They were doing okay until around SvR 07 and even that's better than the 2K series.

I'm playing SvR11 and the only annoying thing about it is that the WWE Universe mode is tied into exhibition. You can't have a normal string of matches without it affecting the WWE Universe and throwing random cut-scenes you didn't want at you. Luckily, they fixed that in the next game. They just made everything else on the Universe front worse.