We're exactly a month away from the launch of WWE 2K Battlegrounds and so you might be wondering which wrestlers, new and old, will be part of the roster at launch. IGN bagged the exclusive on this one, revealing that more than 70 of WWE's finest will do battle in this arcade-style brawler at release on 18th September 2020. 2K also has a long list of wrestlers it will add through post-launch support.
There are far too many fighters here to list every single one so we'll let the graphic below do most of the talking, but the game will include the likes of AJ Styles, Becky Lynch, Daniel Bryan, John Cena, and Sasha Banks at launch. You know, the usual bunch. Edge can also be yours through a pre-order bonus.
Meanwhile, the additions made after launch largely focus on wrestlers of the past. We've got the late, great Eddie Guerrero, Batista, Booker T, Chyna, Lita, and Sting. Rather interestingly though, the likes of Rhea Ripley, Sami Zayn, and Sheamus won't be a part of the main roster -- you'll need to acquire them after launch. These lot do still wrestle, right? This scribe hasn't been watching WWE for quite some time now.
Anyway, is your favourite wrestler part of the bunch? Are there any glaring omissions? Let us know in the comments below.
[source ign.com]
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Macho Man Randy Savage and Nature Boy Ric Flair aren't in the base game? This is unacceptable.
You haven't been watching wrestling for a long time but you know who Rhea Ripley is? Interesting.
Baffles me how all of the current roster aren’t in the main game.
@hi_drnick She is a fairly popular wrestler now, right?
@LiamCroft she is, but she ain't main roster though. Still a mainstay on NXT.
Interesting list. I forget how big women have become in wrestling. Sure they were wrestling when I stopped watching around 2000 but they were barely a blip when I started I the 70s, if at all.
Anyway I wonder how "Haystack Calhoun" would be perceived in 2020?
Maybe we could get a B&W DLC package w/ Calhoun, Gorrilla Monson, George the Animal Steele, the Polish Hammer Ivan Putski, Billy Superstar Graham and Bruno Samartino. Come to think of it they may have wrestled in color but my friends and I only had B&W tvs in the 70s.😂
This definitely won’t be day 1 but I will give this a shot. Can’t be worse than 2K20.
@rjejr They could still make a real B&W with Lou Thesz, Gorgeous George, «Nature Boy» Buddy Rogers etc.
are we looking at micro transactions drip fed dlc or worse for the other wrestlers. whats next 2k we can rent them a week a time, or mobile style collect shards to unlock them
@Sinton I honestly think it would be kind of cool. They could wrap it up in game like those old newsreel movie clips. We watched A League of their Own - lazy afternoon in a hotel room recently - and I liked the way the movie tied it all together.
And the way some of them wrassled back then they could run in all in 14 fps like last years broken mess WWE game. 🤣
I'm not into serious wrestling games, but I might pick this up if it's fun. Once I can play with Big Boss Man, Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Macho Man Randy Savage, Mr Perfect, Ric Flair and, of course, Ultimate Warrior that is.
That list is either wrong or an early one. Jake the Snake can't be in the game as he is contracted with AEW.
Doink the clown is the man.
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