Fire Pro Wrestling Returns Coming to North America and Europe

**Korly** · 27 Jul 2007, 12:36 PM

CRITICAL

I would give up all the beautiful ponies in the multiverse to get this on XBLA.

If they gimp this game, no deal. I already have the japanese version. If they make it essentially impossible to create WWE/ECW/TNA guys (like, gimping the customization options because THQ says so) then I won't need it. There's already a translated version of the Japanese release available.

Kudos for Agetec working with FPC.

**Jeremy** · 27 Jul 2007, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Kidnemo

I really don't watch wrassilin anymore, but I still love me some Fire Pro and the second one on the GBA still gets regular play by me.

Does this one have the MMA guys in it like the other games?

Yeah, it's still got MMA guys on the roster, although the rise in popularity of MMA since that second GBA game, I expect that anyone who's in this game and has a contract with a major MMA group will have to have their colors altered as well. Since Spike moved to a 12-sided cage instead of an 8-sided one, there's a good chance that will be retained in this NA/Euro version.

**FuryFox** · 27 Jul 2007, 01:44 PM

I've never seen or played a FPW game before, but I've heard of them often enough. Watching the videos, I at first thought it looked really jerky, but the more I watched the more I appreciated the variety in animations and it's odd style. It's hard to tell from the youtube videos, but is the game strictly sprite based? I'm guessing so, which makes all the animation even more impressive.

This would be an amazing XBLA game, but all I caught was that it was approved by SCEA, so I'm guessing PS2 or PSP.

**Chux** · 27 Jul 2007, 02:51 PM

Yeah, it's all sprite based.

**kingoffighters** · 27 Jul 2007, 03:01 PM

It is unbelievably deep. I never fully grasp the system and the CPU is brutal. I need to dig up the GBA game now that we are talking about it. It is a great game.

**Kidnemo** · 27 Jul 2007, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by kingoffighters

It is unbelievably deep. I never fully grasp the system and the CPU is brutal. I need to dig up the GBA game now that we are talking about it. It is a great game.

I got to the point where I could beat the cpu at the highest difficulty level, not sure if that is impressive or not.

The cpu can be a jerk sometimes, especially when the guys "lock up" and you have to hit the button as fast as you can to overpower the guy. Above level 3 or so I think I could never beat them, I'd just let 'em win.

I never was able to get into the DC version as much because the timing was a bit different.

**Timber** · 27 Jul 2007, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Korly

There's already a translated version of the Japanese release available.

PM me the details pls.

**Jeremy** · 27 Jul 2007, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Kidnemo

I got to the point where I could beat the cpu at the highest difficulty level, not sure if that is impressive or not.

The cpu can be a jerk sometimes, especially when the guys "lock up" and you have to hit the button as fast as you can to overpower the guy. Above level 3 or so I think I could never beat them, I'd just let 'em win.

I never was able to get into the DC version as much because the timing was a bit different.

I had a lot of trouble with the DC game too, then I decided to tackle the victory road one night and ended up getting used to it. It's still really tough in the higher difficulty levels though, and it's impossible to win the all-too-frequent test of strengths at that level, too.