Having come from the WWE 2k game series, I think Fire Pro Wrestling World is easily one of the best, and most interesting wrestling games there is. And with Fire Promoter, enabling you to be the GM/Owner of your own wrestling promotion, it just makes it so much funner and more engaging. In addition, the game is literally infinitely customizable and you can literally create any wrestler you can dream up. Especially with the community mods, but even with the vanilla game and DLCs you can pretty much do most anything. And there are tens of thousands of historic, real-life wrestlers you can find in the Workshop in addition to further content to customize the game to your tastes even more.

I love the retro look and, at first being skeptacle of the graphics, they really are nice and you can make out emotions on the faces of the wrestlers as they take blows, taunt their opponent or play up to the crowd. There's also some occaional voice acting with some of the big moves and certain moments during matches.

This emulates the Japanese style of wrestling which differs from western wrestling in that the crowd expects to be entertained as much as seeing great action in the ring. And the longer the bout, the better. That's not to say you can't have a screaming, stomping crowd in sub-10 minute matches because it's possible to pull off a faster-paced match and still get high match rating. It all depends on the action level and suspense involved. Generally, typical matches the crowd will want to see more than 10 minutes and some playing up to the crowd. Sometimes you can have epic 20-30 minute matches that drives the crowd into a frenzy and near-riot.

So, keep in mind that if you manually play your wrestler in matches that means that you're a Worker whether a big star or a bottom card talent. Your job is to make the action good, entertain the crowd and, if intending to get another wrestler over then you need to help do that by helping to make them shine too. In other words, crowds typically frown on squash matches that are lopsided and over within a few quick minutes. As a promoter, and if you leave the action to the cpu vs cpu battles, then you'll have to find good matchups and cards to put together. Early on you got a small company and so it's a bit tougher but can be done once you get the hang of what the crowd expects.

Yes, there is female wrestling and intergender (man vs woman) matches and even mixed tag team options. Also, bloodletting and weapons, barb wire matches that are also electrified, land mine matches with both barb wire and explosions when you throw your opponent out of the ring. You can make them bleed, suffer and get as gory as you want with blood strewn about the ring. But remember, if in Promoter mode then it depends on what type promotion you are running as how to stuff like that gets over. Also, maybe tone down the chance for "critical" finishers early on lest you run the risk of putting some of your starting 6 wrestlers on the injured list or even in the hospital which then means you have to hire outside talent at greater expense to you, generally speaking, in order to fill up a full card of matches.

I admit I was skeptical but it's true that this game can be equally as fun and entertaining as the WWE 2k series of games. Easy recommendation for all wrestling fans.

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