WWE 2K17

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Written By: Mark Armstrong

Publisher: 2K Sports
Developer: Yuke's and Visual Concepts
Genre: Wrestling
Series: WWE (Previously SmackDown! and SmackDown vs. Raw)
Released: October 11 2016
Certificate: 16
Consoles: PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows

It's been a strange couple of years for wrestling games, or more specifically, WWE games. The highly-praised SmackDown! and SmackDown vs. Raw series entered a lull in the late 2000s, but the flagship titles rebounded somewhat with the nostalgia-based WWE '13 and WWE 2K14. Then came WWE 2K15, the first foray onto eighth-generation consoles, and everything took several steps back with the game generally feeling incomplete and limited, which damaged much of the goodwill raised by previous entries. WWE 2K16 thankfully corrected many of these faults, ensuring that the series was back on the right track.

And so we come, then, to WWE 2K17. The third WWE game on PS4 and Xbox One promised a lot during the initial hype period, and since the honeymoon period for the series on current-gen consoles was now well and truly over, expectations were raised that this could be the best wrestling game in a long, long time - if not a potential contender for best game ever. Unfortunately, while 2K17 delivers tremendous entertainment in a lot of ways, it also has many areas for potential improvement which, combined with a lack of growth in other feature sets, results in a game which is by no means bad, but is generally a disappointment.

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