Note: these wrestlers were made on WWE 2K23 for Steam. Pepper Piper was actually made in MyRise mode as part of the story, but she is not selectable in the main roster (for no good reason). I was able to create Spectre, Pepper Piper, Morgan Hart, and Endless Mike as my wrestlers of choice. I suppose if you want to make a roster of Jeff Smith, Cody Roberts, or Macho Man Tim Taylor you could. I also couldn’t use “Reaper,” “Pepper,” “Endless,” “Spectre,” “Wonka,” “Blippi,” and other names. I could not make Endless Mike a vocalized name. There are a thousand names that are pre-recorded, but that is not enough for limitless imagination. The one thing that is always going to be lacking is the feature where you pick the name that the commentators call you. I chose random because I don’t have all dang day (I have a career and a family to feed). I could have lengthened his philtrum (look it up), broadened his traps, decreased the depth of his left eye socket, created his own stitching, uploaded my own photo for the AI creator and so much more. Mind you…I could have tweaked so much more for Endless Mike. I tweaked a few of his colors and changed the color of his fanny pack, but that was it. I have a leather jacket beefcake with a scar on his face. The first time I hit random I fell in love. The R3 button randomizes the whole wrestler or just one part. He is a creation based on me hitting the R3 button. I made Endless Mike, my bruiser and power thrower. Creating a wrestler was the first thing I did the minute my game was downloaded. It has been the meat and potatoes of the genre since WWF Warzone. WWE 2K23 has one of the beefiest and most loaded character creators. I found more to share with the creation suite including some questionable decisions. I chose the creation suite as my first article, knowing that I could share my experience with the John Cena showcase and the MyRise diva storyline. As far as gamers are concerned, AEW already has a video game as long as they are borrowing WWE’s space. Recent iterations have let the player create the arena, the TV show, and the match types allowing gamers to experience AEW Dynamite, WCW Starrcade, and ECW Heatwave through WWE 2K23’s engine. Honestly, WWE 2K23 never needs a sequel as long as influencers are creating any wrestler in existence. YouTubers spend their hours creating every character under the sun to show off to the community. It seems funny that a video game that thrives on the story and challenges would not center everything around the single-player campaigns, but the WWE games have a bigger creation community. By Michael Mordenga 3 months ago In the world of WWE 2K23, single-player options, and story mode are an afterthought compared to the creation suite.
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