WWE 2K's MyCareer was rebranded as MyRISE and focused on separate stories for both male and female wrestlers. Using created characters, players can form alliances, make enemies, and branch into subplots based upon the players choices.[6][7] This game did see the removal of the Advance Entrance option when creating a superstars custom entrance, instead leaving the only option to Easy Entrance.
The 2K Showcase Mode is rebranded as Showcase, featuring cover superstar Rey Mysterio, allowing players to play through the biggest moments of his WWE career, from his matchup with his mentor, Eddie Guerrero under the name, Rey Mysterio Jr., for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship at WCW Halloween Havoc 1997 to his tag team match with his son, Dominik Mysterio, against "The Monday Night Messiah" Seth Rollins and his protégé Murphy for the Raw Tag Team Championship at Payback 2020. The Showcase mode incorporates new features and updates. By progressing through, players are able to unlock new characters, attires, and arenas.[6][7] At IGN Fan Fest 2022, a gameplay of the match between Rey Mysterio and Dolph Ziggler at SummerSlam 2009 featured a transition method between in-game to real-time action, with the referee's face being blurred, alongside the sponsorships being blurred in previous games, using both in-game and archived audio, unlike in previous games, where the commentary has been re-recorded and archived audio is used in certain points during in-game cutscenes. The game features a new mode called MyFACTION. In it, players are able to build a wrestling stable by collecting, managing, and upgrading WWE wrestlers with regular updates and weekly events. MyFACTION features player cards from throughout WWE's history.[6][7]
Universe Mode returned with several updates, including the ability to change camera angles while spectating matches. Other new features include playing as a single superstar, focusing only on their matches and storylines.[6][7] MyGM, formerly known as GM Mode, returned to the series for the first time since 2007's WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008. Players can choose between Sonya Deville, Adam Pearce, William Regal, "The Best in the World" Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, or a custom superstar to take control of one of WWE's four brands: Raw (The WWE Championship for the men's division, the Raw Women's Championship for the women's division and the Raw Tag Team Championship for the men's tag team division on Normal and Hard difficulties), SmackDown (The WWE Universal Championship for the men's division, the SmackDown Women's Championship for the women's division and the SmackDown Tag Team Championship for the men's tag team division on Normal and Hard difficulties), NXT (The NXT Championship for the men's division, the NXT Women's Championship for the women's division and the NXT Tag Team Championship for the men's tag team division on Normal and Hard difficulties), or NXT UK (The NXT UK Championship for the men's division, the NXT UK Women's Championship for the women's division and the NXT UK Tag Team Championship for the men's tag team division on Normal and Hard difficulties), determining the optional main championships for both the men's and women's divisions via either the start of a MyGM campaign or a title match during a MyGM campaign, which can have a boost a superstar's popularity or stamina, depending if a superstar is a face or a heel, if holding a championship, with an option to add the men's and women's (WWE Women's Tag Team Championship in Raw and Smackdown and the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship in NXT and NXT UK) tag team championships for the on Normal and Hard difficulties during a MyGM campaign via a tag team title match being added in the Version 1.9 patch on April 19, 2022, alongside the addition of the NXT 2.0 arena. Players can book wrestling shows in high school gyms and on primetime television, draft superstars, manage contracts, and control costs, while trying to create the premier WWE brand, from the WWE Draft to Wrestlemania (37 in this installment) across 12, 25 or 50 weeks, with weekly shows have three matches and up to two promos on Easy difficulty or four matches with up to three promos on Normal and Hard difficulties, premium live events (also known in-game as PPV events), which are held every four weeks on Easy difficulty or five weeks on Normal and Hard difficulties, have four matches with up to three promos on Easy difficulty or five matches with up to four promos on Normal and Hard difficulties and Wrestlemania, which is held on the final week of a MyGM campaign, have five matches with up to four promos.[6][7] In the WWE Draft, each manager starts with $2.75 million and will have to choose a minimum of eight superstars from a pool of current superstars and original superstars created by 2K, along with an option to add custom superstars to the pool, with Legends added to the pool during a MyGM campaign via free agent signings.
Community creations in the creation suite have cross-platform support for users who are signed in to a verified 2K account. Custom images can also be used in character select screens, which allowing the player to put their own photo(s) on screen.[6][7] Furthermore, an in-game tutorial, featuring Coach Drew Gulak, taking place at the WWE Performance Center with Rey Mysterio training with Gulak's NXT mentor, "The Original Bro" Matt Riddle, was added. Creator Safe Mode can now be toggled, aside of being automatically enabled when streaming via the console's built-in streaming feature (except for the cutscene audio, if disabled), which disables the music and cutscene audio, to avoid copyright infringement during gameplay.
