As part of this year’s WWE 2K Showcase, players will be put into the shoes of some of John Cena’s greatest opponents from throughout his storied career. In a twist on the usual structure, where gamers would take on the role of the Showcases’ focus-star, this year we will be doing everything in our power to ensure that Cena loses the matches. According to 2K developers, this choice was to not only add some fresh life to the 2K Showcase mode, but also to emphasise Cena’s core value and motto – Never Give Up in the face of challenge and adversity.
2K Games released a full deep dive into this year’s Showcase mode as part of their latest Ringside Report, along with this are some new videos of retro stars, including the likes of: Brock Lesnar, AJ Styles and Triple H, but also a full list of playable matches that will fill out this year’s Showcase.
In total, we will be treated to 14 of Cena’s best matches, spanning back to his initial SmackDown debut in 2002, to his most recent blockbuster match against Roman Reigns for the WWE Unified Championship. The following matches will all be featured as part of the base game, with all wrestlers, arenas and attires then made playable in Exhibition mode upon its completion.
– John Cena vs Kurt Angle – SmackDown 2002
– John Cena vs Undertaker – Vengeance 2003
– John Cena vs Brock Lesnar – Backlash 2003
– John Cena vs Edge – Summerslam 2006
– John Cena vs Edge – New Year’s Revolution 2006
– John Cena vs Rob Van Dam – One Night Stand 2006
– John Cena vs Batista – SummerSlam 2008
– John Cena vs Triple H – Night of Champions 2008
– John Cena vs Randy Orton – Hell in a Cell 2009
– John Cena vs The Rock – WrestleMania 28
– John Cena vs Brock Lesnar – SummerSlam 2014
– John Cena vs AJ Styles – SummerSlam 2016
– John Cena vs Undertaker – WrestleMania 34
– John Cena vs Roman Reigns – SummerSlam 2021
WWE 2K23 hits shelves and online stores March 17th and is available for pre-order today.
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