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So I was reading the wrestling thread in D&D, reminicing on my brief love of wrestling, and how No Mercy was such an awesome game, and decided I wanted a new wrestling game.
Doesn't matter if it's WWE or TNA, since I'll just use the create-a-wrestler feature to build my own stable of talent. In No Mercy, I created one guy who looked like a cross between Big Boss and Commander Riker and had a finisher called a "Russian Neckbreaker", a Hong Kong team of Hung Lo and Harry Sax, and a big scottish dude who, on reflection, looked like Kratos with a mullet.
Doesn't matter if it's WWE or TNA, since I'll just use the create-a-wrestler feature to build my own stable of talent. In No Mercy, I created one guy who looked like a cross between Big Boss and Commander Riker and had a finisher called a "Russian Neckbreaker", a Hong Kong team of Hung Lo and Harry Sax, and a big scottish dude who, on reflection, looked like Kratos with a mullet.
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If you can't then you want Fire Pro Wrestling returns---unless you're the kind of cat who needs teh graffix since FPR pretty much still looks like a SNES game. Its create mode is arguably superior to the two 3D games if you are willing to put the time into it, I also find the AI edit to be easier to get to grips with once you understand the mistrlantion in the US version.
All the rest are awful. As in they are beyond redemption they are so bad and anybody who tells you otherwise is pretty much crazy*.
*To be far I found the newest Smackdown Vs Raw to be a more solid outing than it has been in a long time. However it's still a pretty poor depiction of what wrestling is supposed to be compared to the Spike and Square outings. To the point where you might as well just get a good fighting game instead.
All the other Wrestling games from the PS2 gen on blow. Def Jam Vendetta is good, but sadly there's no CAW (also the match modes are few).
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EWR is a free strategy Pro Wrestling simmulation game for the PC. Book matches, start feuds, read commentary. It's great!
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A friend of mine used to play a game like that way back when. Generally, all the champions we had in real life ended up being champions in the simulations. It was freakishly accurate.
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It wasn't too bad. It played a little better than the WWE games anyway. Or at least I thought it did.
Other than that if you can go old school and pick up
WWF No Mercy N64
Pro Wrestling NES
Tecmo World Wrestling (?) NES you actuly trained your guy and the special moves were all in cinematics once excuted.
I tried one of the most recent MMA style games and still hated the way input was handled (press buttons to fight, someone catches you then its like a scramble to see who can put like 6-12 button inputs in the fastest and most accurately.
Is this how most newer wrastlin games are, or am I completely out of the loop?
Ever.
The last couple of Smackdown VS. Raw years have an impressive Create-A-Wresler mode which allows you to make any character you want in terms of both appearance and moves. It's possibly one of the most robust character creators in ANY game and puts nearly all RPGs to shame (save for possibly CoX and Freedom Force, but those games are made for superheroes). I've seen some fairly good representations of Street Fighter (Capcom), as well as some other fun things (the Scout from TF2, various superheroes/villains, etc.).
Other than that... well, the gameplay is wrestling. What are you looking for, really?
A) a match NEEDS to be competitive. When I played the old Smackdown games, HTCP, or Smackdown Vs. Raw there was never a doubt I would win.
C) Presentation, presentation, presentation if the comentary is going to suck, ditch it. If moves don't realisitc, ditch it. Any so on.
Of course I could be wrong and the newest SD vs. RAW game could be challenging and thoroughly entertaining.
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Forget it...
The new SvsR is pretty decent on the PS3. I didn't rent it for the 360 tho, sorry.
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Seconding this.
Get past the "lol jiggly girls" exterior, and you've got a fun arcadey wrestling game that's actually fun to play - I haven't found the 360 sequel, but it sounds like it was just more of the same... which, actually, is kind of what I'd expect it to be.
There's only a select few Road-To-Wrestlemania plays (And I don't think there's going to be anymore, but if there are, there won't be that many), the Career mode is basically "Beat these guys. Do a special match. Win a title. Repeat." If you're taking your CAW through that, it takes FOREVER to get your Superstar rating to anything good. It's just not worth it. Oh, and they removed Create-a-Championship which isn't a -big- thing, but hell, I loved them. Create-a-Finisher is painfully limited.
I dunno, for what I get the SvR games for (Creating a CAW, building it up, copy/edit, copy/edit, super roster.) 2009 doesn't deliver.
it was also the only wrestling game to date that has gotten the Hell in the Cell exactly right. Just epic enough.
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I like Fire Pro but, for some reason, only as a portable game. The PS2 versions just haven't been able to hold my attention since the 90s.
Rumble Roses for PS2 was actually really fun. You feel a bit pervy but good lord the story mode is HILARIOUS!
Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain was one of the best wrestling games in the PS2 and one of the better wrestling games period. I think it was the highpoint of the series.
First, there are TERRIBLE clipping issues. Just ridiculous the stuff that misses (or doesn't), especially with weapons. With tables you're morel likely to eat a counter than actually hit anyone, which is dumb.
Second, the extra gameplay features are broken as fuck. Especially in the last one (I think 08), where you could give your wrestler 2 proficiencies, like "Showman," or "Dirty." The idea is nice, but the problem is that some of them are absolutely worthless, and some of them are just broken. It got to the point where we just had to ban certain proficiencies because if you got them you'd just win. The worst was "Technical," which let you activate an invisible auto-counter mode, where you just could not be hit. After that you had "Brawler," which let made all your strikes immune to counters, so if you got that you could just wreck shop (mount and pummel) 3 or 4 times in a row for free, which would always give you blood and always put their head into the red. After that you could take your sweet time winning the match however you liked. Just dumb.
I don't think I've tried 09 yet, maybe they fixed that stuff. I sure hope so.
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I doubt there will be a sequel though. It'll probably be worth picking up when it's really, really cheap.
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There was a rumour a few months back in EGM that they were taking No Mercy, updating the roster, and releasing it on Wii Ware. That would be the best. I wish for this every day.
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I didn't really recommend Fight for NY because while I love it, it's less a wrestling game and more a brawler (no 3 count fall matches, for example) and the counter tree is WAY simplified over AKIs previous efforts, which turns some people off.
As for the SvR series, I find the gameplay to be abjectly terrible. Nobody sells moves anymore, the counters are more random than i'd prefer, and the characters move and respond in a floaty matter. Keep in mind though, i'm a HUGE AKI defender, so while I may not like it, you should give it a shot to see if you do.
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Good times.
Anyone remember which N64 wrestling game had a 4-player, 40 man royal rumble mode? It was just an endless mayhem where you all competed to ring out as many wrestlers as possible. I remember that being awesome the one time 4 of us sat down to play it.
For me personally Fire Pro is probably the best game available because, even though I preffer the slower "strong-style" simulation of King of Colosseum, when you get bored of the gameplay you can graduate into the simming element which adds a whole new dimension to the experience.
I need to find an old version of FFNY. So good if you like the No Mercy style.
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They all feel like arcade brawler, button mashing oriented. To be fair on the 360 I have only tried the demos on LIVE. But just based on what I've seen there is no equal to the power of AKI man.
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