Good review, but as a longtime fan of wrestling, outside of '03-'12 WWE, this is the first WWE game I've bought since Warzone on the PS1. The fact that it feels so close to the televised product, except for some bugs and awkward CPU moments, is what makes me really like the game. The game overall from menus to gameplay can be described as sluggish, but I enjoy the gameplay. My friends are still in the button mash style when we played this a few times together, but as someone who doesn't play these annualized games ever, the game that I'm playing feels like a professional wrestling match and that's awesome. Submission mini games are almost always a no-win for me late in a match due to how seemingly unresponsive that dial feels, but I feel like pretty much all other gameplay choices are excellent. I could see how seeing this "series" change from the fun arcadey style of SvR and prior turns away a lot of "fans of the series", but as a wrestling fan I'm really enjoying playing realistic, fun, momentum swinging matches with some really great character models.
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