WWE 2K18: 10 Ways To Make It The Perfect Game

10. Better Commentary

Live commentary has been part of WWE games since 2001’s SmackDown! Just Bring It, but the developers have never been able to nail it. In most versions, the announcers speak through a series of repetitive, chopped-up soundbites that rarely reflect the action going in the ring, detracting from the game’s presentation rather than enhancing it.

While the announcers have greatly improved over the years, 2K17’s was still distractingly bad at times. The baffling thing is that the commentary in the NBA 2K games (another 2K Games/Visual Concepts series) is close to flawless, and makes you feel like you’re participating in an actual game of basketball rather than a simulation. Who knows why they haven’t been able to match that quality in the WWE games, but this has been a problem for years, and must be addressed in 2K18.

2K usually do a good job with the game’s visual presentation, but the commentary always feels so jarring and disconnected. The hectic schedule kept by WWE’s busy announcers would make tying them down for the necessary recording period difficult, and perhaps an impossibility, but you can’t create the perfect game without impeccable presentation.