Gamers have found a brand new pores and skin in WWE 2K23 that turns world-famous wrestler and film star John Cena right into a plastic motion determine, full with a stiff, non-moving face and smile. And sure, for those who had been questioning, it’s fairly creepy!
Wrestling simulator WWE 2K23 formally doesn’t launch till tomorrow, March 17, however followers who pre-ordered the pricier deluxe editions of the sport had been given early entry beginning on March 14. And since launch, gamers and streamers have been digging by way of the sport and have found one thing really cursed: A Mattel-branded motion determine pores and skin for WWE 2K23 cowl star John Cena.
This odd pores and skin was first noticed by way of a card within the sport’s MyFaction mode. On this mode, gamers create and run their very own in-game teams and factions by amassing playing cards, which in fact might be purchased with actual cash. It’s principally 2K’s spin on EA’s standard (and lucrative) Final Group mode present in trendy FIFA video games. And it was on this mode that gamers finally unlocked and made playable the uncommon Mattel-branded motion determine pores and skin, letting them play because the well-known wrestler in essentially the most disturbing manner I’ve seen in a while.
I’ll admit that action figure John Cena seems like an precise wrestling toy, full with apparent joints and plastic pores and skin. The artists and modelers who labored on this must be happy with what they made because it actually does appear like a toy come to life. Nonetheless, in addition they must be ashamed of the cursed entity they’ve now created and let unfastened into actuality. One thing about Cena’s plastic face, unmoving and caught perpetually in a smile, actually makes all of this that a lot creepier.
In response to a tweet exhibiting off the pores and skin, some are reacting with horror. One particular person referred to as the pores and skin the “stuff of nightmares.” One other Twitter consumer prompt that it was each “creepy and funky on the identical time.” And whereas some, like myself, discover the brand new pores and skin disturbing, many others are excited to see such a enjoyable and odd beauty possibility included within the sport. Although gamers are pissed off that this pores and skin seems to be solely usable in MyFaction mode.
Nonetheless, I count on very quickly in any respect gamers will determine methods to unfold this cursed pores and skin into different elements of the sport. Quickly, WWE 2K23 will likely be stuffed with chilly plastic variations of John Cena after which we will all shut off this simulation and restart from scratch.
