That's not to say that WWE2K17 isn't fun - just that it feels too familiar to last year's game, and the changes that have come aren't all positive.
Five years in, the series is starting to feel long in the tooth.
The games used to be goofy and unreal, but we've been moving closer to simulation ever since the WWE 2K series started. WWE has been a fixture in gaming since back when the company was still called WWF.