Cody Rhodes was recently a guest on the ‘Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast’. He spoke on a wide variety of topics about his wrestling career. One of the topics that came up had to do with the WWE 2K video games.
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Cody would go on to say that in almost every case, 2K used independent wrestlers to put on the motion capture [MoCap] suits and imitate the moves of the WWE stars. This is because the wrestler’s don’t have time to do all of it themselves.
Rhodes would tell a great story about Shane McMahon being the only one to put the MoCap suit on because he wanted his character to be perfect:
“Shane McMahon did his own MoCap! Did you guys know that? Went in and did his own MoCap. Didn’t want someone else doing his moves.
“Yeah, so they get some really talented folks — and really, those guys, they make sure they get their MoCap. They get some very talented folks that know how to do almost everybody’s stuff, and properly, and they execute it and they’ve got all the dots on them and they film it. But Shane put the dots on himself, on his sneaks and everything and did all his own stuff, apparently. He’s Shane McMahon. Just the man.”
A pretty awesome story. Shane O’Mac really is the man.
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You can listen to the episode here.
[h/t to Uproxx]