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This game is not as good as expected

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

when i read about this game from all the fans i was excited of getting this game but when i got it and started playin it it wasnt all that great as it seemed this game doesnt desearve this high of rating other people gave it i gave it 1 star i didnt like it i just got Game boy Advance today and got my first 2 games Super dodgeball and this game super dodgeball blows this out of the water its fun to play but this game isnt i keeped playin and playin and i still couldnt rate this game anywhere near good so in a gamefans opinion this game is not what i seems

avoid this game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this thinking it would be good with all the features it was suppose to have. The only thing good about this game is the create a wrestler mode. The matches are boring and long!! Who wants to fight for 30 min!!!! You have to have perfect timing to pull off a move and you have to stop and hold L to breathe so you don't run out of breath!!! When I play a wrestling game I want to fight not to breate and not to have perfect timing!! With 150 wretlers is good but it doesn't make up for the terrible matches!! AVOID THIS GAME NO MATTER WHAT!!!

The Most Confusing Game EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I bought this and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for my GBA, I played this first. I didn't understand it at all and it wasn't fun either. In fact, it was extremely boring! I hate this game, it's even worse than Super Monkey Ball, and that's VERY VERY BAD!!!!

Serious Letdown......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After playing Tony Hawk 2 for the GBA, I was under the impression that all the Advance games were going to be top-notch. Well, after playing Fire Pro, I learned that impression was completely false.

This game is a loser in almost every sense of the word. The graphics are weak...in fact they resemble GBC...ouch. The control is [bad]; I don't understand what the creaters were tying to do with interpolating percentages into a wrestling game. Oh well. Live and learn.

You can't go home again.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played the original Firepro Wrestling on the Sega Saturn. It was released in Japan only and I needed a translation in English to do anything. My friends and I played this game over and over. In fact we still, to this day, say CRITICAL! Which is one of the few English words we could understand. When your wrestler was totally defeated he would be CRITICALed. The wrestler creation capabilities were and still are the very best offering from any wrestling game. It was 2 dimensional then and is still 2d on the GBA. If you are like me and don't care about graphics you may still enjoy this game. I bought it on Amazon and played it for about 3 minutes before checking out the wrestler creation. I was shocked to find the format had changed, but the tools for creation are still the same as they ever were. However my gaming tastes have changed a lot since 1999, and 2 dimensional graphics are just too hard to go back to. I can acknowledge the greatness of this game without actually enjoying it, but if it didn't cost me only 5 bucks I would be wrighting a way worse review. If you still pick up Mario Bros. now and again or if you run out to by every new Namco or Midway or Capcom "Classics" game. You may enjoy this game way more than I do now. You might actually get as much enjoyment out of it as my friends and I did 6-7 years ago. If you are either under 26 years old or are currently playing X-Box 360 or X-Box Live games like Halo2, steer clear of this one. 1999 rating 8.5 out of 10. 2006 3.3 out of 10.

Not impressed as I thought I would be

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are pretty straightforward. Gameplay is a bit twitchy. And if you want to play against other players, they must also have the game cartridge.

Fantastic game, until you see the in ring action...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Looking at what this game has to offer, you can only stand back at the features and say wow... until you play it. There are several modes, exhibition matches (normal, cage `death match,' UFC octagon `gruesome' and a battle royal), tournaments, (up to 16 wrestlers), leagues, (up to 64 man round robin), survival which pits you in an endurance match, audience match where you need to please the audience to a wrestling style and finally the edit mode. The edit mode is the most extensive edit mode in the US (but not Japan), where you can create up to 74 of your own wrestlers with moves, intelligence, looks and attributes. One of the most astonishing things is that the game comes with 150 wrestlers from all over the world, even wrestlers from WWF, WCW, ECW, Michinoku Pro, Toryumon, AJPW, NJPW, however for copyright reasons the names and the looks of the wrestlers have been changed. After all of these amazing features, then you play the game. Ouch, it takes us back to the days of the NES in terms of graphics, sound and game play! The wrestlers are very small, the controls are very laggy and the wrestlers end up doing the same moves constantly. Please do not pay more than fifteen bucks for this game.

Surprisingly fun for a generic game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unless it is a WWF game, I usually do not play wrestling games. I find most wrestling games to be dulled down versions of fighting. Fire Pro Wrestling is definitely an exception to my usual.

FPW offers a generic line up of wrestlers. You can pick from 16 different organizations, including a free agent pool. The names on the wrestlers are pretty generic, ranging from The Bionic Man to Mauler. I was going to discount this as another bland roster until I discovered the create-a-wrestler option. This game has the most detailed create-a-wrestler I have ever seen. You are allocated 260 points, which seems more than enough at first glance. Everything you enhance on your wrestler takes points. You can customize everything from their recovery time to what attacks are their strongest. You can even customize their AI fighting style. This is definitely the best create-a-character yet.

The feel of the game is not what I expected. FPW reverts to the old Tag Team Wrestling (NES) style of play. Pressing directions at certain times and tapping a button will determine your moves. It is a simplistic style, but also annoying when you hit the wrong button. FPW lacks the ability to run straight. You can only run in a diagonal direction, meaning that your charge moves must be very well placed. As for the graphics, I was pleased with the smoothness of motion.

Overall, I believe this is a should rent title. It is not the greatest, but there is definitely some value to the game. I liked it, but I can not see myself playing it four months from now.

It's good, but it looks like it should be for GBC

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Only hard-core fans of pay-per veiw fights will want to go to the mat with Bam!'s graphically overwhelming mix of wrestling, UFC, martial arts, choppy animation and sluggish controls. The brawler boasts tons of muscle-bound moves and over 200 wrestlers,
but aside from it's four player battle royale mode FPW looks like it should be for GBC instead of GBA.

Good but not super great. I miss Sportz Entertainment.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game is NOT like No Mercy or any of those Playstation SmackDown games. It's a lot slower in pace and focuses more on the pure wrestling. It's the best portable wrestling game out there, but I don't know...I think I've been spoiled by all the detail and flashiness of the 64 games. I'm not a huge Puroresu fan and I haven't mastered the super-complex stuff yet, and that could jade me, but I don't think Firepro's all that great.

Learning it isn't nearly as hard as people would lead you to think (just start the computer on level one and work your way up.) I'm glad it eliminates all the sissy tactics that lame players would use in the newer console games, like constantly running away, throwing chairs from a distance, using endless fireman's carries and armbars to win. It focuses more on creating a good long match instead of winning. You feel like you've earned your win, but the matches are kind of slow.

There are lots of wrestlers (familiar guys under differant names mostly) and a gigantic list of moves (lots of them awesome and wicked and crazy.) There are game features like choosing differant refs, exploding cage deathmatches, and the like. It's not nearly as complex and...well, FUN as the THQ's games with all their Sportz Entertainment. I miss the cretin "pander to everyone" stuff America's added to Pro Wrestling.

If you like Puroresu...you probably already own this game. If you're a casual fan, don't play this game, you most likely won't like it. If you're a semiserious gamer, go ahead, but there's no garuntees.

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