FirePro Wrestling

by BAM! Entertainment

Product Features

• A wide variety of wrestlers, plus the option to make your own
• Lots and lots of moves
• Trade wrestlers and play head-to-head by linking up

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005BL00
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 12, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,996 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Most wrestling video games try to capitalize on well-known licenses, but end up falling short in their portrayal of TV-style wrestling. Not so the acclaimed Fire Pro Wrestling games. This translation for the GBA keeps the tradition of play over personality intact. Any real fan of the body blow and the suplex should want this game.

Featuring 150 different wrestlers from which to choose, each with his or her own moves and finishers--as well as the option to combine more than 1,200 techniques and styles to create your own grapplers for the 3-D isometric ringside--Fire Pro Wrestling doesn't lack variety. You can even link up your GBA unit to fight against your friends or trade wrestlers you've created.

You can also play against the computer, which turns out to be a pretty good opponent. The game takes full advantage of both the A and B and the shoulder buttons, so the control is solid. Getting used to the time delay for punches and kicks can be frustrating, however. The manual does an excellent job in teaching you the tremendous variety of moves, and once you've learned what you can do, the gameplay is extremely satisfying.

About the only thing lacking from the game is familiar personalities. In offering so many fighters, each seems rather bland, and one is often a thin variation on the last. Of course, your own imagination can let you add a Rock-like or Mankind-esque wrestler, if that's what you want. Anyway, it's good fun for a handheld. Can you smell what your Game Boy is cookin'? --Andrew S. Bub

Pros:

• A wide variety of wrestlers, plus the option to make your own
• Lots and lots of moves
• Trade wrestlers and play head-to-head by linking up

Cons:

• Could use a bit more personality
• Slight control lag

Product Description

  Most wrestling video games try to capitalize on well-known licenses, but end up falling short in their portrayal of TV-style wrestling. Not so the acclaimed Fire Pro Wrestling games. This translation for the GBA keeps the tradition of play over personality intact. Any real fan of the body blow and the suplex should want this game.

Featuring 150 different wrestlers from which to choose, each with his or her own moves and finishers--as well as the option to combine more than 1,200 techniques and styles to create your own grapplers for the 3-D isometric ringside--Fire Pro Wrestling doesn't lack variety. You can even link up your GBA unit to fight against your friends or trade wrestlers you've created.

You can also play against the computer, which turns out to be a pretty good opponent. The game takes full advantage of both the A and B and the shoulder buttons, so the control is solid. Getting used to the time delay for punches and kicks can be frustrating, however. The manual does an excellent job in teaching you the tremendous variety of moves, and once you've learned what you can do, the gameplay is extremely satisfying.

About the only thing lacking from the game is familiar personalities. In offering so many fighters, each seems rather bland, and one is often a thin variation on the last. Of course, your own imagination can let you add a Rock-like or Mankind-esque wrestler, if that's what you want. Anyway, it's good fun for a handheld. Can you smell what your Game Boy is cookin'? --Andrew S. Bub

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Awesome Game, May 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: FirePro Wrestling (Video Game)

This Game Is Awesome!!! This game has over 200 pre made wrestlers with different styles like technical, hardcore, and luchador, plus more. There are six different match types. They are: Audience Match- In this match you try to impress the crowd by doing big moves aqnd showboating. The more you do the more points you get. The more points you have the higher you get in the rankings. Survival Match- Similar to WWF's SlobberKnocker bouts. You fight 10 people in a single strech. One Night Match- Just an exibition match. You can choose from single, tag team, battle royal, Mortal Combat (weapons in the ring), and octagon style matches similar to Ultimate Fighting Championship. One Night Tournament- 16 wrestlers fight in a tournament in one night. Open Leauge- Same as one night except the tournement lasts several nights. Elimination Match- Similar to WWF's survival series. This game also has create a player mode so your limitations are endless. And of course the graphics are outstanding because its on GameBoy Advance. Get this game!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars First wrestler for GBA is a blast!, June 15, 2001

By 

Benjamin Denes (Canada) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: FirePro Wrestling (Video Game)

Finally the Advance Gameboy is here, and the first wrestler available is Firepro. I have heard much about the series of wreslting titles, and I must say this is a good wrestling game. With a gameplay style a tad different than fighting games I am used to, Firepro is a title that rewards timing and patience. It comes with many wrestlers, and has an extremely indepth create-a-wrestler function. Styles range from typical american pro wrestler to ultimate fighting style, so the type of character you make can have quite a range.

On the downside, the game has no championship mode, where the player would play a "storyline" mode. This seriously hampers replay value, as players are left to fight one-on-one matches without any serious reward. Also, unlike some of the other released games where you could have 4 players play off of one cartridge, Firepro demans that each player have a seperate cartridge as well.

All in all, a good start for the Advance. A good solid wrestler that will have you learning the ins and outs for a while.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome!!, April 28, 2001

By 

akbar hussain (Ney York, Ney York, brutha!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FirePro Wrestling (Video Game)

this is the best wrestling game ever! it has good graphix and it is soooo fun. i played the dreamcast and the psx series and they are sooo fun. the wrestlers a japanese, but they also put in american wrestlers like the rock and goldberg. they have a create a wrestler mode too. they have a lot of wrestling matches. electric cage is one of them. u can u se weapons too! it is the best gba wrestling game yet! get this game with tony hawk and rayman advance! those are the best games out for the gba!