Not in the 13-year history of the Smackdown/Smackdown vs. Raw/WWE/WWE 2K series has The Ultimate Warrior — one of professional wrestling’s most intense, controversial, and just plain weird superstars — made an appearance. Apparently that will change with WWE 2K14.
The forums of SmackDown Hotel, a wrestling enthusiast site, last week published an image of the August edition of WWE magazine, carrying an ad for WWE 2K14 that lists Warrior (as he is now known, legally even) as a preorder bonus.
The Ultimate Warrior last appeared in 2009’s Legends of Wrestlemania and 2011’s WWE All-Stars, both of which were more arcade-style wrestling games, with cartooned player modelling and over-the-top moves. The WWE 2K line is (yes, non wrestling fans, I can hear you snickering) the simulation version, featuring storylines, more realistic moves and whatnot.
Warrior and the WWE have had an at-times strained relationship, but so did the WWE and the Macho Man, Randy Savage; those two managed to patch things up before Savage’s death in 2011, and get him into All-Stars and WWE ’12. (Savage also appears in WWE 2K14.)
I’ve pinged a 2K Sports representative to ask if they can go ahead and confirm this. You can see the image of the magazine page for yourself at the link. WWE 2K14 hits shelves on Oct. 29.
Ultimate Warrior CONFIRMED as Pre-Order Bonus! [SmackDown Hotel via Operation Sports. Image via WWE.com]
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4 responses to “Rumor: Ultimate Warrior Returning To WWE’s Flagship Game Franchise”
He’s was planned to be included in one of the old Smackdown Vs Raw games, and was scrapped for one reason or another. He even had some of his assets hidden in the games code (character icon in select screen, intro, etc all unlockable via xploder and the like). So this doesn’t come as such a stretch.
Check out his youtube vids, him as a person not as the Ultimate Warrior character. He slags out (probably justifiably) Hulk Hogan, his wife, his kids, the WHOLE WWE franchise nearly. He’s got a lot of good to say but he really sinks the dagger into them. A lot of the stuff Roddy Piper said also rings true with what he’s said, but I don’t doubt there’s a LOT of vendetta going on there.
He was my favourite back when I thought it was real.
Whos your favorite now?