I heard a sample clip of the two discussing Undertaker's Hell's Gate submission and it already sounds much improved. For the very first time announcers Jerry 'The King' Lawler and Michael Cole will be recorded in tandem, creating more natural conversation threads. A new months-later cutoff date for inclusion of the latest WWE content will help ensure that the game is that much closer to the latest roster and storylines.Īudio is getting a complete overhaul as well, with five times the sound of last year's game.

This will result in five times the number of animations than 2K14. The key to all of this is a new mo-cap studio that contains an actual WWE ring set up by a real WWE ring technician. I couldn't get any specifics on actual game mechanic changes, but Visual Concepts is working toward more realistic match pacing and flow. The ultimate goal of all this is to closer match WWE's TV presentation. A John Cena facial rig demo showed off lifelike expressions of pain, excitement, and exertion. VC is capturing a variety of facial expressions so that wrestlers will express more realistic emotions in the ring. Hair, skin, faces, and ring gear are all majorly upgraded. Lee, and Daniel Bryan, and they all looked leaps and bounds closer to their real-life counterparts. I saw side-by-side character models for wrestlers like John Cena, A.J. This new tech is already showing impressive results. Maybe he shows up for a hosting role as he did for the recent Wrestlemania XXX. While a classic version of him is in the game (alongside announced wrestlers John Cena, Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns, and Cesaro), it's unclear what role today's older Hulk would serve. Interestingly, I saw a photo of Hulk Hogan getting scanned. The team has hounded WWE's roster of wrestlers during their nonstop travel schedule and already has 90 percent of the in-game roster scanned in. Visual Concepts is incorporating its impressive scanning tech made famous in its NBA 2K games. Developer Visual Concepts is taking on a much bigger role this time around alongside longtime developer Yukes. WWE 2K15 will be the new-gen debut of the series on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (in addition to PS3 and 360). Last year's WWE 2K14 was too far along when 2K Games took on the license from THQ for it to make many big changes, but now there's no holding back.

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