10 Live Observations From Attending WWE Raw Live In Manchester

4. WWE 2K20 Has Been A Disaster

It may sound a little strange to say, but the biggest heel at Friday's Raw taping was WWE 2K20.

Actual talents got heat, of course, it's just that the fans absolutely and utterly sh*t on WWE 2K20 any time that a commercial spot played for this most recent of WWE video games.

Considering that most fans sat through nearly five hours of WWE content - with SmackDown being taped directly prior to Raw - there were obviously plentiful ad breaks and timeouts for the in-attendance crowd. And wouldn't you know it, but said timeouts would more often that not feature a commercial for WWE 2K20. Each and every time that happened, the negative, heated crowd response only got more p*ssed off as clearly a large majority feel as if they've been shafted by wasting their money on the glitch-riddled game.

For anybody who's played WWE 2K20, you'll have likely been baffled by just how much of a step backwards the game is, with its graphics feeling like a PS2 offering and it's technical gameplay issues being impossibly nuts.

Going forward, WWE and 2K Sports will have to do a huge amount of positive PR to try and win back gamers for their next release.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks/Saints, Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.

First Posted On: 9th Nov 2019

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