WWE 2K22 release date set for March, with Rey Mysterio on the cover

Rey Mysterio, the 20-year veteran of World Wrestling Entertainment and an eight-time, belt-holding champion of the pro wrestling federation, will grace the cover of 2K Sports’ WWE 2K22The wrestling sim is back after more than 2 years of hiatus. This game is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (Windows PC), Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and Xbox 360.

A news release touting Mysterio’s pack shot said WWE 2K22, developed by 2K Sports’ in-house studio Visual Concepts, will add two career modes: MyGM and MyFaction. In MyGM, players will take on the role of WWE General Manager, organizing showcase events and pulling strings to create an all-new brand rivaling the company’s Raw and SmackDown brands. MyFaction is more about an individual wrestler. Players will manage a team of fighters, and provide live updates and commentary.

MyGM marks the return of a general manager career to the wrestling franchise for the first time since THQ’s SmackDown and Raw 2008. Raw 2008. Thursday’s statement from 2K Sports also promised a redesigned game engine and new controls for WWE 2K22. Modes such the 2K Showcase, MyRise single-player and created-wrestler careers will be back.

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WWE 2K22 is the first mainline WWE video game to launch in March since 2000’s WWF SmackDown! PlayStation. The franchise has launched every year since in the late autumn or early November of the previous 20 years. The WWE 2K series skipped a 2020 launch after 2019’s very poorly received WWE 2K20, the first game in the main series not to be developed by Yuke’s Future Media Creators. 2K Sports took over the series following THQ’s bankruptcy and liquidation in early 2013.

2K Sports has been canceled WWE 2K21 Launched in April 2020. Later, it was launched for the Fall. WWE 2K BattlegroundsThe original version of the title was created by Saber Interactive (developer NBA 2K Playgrounds), while Visual Concepts has refocused its efforts on it.

Mysterio made his major fight card debut 30 years ago in Mexico’s AAA, the promotion now known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. The nephew of AAA’s Rey Misterio Sr., he is the first luchador to take the cover of a WWE video game. Although his real name is known (and he was unmasked in the middle of his tenure with the rival WCW), we’ll keep kayfabe and refrain from revealing his true identity.

Mysterio briefly performed in Mexico’s venerable Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre before joining the WWE in 2002, where he quickly became WWE Raw Tag Team Champion (with Edge), one of four times he has held that championship.

On his own, Mysterio is best known as one of the WWE’s premier technical and high-flying wrestlers of the past two decades. Two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and a former WWE Heavyweight Champion, Mysterio has also held the WWE Cruiserweight and Cruiserweight titles two times and three times respectively. Mysterio had also been a WCW champion for seven years from 1996 to 2002.