![]() “And it was in such a good state early on.” “The first day back, I saw a build, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, you guys, we’re doing it!’” Williams said. The number one reason he came back: WarGames. Williams most recently had been with Yuke’s, which had supported WWE 2K development up to 2019 he came back to Visual Concepts as a gameplay producer. “And, there’s two rings, side-by-side, surrounded by a cage and you can climb the cage, and you can bring weapons in, and I’m just like, ‘Oh my God…’”Īround this time, Jinks said, he “put up the bat signal” to bring back Bryan Williams, a longtime wrestling game developer who had worked on WWE games since the THQ days 20 years ago. Those things: “Oh my gosh, I have to put two cages in the crowd then there’s, like, a timer, and these guys come out, and there’s entrances,” Jinks said. Jinks said that certain out-of-ring areas in WWE 2K22 were test beds, somewhat, for what WWE Superstars would need to do in a future WarGames match - things that were “kind of impossible to do in our previous engine.” ![]() The arena itself is the one used in November, and also used in WWE’s up-and-comers NXT series since 2017. WarGames in WWE 2K23 will be a match type among teams of three or teams of four (at Survivor Series, it was five). “So we kind of built everything with that in mind.” “When we rebuilt the engine on 2K22 we were like, ‘Alright, let’s talk about… traversal, let’s talk about the things that we’re going to want to be able to do one day,” Jinks said. The widely praised, rebuilt combat engine the studio made for WWE 2K22 - which helped the series recover from a disastrous 2K20 - was developed with WarGames in mind. But, Jinks said, the team had been preparing for the possibility. “It scared the hell out of us,” Lynell Jinks, Visual Concepts’ creative director for WWE 2K, said of approaching WarGames. But once WarGames debuted in November at the Survivor Series, it all but assured that its brand of mayhem would finally visit the WWE’s video game, too. ![]() The wrestling match variant - involving two teams, battling in two rings side-by-side, ringed by a chain-link cage - has a 35-year history, and for a time even seemed to be taboo for the WWE’s main promotions. When it launches on March 17, WWE 2K23’s showpiece feature should be the one pro wrestling fans have clamored for in forums and threads for years on end: WarGames.
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