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Category: Video Games
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $8.39 (On sale from $8.43)
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New (22) Used (13) from $7.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 2055
Format: Cd
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): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
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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 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.
 Way Overrated, but overall FPWR can be fun....Somewhat...in extremely small doses. March 20, 2008
1 out of 6 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
Not for hot-tempered controller throwers March 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A control system similar to N64's "No Mercy" would have made this an untouchable blockbuster. As is, you are driven to insanity as the computer stomps you with impunity. Intricate and complex and wrestling video game do not mix. If/when Fire Pro Returns again, lets hope for a more player-friendly configuration, and the ability to USE foreign objects laying all around the ring would be nice as well.
why,,,,,no progress February 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been playing FP games since HAL wrestling, I don't understand why they haven't made a federation mode track computer and player win-losses and deriving a top contenders list to compete for world, secondary and tag titles. The gameplay and customization is always excellent. The matchmaker would be better if you competed against other feds and could do more then 12 cards. Otherwords your just simming a match at a time for your own personal enjoyment. I don't get this, 20 yrs, and still no fed geez.... It doesn't need a lame story line mode, just something to let it be a wrestling simulation not a one match at a time simulation. And a league mode that just tracks points.... man your halfway there.
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