Fire Pro Wrestling Returns (PlayStation 2)

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Description

Fire ProWrestling Returns is a 2D-graphic based wrestling simulation game. The game has a north-south/east-west-axis movement system. This allows for dual-plane movement rendering it to play like a 3D wrestling game (although the moves are still done in 2D).

The game features 327 wrestlers on the main roster, from over 10 major Japanese wrestling and mixed-martial arts organizations. This in-depth roster allows the player to simulate classic matches or matches that could never take place.

Game modes include a standard exhibition match, tag team exhibition match with 2 to 4 player teams, a round robin league tournament featuring up to 64 wrestlers, a sudden elimination tournament featuring up to 16 wrestlers, mixed martial arts matches aka Ultimate Fighting (with either Pride or K*1 Rules), battle royal matches with up to eight players in the ring at the same time, 5-man team elimination matches, and for the first time ever in a Fire ProWrestling game, a North American cage match mode.

The edit mode allows the player to create wrestlers, referees, and even entire wrestling organizations (with their own ring and logo). This mode features over 1,648 moves and holds the player can assign to wrestlers, whose CPU logic may be tweaked so as to make them behave as when controlled by the computer.

The new features for the Fire ProWrestling series debuting in Fire ProWrestling Returns are North American cage matches, face layering on edit mode, and ring seconds (aka managers) that accompany wrestlers to the ring. It also features over 20 brand new moves, including some reanimations of old moves.

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Alternate Titles

• "FR" -- Official abbreviation

Part of the Following Group

• Fire Pro Wrestling series

User Reviews

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Critic Reviews

1UP	Nov 20, 2007	10 out of 10	100
Game Vortex	Dec 08, 2007	97 out of 100	97
Blend Games	Dec 07, 2007		90
GameSpy	Dec 05, 2007		90
The Review Busters	2007	8.75 out of 10	88
Retrogaming History	Apr 03, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Armchair Empire, The	Feb 11, 2008	7.5 out of 10	75
Game Shark	Nov 28, 2007	B	75
VicioJuegos.com / uVeJuegos.com	Oct 14, 2008	67 out of 100	67
The Video Game Critic	Feb 15, 2009	D	25

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

Fire Pro Wrestling Returns appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Awards

• GameSpy
  • 2007 – #5 PS2 Game of the Year

Related Web Sites

• Fire ProWrestling Returns (Official game website - Japanese)
• Wikipedia: Fire ProWrestling Returns (Information about Fire ProWrestling Returns at Wikipedia)