Total Extreme Wrestling 2010 Reviews

reminds me that the wrestling industry is dead because of conglomerates sucking the life out of it yet producing shit content games good tho

This one is easily my favorite. Learning curve can be a bit steep but once you start to get going it just dosent stop being a good time.

Been looking for a game of this kind for years. It has a bit of a 'clunky' feel to it and things aren't always as straight forward as they could be. All in all a good game but vastly over priced in my opinion.

Total Extreme Wrestling is not wrestling game. Instead it is a DEEP simulator about wrestling. If you've had no experience with simulators like Footbal Manager or OOTP Baseball, then be very cautious before purchasing. You might be dissapointed. The other thing to bear in mind is that the presentation is pretty bare bones. There is no music and you don't actually see matches. With that said, the game is actually loads of fun. It puts you in control of your own wrestling promotion and leaves you to your own devices to develop storylines, add titles, create stables, etc. It is incredibly unforgiving for first timers, so plan to spend several hours navigating the menus and getting a handle on how the game works. Once you do though, it's possible to lose countless hours in this game. I definitely recommend this game if you are really in to sims!

I was excited to get this game on Steam as I had an older version of this game many years ago and was looking forward to an updated version. Sadly, it would not install properly, hanging up in installation. I gave up and went to bed while it was frozen on a screen, resulting in nine hours of 'play time' making it ineligible for a refund. The support site is non existent and the forums do not address this flaw. What was once a fascinating strategy game has turned into a complex of malfunctioning code. Don't waste your time or money.

Great game for anyone that is a "student" of professional wrestling, or even the less popular term of sports entertainment. You can take over 1 of roughly 30 promotions worldwide, that cater to all the styles of wrestling, as well as promotion levels. Want to take over a WWE style promotion? What about a WCW type in the late 90s? Ring of Honor? ECW? All of the options are there, or you can tweak the style of the promotion manually. AMAZING depth when you run the game with all of or multiple regions; you can pick from US, Japan, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, etc. Again, anyone who is a loves the business from a high level (just meaning not controlling the wrestlers directly, but nearly everything else), this game is for you.

Like one review I read for this, I have to say, this game is pretty in depth. Like overwhelmingly in depth. But its nothing a bit of personal science can't overcome eventually. To summerize, you are the booker of a wrestling promotion. YOU make the matches, YOU make the story lines, YOU sign talents to your company. You virtually do it all in a very hands on way. What you do will also effect your relationship with the promotions owner, the talents backstage and how your company does overall. There is so much in this game, that if I listed it all, this review will be TL;DR, but for an example, you can assign gimmicks to wrestlers, make them Face or Heel ( good guy - bad guy )...or if you are feeling like a toootal **** you can just outright bury the wrestler that has somehow irked you. There is so much to do, just give anything a try. And if thats not enough, then....just make your own promotion, wrestlers, talents, gimmick ect ect ect through the games very handy and easy to use editor feature. I have made a start on doing my own and it does take a bit of time, but its worth it when you got your own pet promotion and talents going. Do recommend, will just devour time and is very engaging.

What can I say? I love this series! As a Pro Wrestling fan and a text-sim nerd, this is the best of both worlds. Run your own promotion, book the matches, handle contracts, write angles and promos, etc. etc. This is for Mr. Adam Ryland: You know what I'm gonna ask next. Gimme Gimme TEW 2013 on Steam! Pretty Please? :p

Let me start with a tl:dr version: This is a management type sim. Not a game where you get to control a wrestler in an actual match. This isn't the company's current offering in the series, but the software sold from their website is evil - meaning it's tied to ELicense. So even if you aren't a fan of Steam - be thankful you haven't messed with ELicense. That aside - this version has well established mods and is plenty of fun if simulations and wrestling are interests of yours. ---- My original review on why I'd recommend it. Total Extreme Wrestling (TEW) is a fun game if you always wanted to delve into the management side of wrestling. Management side of wrestling? Yes, the side of the industry where we all know it's story based entertainment, with athletes portraying the roles of actors, all with varying degrees of success. In this game you play the role of the person who runs the company, building the stable of your wrestlers through contracts, defining which talent you'll be aligning to which story line, and who they'll be facing in order to make it all entertaining for the people who come to watch the show. This is where the challenge comes in, as the best long running plot can fail utterly if you use the wrong kind of talent in pulling it off. For example, you may create a grudge war which pits two of your wrestlers against each other for the fans viewing pleasure. The individual steps of that grudge war can include actions such as one wrestler taunting the other in a pre-match interview. Well, if the wrestler you have give the interview isn't skilled in speaking well, then the fans might not find the taunting interesting enough, and as a result, they'll be cold towards the next event as they begin to loose interest. The end result you find is it's a management / business sim where you need to hire athletic actors to manipulate the masses by entertaining them and playing with their emotions, which then nets you the money you need to keep the business going. Also, while some folks enjoy the wrestling universe that comes with the game, I myself find it hard to relate to, so I usually find one of the fine "Real-world" mods that the TEW community has created, so that way I can hire / fire / ruin the career of wrestlers I actually am familiar with. While this isn't the current version of the game (TEW 2013 is), the current version is only sold on the company website. I've owned both, and found that I put more hours into TEW 2010.

EDIT: We need to nominate this game for a Steam Award! Preferably the "5 more minutes" Award! If this game is even nominated, it could open the doors to TEW 2016 coming to Steam, and I would sell a limb for that to happen! Honestly couldn't recommend this game enough. It may look a little rough around the edges, it might not have the best design or graphics but at it's core is a great wrestling sim that is very different, and very time consuming. In this game, you are not a wrestler, but instead you are the booker of either a ficticious wrestling company or your own. I may also add that this game is very mod friendly, you can easily import logos for your own company, or find mods that allow you to play as WWE, TNA, ROH, Shimmer, NJPW and many others from all around the globe. If you choose to start your own company (which I recommend the most), you can assemble an all-star roster, compete with the big guys and get TV and PPV deals. If you find slight interest in backstage wrestling politics, you'll love this game. You can have fights in the locker room, maybe you gave someone creative control and they excercise the option frequently. It's not bare bones, it is in depth and I'm still finding new elements to the game! My biggest star got into an accident while holding the title. I conducted drug tests and found a lot of my locker room had taken substances, so it was my job to decide how I was going to punish them. It's a game about choice, and you can shape your own company. When you get onto the front page of the fictional wrestling news site when your title has changed hands, you know you've made it big. As your popularity rises and you become more of a staple in the wrestling industry, you are covered more by the media and are targeted by the bigger promotions, for example they can start chants in your arena, bring signs promoting other wrestling shows. Think like the Monday Night Wars. You can decide how women's wrestling is conducted in your company. Women may not be on your shows as competitors, they can have a small division or be fully intergrated into the roster, with them competing for the same titles as men. You can establish your own arenas, more like the Impact Zone and the Lucha Underground set. More importantly you can set up wrestling dojos and developmental branches (Note: Dojos and Developmental Companies aren't the same). The game is pretty much one of my favorite PC games right now. It takes up a lot of my time, and I feel like I've just scratched the surface. It has no sound, and it's only in windowed mode. For me these aren't drawbacks but I thought it was worth mentioning. I find it helpful, if you have a duel monitor set-up, you can play the game and also have something like WWE Network play in the background (I recommend the Monday Night Wars show, as it illustrates the backstage antics and gives you a good idea of what talent to sign). The game has it's own universe with characters and promotions already installed. Mods are easy to find on the TEW Warehouse website, they have Attitude Era mods, and current day mods. I've even seen some fantasy mods with characters from TV Shows, Movies and other Video Games. This is a 10/10 game, even though it doesn't look like it at face value. I honestly belive that the asking price is still a steal, you're getting so much for what really is so little. I hope the developers of the game see this review and know that there is a lot of interest in a sequel and we also hope that you choose to release TEW 2013 on Steam, as it would bring a new audience to the game, as this entry on Steam has brought me towards the series after hearing so much about it. TEW 2016 anyone?