I’m not sure where things went wrong between the WWE and THQ, because the problems that were had since the mid-2000s still haven’t been addressed over a decade later. I wish it was the other “franchise” that persisted on, because the idea of recreating art in these games is pretty much futile. What PlayStation owners received was the Smackdown! series of games, which has always been hit and miss, and is the series that eventually evolved into the WWE2K games we get today.

What Nintendo 64 owners received was WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy, the latter of which is still considered one of the greatest recreations of what happens in the ring to this very day. Back in the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation One days, THQ had acquired the rights to the WWE brand, and set out to have two different developers work on separate versions of WWE games due to the vastly different hardware.

It should be acknowledged that pro-wrestling, just like video games and anime, is a form of art, and when done correctly it can be a very beautiful thing. This could not be a more apt saying for WWE2K18 on the Switch. WWE2K18 cover star Seth Rollins has a new catchphrase in WWE: “burn it down”.

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