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Category: Video Games
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 1329
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 09280
UPC: 093992092801
EAN: 0093992092801
ASIN: B000VG6Z9S
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | First time on PS2 in North America | | • | Up to 8 plays simultaneously go toe to toe | | • | A huge variety of match types with a complete arsenal of wrestling moves and holds | | • | Match Maker mode lets players set up their own wrestling show, earn money, and lure talent | | • | The ability to create your own referee, ring, logo and even belt allows players to play their dream match |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 This is a complex and rewarding wrestling game. July 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, this game is not a button masher. It is very intricate and hard to master. I would not recommend this for anyone under 12, the move system and create mode is simply too hard.
The good news is that you can create everything : wrestlers,move-lists, federations, the ring, and even the belt. The create mode is actually very cumbersome, but it is complete, and gives the user TOTAL CONTROL. Alot of old-school wrestlers from the 80s(WWF glory years) are already on the game, you just simply need to change the name.
This game is aimed at players who like to create, and has endless replay value.
There is life in 2D sprites, still. April 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I remember back when I was a kid, playing EPYX Pro Wrestling, on my Commodore 64, with it's horrible graphics, small list of moves, 3 minute time limits and simplistic game play...and loving every single second of it. I daydreamed about having the ability to hack that game, just for the purpose of being able to change around the character's colors, and add in "additional" wrestlers.
It was my gamer fantasy, to have a "complete", pro wrestling, video game package, which focused on the presentation of the pro wrestling industry, "as it is"...not as some flashy, super quick fighting game, but something which mirrors the actual world of pro wrestling.
I wanted the whole gambit...the high flyer's, brawlers, small guys, giants, technicians, cheaters and I wanted them to have realistic differences in stats, which meant something and had a serious impact. And moves/holds, I wanted hoards and hoards of them. This was my fantasy, pro wrestling game.
You can imagine my amazement, when I happened across (by chance) a web site, of a hard core fan of the Fire Pro series, back when Fire Pro G was the new addition. After reading all the features, I knew that I had the wonderful fortune of having found my fantasy wrestling game...and this game was better than anything I'd anticipated. It was so much deeper.
I have been a solid supporter and fan of the Fire Pro Wrestling series, ever since (though, technically, I did already own HAL wrestling for the gameboy, I just didn't realize their connection at the time)...and I've purchased every installment since. Each has been superb.
The thing which sets this series apart from all other pro wrestling video game series, is that the people who created it are pro wrestling fanatics, and this shines through in the end product. They have the same vision, of being faithful to the true presentation, which you find in the pro wrestling business.
The flow of the matches are wonderful. They run the gambit, just like the "real" industry. The flavor and style of every single match, feels almost endless in it's diversity, as there are so incredibly many variables which come into play. You never truly know how a match will outcome, until it is over...and there are enough moves per wrestler/fighter, to where you can fight substantially different matches, even in a series with the same wrestlers/fighters. The matches just "feel" right. Like you just experienced a "real" match.
Consequentially, some matches are snoozers, while others are freaking awesome (in a wide variety of ways)...and most fall somewhere in between the extremes...but they are very fun and enjoyable, for the most part.
Fire Pro Wrestling R, has been one of the single most addictive games in my library, because it is a world of pro wrestling, on one disk (and a memory card). There is virtually nobody (wrestler/fighter or not), who you can not create with this game. With 500 edit slots, you could spend years creating and editing new characters, and still not fill up the limit. And the editor is amazing in it's (relative) simplicity, yet powerful versatility (I would kill to have a character editor like this, in an RPG Maker game/software).
I have some very cool looking, original characters, who fit in seamlessly with the default roster (something which is hard to say about most edits, in other wrestling games). You just need creativity, imagination and the patience to explore and experiment. I also have several, unique promotions, some with their own rings.
One thing I love about this series, is that while the game consoles were becoming more powerful, and the better known game franchises were boasting about "how many more polygons they could waste processing power on, this year" (as though this were some type of new and amazing "feature"), Fire Pro always remained focused on what has always made it so great, and they only added in new, real features which actually improved the game.
This game is the standard setter, for pro wrestling simulation video games. That is why I love it so much. And, having grown up with really bad graphics in video games, what Fire Pro brings to the table is not painful or unsatisfying, in the least. The graphics are great for this kind of game.
Whether or not "you" should buy this title, depends on "you" and what "you" like in this type of game. This series was very clearly created for those who love pro wrestling simulators (the kinds of people who fantasize about running their own promotions, and want that experience in a video game). Those who lean more towards the break neck speed, "life like" graphics and gimmick matches of other game series may not like this title...
...Then again, maybe it will fill a personal niche for you.
[One last note: They tell you that you "cant" play this as a button masher, but my experience is that you can set the difficulty level low (I keep mine on 3 or 4), and do rather well, mashing your way to a victory.]
Words cannot do it justice! March 27, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game may very well be the greatest wrestling game ever created. Infact, it's so deep, so customizable, that you can sit and watch the cpu fight eachother and possibly be more entertained than you would if you actually played it...can other wrestling games dish that out? heck no.
Fire Pro Returns has the absolute deepest edit/CaW system of any wrestling game. You can make literally *anybody* you want, from *any* era in wrestling, and they'll look so close to the real thing people wont believe you made them.
The game also comes with over 300 some odd wrestlers, most are from Japan/Mexico, but you'll recognize some American guys too, like Bret Hart, Sting, Kevin Nash, etc. The names have all been changed to avoid copyright issues.
Now back to edit/CaW's, you can actually create 500 wrestlers! 500! no joke.
Also, aside from wrestling, this is also an extremely good MMA/Ultimate Fighting simulator. Octagon cage, MMA fighters, complete MMA move sets, and more.
Enough cant be said about how great a game this is. It's an absolute jewel, and a MUST for any wrestling fan that owns a PS2.
The price? hell, it's laughable, 20 dollars, all the way down to 8 dollars, depending on where you get it.
 Overrated, but overall FPWR can be fun....Somewhat. March 20, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Overall FPWR is a decent attempt at a wrestling game. It would need major updating, graphics and audio wise, and a little re-working of the fighting engine to become a very good wrestling game, but it can be fun, for the most part...If you can get past the Sega Genesis era audio and graphics. I mean c'mon, 2D wrestling in 2005? (when the game came out in Japan) is simply ridiculous!
The MAJOR CONS in FPWR are: Navigating through the menus can be painful. The audio and graphics are from Sega Genesis era, and I'm not joking. An 8 player battle royal can be painful being that it will be hard to see your player sometimes during the match. No life gauge too see how bad your wrestler is hurt or how much damage he is taking, no grapple button, you simply run into your opponent to grapple which takes away from strategy a bit, and the other big flaw is no indicator bar to see when you can do your finisher on someone. The customization is great but the graphics take away from all that. While making wrestlers, I was like "Why in the hell am I wasting time creating 2D wrestlers when I could make near realistic human looking models with SvsR2008"?
This game deserves 3 stars, no more, no less. Simply put, even though the graphics date back to 1992, it can be a fun game, but in small doses. I get tired of this game after 30 min. of play. Customization and match types are its strength, and gameplay, while lacking a few major things, is all about timing, and less of a brainless button masher. FPWR, gameplay wise, is almost a sheer clone of 1991's WWF Wrestlefest arcade game.
In closing, FPWR can be fun at times and is a fresh change from SvsR2008, but I do think SvsR2008 blows this game away in every way. Make FPW 3D, add a finisher and life bar (keep it optional though, to where I can turn them off or on), add a grapple button then when grappled have a power meter, (kinda like what those old WWF wrestling games for Sega Genesis had) and keep all of the customization but add custom entrances and make a better story mode, improve the audio majorly, and you would have a perfect game. Basically mix SvsR with FPW and you have perfection.
P.S. I have completely stopped playing this game since I got SvsR 2008.
New to this... March 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
whole review thing. well first off fire pro returns is the best wrestling game i've ever played. I could tell you all the great match types and what not but it's not that important. if you love wrestling and can sit down and learn the controls, you want this game. if you can go without eye candy. you want this game. if you want to see if cena can beat kobashi, you want this game. lol
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