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

by Jamie Kennedy

1. Gameplay Could Mimic The Classics

SmackDown Here Comes The Pain
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Ashton Andersen also told Fowl Original that he and other designers working on the game are mega-fans of classics like SmackDown: Here Comes The Pain, WWF No Mercy on the N64 and even WWE All-Stars. That bodes well for anyone who wants grappling games to shoot back in time to the "good old days".

If VB can somehow marry 2K-style character models with gameplay from one of those titles, they'll be onto a winner. The convoluted, heavily-restrictive and often uninspired gameplay of 2K's series has become a frustrating, bloated mess in recent years. Something needs to change there.

Could Virtual Basement be the ones to deliver that change?

Stranger things have happened, but it'd be totally weird if the PS5's first-announced wrestling game ended up succeeding because it recycled gameplay from something on PS2, the N64 or PS3. People who gobble wrestling games up through force of habit deserve a game that's actually fun to play however - that can't be denied.

Are you excited for a WWE 2K20 alternative? For more, check out 10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Rob Gronkowski and 10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE No Way Out 2000!

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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.