WWE 2K24: EVERY Major Change 2K Just Announced

3. Special Guest Referee Matches

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Special Guest Referee bouts have been in WWE games before, but they were always a bit clunky and under-developed. For example, in the earliest SmackDown titles, there wasn't much to do other than count slowly or...not count at all. It was fun for annoying friends in co-op, but that was about it.

Hopefully, 2K plans to flesh out the match type in 2K24.

The way the devs showed off a referee's shirt during teasers is defo promising. There's all manner of stuff they could do here, including letting gamers muck around with the rules to customise their experience. Fancy running 20 counts like in Japan? Do it. Some sort of scoring system ranking your performance would be grand as well.

Otherwise, Special Ref matches will just be the same as they've always been. Y'know, the bout pretty much turns into a Triple Threat until someone gets bored and fast counts just to end the thing. Also, yeah that's another modded screenshot above.

It'd be class if you could field multiple refs though, eh?

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