WWE 2K24 announced and it’s all about 40 Years of WrestleMania
As is the custody addition, 2K Games has announced WWE 2K24 and this year it’s all about celebrating the grandest stage of them all, WrestleMania.
What’s more, this year’s release will have multiple stars featured on the illustrious cover. For the standard edition, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes will feature. On the Deluxe Edition, we have the “Eradicator” Rhea Ripley and the “EST of WWE” Bianca Belair. Finally, for the most prestigious edition, the box art is a celebration of four decades of WrestleMania, featuring “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Charlotte Flair and more.
Fans of the series will be pleased to know the popular modes MyGM, MyFACTION, MyRISEm and Universe mode. And of course, we can expect the showcase mode which will celebrate the most iconic moments in WrestleMania history in the ‘2K Showcase…of the Immortals’.
Furthermore, this year’s release will boast the largest-ever roster in the series with over 200 playable Superstars. We’ll even get real-life referees from WWE and not generic characters. Developers Visual Concepts have also promised this will be the best looking WWE 2K game “with over 90% of facial expressions updated – plus improvements to Ramp cameras and Dive cameras, and the ability to move the camera during live gameplay,” and more.
WWE 2K24 will also feature new (or returning match types) with Special Guest Referees, Ambulance Match, Casket Match, Gauntlet Match as well as many others. Backstage brawls are also understood to have undergone somewhat of an overhaul.
As detailed via the press release from 2K Games, here are the details on the editions available at launch:
- WWE 2K24 Standard Edition (physical copy): as the writing says on the tin, the standard game for your platform of choice.
- WWE 2K24 Standard Cross-Gen Digital Edition: Same as the standard edition but the choice of PS4 and PS5 or Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
- WWE 2K24 Deluxe Edition: This comes with the base game as well as the Season Pass including all five post-launch DLC content packs; the MyRISE Mega-Boost and SuperCharger; Gold Rarity Rhea Ripley MyFACTION Card, Gold Rarity Bianca Belair MyFACTION Card, and alternate attires for Bianca and Rhea. The Deluxe Edition is also available in physical form at select retailers.
- WWE 2K24 Forty Years of WrestleMania Edition (digital only): includes every from the Deluxe Edition as well as the Forty Years of WrestleMania Pack, featuring alternate attires for “Macho King” Randy Savage (WrestleMania 6), Rey Mysterio (WrestleMania 22), Triple H (WrestleMania 30), Charlotte Flair (WrestleMania 33), and Rhea Ripley (WrestleMania 36), as well as Gold Rarity MyFACTION cards for each, instant unlocking of all playable Showcase characters, and the WrestleMania 40 Arena (post-launch).
It doesn’t matter which version of WWE 2K24 you pre-order, all will be gifted with the Nightmare Family Pack DLC. This includes two alternate versions of Cody Rhodes (The “Undashing” masked Cody and the flamboyant Stardust), as well as the 1976 version of his father, WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, plus one of Dusty’s greatest rivals, “Superstar” Billy Graham, all available as playable characters. Additional MyFACTION content includes three MyFACTION cards – a Mattel “Bruised” Cody Rhodes Gold Rarity card and Cody’s dog, Pharaoh, appearing in WWE 2K as a Gold Rarity Manager card.
WWE 2K24 will be released on 8 March 2024 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox or 5 March for those who pre-order the Deluxe or 40 Years of WrestleMania Editions.
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