If you’re a fan of wrestling, the WWE 2K series has been the main port of call for years now. While the early days of WWE 2K left fans disappointed, the series has been on an incredible run of form since 2K22, withWWE 2K24arguably being the best yet.
Still, there are a number of features and ideas that we’d love to see implemented in WWE 2K25, whether it’s improvements to the gameplay, brand-new modes entirely, or features that have disappeared from past WWE games.
10Better Airborne Collision Detection
Admittedly an ambitious desire, the physics and collision detection during aerial moves within WWE 2K could use some work. Some of the most viral moments in WWE history involve wrestlers colliding in midair or interrupting aerial attacks, but WWE 2K basically makes wrestlers invincible while they’re flying through the air. Let me throw chairs at a flying Rey Mysterio, please.
On top of that, wrestling moves that throw people could use more freedom, as currently, suplexing someone near the ropes or on the edge of Hell In A Cell feels like the animation is rubbing up against an invisible wall. Pouncing someone ten feet into the air near the ropes should cause a wrestler to fly over them. If nothing else, it’d make Royal Rumble eliminations more interesting.
If you want an idea of what this could look like, Casual Pro Wrestling is an early access wrestling game on Steam that uses ragdoll physics. It’s janky, of course, but the ragdoll mixed with the emphasis on player freedom makes it endlessly entertaining.
9More Varied Arenas And Locations
It’s about time that WWE 2K spiced up the arena offerings in some way. Older WWE games like WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth allowed players to climb the iconic Smackdown fist and jump off it, while Smackdown Vs Raw 2007 introduced an area at the corner of ringside where players could fight among the crowd, using unique weapons or climbing some scaffolding for some Jeff Hardy-esque risk taking.
WWE 2K might include the backstage area, which gives players a more varied environment to lay the smack down on their opponents, but when doing battle with opponents around the ring, it’d be great to have the ability to set up more varied spots and moves.
8A More Stable Online Experience
Perhaps this is based more on anecdotal evidence than other suggestions on this list, but it feels like the online matchmaking for WWE 2K is held together by duct tape and the collective hope of its player base.
Matches tend to disconnect before they ever start, and if someone gets even the vaguest idea of using some kind of custom content online, the servers pitch a fit bigger than Steve Austin taking his ball and going home. Some kind of update or refresh that adds stability to the online experience, allowing for smoother and more consistent matches, would be ideal.
7Cross-Play For Online Matches
For a game that’s meant to be the beacon of an entire fandom, it can be difficult to find a game sometimes. Despite the creation uploads being available across all platforms, WWE 2K players can’t wrestle against each other across platforms.
With how temperamental the online experience can be with just one platform anyway, throwing additional platforms into the mix does sound like a recipe for disaster. Again though, this is a tentpole series for an entire culture, and the more that 2K can do to ensure the entire community can play together, the better.
The NBA 2K series has had crossplay since last year’s NBA 2K24 for PS5 and Xbox Series X & S players, so it’s possible that WWE 2K25 will offer a similar feature. Frankly, it’d be baffling if they didn’t.
6Stronger Body Customisation Options
The customisation options for WWE games have always been some of best received features, giving players nearly unlimited tools to unleash their imagination. While the options available are great at the moment, it feels like it’s about time we reintroduce features like body morphing to create more unique characters and wrestlers.
Currently, players can only select from specific body types, and while men have a decent selection, the options for women are a lot more limited. Wrestlers like Piper Niven and Nia Jax are regularly featured on WWE TV and even in WWE games, so why is it so difficult to create a wrestler in that same mold?
5A “What If?” Showcase Mode
One negative aspect of trading in history and nostalgia is you either run out eventually or you start covering the same ground. We’ve already reached that point with WWE 2K24’s Showcase Mode, which looks at 40 years of WrestleMania matches in a manner similar to WWE 2K14’s 30 Years Of WrestleMania Showcase.
Considering it’s probably too early for a Cody Rhodes Showcase or The Bloodline, WWE 2K24 could explore a “What If?” Showcase that explores alternatives to historic moments in wrestling. What if The Alliance won at Survivor Series 2001? What if Stone Cold didn’t turn heel at WrestleMania XII? What if Seth Rollins never betrayed The Shield? It’s an interesting idea, to say the least.
4More Ways To Earn Persona Cards
One of the more controversial inclusions in WWE 2K is the MyFaction mode, 2K’s less than subtle attempt at aping the Ultimate Team formula that’s brought EA plenty of success. A notoriously grindy affairthat practically encourages paying for card packs, MyFaction does regrettably offer something cool: Persona Cards.
Anyone hoping for Joker or Morgana to show up will be disappointed, as WWE 2K’s Persona Cards feature older gimmicks or alternative versions of known wrestlers, like 2024 versions of Roman Reigns and The Rock, or 64-bit versions of Asuka and Xavier Woods. These are all cool additions, but there should be some way to make them available for all players.
3Licensed Music For Legacy Shows
Something good about WWE 2K is how it’s able to incorporate history into its gameplay, whether it’s through classic arenas, old school wrestlers or the previously mentioned Showcase mode. Regarding the arenas specifically though, WWE 2K should go the extra mile and include the licensed songs for those older versions of Smackdown, Raw or even NXT and WCW.
If you have the arena and logos to make a version of 2002 RAW in Universe mode or MyGM, you should have Across The Nation by Union Underground too. Those are the rules.
Beyond that, it’d be cool to have older themes for some of the wrestlers too. Baron Corbin’s I Bring The Darkness or Drew McIntrye’s Broken Dreams would be awesome to have for creators and fans alike.
2Bring Back Create-A-Move/Create-A-Taunt
It’s rare to see WWE games take creation tools away from the player, but that’s exactly what happened after Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth’s Create-A-Taunt mode. As the name states, you can string together motions, hand gestures and facial expressions to create your own unique taunt.
Similarly to that, WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 through to WWE 2K14 included a create-a-finisher mode, which again let players string together moves to create something new. It’d be great if the new WWE 2K game allowed created characters to have their own identity when it comes to in-ring action. Yeah, trolls were able to use it to create the slowest moves imaginable that you had to just sit and watch, but Visual Concepts could balance that by allowing longer moves to be reversed at multiple points, like King’s chain throws from Tekken.
1TNA Wrestlers As Part Of The Roster
The WWE landscape is certainly a lot different from a few years ago, thanks in no small part to the very necessary change in leadership, and one area that’s changed for the better is WWE being more open to collaborating with other promotions. Just look at how NXT and TNA have been chumming it up during this past year.
We think that partnership should also extend to WWE 2K25, either with a select few TNA wrestlers appearing as part of the game’s core roster, or some kind of DLC pack focused on TNA and possibly other promotions too. Being able to play as indie stars like Jordynne Grace or Joe Hendry in a WWE 2K game is only possible now via creations, but anything can happen in this new era of WWE.
