WWE 2K22 Creative Director Explains MyGM Mode, Co-Op Play & More

WWE 2K22 is coming in March, and the game’s creative director & art producer recently discussed its MyGM and Universe Modes. Lynell Jinks and Christina Diem Pham spoke with Operation Sports for a new interview discussing the game, which arrives on March 11th. You can check out some highlights below, courtesy of Fightful:

Jinks on the co-op play in MyGM: “I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily online like you can go and search for someone to go find and on the lobby, but you can play against people on your friends [list].”

Jinks on the MyGM mode vs. Universe Mode: “It’s completely different. It’s a totally separate engine, totally separate UI. So I, the way I look at Universe, it’s kind of god mode, right? Where you’re like, ‘I’m in control of all this, I can control my ratings and changing my attributes, and you have full control over everything, right? Where MyGM, there’s limitations, right? Vince McMahon is the one basically running the show and you’re a GM or, in our case, it’s, you know, it’s Triple H, and you’re underneath him or, you know, other GMs from the past, you’re like, ‘Okay, I’m going to select them and now I’m going to run my show.’ Now I have someone who was basically judging whether I’m doing a good job or not, right?

“So once you take that approach, now, there’s a game there, right? Like, where we gamified it, so it’s just like, ‘Okay, now go and draft your superstars.’ Here’s your ratings and here’s how much money you’re generating. ‘Oh, you don’t have that much money. You can’t put on this type of show.’ So there’s handcuffs on you and there’s someone watching you and grading you and the fans, like the fans are watching and commenting on how well you’re doing in our little social media feed on the side, right? Like, there’s so much there.”

Jinks on the options in MyGM mode: “If you want to be that evil GM, where you don’t like how this matchup, and you think you might want to lend a hand to someone, guess what, I’m going to go into that match interfere as the GM and watch ringside and if I don’t like what’s going on, I’m gonna distract the ref, maybe throw a chair do whatever, right. So again, like, it’s a totally separate mode. Yes, you still can go and play the matches, you can simulate, you can interfere, and even spectate using this Spectator exclusive to MyGM, where you have these predetermined cameras. So now you’re like someone [behind] the camera, or in a certain area in the arena cycling through different camera angles, and just watching, and changing on the fly. So like, to me, it’s a totally separate mode and a totally separate game.”

Jinks on Superstar Mode: “Okay, we did add ‘Superstar Mode.’ So it basically plays a lot — so like you might choose to do the traditional– what you have just described with Universe mode or the Superstar Mode. So like okay, I want to choose Charlotte Flair and just focus on Charlotte Flair, not have any control over anything else and just play through a cool story as Charlotte or you want to switch it up and be you know, Becky or Bayley like that.”