This previous weekend, I traveled to Tampa/St. Peterburg, FL, to attend WWE’s Royal Rumble and to play WWE 2K24 at a particular preview occasion. You possibly can search for my hands-on impressions and video footage of my gameplay on Thursday, February 1. However whereas I used to be there, I had the prospect to talk with one among 2K24’s cowl stars and the winner of the 2024 Males’s Royal Rumble match, Cody Rhodes.
The “American Nightmare” is a lifelong gamer and professed Zelda fanatic (enjoyable truth: throughout his early WWE run in ‘07-’08, his wrestling boots sported the Triforce brand). So I made a decision to forgo any wrestling questions and spent the few valuable minutes I had with Cody getting his tackle Tears of the Kingdom, how Majora’s Masks stacks up in comparison with his favourite Zelda recreation, Ocarina of Time and requested what recreation he’s most wanting ahead to enjoying in 2024.
Recreation Informer: I do know you are an enormous Zelda fan, so I gotta ask: did you play Tears of the Kingdom, and in that case, what do you suppose?
Cody Rhodes: Yeah, I went proper by way of it. So I really feel like Breath of the Wild and Tears of Kingdom are one recreation as a result of they’re so big. Like, you do not ever have to play one other Zelda ever once more in case you’re enjoying Tears of the Kingdom. I imply, simply with the Depths, searching all of the rattling Lynels down, and the Lynels simply get tougher as I grow old, which makes me really feel like I am out of contact with gaming itself. However I actually preferred the story. We wished extra story with Breath of the Wild, we acquired a few of that story with Ganondorf. However they did the precise factor when it comes to [realizing] “they nonetheless need extra. Nonetheless need extra.” And I simply suppose we’re in a type of golden age of the video games that I grew up loving. Steel Gear Strong and Zelda, you are seeing remakes, you are seeing remasters, probably an animated or a live-action film. To me, I am unable to ask for a greater factor as a result of we gave all this power as followers to it, and it might probably nonetheless proceed on, ?
GI: Yeah, for certain. I am enjoying Majora’s Masks for the primary time for a video characteristic for my web site. Is {that a} favourite of yours? I do know you are an enormous Ocarina of Time fan, however the place do you land a Majora’s Masks?
Rhodes: So Majora’s Masks is a masterpiece. I get mad at it as a result of individuals attempt to say it is higher than Ocarina of Time. I really feel like they’re additionally one recreation, however Majora’s Masks for what it did with the cycle, the three-day cycle, and issues altering with the evening and day, there’s nonetheless some video games on this period who do not get that proper. Like, it had a Purple Lifeless-level nuance to it for a Nintendo 64 recreation. Love Majora’s Masks.
Myself and Cody (rocking a trademark costly go well with) hold on the WWE 2K24 occasion. Aspect be aware: his loafers have been unbelievable.
GI: I do not know the way a lot time it’s important to play video games now, however do you could have a recreation that you are looking ahead to popping out this yr or something that you have not gotten to in your backlog?
Rhodes: I am going to soar ahead and say 2K24 for certain as a result of I’ve solely gotten slightly little bit of a style of it and have been amazed. However the large one for me is [Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater]. After which, hopefully, I ponder if we’ll get a Steel Gear Assortment Quantity 2 as a result of I do know lots of people need to see Steel Gear Strong 4 playable on fashionable consoles. So here is hoping.
WWE 2K24 launches on March 8 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.