WWE 2K World

WWE 2K World is a professional wrestling video game developed by TT Games and published on 2K Sports on October 21, 2021. A spiritual successor to WWE All-Stars and WWE 2K Battlegrounds, WWE 2K World is a fast-paced, arcade-style fighting game featuring over-the-top, cartoonish renders of various WWE Superstars and Legends, each of whom appears with up to 12 attires and different themes for each attire (mirror matches are optional, if the same superstar is selected twice, with different attires).

While similar in many ways to 2K Battlegrounds, 2K World lacks the use of in-game microtransactions, instead having players complete certain objectives to unlock new superstars, legends and attires. The game also features perhaps the most varied creation suite seen in a WWE game to date, with custom hair, facial features, attires, entrance music, announcer names, and even custom character renders to make a CAW look as authentic as the superstars in-game.

The game also expands the number of locations in which players can have a match, with over 250 different arenas to choose from, with the superstars able to interact with the environments. The arena variety ranges from Raw, SmackDown!, NXT, Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, an Undertaker-themed arena, and other arenas from WWE, WCW, ECW, AWA, WCCW, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, UWF, and Stampede Wrestling; to locals such as a a forest, rainforest, New York City/Central Park/Times Square, Los Angeles, Orlando, a jungle, a swamp, a desert, the beach, the Himalayan Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, a race track, a parking lot, a subway station, a circus, an airport, a doctor's office, a business office, a post office, firehouse, a police station, a prison, a playground, a dance studio, a repair shop, a ranch, a school, a fast food restaurant, a zoo, a farm, the White House, a monster truck rally, a baseball diamond, a basketball court, a bowling alley, a concert hall, a landfill, the Sydney Opera House, Paris, Antarctica, the Everglades, the Australian Outback, the African Savannah, a Las Vegas casino, a cemetery, a sports complex, a gymnasium, a haunted house, a hotel, a supermarket, a bank, the Great Wall of China, the Grand Canyon, Radio City Music Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Disneyland and Walt Disney World; to the Moon, the nine planets, a beehive, a funhouse, a bouncy castle, a cruise ship, a large treehouse, a moving train, a flying plane, a moving garbage truck, a drive-in movie theater, NASA, the North Pole/Santa's Workshop, a ski resort, a golf course, a boxing ring, even underwater and through outer space; to arenas based on licensed IPs, such as The Muppet Show stage, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, the Big Blue House, ten Looney Tunes-inspired arenas, Snoopy's doghouse, twenty Star Wars locations, an Indiana Jones-inspired arena, Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse, the Hundred Acre Wood, Thra, the Labyrinth/Goblin King's Castle, Gotham City, Metropolis, Central City, Oa, the Kingdom of Far Far Away, Springfield, Quahog, Teletubbyland, a Barney the Dinosaur-themed arena, Wiggles World, fifteen horror film-themed arenas, a Flash Gordon-themed arena, 25 Disney-themed arenas, twelve Pixar-themed arenas, ten DreamWorks-themed arenas, five Hanna-Barbera-themed arenas, Bobsville, the TARDIS, McDonaldland, a Burger King-themed arena, a Game of Thrones arena; and much, much more.

The game also includes a 15-song soundtrack (all of which can be used as entrance music), similar to the mainline WWE 2K games. The songs, in addition to the superstar themes, are:

"Ain't No Grave" by Johnny Cash "A Little Less Conversation (Junkie XL Remix)" by Elvis Presley "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar "Joker & The Thief" by Wolfmother "The Lion" by Monster Truck "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit "The Reckoning" by Within Temptation "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit "Titanium" by David Guetta feat. Sia "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

In a step forward from Battlegrounds, 2K World also includes the option to select and assign up to three managers to each superstar or tag team, as well as having a playable superstar be a manager to another. 10 non-playable managers (each having up to 12 attires) appear in the game: Bobby Heenan, Eric Bischoff, Jim Cornette, Jimmy Hart, Miss Elizabeth, Paul Bearer, Paul Ellering, Paul Heyman, Sharmell, and Vickie Guerrero. 14 extra managers (Armando Alejandro Estrada, Dink the Clown, The Grand Wizard, Harvey Wippleman, J.J. Dillon, John Laurinaitis, Linda McMahon, Little Boogeyman, Captain Lou Albano, Ricardo Rodriguez, Colonel Robert Parker, Slick, Sunny, and Terri Runnels) were added in post-launch updates. These managers can interfere on behalf of their superstars, similarly to WWE Legends of WrestleMania.

Upon release, the game received mixed overwhelming praise from players, comparing it to ''WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain'' as one of the greatest wrestling games of all times. Critic reviews were more mixed, however, noting the arena gameplay "insanity" akin to WCW Nitro.

Commentary for the game is provided by a six-man team of Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Vince McMahon, Michael Cole, JBL, and Corey Graves, with additional commentary by Tony Schiavone, Eric Bischoff, Joey Styles, Booker T, Byron Saxton, David Otunga, Vic Joseph, and Wade Barrett, with ring announcing by Ken Anderson (Mr. Kennedy). Archival audio of Gene Okerlund, Howard Finkel, Gorilla Monsoon, Jesse Ventura, Bobby Heenan, and Lord Alfred Hayes are also used for ring announcing, in-game interviews, and commentary for certain arenas, while Justin Roberts, Lilian Garcia, Tony Chimel, Jillian Hall, JoJo, Greg Hamilton, and Renee Young also recorded ring announcing and commentary lines for certain aspects of the game.

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Though Chris Benoit and Owen Hart are absent from the roster (the former due to his murder-suicide and the latter due to Martha Hart holding WWE responsible for his death), their faces, outfits, entrance music and announcer names are available in the game's creation suite. Marcus Cor Von's WWE theme is also included as a selectable entrance theme.