Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

[fredo5020]

I absolutely hate relying on the past. This is the 2016 edition not the 1996 edition. I would honestly be fine if there wasn't a single legend in the game, with Rock, Taker, and Austin being the exceptions. All the other old wrestlers I just never use. I want as complete of a current roster as possible, all the way down to the jobbers. I want as deep of an NXT roster as possible, as it's the best thing going in the western hemisphere. This year they had the perfect opportunity to utilize how white hot NXT is right now. Finn Balor just won the NXT championship, they could have capitalized on that. If I'm designing the cover, you go with a past, present, future theme. Have your Austin on there, but there's no excuse why Brock Lesnar is not on the cover, and Finn Balor should be as well. They should have had all three on there with Lesnar being front and center.

But whatever, it's just a cover, give me a full roster and a fairly deep NXT roster and I'll be buying the game without second guessing. But I'll damn sure not touch those legends.

I'm pretty sure Finn Balor was spit in the ocean when this descion was made

[IowaAJ]

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I wonder what the showcases will be, Probably Stone Cold vs the Rock or will they do Stone Cold vs Vince. Also I wonder what new age showcase they are thinking about?

[RayRay34]

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I'm thinking that since there are 120 character models that the game roster should be split in half. 60 current superstars and Divas and then 60 legends. I mean honestly are there even 60 current superstars or Divas worth playing with, I mean your scrapping the bottom of the barrel if you get that many.

[RayRay34]

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Just counted 70 superstars on the main roster... Now there will be some NXT guys and gals on the game this we know. But this 70 includes people like Hornswaggle and El Torrito, along with Divas I haven't seen on TV in a while....don't watch smackdown so they might be on there. There is no way I can see the entire roster making the game but who knows. That means there should be a good amount of Legends on the game.

[King_B_Mack]

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I wonder what the showcases will be, Probably Stone Cold vs the Rock or will they do Stone Cold vs Vince. Also I wonder what new age showcase they are thinking about?

I remember a few weeks back audio leaking from JR and the King's recording session, if I'm remembering the content correctly we're getting some untapped territory with Austin's early years as they were calling a point when Shawn and Austin were the tag champs together around May or June of '97 I don't recall seeing that era of Shawn or Austin's careers ever being touched in the video games.


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[BDKiiing]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

I'm pretty sure Finn Balor was spit in the ocean when this descion was made

You must not follow much wrestling.

[jcmreds]

I'm going to be perfectly honest as long as Sasha Banks is in I'm buying this day one.

[King_B_Mack]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

I'm going to be perfectly honest as long as Sasha Banks is in I'm buying this day one.

I feel like we've already seen a leak or some kind of confirmation from her or somebody else that she's in, but I can't remember.


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[BDKiiing]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

I feel like we've already seen a leak or some kind of confirmation from her or somebody else that she's in, but I can't remember.


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I think she just tweeted that she was scanned in for the game.

[Agatorfan]

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Aw man I was hoping for a 3 man shield cover. Now that would be awesome

[countryboy]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

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Going off the Wikipedia page, I count 67 active main roster Superstars and Divas. NXT has 36 active Superstars and Divas.

That's 103 right there. I doubt we get all of them, because you can probably list at least a dozen wrestlers who need to be in a Stone Cold showcase for it to be effective, then probably at least a dozen more usual suspects, then a handful of deeper cut / only-in-this-game guys.

Ok so if they use the entire current roster that people are wanting, then that leaves 17 spots for Legends. I can deal with that.

[GQVikesFan]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

Hopefully this means we get another retro DX Shawn Michaels on the roster. WrestleMania 14 Shawn Michaels vs Stone Cold!

[Trent Booty]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

I think the showcase should be, like someone else said, like the Path of the Warrior), with SCSA's whole career being played through. Would be awesome. Things like adding special referee matches for the Lesnar/Goldberg match would be great additions to the game.

[Sheba2011]

I would love to see WWE games each year, one with the current stars and one that is exclusively to a different era (80's-90's, attitude era etc).

[bigbob]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

If we get this Stone Cold mode, that I think J.R. leaked weeks ago.. I hope it goes back to his early days, too.. His release from WCW.. to ECW.. etc, etc.