In a recent update for the official WWE 2K franchise website, 2K Games and the design team for WWE 2K15 revealed all the significant details for the WWE 2K15 Creation Suite. Previously, a recent video featuring art director Lynell Jenkins provided a strong look at the Superstar Studio in the game, a way to add custom image scans to the game’s Create-a-Wrestler program. Although the prior video provided an interesting glimpse of the comprehensive layers of customization for the Creation Suite, the new update by 2K Games indicates that there are some significant omissions from the Creation Suite for the new game; and some are quite disappointing.
On some level, I can understand the reason for such major omissions to the Creation Suite. Visual Concepts was probably on a strict schedule to deliver the game. However, this is still the first next-gen WWE 2K game, so expectations are high. Unfortunately, the major changes players want from the game will not happen for this installment of the franchise.
2K Games confirmed that WWE 2K15 will not feature Create-an-Arena, Custom Divas, Create-a-Championship and Story Designer. Frankly, Story Designer and Create-a-Story are omissions I will miss the least. Create-a-Story is not an effective mode for a wrestling video game. The actual single-player story mode, Career Mode and WWE Universe Mode sufficiently fulfill these areas. So, that is not a big loss.
Sadly, Create-an-Arena and Create-a-Championship are major losses to the game. Despite the inclusion of the awesome Superstar Studio tool, it will not be possible to us the image scans to make WCW arenas or PPVs for the game. The Superstar Studio tool would have probably helped making perfect re-creations of title belts from the history of professional wrestling. That is no longer possible.
Another huge blow to the game is the lack of Custom Divas. This means CAW Divas for the game are impossible. That is coupled with the fact that only 25 CAW slots are available for the game. A patch or updates could remedy these issues in the future. If not, WWE 2K16 will amend the problem.
According to 2K, these omissions were made to make a more focused and polished game. I really hope that is the case. The character models do look spectacular. The new, refined character animations look great. I can deal with some of these omissions provided that the rest of the game is awesome. Still, it is frustrating that 2K Games waited so long and announced these changes at the last minute. The fact that everything about the game has come out at the eleventh-hour is worrisome.
WWE 2K15 hits the PS4 and Xbox One on November 18. A Windows PC edition is also due out at a later date.
PC edition! Is this true?