Entertainment/Gaming Consoles

vsp · 04-30-2002, 02:50 PM

As far as wrestling games go, the Fire Pro series is unparalled for realism. They're heavy on Japanese text, so FAQs are definitely required to make sense of the menus and such, but if you follow pro wrestling at all, you can pretty much do anything in these games that they do in real life. The Edit mode has an _unbelievable_ amount of depth.

Fire Pro games are unlicensed by the big feds, but use that as an excuse to sample from ALL of them, worldwide. WWF, WCW, ECW, New Japan, All Japan, Michinoku Pro, NOAH, FMW, Toryumon, Big Japan/garbage feds, Osaka Pro, shootfighting promotions, and even Japanese women's federations are represented, and you can create your own (fantasy or real) federations. The wrestlers look and move like their real-life inspirations, but have goofy names -- which can be changed to the real names (in English). Check out the FAQs on character creation in Fire Pro D -- I can't do justice to it, and it puts games like Smackdown to shame.

And how many other games let you drag Hulk Hogan's wrinkled ass into an Electrified Barbed Wire Exploding Cage Death Match or a Fluorescent Light Bulb Board Barbed Wire Death Match, then have Abdullah the Butcher chew on his forehead and stick a fork in his skull?

04-30-2002, 02:50 PM	#11
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	As far as wrestling games go, the Fire Pro series is unparalled for realism. They're heavy on Japanese text, so FAQs are definitely required to make sense of the menus and such, but if you follow pro wrestling at all, you can pretty much do anything in these games that they do in real life. The Edit mode has an _unbelievable_ amount of depth. Fire Pro games are unlicensed by the big feds, but use that as an excuse to sample from ALL of them, worldwide. WWF, WCW, ECW, New Japan, All Japan, Michinoku Pro, NOAH, FMW, Toryumon, Big Japan/garbage feds, Osaka Pro, shootfighting promotions, and even Japanese women's federations are represented, and you can create your own (fantasy or real) federations. The wrestlers look and move like their real-life inspirations, but have goofy names -- which can be changed to the real names (in English). Check out the FAQs on character creation in Fire Pro D -- I can't do justice to it, and it puts games like Smackdown to shame. And how many other games let you drag Hulk Hogan's wrinkled ass into an Electrified Barbed Wire Exploding Cage Death Match or a Fluorescent Light Bulb Board Barbed Wire Death Match, then have Abdullah the Butcher chew on his forehead and stick a fork in his skull?

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