WWE 2K15 plays like a series of animations that you trigger - and often it hardly feels like you're triggering them. Wrestling games before have looked stupid, with your grappler flailing at nothing then falling over their feet, but they were at least fun. The action has been slowed down compared to recent years, with animations reworked with new motion capture and better transitions.
These little things belie the fact that there is a lack of attention paid, a lack of care taken, an air of laziness to WWE 2K15. Bad News Barrett is announced as hailing from Preston, then in commentary referred to as coming from Manchester, showing that old voice-over work has been reused without a second thought. You can't hold a submission move on after a rope break, in classic heel fashion, even though you could in the past. Goldust doesn't have his trademark entrance, despite it having been in wrestling games for years now. They're just the first in a long line of clues that WWE's new custodians don't care quite as much about the product as its forebear did. Wrestlers such as CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio and Rey Mysterio are present, despite all of them having walked out of the sport months ago. A tumultuous year for WWE, in which there have been redundancies and big name departures, means that the roster feels frustratingly out of date. Well, exactly as they did in real life about nine months ago. WWE 2K15 is another game that makes great use of head-scanning technology, meaning every fighter looks exactly as they do in real life. Last time we got a truly great wrestling game, Rob Van Dam was new and exciting. What is annoying, though, is that this year's effort promised to be so much more - the first new generation outing, and perhaps the first where 2K Sports could really get on board and help guide development stalwarts Yuke's back towards the genre's heyday. This isn't a shock really, seeing as there hasn't been a great game in this series for around a decade. It's not quite a travesty, but it's also certainly not the game wrestling fans were hoping for. WWE 2K15 is, sadly, not one of those games. And yet, I've had some of the most fun ever with this genre, one that's boasted some tactical masterpieces alongside games that perfectly capture the pageantry and insanity of wrestling - without neglecting the person holding the pad.
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