7 Things You Need To Know About Virtual Basement’s Mystery Wrestling Video Game

7. Virtual Basement Want To Challenge 2K

WWE 2K20
2K Games

WWE 2K20 was 2K's version of The Shockmaster. It was a flub so mighty that it might've shattered everyone's confidence in them for good, and they'll have to think long and hard about how they can save a dying franchise. After that dung-heap of a product, there are few guarantees.

Virtual Basement smell blood.

The New England-based development team, known for titles like Ark: Survival Evolved and Broomstick League, may have looked at 2K's utter embarrassment and thought, 'Hey, we have an opportunity here'. It's true, they do; 2K20 was so bad that it might've opened the door for other dev-teams to snag some of that lucrative wrestling game market share for themselves.

This project is VB's big pitch to wrestling gamers everywhere. Why wouldn't they want to challenge 2K when the WWE licensee and Visual Concepts made such a colossal mess of their latest release? Someone has to pick up the pieces.

Advertisement
Contributor

Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.