![]() You can also go online and test your skills in tournament or King of the Battleground modes to square off against other players from all over the world. You can battle the computer AI, online foes or opponents sitting right next to you on your couch. If you ever tire of lending Heyman and Austin a hand there are daily challenges to complete and compete in which extends the game’s shelf life.īattlegrounds’ exhibition modes include one on one, tornado tag team, steel cage (one on one or tag team), tag team, royal rumble, gauntlet, fatal 4 way and triple threat. That says a lot about the design and execution of those digital pages. The artwork actually rivals that of any book you would find at your local comic shop. Instead of cut-scenes the campaign’s story is told in the form of a comic book which fits in perfectly with the tone of Battlegrounds. You play as a different and rookie superstars during each segment as Heyman and Austin take you under their wing to see what you are made of. The campaign ends with a Road to WrestleMania chapter. Their journey takes them from New York to Detroit and many places in-between. Paul Heyman and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin join forces acting like road agents, traveling across America in the hopes to bring back the Attitude Era to the WWE by finding and introducing new superstars. The campaign itself is lengthy and more fun than watching Otis be stripped of the Money in the Bank briefcase. It doesn’t seem like a grind when you are being rewarded for what you would have been doing anyway. By playing the campaign or daily challenges you can quickly pocket cash or unlock wrestlers just by defeating them. To not have the entire roster available at launch and witness yet another game relying on in-game currency and purchases may be discouraging for some but Battlegrounds plays fair. Until then, they remain in their action figure boxes demanding to be freed, which the sadistic part of me found quite amusing. ![]() To acquire the rest of the roster you have to buy them with in-game currency or win them by completing objectives. You begin the game with 20 unlocked superstars. ![]() The roster is a mix of current superstars with a few legends thrown in for good measure. And it all works because the world they inhabit is just as ridiculous as they are. With their ridiculously disproportionate bodies, outrageous signature and finishing moves, these are all of the superstars you know and love taken to an absurd degree. Battlegrounds is an irreverent version of the WWE 2K series. The over-the-top presentation and gameplay is where the resemblance between All Stars and Battlegrounds ends. The slim and trim Battlegrounds have very little in common with All Stars and that’s a very, very good thing. After a comprehensive playthrough of WWE 2K Battlegrounds I can say those observations were misguided. When the news first broke that 2K Sports and Saber Interactive were working on an arcade-like wrestling game to replace the next installment of the WWE 2K series comparisons were drawn between it and the total botch that was 2011’s WWE All Stars.
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