WWE 2K22: 10 Small Details That Make It Brilliant

by Andrew Pollard

1. A Helping Hand With Your AEW Roster

WWE 2K22 Keith Lee
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Is this necessarily just a small detail? Possibly not, but it's a point that's worth hammering home.

While it's easy to poke fun at how WWE 2K22 already feels a little out of date due to how over 30 superstars featured in the game are no longer employed by WWE, there is one giant silver lining to all of this.

Of course, that silver lining is that you already have brilliantly detailed character models of a multitude of stars who now find themselves working for Tony Khan's All Elite Wrestling. With an AEW console game still a little ways away, it's understandable that some players will want to create their own AEW roster or product on WWE 2K22. On that front, this release does so much of the hard work for you.

The online creation centre already has some nicely done AEW arenas ready for you, plus a slew of All Elite wrestlers there to download. As for WWE 2K22 itself, it offers up flawless character models for nowadays AEW talents such as Buddy Matthews, Jeff Hardy, Keith Lee, Kyle O'Reilly, Swerve Strickland and William Regal.

Added to that, there's IMPACT Wrestling's Mickie James, Cassie Lee and Jessica McKay, plus hot free agents such as Athena, Biff Busick, Claudio Castagnoli, Killer Kross, Nixon Newell, Samoa Joe, Timothy Thatcher, 'Titan' Adam Scherr and Toni Storm,

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer and Presenter, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund and Eli Roth to Kevin Smith and the Russo Brothers, to Kevin Conroy and Frank Miller, to Bret Hart and Sting, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, and Brian Flynn, to many, many more. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is a long-standing season ticket holder and an FSA Award-winner for his time co-hosting the Fearless in Devotion podcast.