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THE SHOW NEVER STOPS Run the world’s greatest show your way and live out your WWE fandom to the fullest. Experience the most expansive gameplay to date with rebellious Legends of the Attitude Era and Superstars of today. MORE SUPERSTARS THAN EVER BEFORE Featuring the most stacked lineup in franchise history with 400+ playable WWE Superstars and Legends, including The Rock, Triple H, John Cena, Rhea Ripley, and fan-favorites like Rey Fénix, Rusev, and Blake Monroe. 2K SHOWCASE Rewrite wrestling history and relive CM Punk’s greatest rivalries in a world where The Voice of the Voiceless never left, including fantasy historical scenarios. Punk’s rise, rebellion, and return make this the most personal Showcase yet. NEW MATCH TYPES AND MORE Bring the chaos to every corner of the ring with new match types, including I Quit, Inferno, Dumpster, and more. Plus, take the fight to The Island in the new Scrapyard Brawl arena, experience an updated progression system, and test your skills in MyFACTION with Quick Swap, a fast-paced, team-based mode. Enjoy interactive entrances, new crowd interactions, and fresh commentary from Booker T and Wade Barrett. CONTROL YOUR UNIVERSE The WWE Draft finally arrives in WWE 2K’s sandbox mode Universe in WWE 2K26. Create your own WWE Universe where you control weekly shows and PLEs, Superstar rivalries, and outcomes. Also includes an all-new Universe Creation Wizard, Watch Show mode, improved Money in the Bank cash-ins, and more Promo types. COMMUNITY CREATIONS EXPANSION Double your creative power with 200 CAS save slots! Community Creations now features expanded image capacity, deeper body and face morphing tools, and 2-tone hair color blending, giving you unprecedented freedom to craft the Superstars, arenas, and other creations of your dreams. A NEW MyRISE ERA Define your MySUPERSTAR’s journey through 2 new division-based storylines where heel or babyface decisions impact your MyPLAYER like never before as part of their comeback story. Keep playing even after the main stories are complete, with more unlockable content and achievements to earn for increased replayability. VENTURE INTO AN EXPANDED ISLAND Explore The Island, 2K’s WWE-themed world, now bigger and more social than ever. Choose one of three factions and battle for control alongside friends and family in co-op play, with a revamped progression system. Discover the new Scrapyard Brawl environment, tackle fresh Towers, and browse new shops and branded gear. Also featuring an expanded MySUPERSTAR builder with face-scan importing, plus upgraded quests complete with cutscenes and dialogue screens. MyGM Level up your strategy in WWE 2K26 with MyGM. This year, intergender matches, 5, 6, and 8-man matches, plus support for more match types than ever before, will vastly increase the number of possible matches and outcomes. More shows per season will pose new management challenges. ASSEMBLE YOUR DREAM TEAM IN MyFACTION Form your dream faction and compete with Superstars and legends in new intergender lineups and Quick Swap matches. Collect new card designs and boost your performance with the new Faction Chemistry with run-in support.
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"WWE 2K26 took an already great game and made it better in every way, with no definitive weak spots relative to the genre."
Read full review →"I'm giving this a 95/100, but if the few little bugs are ironed out then it's as close to perfection as a wrestling game has ever been."
Read full review →"WWE 2K26 is a huge game with modes ranging from two different Story Modes to a management game, a card game, and an online hub. Visual Concepts and 2K have sprinkled a wide variety of new features throughout this edition, some of them quite subtle, tweaking almost everything that needed updating. Of course, there is always room for improvement, and that's what next year's edition is for, but for the next 12 months, it will be difficult to find a better wrestling game than this one."
Read full review →"WWE 2K26 is a great move forward for the series and the developers have laid down a lot of exciting groundwork that can be expanded upon in future games. The grind is still as bad as ever, though, and the Ringside Pass needs to be changed so the DLC wrestlers can be earned much earlier than they are now. Those issues aside this is a WWE game that I will absolutely be playing through most of this year."
Read full review →"Combined with stronger presentation and stable performance, the result is a wrestling game that feels confident in its direction. While certain elements like the dated crowd visuals and the 60fps cap remain noticeable limitations, they do little to overshadow what is ultimately the most enjoyable WWE 2K experience in a long time."
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