WWE 2K18 Early Reviews: 10 Things We Learned

8. Entrances Are Immaculate

Bray Wyatt WWE 2K18
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Squint your eyes during several entrance sequences in 2K18 and you may just be fooled into believing you're watching an episode of Raw or SmackDown. Again, that lighting is sublime, but characters appear to have more of an 'earthy' look facially. Wrinkles and blemishes go a long way to making these guys look like real people.

Yes, the entrance routines are a little on the long side, but they're entirely skippable. Although it would be nice to have the option of shorter clips, that's nit-picking to the extreme. For a game dedicated to appearing as a WWE simulation, 2K18 gets things spot on when it comes to entrances.

Character models no longer look like they've been pasted on to pre-rendered backgrounds, which has been a problem for years. Now, everything feels like a real-life set, and the wrestlers themselves are a big part of that. 2K deserve a pat on the back for getting entrances so right.

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