For all 2K’s talk about upgraded animations in this year’s game, the end result isn't quite as impressive as you might hope. It’s when those wrestlers come into contact with one another that things start to fall apart. These upgraded wrestlers look their best when strolling down to the ring in their carefully choreographed entrances, and when taunting and strutting around the ring. And when the model quality is at its worst in WWE 2K15, it can get pretty nightmarish. Some wrestlers in the game evidently weren't face-scanned-the recently departed CM Punk, and the recently departed Ultimate Warrior among them-and the quality difference between those characters and those who did get scanned is definitely noticeable. Most every current WWE superstar has gone through 2K’s face-scanning process, and especially in the case of top tier stars like John Cena, Randy Orton, and Triple H, the attention to detail is a massive improvement over what this series has previously been capable of. The graphical bump that WWE 2K15 gets is certainly impressive, especially when it comes to wrestler models.
The problem is that the trade-off isn't equitable. This was always intended to be the year that features were sacrificed in favor of visuals as the franchise moved onto new platforms. None of this should come as any great surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to 2K’s PR message throughout the last year. WWE 2K15 finally gives this series the significant graphical overhaul it's needed for ages.
Which is to say nothing of the various aspects of this franchise that have simply gone missing since last year, a number of which will be sorely missed by longtime fans. Its newest pieces are either good ideas that haven’t been fashioned into something compelling yet, or flat-out mistakes that either need a complete repackaging or need to be forgotten by the time next year rolls around. 2K15 is a sloppy game, loose where it should be tight, sluggish where it should be exciting. WWE 2K15 resembles the WWE more in ramshackle spirit than anything else. 2K15 does mark the debut of the WWE series on the current generation of consoles, and that does come with the requisite bump in visual fidelity toward something more lifelike, but those visual upgrades don’t transform this game into a wholly accurate representation of the WWE we see on TV every week. The best thing I can say about WWE 2K15 is that it resembles the current state of the WWE’s television product.
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