After the disaster of WWE 2K20, the series is taking a year off - danielsmundint

After the wrestling federation itself softly announced that WWE 2K21 was cancelled, publisher 2K has followed up with additional details on its plans for the license going forward. This year, we're getting a fres colonnade-title brawler called WWE 2K Battlegrounds. The independent feigning series is pickings a year inactive as a result of the fatal response to WWE 2K20, and the new game will enter development nether new leadership.

"We are applying what we've learned [from 2K20] to the next WWE 2K pretending game with a renewed concentrate on quality and fun," 2K says in an announcement. "As split up of that consignment, we are extending the production timeline and will not be cathartic a WWE 2K pretence game in 2020 (T2 business year 2021)."

2K has brought in Patrick Gilmore to swear out As executive director producer and oversee development of next year's game, and "you'll be hearing more from him and the team in the months to come". Gilmore has industry experience running back to the Disney games of the early 90s, and has been everywhere from Dreamworks Interactive to Novalogic, EA, and Amazon in the disjunctive decades.

The simulation-style WWE 2K games have ne'er been beloved, simply 2K14 and 15 in particular were solid takes on the wrestling formula – simply IT's been downhill pretty much ever since. The series had originally been developed by Japanese studio apartment Yuke's until 2K15, when Visual Concepts came on as a Colorado-developer. 2K20 was the first title to be solely developed by Visual Concepts, and many fans assign the studio hired hand-off to the game's particularly poor quality.

But as for 2020, we are acquiring a new WWE gimpy: WWE 2K Battlegrounds. It's coming courtesy of developer Saber Interactive, which previously formed the decently-regarded NBA 2K Playgrounds games.

There's non much item about Battlegrounds beyond what's in the selfsame brief teaser trailer – we've got The Careen, John Lackland Cena, Charlotte Panache, and Becky Lynch on the roster, few humourous, high-voltage special moves, and one ring set in a swamp where you can bang your opponents into the jaws of alligators. IT has the spirit, at least, of WWE All-Stars – which is maybe the best word WWE videogame fans could hear.

For instantly, perhaps some fighting games might meet your need for big meaty workforce slapping meat.