Picked up Fire Pro from the Steam sale last night after having glanced at it a few times over the last month. Whew-- now this is good shit pal. 

So when people On The Internet were trying to tell me that there was not only a "good" wrestling game, but a good wrestling game where the feel of an actual match is more important than winning/losing, I hadta check it out. I saw a couple of videos, but most of them were just simming matches between WCW guys so, eh. 

It is less of a fighting game and more of a wrestling match simulator-- but here, take a look. 



So it's not exactly the worlds best graphical engine, but what it can do is pretty spectacular. The community is largely built around recreating wrestlers/moves (you can find basically everyone who ever wrestled in NA or JP here), and it's all free to pull in.

The game is about building momentum and generating a crowd response through move combinations and submissions/pinfalls, and it really is exciting and involving when a match really gets underway. I played a match earlier today with this dude, and we went 21 minutes into a match before he finally got a pinfall off a chairshot + piledriver + pin, it was fucking fun as hell. I keep forgetting I didn't even win. I was fighting him as '94 Surfer Sting and he was some OC he made, shit was so cool. 

It's not light a fighting game really, and it's not like smash bros or something-- there's no health bars. The only thing you really have is a level of exhaustion from getting your ass beat or doing too many aggressive moves in a row. You don't really have control over whether or not you survive a pin or submission move, which is EXCITING. You wanna get up and keep going or you wanna get the pin, but it isn't really up to you, more up to the state you're in when you go down. 

I love it. Wish there was more people playing online, but I wanna go play some more for sure.