Trust me, I tried everything to forgo it, but it just didn’t work. As you get deeper, that could mean as much as three different introductions you have to sit through each week of gameplay. The “My Career” mode does get a little annoying considering you have to sit through the intros for each show every time you appear on it. There’s a lot going on, but if you play it right, it can be rewarding. If you’re hot with the crowd, things like t-shirt sales will sky rocket, but you’ll need to stay on top of that and constantly design new merchandise to keep crowds interested. Your popularity is important, and you can cool down or heat up depending. All of this is important in becoming a star. If you’re a face, play clean and keep it in the rules. If you’re a dastardly heel, you need to win dirty, put your feet on the ropes for leverage, use moves unbecoming of a hero. However, depending on your alignment, how you go about winning is important. If you stay competitive, win big matches and put on exciting bouts, the crowd will respect you as a performer. The crowd responds to your character in two ways, the first based off the performances you give, and the other is based on your tactics. Your actions in the ring, and even how you handle yourself after matches, help you in that department.
There’s more to popularity and alignments than just promos. If you play your promo right, you can win a verbal encounter, increase your popularity with the crowds, and fall into more of a heel or face role with the crowd. These responses also give your wrestler a personality, and the more your alignment and your personality traits grow. It’s your job to tailor a promo to fit the crowd and play off them to either make you more of a face or heel. Much like the actual WWE, there are family friendly crowds, hardcore crowds, respectful crowds and disrespectful crowds. Regardless, your responses need to be tailored to the crowd, which is not the same from city to city. Generally this is used to call out another wrestler, but there are times, like interviews for instance, where that’s not the case. In this, players cut a promo by picking one of four lines. Players can actually make their characters feel more like a heel or face through the new promo mechanic. You work on your superstar’s gimmick, appearance, and most importantly your heel or face alignment. Players start at the NXT Performance Center with former wrestler turned actual development coach Mat Bloom. These aren’t nitpicking issues they’re just straight up issues. The creepiest thing is actually the audience they look like a robotic cult raising their arms in unison, praising some kind of deity in the ring. That extends to the character models that barely look like the wrestlers they try to portray, along with hair clipping through their bodies. So right out of the gate, I need to make it clear that WWE 2K17 is not polished. That was unfixable as both characters were caught in an animation loop, and I had to turn off the console in order to return. A quick rundown of some of the more memorable issues include: a wrestler being billed from “Winnipeg Ontario Canada” even though Winnipeg is not in Ontario (stupid idiot!), me power slamming someone who was on the other side of the ring, and a match-breaking glitch where in the lead up to my finishing move my character stood over my opponent while he rolled around on the ground for 5 minutes.
The water cooler talk with this series always revolves around the bugs, and I experienced a lot more serious errors in my time with WWE 2K17 than I have in any of the games from the last three years.
Now that you know how to unlock all the different characters, legends, arena and championships in the game you can put that VC to good use.Before I get too into new features of WWE 2K17, let’s get one thing out of the way. If you are interested in learning more about the game then you can also check out our default tag teams guide. That is all for our WWE 2K20 unlockables guide to getting all the characters, legends, arena and championships in the game. WWE Intercontinental Championship ’98-’11 WWE Heavyweight Championship (Smoking Skull) WCW World Heavyweight Championship ’91-’93
The following is how you can unlock all the different championships in WWE 2K20: ArenaĮCW World Heavyweight Championship ’94-’01 The following is how you can unlock all the arenas in WWE 2K20: Arena The following is how you can unlock all the different characters in the game: CharactersĬomplete the SHOWCASE EPISODE: The Demon WithinĬomplete the STORY TOWER: ThanksRusev DayĬomplete the STORY TOWER: Bash at the Banks