WWE 2K18

“You can't even make your own unique finisher, something introduced 10 years ago. The gameplay is so different compared to the SmackDown vs Raw series that if you try to play, you'll have no clue what's going on because nothing is the same and nothing is explained.”

“Feels completely sluggish, and as soon as the AI gets into a combo you can't do anything but hope to nail the fiddly reversal timing because the get-up mechanics from older games are gone entirely.”

“The controls feel incredibly unresponsive which is annoying in a game where some of the core gameplay depends on precise timing.”

“The mycareer mode is horrid, with storylines making no sense at all... I will be told to jump someone, instead be put in a tag match (with a random partner), and the story literally continues like I jumped the person... (complete with praise from the original person that gave me the task).”

“Once you actually get into the story it doesn't make much sense - being a bad guy or a good guy feels repetitive, the promo options are the same, the interactions with other wrestlers don't feel anywhere close to accurate or entertaining, and a lot of the time you are totally misinformed about what you will actually be doing, for example - I was told I would be ambushing Sami Zayn, and then when it came time to actually go through with it I was ambushing Dean Ambrose 2 on 1 with my tag partner Chris Jericho and then Braun Strowman came out to try to save Ambrose. This sort of thing is commonplace, there are lots of typos and grammatical errors, and the load times when getting in or out of dialogue with another character backstage feel clunky and choppy, like it has to reload a lot of things.”

“The story mode is hot garbage, and that's me being nice.”

“This game is poorly optimized and freezes a lot; even when that doesn't happen, which it does a lot, the servers are down so you can't play online or use community creations.”

“Bugs, the game has a ton, some highly debilitating, that prevent the game from even launching for some people, many requiring restarting a match because of severe animation glitches or wrestlers getting stuck in walls or falling through the play area.”

“My rig greatly exceeds the requirements and yet WWE 2K freezes and crashes to the desktop fairly frequently no matter what mode I'm playing.”

“This game is poorly optimized and freezes a lot; even when it doesn't freeze, the servers are down, so you can't play online or use community creations.”

“Simply, you start the game and first have to configure your PC/game to make it playable since it's really badly made for PC. No matter how powerful your PC is, you will always get issues. After a couple of matches, you realize the game has potential but doesn't worth it due to its performance problems. I tried the game for 30 hours (mostly configuration and exploring features) and didn't enjoy a minute. Asked for a refund and was denied because I played more than two hours.”

“Unoptimized piece of trash. My computer is well above required specs and it lags badly even with graphical settings all the way down.”

“The soundtrack is atrocious; it's either country music or screaming satanic Kanye West and one Bruno Mars song.”

“It's easily the worst soundtrack they've put together; there's no flow to the song choices and no theme to match the action.”

“Still no actual custom music; come on, at least let us mod the game so that we can do it ourselves!”

“Oh and they have loot boxes, so they'd add microtransactions if anyone was willing to spend more money on this game.”

“You want that last ride or chokeslam? Well, guess what—you gotta open tons of loot boxes and hope you get it, because you only get less than 15% of all moves. On top of that, 2K already said they will be moving forward with microtransactions, so get ready for paid loot crates.”

“Microtransactions or not, locking extended movesets behind this contrived loot box system deprives the player of a genuine experience.”

“Unless you like grinding to a certain rank to get the stuff you want or unlocking gear by RNG (loot crates), then I wouldn't buy this game.”

“Career mode is very unrewarding, as you will spend all of your time grinding just to get one move that is cooler than a suplex.”

“- Loot boxes (aww you wanted that specific move for your finisher, well good luck grinding for a random chance of getting it; oh, and to make it more 'fun' we will not show what move you unlocked, so you better go back to another menu, wait on a loading screen, then select another menu and wait on another loading screen).”

“It's not the best game in the franchise but the graphics are a bit better compared to the older ones; even so, it has a very short and boring story.”

“I love the wrestling and the graphics, but I lost interest when I saw loot crates. The boring storyline, generic linear objectives, MyCareer moves, clothing, and more aren't unlockable via leveling up or fulfilling objectives—only through loot crates, so you never get the items you want and therefore never progress.”

“Solid systems and tons of options for making a superstar, but it's ruined by the loot boxes and a crappy, boring story mode.”

“After all that I exited the game and stared long and hard at my computer before deciding that I was going to request a refund of the game because I don't see a ton of replayability here for me.”