

#WWE 2K23 GM MODE SKIN#
For years created wrestlers would never look as good as their real-world counterparts, but this year 2K has added brand new facial scans and even skin textures, and now created wrestlers look incredible - just as good as the WWE wrestlers.
#WWE 2K23 GM MODE UPDATE#
Probably the biggest technical update to the game is that the create a wrestler system has gotten a big overhaul. I played a women's Rumble and watched Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai work together and throw out entrants one by one for a few minutes before the ring started to fill up again. With this new AI behavior, there is another great feature in that tag teams will now work together and help each other in the Royal Rumble match. Now you can go in and tweak each wrestler and how they behave when controlled by the CPU, such as how often they go to the top rope, go for pins, use weapons, and more.
#WWE 2K23 GM MODE PRO#
Like the Fire Pro Wrestling series, AI sliders for each wrestler have been added to the game. These include a slider to influence how easy or hard it is to kick out of pins. Should you want to use the button mashing game, it can be selected in the options menu.įurther improvements have been made to the game with the all new balancing options in the difficulty menu that let you utilize more sliders to tailor the game however you wish. It works really well and I find it harder than the button mashing mini game in the last game.

As the match goes on, the meter will move back and forth faster and the target zone will get smaller. There is also a new pinfall minigame this year where a meter will bounce back and forth and you have to press the right thumbstick up once it gets into the target area. There are a lot of new selling animations, such as wrestlers lashing out in frustration after a kick out, and there is a new stamina system where wrestlers will start to slow down as the match goes on to the point where they will walk around slowly, look out of breath and punch, kick and go for grapples slower. The fast-paced fighting and combo system remain in 2K23, but there are a lot of little updates that add to the presentation and immersion.

In terms of gameplay, nothing major has been changed from WWE 2K22. We have taken multiple steps forward and no steps back as WWE 2K23 is another fantastic wrestling game. Well, a year later and now WWE 2K23 is here and once again improves the series. So good that for the first time in almost a decade I was really excited for the future of the series. To the delight of wrestling game fans everywhere, WWE 2K22 was good. After that debacle, 2K announced that WWE 2K21 was cancelled and the series would take an extra year off before making it's return. Then WWE 2K20 happened, which was such a catastrophic failure that it set the series back to the stone age. Some years it felt like nothing but steps backwards. For years it seemed like the WWE 2K series would always take one step forward and then two steps back.
