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– WWE 2K18 Visual Concepts’ Creative Director, Lynell Jinks, and Game Designer, Ramelle Ballesca, recently spoke with DualShockers to discuss the development and newest features for WWE 2K18, check out a few highlights below:
Question: What are the new features you are bringing to WWE 2K18?
Lynell Jinks: “The new features I am most excited about are Road to Glory; MyCareer is pretty damn awesome being able to run backstage and see what the life of a WWE Superstar is actually like is pretty cool. Then the new things we added to the creation suite to allow you to #BeLikeNoOne — I’m going to keep saying that. To me, that kind of drove what we wanted to do as far as what we wanted to add for the creation suite this year allowing you guys to customize your guys even further.
For me, one of the big additions was adding the face templates for the males and females. Giving you guys a better starting point that represents different ethnicities, for me, is huge because everyone is different, and using that as is or as a starting point to modify a little further. To me, this helps bring variety in what you see, and then being able to see that online with Road to Glory and seeing these different looking Superstars will help hammer that fact home a little more.”
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Question: You were talking about the new Road to Glory mode. Can you expand on what that is? It still seems to be a mystery.
Lynell Jinks: “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get it to run inside this building because of the limitations with the internet and having to be online. But, it’s a mode that you basically play on a weekly basis… on a daily basis, actually, that mimics the real-world WWE schedule. So, on Mondays you’ll play on a Raw event; on Tuesdays you’ll play on SmackDown; you’ll play on NXT on certain days. The days that there isn’t a WWE show, what we’ll do is populate it with a retro show like Nitro or something like that. So, you’ll create your MyPlayer and progress through not only MyCareer, but also Road to Glory by enhancing your character’s attributes, his skills, his move-sets, and by unlocking loot crates that will open more boosts that can power your Superstar when playing in these online matches.
Also, create-a-superstar parts and move-sets will be unlocked based on your fighting style. So, when you create your Superstar, you’ll choose your fighting style. So, if you choose a high flyer, certain moves won’t be available to him throughout his career because he is a high flyer. Those moves that get unlocked through the loot crates will be dictated by your fighting style.”
Question: So, when can we see all of this on the Nintendo Switch? Do you have a general idea? A month even (laughs)?
Lynell Jinks: “Fall. Fall! (laughs) No, we don’t. You know, we’re pounding on it and trying to get it done. The team is working really hard to try to get it done. We’re excited about it as well. I have a Switch, Ramelle is about to get one. So, we also want to play on the go too.”