Fire Pro Wrestling World Reviews

Peak wrestling game

okada beat the fuck out of me

This never came to Xbox but I finally have a PC. Amazing game.

the character creator is godlike. its gonna take you a while to make people though.

I've heard multiple people say this is their favorite wrestling game and I didn't get how a game that looked like that could be your favorite but after playing for a while... yeah. I completely get it. This game is absolute fantastic and, in a way with the workshop, timeless and could theoretically never be out of date. Amazing game!

this game + wrestling empire like career mode could be best wrestling game we deserve but still awesome.

This is probably still one of the greatest wrestling games of all time. If your use to the typical WWE gameplay or style this is not it. You will lose a lot of matches in the beginning until you understand the concept of the match flow. I hear a lot of people complain about the mechanics but if you play fighting games like SF, Tekken, etc. then timing shouldn't be a issue. Biggest thing I can say to new players listen for the foot stomping the mat before initiating your move. It takes a couple of games to get used to. Would recommend this to anyone who creates content in the Wrestling Universe.

Easily the most customizable wrestling game ever made, with a massive fanbase still coming up with new moves and appearance items!

The main draw to this game for me was the extensive workshop creations to this game, as a lot of them are magnificent and painstakingly created. My hope and dream was to assemble several real-life company rosters and be able to play with them in the Fire Manager mode DLC for this game, as it sounded really fun and exciting to me. I was willing to put in the time, as the hype for this game was large and it kept cropping up as a long-time professional wrestling fan. I really did give it my best shot. It's so clunky and needlessly complicated to add ONE superstar that, over time, will make you pull your hair out. And god help you if you want to add custom music to a single superstar, let alone a full roster of your favorite wrestlers from the workshop. Absurd and contrived doesn't even cover the half of it. I honestly don't know how so many people put up with it. Whatever it is, I don't have it. Spent hours digging and researching how to do anything only to quit out of frustration and defeat. The game is not user friendly at all and the DLCs are overpriced for what you get. I now understand the negative reviews for this game unfortunately. Makes me sad.

Although I think this game had such great potential to be the best Fire Pro game, a few things went wrong along the way. The base game seems to be fairly limited and you need DLC to enjoy a lot of the community creations. If you have all the DLC, and can figure out how to properly integrate the workshop items, this game can be amazing. But for me, it's far too much work and seems overly complicated. It kills me to leave a bad review for this game as I've loved the franchise for many years. the worst part for me is that it shows I've played the game for 109 hours, however, I'm not kidding, probably 100 of those hours were stuck at the loading screen. I admit I like to have as much workshop creations as I can get my hands on but the fact that it has to "download" everything every time you start the game up (to the best of my knowledge it's doing some sort of verification thing) is just silly. Overall just too complicated, and I was fine with downloading game saves and using a usb stick with an action replay max for community created content for Fire Pro Wrestling Returns on PS2.