WWE Undefeated Review: A Mid-Card Bout
WWE Undefeated is the latest free-to-play mobile game from professional wrestling juggernaut WWE and developer nWay. Through a combination of traditional fighting games and card-based combat, players fight online with highly stylized superstars in pursuit of better cards and wrestlers. It's a serviceable experience to kill some time for wrestling fans, but doesn't do enough to stand out from similar titles to make any lasting impression.
WWE Undefeated joins the likes of WWE Champions, WWE Mayhem, WWE SuperCard, and WWE Universe in a never-ending stream of free-to-play mobile games, with many overlapping game mechanics common for free-to-play games on the platform. The latest app needs something special to stand out amongst the crowd, and immediately some of the most ubiquitious mechanics from other games crop up instead. Wrestlers are earned in a gacha system. Drops can be earned on a timer, which can be sped up with a premium currency purchased through micro-transactions. The wrestlers are portrayed through highly stylized cartoonish graphics, similar to this year's disappointing console game. It's all instantly familiar, which is a shame considering the innovations that do come to gameplay.
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A phone's lack of a gamepad means fighting games will always struggle to match their console counterparts, but WWE Undefeated side-steps this issue by introducing another trendy game mechanic: card-based battling. Three cards representing wrestling moves are available to be chosen at any time. An energy bar fills up if the players doesn't use any moves; the higher the energy bar, the more devastating attacks become. Some moves work in tandem; The Rock needs to knock
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