WWE 2K25 Pre-Order Bonus (DLC)

I had low expectations walking into WWE 2K25 on Switch, and the Wyatt Sicks pre-order bonus was honestly not the reason I stuck around. What kept me there was realising that, for the first time in a long while, a WWE game on a Nintendo platform is not a compromised version of the real thing. The Switch 2 port runs at a consistent 60fps during matches, loads at a pace that would embarrass some home consoles, and includes the full current-gen feature set, modes and all, that you get on PS5 and Xbox Series X. That is genuinely significant, and it sets the context for whether this pre-order DLC means anything at all. The Wyatt Sicks Pack itself adds five playable Superstars to your roster: Uncle Howdy, Dexter Lumis, Nikki Cross, Joe Gacy, and Erick Rowan. You also get Uncle Howdy and Nikki Cross mask cosmetics for The Island, the game's online hub world. These are fun, offbeat picks, and the Wyatt Sicks faction has real personality in the ring. If you are the type who builds rosters and obsesses over movesets in Universe Mode, having these five unlocked from day one rather than grinding or paying separately is a genuine quality-of-life win. If you mostly play Exhibition or dip into MyRise, you may not notice them for weeks. The broader game they are dropping into is deep and, mostly, well-structured. Match variety is strong: Bloodline Rules lets you call in an ally mid-match, intergender bouts are finally in, chain wrestling is back and makes one-on-one matches feel much more considered, and the Royal Rumble holds up nicely whether you are playing solo or piling four people around a single Switch 2 in tabletop mode with individual Joy-Con 2 controllers. That last point matters to me. Couch multiplayer works, and it works without needing extra hardware. MyGM now supports online multiplayer for up to four players, which is the kind of mode that will eat a Saturday night if you find the right group. There are real downsides, and a pre-order DLC review is as good a place as any to name them. The Island mode has a pay-to-win odour around it; MyFACTION pushes virtual currency hard; and a chunk of the visible roster is greyed out on the Standard Edition until you spend more. The Switch 2 version also loses cross-platform Community Creations and has no cross-play online, which limits who you can match against. Some character models look noticeably rough, and cutscenes drop to 30fps, which occasionally throws off timing on QTE sequences. None of this kills the experience, but it is worth knowing before you commit. For the pre-order bonus specifically: the Wyatt Sicks Pack is available separately anyway if you miss the window, and it is bundled into the Deadman and Bloodline Editions regardless. So the urgency here is mostly manufactured. What is not manufactured is that this version of WWE 2K25 is a legitimate first-class wrestling game on a Nintendo platform for the first time in roughly two decades. The bonus Superstars are a small but real add to an already stacked roster of over 300, and they come with enough character to make them worth slotting into your regular rotation.

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