Story mode completed in ~ 5 hours on NORMAL
This was a much more addictive story mode than I have expected. Once I dug in, I pretty much played it non stop to its end.
The story is you get framed for stealing the WWE World Champion belt, which costs you your spot on RAW (this was during the times of SmackDown! vs RAW), your girlfriend Stacy Kiebler, and you try to win all that back.
The gameplay has the Stamina system that I believe made a return in WWE2k15 and in here at least, it works quite well. It stops the spam of the punch button, it makes you consider doing moves more and when your stamina is moderate - low, you really start to play more defensively, which for me meant just hiding outside the ring and going back in when the A.I. comes for me :)
Other than that, it's simple enough to play with grapples and strikes, yet you have to pay attention to reverse moves properly, and the aforementioned stamina. There is just enough there to keep your brain engaged. Career mode also has stats like Submission, Strength, Speed, Charisma, etc. that improves your wrestler as you play along.
The 4 four way matches was the really big downfall for me. They are super frustrating. With A.I. ganging up on you, stopping all your special move attempts, and so on. Similarly, near the end in a Royal Rumble match, when you are at the ropes, the A.I. will gang up on you to kick you out but when you are starting to kick someone else out, the A.I. comes and helps THEM (when they had no affiliation with each other, so it wasn't some sort of smart ally system). It was super infuriating, and the only way to beat that was basically get lucky enough to get rid of 3 wrestlers and as the new ones come, get them out before another comes.
Overall, it was pretty OK to be honest. Wouldn't open it and play it again now that I got through the story or anything but while it lasted it was fun.
5/10.
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