WWE 2K16 Roster Update: 21 NEW superstars confirmed by 2K Sports; Shawn Michaels, The Snake, Honky Tonk Man and more included

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2K Games has officially confirmed the WWE 2K16 latest batch of Wrestling superstars to join the game's largest roster ever known in the history of the franchise with more than 120 unique characters as the game is nearing towards its October 27 release date to Xbox One, PS4, PS3, and Xbox 360.

As revealed by WWE and 2K Games via IGN, the new list of wrestling legends who will be seen in WWE 2K16 are mostly from WWF/WWE in the 80's and 90's decade, although, icons like Dusty Rhodes and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper who recently passed away were notedly not included in this new batch of names revealed.

The following are the complete list of the 21 new and official additions to the WWE 2K16 roster:

  • Billy Gunn
  • Bret "The Hitman" Hart
  • The British Bulldog
  • Cactus Jack/Dude Love/Mankind
  • Christian
  • Damien Sandow
  • D'Lo Brown
  • Farooq
  • Haku
  • The Honky Tonk Man
  • Jake "The Snake" Roberts
  • Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart
  • Kama Mustafa
  • Ken Shamrock
  • Paul Wight
  • Rikishi
  • Shane McMahon
  • Shawn Michaels
  • Vader
  • Vince McMahon
  • X-Pac

Last week, the likes of The Rock, Ravishing Rick Rude, Batista, Chris Jericho, Natalya, Dean Ambrose and a lot more had also been announced for WWE 2K16. According to Design & Trend, 2K will be announcing more wrestlers every Monday until Oct. 27.

The full list from last's week announcement from 2K Games are the following:

  • Aiden English
  • Andre the Giant
  • Batista
  • Chris Jericho
  • Curtis Axel
  • Dean Ambrose
  • Edge
  • Erick Rowan
  • Fandango
  • John "Bradshaw" Layfield
  • Luke Harper
  • Randy "Macho Man" Savage
  • Natalya
  • Ravishing Rick Rude
  • R-Truth
  • Ryback
  • Santino Marella
  • Sergeant Slaughter
  • Simon Gotch
  • Stephanie McMahon
  • The Rock
  • The Undertaker
  • Alicia Fox
  • Bam Bam Bigelow
  • The Big Show
  • Cameron
  • Cesaro
  • Darren Young
  • Diamond Dallas Page
  • Dolph Ziggler
  • Finlay
  • Kevin Nash
  • Layla
  • Lex Luger
  • The Miz
  • Naomi
  • Randy Orton
  • Sheamus
  • Titus O'neal
  • Tyson Kidd
  • Adam Rose
  • Bo Dallas
  • Brie Bella
  • Brock Lesnar
  • Goldust
  • Heath Slater
  • Hideo Itami
  • Jack Swagger
  • Kevin Owens
  • Adrian Neville
  • Nikki Bella
  • Ric Flair
  • Sami Zayn
  • Roman Reigns
  • Stardust
  • Sting
  • Tyler Breeze
  • The Ultimate Warrior
  • Zack Ryder
  • Booker T
  • Colonel Mustafa
  • Emma
  • Eva Marie
  • General Adnan
  • Kalisto
  • Kane
  • Lord Steven Regal
  • Sin Cara
  • Summer Rae
  • Tamina
  • Triple H
  • "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
  • Seth Rollins
  • Daniel Bryan
  • Dean Ambrose
  • Bad News Barrett
  • Paige
  • Finn Bálor

Also, the game developer already assured the fans who still have doubts surrounding the game's largest roster features. "For anyone doubting the 'largest roster ever' tag line for 'WWE 2K16,' let us assure you, that we are bringing over 120 unique playable Superstars and Divas to the game. Now when we say unique, we're not counting the repeats like five John Cena models, or eight Mark Henry models. As you can imagine, these models are keeping us crazy busy, but it is worth it," 2K stated.

WWE 2K16 is set to release on October 27 for Xbox One, Xbox 360,PS4, and PS3 platforms. Pre-order of the game will grant players two playable T-800 versions of popular movie icon Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, one is from the1984 original movie and the second is from 1991's Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

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