WWE 2K19
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 The Wrestling game that was Yuke's last game in the WWE Series.
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WWE 2K19 is a professional wrestling video game developed by Yuke's and published by 2K Sports. It was released worldwide on October 9, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. This was the last game that Yuke's developed for the WWE Series due to 2K letting them go while WWE 2K20 was in development.
Why It Rocks
- Great-looking realistic graphics, and many of the superstars look like their real counterparts due to the face scans.
- The roster has all-new names for the series including Aleister Black, Adam Cole, Mandy Rose, Kairi Sane, Sonya Deville and some others
- Originally the online servers for this game were going to be shut down in May 2020 in favor of WWE 2K20, but 2K instead kept the servers up and running for a bit longer, since they are going to make a better WWE 2K game since WWE 2K20 flopped.
- In fact, because of the fans' disappointment in WWE 2K20 and its clunky online mode, 2K announced that they will keep WWE 2K19's servers running until WWE 2K22 is released.
- The online multiplayer is functional, without lag and splitting.
- Despite this, it is very hard to find a Tag Team match, and a Fatal-Four-Way match.
- The MyCareer mode is decent and is a huge improvement over 2k15-18.
- The voice acting was pretty strong for the most part. Especially Buzz's voice acting, and the voice actor for Buzz (A.J. Kirsch, who is also a wrestler) actually explained most of the game's story and about himself on his YouTube channel.
- The storyline is also interesting.
- The Miz, also breaks the fourth wall in one of the cutscenes. "What do you think this is WWE 2K19? This is real life." despite them being in a video game.
- Barron Blade also gets some character development overtime, and he later felt bad for what he did to Buzz.
- Great hip hop/rap and hard rock/metal soundtrack from various artists like Bullet for My Valentine, Eminem, Migos and Shinedown curated by various WWE superstars.
- Unlike WWE 2K20, losing a segment in MyCareer mode doesn't punish the player into watching the beginning cutscene of the segment again. If you watched the cutscene already in your second playthrough you can skip it, although making a new MyPlayer makes the player have to replay the game all over again, meaning the cutscenes cannot be skipped.
- Yuke's did a great job with this game, but sadly it's the last game in the WWE 2K series developed by Yuke's. Ever since they were let go by 2K while WWE 2K20 was in development.
- Like most previous games it not only sets the standard for creative control it raises the bar. Between online downloads and uploads and face and image scans you can have a true dream match game. Forget WWF vs WCW vs ECW vs TNA vs ROH vs AEW vs UFC vs WBF. You can easily have Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat vs Rumble Roses vs Tekken vs Dead or Alive vs King of Fighters vs Soul Calibur vs Super Smash Brothers.
- The Create a Video mode now allows you to use the MyCareer Mode cutscenes resulting in some funny moments like these.
- The showcase mode does a good job of covering Daniel Bryan's WWE career, and it's a really inspiring story.
- This is the last WWE 2K game to have Chris Jericho and Dean Ambrose/Jon Moxley as both of them are left for AEW.
- This is the current oldest WWE 2K game to have their online services still active for around 4 years, however since June 30 the servers have shutdown.
Bad Qualities
- The My Career Mode, while still decent, has a few issues:
- Unlike the other 2K WWE games that had a MyCareer mode, technically this is more of a story mode rather than a MyCareer mode and felt more of a downgrade as your character is named Buzz rather than your own chosen name, you cannot play your own story, free roam was removed, and overtime the quality of the MyCareer mode decreased.
- While the voice acting for the MyCareer mode was tolerable, some of it was pretty cheesy.
- Some notable examples include Daniel Bryan, Sasha Banks, and John Cena (who isn't even voiced by Cena).
- John Cena is voiced by Gavin Hammon (the same voice actor for Kenny in TellTale's Walking Dead), and he sounds nothing like him as he sounds deeper than Cena. This is most likely because Cena was very busy in the filming of Bumblebee at the time.
- Some notable examples include Daniel Bryan, Sasha Banks, and John Cena (who isn't even voiced by Cena).
- Similar to WWE 2k18, there are still loot boxes (known as loot packs in the game. Thankfully, it’s much easier to earn, after every chapter in the mode.
- You can only open up 1 loot pack at a time, thankfully WWE 2K20 fixed that problem.
- Due to this every item, entrance, and moves for your move set are locked.
- Tommaso Ciampa is not in this game. This is because he was injured at the time of the game's development; thus, they cannot do the facial and motion capture of him. In storyline, he was in the middle of his critically acclaimed heel run and the storyline reason he wasn't included in the game is so that he couldn't lose.
- The controls are pretty hard to get your wrestler to reverse on the Xbox One version, as using the right trigger to reverse there is a 50/50 of the reversal not working.
- Being a creator on the community creations, is extremely hard since you only have about 5 slots if you have the bronze rank. Although this is helpful for quality control, you have to get about 2,000 Downloads to get 5 more slots. This makes WWE 2K20 more usable for community creation creators.
- It also suffered from the missing textures bug for CAWs, as most of the CAW's textures won't download correctly on the Xbox One version.
- This was Yuke's last ride with the WWE 2K series after all, due to the fact 2K Games blindly and falsely accused Yuke's of not making more than enough money as they were and let them go as a result.
- WWE Live and the MyPlayer Towers is no longer working as of 2020, due to the game's servers for the modes being shut down, however you can still do online matches and community creations though.
- The game was infamous for the Million Dollar scam, in which the game advertised if you beat the Million Dollar Tower, you can be chosen to play with A.J Styles in WWE 2K19 live. But many players were soon upset when the winner Stephan Benson aka "Golden Voice" was revealed to be a WWE Employee, in which many players have wasted their time playing the tower.
- In fact, if you beat the Million Dollar Tower. All you get is a Golden A.J Styles, in which is a terrible reward due to how hard the Million Dollar Tower is. The Million Dollar Tower is considered to be the hardest tower of the game, in which your health will not restore after every match, and if you lose a match you will have to start from the very beginning of the tower.
- Even then, 2K Games themselves never announced the event at all. But when it did come out live, it was also scripted in which A.J Styles doesn't even know how to play WWE 2K19 and then he doesn't even kick out, making it a easy win for Stephan Benson. In which is insulting to A.J Styles since he plays games pretty well.
- As of June 30, 2022. The online servers for the game have shutdown, meaning you can no longer upload or download any community creations.
Reception
WWE 2K19 received positive reviews and was nominated for "Fan Favorite Sports/Racing Game" at the Gamers' Choice Awards, and for "Sports, Racing or Fighting Title of the Year" at the Australian Games Awards.
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