game. HHH's shirt color and hair change from video to game as well.


15 total attires for Punk.
 
When 2K announced that Sami Zayn would be in this game and how CAWs start story mode from NXT, I was like "finally, the WWE game we finally deserve. Day one confirmed."

...and this thread showed me the harsh truth. This page alone made me sad. Here's to 2K16.
 
All these impressions just made me glad I held off for the few weeks until the next gen versions. I'm sure most of these complaints will not be an issue with those versions.
 
This franchise is probably the only one who hasn't seen any improvement in so many years. Fuck you yukes. 2K come on.
 
In some of the videos, the WWE scratch logo is blurred. Not the WWF one. The WWE one.

I think WWE edits the video packages... and like the rest of the game they would have been done months ago, before the logo switch. What the hell?

Edit: And as shown during the VGCW stream, R-Truth's entrance still uses his 2011 heel mini-tron, and he still doesn't rap on his way to the ring.
 
Seriously? Not surprised though.

Couldn't WWE put more pressure on 2K to make this a better product?

They don't even bother with their own product at the moment

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Seriously though, they'll take notice if/when sales drop. As long as they're getting paid, they give no shits. Just look at the Mattel figures for several years.
 
All these impressions just made me glad I held off for the few weeks until the next gen versions. I'm sure most of these complaints will not be an issue with those versions.

Eh. Some will and some won't Graphically the game is improved as for gameplay we will just have to wait and see until we try it ourselves. The cut features are most likely going to be the same on the next gen version. We will have MyCareer mode though.

I'm still looking forward to the next gen version and the cut content doesn't surprise me. My biggest gripe is the lack of entrance animations. I was hoping for a bit more than 3 generic ones.
 
They don't even bother with their own product at the moment


Seriously though, they'll take notice if/when sales drop. As long as they're getting paid, they give no shits. Just look at the Mattel figures for several years.

Yeah, I guess this is a better representation of the current product.
 
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