2K Sports activities has revealed the ultimate roster for WWE 2K24, and it is spectacular. Over 204 superstars are playable, together with 70 Legends who’re now not on the primary rosters and eight managers, however there is a couple notable absences from the playable roster: former WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon and 7-time WWE Champion and 3-time WWE Common Champion Brock Lesnar.
Lesnar had beforehand been faraway from the duvet of the Forty Years of Wrestlemania model of the sport. That model of the duvet options a number of superstars from throughout WWE’s historical past.
Neither Lesnar nor McMahon’s removing is all that shocking. Lesnar was beforehand faraway from 2K’s WWE Supercard cell recreation after he was linked to allegations of sexual misconduct in opposition to McMahon. The reveal got here after a former WWE worker filed a lawsuit in opposition to McMahon accusing the WWE co-founder of, amongst different issues, sexual assault and intercourse trafficking. Lesnar was additionally implicated within the report.
Within the wake of those allegations, Lesnar was reportedly faraway from January’s males’s Royal Rumble and hasn’t been seen on WWE tv because the lawsuit was filed.
Whereas McMahon and Lesnar won’t be playable in WWE 2K24, that does not imply that they’re solely absent from the sport. A serious promoting level of WWE 2K24 is the Showcase of the Immortals, which can permit gamers to recreate 21 of the largest matches in Wrestlemania historical past. Given his look on the Forty Years of Wrestlemania version, it might make sense that at the least a kind of matches was set to function Lesnar. He famously ended the Undertaker’s legendary profitable streak at Wrestlemania 30. It isn’t clear if any Showcase of the Immortals matches that includes Lesnar have been faraway from the ultimate recreation, or if he’ll merely not be playable.
WWE 2K24 can be launched on Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4/5, and PC on March 8.
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