WWE 2K16 Review (PS4/XB1)

[RaychelSnr]

Just to respond to concerns about the score, I think people have forgotten again what the OS scale is meant to do. We are basically locked into a 1-10 point scale for a couple of outside reasons, so we made the conscious decision to actually use the entire 1-10 points in the scale to rate games. That means that a 6.5 on OS doesn't mean its a 'D' as many people are assuming.

In reality, it's the equivalent to a 3.5 star out of 5 star review or a 2.5 out of 4, or in letter grades...probabably a C+ to B-. I never once said the game was bad, and I don't feel that way. But in many ways I do think the game is too shallow to be good and too buggy to be good as well. If many of these same types of bugs were in a Madden or NBA 2K, the community would be in an uproar. I'm probably too tough on many games, but I hold them all to a pretty high standard and apply the scale fairly.

Regardless, its just my opinion on the game. The scale even says fans of the sport will enjoy the games in the above average range -- and that certainly seems to be the case. I too am enjoying MyCareer and would enjoy Universe immensely if there weren't so many artificial limitations (I did knock the score for Universe mode being generally poorly executed).

So yeah there's that.

You can read the full rubric here:
http://www.operationsports.com/MMChr...h-score-means/

[philliesphan026]

Quote: Originally Posted by dubcity

I'll start feeling bad for developers when games stop costing $60 a pop. I'm sure they're doing fine, lol.

When you consider that games cost millions of dollars and 2-5 years to make (depending on the game), and that the price of AAA games hasn't gone up since 2005 here in the US, we're pretty fortunate games still only cost $60...

[Sgt_Carnage]

Glad I don't base my purchases on OS review scores.

[Traceur]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sgt_Carnage

Glad I don't base my purchases on OS review scores.

Agreed. The review is a joke. I don't care what "scale" is being used. This is one of the best WWE games in a long time.

[dubcity]

Metacritic score is down to 79 on PS4. The user score is 7.6. XB1 score is worse. Not quite the universally praised game it looked to be a little while back.

[SmashMan]

Quote: Originally Posted by dubcity

Metacritic score is down to 79 on PS4. The user score is 7.6. XB1 score is worse. Not quite the universally praised game it looked to be a little while back.

I'm trying to figure out your angle here. Is it that those who are enjoying the game shouldn't be?

[dubcity]

Quote: Originally Posted by SmashMan

I'm trying to figure out your angle here. Is it that those who are enjoying the game shouldn't be?

No, it just bugs me when people bash a review/opinion of a game just because it doesn't seemingly fall in line with the supposed majority opinion.

[nate1986]

Reviewers for the IGNs and Operation Sports are like us that don't work for them a gamer with an opinion thats all reviews are