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’ll be able to 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 speak with one in every of 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 reality: throughout his early WWE run in ‘07-’08, his wrestling boots sported the Triforce emblem). 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.
Sport 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 assume?
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 large. Like, you do not ever must play one other Zelda ever once more in case you’re enjoying Tears of the Kingdom. I imply, simply with the Depths, looking all of the rattling Lynels down, and the Lynels simply get more durable as I become older, which makes me really feel like I am out of contact with gaming itself. However I actually favored the story. We needed extra story with Breath of the Wild, we obtained a few of that story with Ganondorf. However they did the appropriate factor by way of [realizing] “they nonetheless need extra. Nonetheless need extra.” And I simply assume we’re in a sort of golden age of the video games that I grew up loving. Metallic 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 could possibly nonetheless proceed on, you recognize?
GI: Yeah, for positive. 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 folks 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 Crimson Lifeless-level nuance to it for a Nintendo 64 recreation. Love Majora’s Masks.
Myself and Cody (rocking a trademark costly go well with) dangle on the WWE 2K24 occasion. Facet be aware: his loafers have been unbelievable.
GI: I do not understand how a lot time it’s a must to play video games now, however do you have got 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 positive as a result of I’ve solely gotten somewhat 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’m wondering if we’ll get a Metallic Gear Assortment Quantity 2 as a result of I do know lots of people wish to see Metallic Gear Strong 4 playable on trendy consoles. So this is hoping.
WWE 2K24 launches on March 8 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.