When Visual Concepts took over sole development duties from Yuke's on the WWE games, there were many who wrote the series off. And the studio's first main outing, WWE 2K20, seemed to justify such negativity. It was a bug-ridden disaster that failed to live up to fan's expectations.
However, after a two-year hiatus, the developer started to find its rhythm, resulting in increasingly improved WWE games that bore almost no relation to the previous misstep.
