WWE 2K19: 10 Biggest Changes 2K Must Make

3. Refined Commentary

WWE 2K19
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It's not news to anybody who has played a WWE video games over the past 20 years that commentary is consistently woeful.

Michael Cole sounds like he'd rather be anywhere else than in some stuffy studio pretending to get excited over polygons, and the backup duo of Corey Graves and Byron Saxton regurgitate the same tired banter every few seconds. It's all unacceptably poor, and it hurts the game's credibility.

2K's NBA series doesn't suffer from the same issues. There, main anchors Kevin Harlan and Greg Anthony sound enthused by what they're seeing. At times, it even seems like they're watching a real basketball game play out in front of them, and the level of depth to the scripted information they're spewing doesn't come across as forced.

Compare that to Cole's agonising chorus of teleprompter lines in WWE games and it's amazing to see the disparity in quality between releases from the same development house.

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