Gallery: Here’s how every WWE 2K24 wrestler looks compared to 2K23

04.03.2024 - 12:23 / videogameschronicle.com / Chris Scullion

WWE 2K24 is out this week, and as our review suggests, it’s worth a purchase if you’re a wrestling fan.

One thing the review does point out, however, is that the game feels more like an evolution than a complete revamp, and the same goes for the wrestler likenesses.

Since the 2K22 edition, developer Visual Concepts has used a face scanning system which uses 80 hi-res cameras to scan wrestlers’ faces from a variety of angles, in order to get high quality character models.

With a roster of over 200 wrestlers, however, the team naturally focuses on the new additions each year, such as the up-and-coming NXT talent making their video game debuts.

What does this mean for the existing wrestlers, however? How many of them have new likenesses, and how many have been left unchanged?

Our massive gallery below will reveal all. We’ve put together comparison images for every superstar who appears in both this year’s and last year’s game.

On the left is how they looked in WWE 2K23, and on the right is how they now look in WWE 2K24.

For the most part we’ve used wrestlers’ entrance attires, partly because in some occasions a wrestler’s actual face scan won’t have changed but their outfit will have, in order to match their updated TV ring gear.

The only time we haven’t used a superstar’s entrance attire is when it covers their face, because that’s the main point of the article after all.

The last thing to bear in mind is that the game’s Edit Mode (which is where you get to see the character models in this much detail) has changed this year, and moved from an empty room in WWE 2K23 to an arena setting in WWE 2K24. As a result, the lighting is different, meaning some faces may look a little different even if the models are actually the same.

With this all in mind, here’s a full look at which returning WWE 2K24 faces are new, and which have remained the same.

Adam Pearce

AJ Styles

Akira Tozawa

Alba Fyre

Although Alba was featured in WWE 2K23, her current tag team partner Isla Dawn wasn’t.

This has changed in WWE 2K24, as Isla Dawn has now been added as a new member of the roster, meaning you can now play as the Unholy Union.

Alexa Bliss

Alexa is a good example of how some WWE 2K23 superstars have the same character model in 2K24, but still look a little better thanks to improved lighting.

Andre Chase

Andre the Giant

Although the WWE legends can’t be scanned because they’re either too old or too dead, some of them still have new faces.

This is presumably because some of them are featured in the Showcase mode – Andre the Giant is featured because of his match against Hulk Hogan, for example.

As such, some of them have presumably been given a tweak so they look better in cutscenes.

Angel Garza

Angelo Dawkins

Apollo Crews

Ashante Thee Adonis