WWE Games have been going downhill in recent years, it seems like the developers had no choice but to bring something new (experimental). Wrestling games with original faces were hugely popular and ruled for years. The things that made it so special in the beginning, the same games are starting to stagnate, because you can’t do much creatively in sports entertainment and this is where 2K decided to take an alternative path and create WWE 2K Battleground.

After the inauspicious launch of WWE 2K20, the developers decided to take a year-long hiatus from the series and focus on delivering a much more compact game. In order to revamp the wrestling mechanics, 2K took a leap of faith to deliver an over-the-top wrestling game that feels like a hit and a miss. Here’s our honest review of WWE 2K Battlegrounds.

I remember testing WWE 2K20 during the official launch event on PS4. The game was fun, even though some mechanics were hard to learn. The feeling of wrestling was intact, playing with your friends, dueling while playing as your favorite WWE superhero, felt great because the game had a sense of realism at its core.

WWE 2K’s release cycle was riddled with bugs and crashes, but that didn’t dampen the interest of gamers in WWE Games. From the beginning, WWE was expected to deliver a bug-free experience of WWE 2K20, branded as something different, but Battlegrounds took things and ran with it.