9 Stars We Could See On The Cover Of WWE 2K23

Triple H

You’d think that it would be easy to come up with a pithy little joke about the fact that Triple H’s nickname is “The Game”, and we’re talking about a literal video game, but the fact is that when the pieces fit together that well it can sometimes give you the writer’s equivalent of pee shyness.

Here’s what I do know, though: if the WWE 2K cover star is determined by which person has rendered the biggest service to the company in any given year, then Triple H should be on the cover until at least WWE 2K28.

I’m only sort of joking here; regardless of what happens to WWE going forward, the King of Kings has been the company’s MVP ever since he took over creative duties from Vince McMahon in 2022.

Hell, he’s been hailed as the company’s savior ever since he took the lame reality TV show NXT concept and transformed it into the best wrestling product in North America (before they fired everybody who made it good and a clown threw up on the logo).

Sentimentality aside, putting the Cerebral Assassin on the cover of 2K is also just good business sense, since he’s an Attitude Era star who casual fans are likely to recognise.

Short of Stone Cold or the Rock, Triple H is one of the few mugshots in wrestling that can convince somebody who hasn’t watched WWE since 2002 to take a chance on dropping $100 on a slightly updated roster and a broken GM mode.

Actually maybe “broken” isn’t a fair assessment (no matter what Luke Owens wakes up in the night screaming). It just takes some skill to master. I guess you could say it’s all about the game, and how you play it, it’s all about control and if you can take it…

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