We’re likely not far off from more information on how WWE 2K24 will play, but it could be a little more of a wait until 2K reveals more about the roster for this year’s game. But that doesn’t mean the team behind it can’t whet gamers’ appetites with some teases about the scope of this year’s selection of current stars and legends.
“Anyone interested and curious about the roster, just know that it is a full course meal, it really is,” Bryan Williams, Associate Gameplay Producer at Visual Concepts, told Wrestling Junkie in a recent Zoom interview.
Williams said he is involved with the sub-team that ensures movesets are accurate for all the wrestlers in the game. He said it is a lot of work, but worth it once the finished product is out.
He also noted that while last year’s entry in the series likely had the biggest roster ever, WWE 2K24 might still take things up a notch.
“I know last year with 2K23, that was probably the largest roster that we’ve had in the game, and I know that with 2K24, we probably added to that,” Williams said. “It is an insane, absurd amount of playable characters that are in this game.”
And it’s not just playable wrestlers, but managers and other familiar faces who are included as well. Plus there are a number of wrestlers who appear in more than one incarnation, as Williams pointed to the Stardust and masked “Undashing” versions of Cody Rhodes that players can nab in the Nightmare Family pack that comes as a pre-order bonus.
So it sounds like WWE 2K24 will have something for everyone, regardless of their favorite era of WWE history, and not just sheer numbers — though it should come through on that front as well.
“I mean it’s over 230 characters, easy, and it’s a lot more than that,” Williams said. “Robust is an understatement when it comes to the roster this year.”
The launch of WWE 2K24 is just over a month away, with the Standard Edition and Standard Cross-Gen Digital Edition both releaseing on Friday, March 8, 2024. The WWE 2K24 Deluxe Edition and Forty Years of WrestleMania Edition will be playable a few days earlier on Tuesday, March 5.
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