10 Strangest WWE Video Game DLC Packs

9. NXT Arrival Pack - WWE 2K15

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 Online Axxess DLC
2K Games

WWE 2K15 featured a small smattering of NXT's hottest names on its base roster, where they featured in the Who Got NXT game mode for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 users. A mini-Showcase of sorts, the mode offered playthroughs of exemplary NXT matches from the runs of Sami Zayn, Adrian Neville, Rusev, Bo Dallas, and Corey Graves.

Via the game's fourth of six DLC packs, Adam Rose, Emma, and The Ascension were added, too. They'd all made rationally substantial impacts in NXT before WWE's developmental group nixed its developmental prefix, but they were on the main roster by the time of its release. Offering players expired NXT talent in a DLC pack literally titled NXT Arrival was a tad cheap on 2K's part, given how increasingly popular the brand was becoming throughout 2015.

It's so mind-numbingly strange, in fact, that the strangest part goes oft-neglected; the fifth man in the pack was JBL(!).

The ex-WWE Champion had served as NXT General Manager for a stint, so he had some connection to NXT - unlike Harley - but it wasn't enough of a connection. A Kevin Owens or a Sasha Banks would've been better placed here over the former Bradshaw.

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