Fixed an audio bug in the original upload, all fine now.

Someone should make an NFL version of this since it seems Madden has gone downhill for a few years now.

I would love a random/roguelike career/story mode. Where you go through build skills and participate in tournaments.

You're not limited to just any wrestler. You can have a great MMA roster as well. That alone is worth the price.

I could totally see this being the Tecmo Bowl of wrestling games you could play it for years and never get bored

Today I just had my first ever 100% rated match ! It was a mixed tag team match with Cody Rhodes and Hikaru Shida vs. Lance Archer and Nyla Rose at the Double or Nothing arena . I am so proud

You sir are amazing! You literally made me not afraid of this game anymore. I bought it a year ago and was very intimidated but after watching this I understand it a bit more. Thank you

The ps2 ver. is my favorite wrestler, now we get a new version with online too?!!! I will play this game forever

It’s a real shame about the wwe games. I used to spend hours on the first 2 smack down games on ps1 and here comes the pain on ps2. There is just no longevity on the modern games now. They just feel like huge commercials for the wwe. And yes the graphics are good but it’s not all about the graphics. It’s the same old crap every year. I got bored of 2k17 after a few times playing it. Here comes the pain is the best wrestling game ever made. I thought I was done with wrestling games full stop but then I discovered fire pro wrestling and was amazed!! Would recommend for any fan of wrestling

If I didn't already have it, I'd have been sold after that intro!

Gotta add, since this video, the game got a new campaign story chapter that is a direct sequel to Fire Pro Special X on Snes penned by Goichi Suda as well as adding parts and move creation tools. People have been adding custom parts as well as animating new moves. It's glorious.

Sold, lol. CPU logic setting. I'm a believer now.

Did I just see Mable from MoM win a battle royal over Booker T, Randy Orton, and Dusty god damn Rhodes?!

Definitely getting this over 2k’s garbage! Would rather have great matches over pretty graphics..

Thanks for this video. I bought FPWW on PS4 when it came out and as I played it I noticed how epic the matches were compared to say WWE2K17 and 18. I did a match between Kenny omega and a created Chris Jericho and I must say it was one of the best matches of wrestling I’ve played since WCW vs NWO on N64. I was beating Jericho at first with Kenny O, then Jericho came back and started landing a ton of moves. Then the chess match began where both me and Jericho started going back and forth with technical moves, pins, etc at one point Jericho was about to beat me I think and I reversed his move with a V-Trigger and beat him. That match got a 99% performance rating. It was great how you explained the programming in FPPW is used to achieve matches. I have most current and past wrestlers from wwe, AEW, NWA etc all holding a belt and my plans are to create a universal championship belt to be fought for by all the different promotions champions. Thanks again and great video

I have over 70 hours on this game and I've never played a single match! Not sure if I should be cheerful or ashamed :D

I've been playing the series for 21 years now. This video is a great help when introducing new players to the series.

Fantastic video. This convinced me to get the game.

Cool, version one of my Jake Roberts made it into this video. :D

I can't wait to get this on the PS4! Here's hoping it's just as good as the PC version

"Why buy Fire Pro Wrestling World on Steam?" I own the game and still don't know the answer to the question...

2000th like! I used to hear about these games a lot on the ign dream cast forums, so I was excited to see Fire Pro World available today on the PS store. I've been pondering a purchase but after watching a few videos, this one being the deciding factor in my decision to buy. Makes me think 2K19 started regularly causing my PS4 to overheat was a good thing, I unlocked, created or downloaded all characters I was interested in and then some and wad getting bored.

I always thought it would be neat to be able to do your finisher whenever you want but have it be pretty much impossible to hit early on. Looks like I had a good idea since it's a feature in one of the most celebrated wrestling franchises ever.

I'd love to see a new version of King Of Colosseum as well. Not to mention a new VPW

"best wrestling simulator" >Xpac kicks out of Pedigree that was too great ngl

This is the most fun I’ve had with a wrestling game in YEARS. I absolutely love it

I was always wanting a 1991 Wrestlefest Arcade with EVERY CHARACTER; retro style 2d graphics upscaled; and better gameplay and variety of moves. This is probably as close as it will ever get!

Thank you . I bought the game after watching your vid, didn't knew the new game is on steam. I'm a oldschool gamer, had the WWF Arcade game on my AMIGA 500, had almost all WWF games on SNES & PSOne, PS2 & PS3. I always heard good things about the quality of the Fire Pro games. Finally I got the chance to get my hands on a Fire Pro game... and it is great!! Thank you very much!

No mercy for N64 was cool back in the day

The greatest wrestling franchise ever created. Fire Pro Wrestling D was my introduction to this series. Can't wait for this to hit ps4.

Well, damn, I wasn't expecting a random gamefaqs post I made to be quoted so in-depth, lol. Credit goes to JB, as well as Carlzilla and TheDenizen from the FPWArena forum for a good amount of that info.

I have been playing Fire Pro since 6 Man Scramble came out in 1995/96.

I, along with many others, grew up with the WWF/WWE series of games. FPW World is the first Fire Pro game I've ever bought...and so far, my mind's been totally blown away. And now they have custom ring mats and other textures! Truly THE best wrestling sim I've ever played.

The Saturn version was great as well.

Just got this game last week and i love it

Looks awesome!

How does this video only have 600 views?

Alert: This game is now $15 on PSN until 12/23/2019

This game is a lifestyle. I've sunk more than 500 hours in and it inspired my whole KZfaq channel. It's not easy or intuitive but when it clicks, it CLICKS.

That leg drop critical tho yell

It is a phenomenal Pro Wrestling videogame series. But I just wish we could take matches backstage and fight through the crowd with the Fire Pro wrestlers. Which is something that the Fire Pro Wrestling has never added but would make an awesome addition to the series.

I enjoy the priority move feature. They should (if they haven't already) set up extended chains so we can set up whole strings of moves the wrestler typically uses.

GWF: grizzly wrestling federation

The only problem is that you cant edit entraces...

WHAT THE FUCK how i could missed this game????? fire pro wrestling is my favorite game of all time :O all the moves and creation possibilities daaaaaamn THX dude @simosimo

I want this on Switch

The only thing I really have a problem with the WWE games is how simple and easy they are no matter the difficulty the elimination chamber is the only match I find hard because I’m always in first but I always win 99% of matches because it so simple

You can get Def Jam Characters in this game. 10/10

It reminds of a wrestling arcade machine game that i used to play when i was little. People tend to forget that games are not all about graphics, but game play just like the Atari st and Commadore Amiga era.

If Fire Pro Universe (Or whatever the fuck they would call the sequel) ever comes out, I have a few suggestions for the game. First of all, they need to COMPLETELY overhaul the online and make it much easier to find a match. Second, add backstage and crowd fighting. Third, make it possible to create a storyline like in Smackdown VS Raw 2011. Fourth, make a season mode. And finally, add match modes like tables, ladders, and chair matches

This game is gonna be great. I can’t wait for the custom made downloadable rosters from the community. Fire Pro Returns had some great community rosters so I can only imagine how good they’re gonna be now.

lmao at Reigns doing a bridging German

I would love to see a modern wrestling game use the gameplay engine from Fire Pro. no disrespect to anyone who loves this game but i just can't get into a wrestling game that visually looks like a SNES game. if someone could put the gameplay and AI systems from Firepro in a modern graphics engine i would love it.

Thanks you for the review of the game! it was very informative and very indepth!

Is there exploding ring barb wire rope match

Can you do an updated version of this video?

Lmao Hogan broke takers neck with that leg drop

I hope we can get the federation years on the PS4 version. If it's just going to have only Japanese wrestlers I'm not interested however if you can get all the WWF & WCW wrestlers from the 80's & 90's I'm in on this game for PS4. It's only a month out for the release & not much is known about it. Also in all the videos of matches I notice their are no managers ringside. Can you have a 20 or 30 man battle royal?

Love FPWR and plan to get this. But the one thing that's weird to me is that finisher grapples are never assigned to Square+X, which is the combo for "huge" moves. It just makes more sense to me.

So I plan on buying that on PlayStation 4 do you think I can get all those downloads? I want every wrestler there is lol

How is this not on the PlayStation network? I would play nothing but this

Absolutely loved this video mate thanks for taking the time to do this.... been sceptical of buying a wrestling game in years but after watching all of this I have just downloaded from steam and ordered a new controller as I wanted one for my switch anyways (that I can also use on my laptop)This game from all the customisation is unreal... as someone who was born in 83 and grew up with wrestling until around early 00's when I stopped watching all those classic characters blew me away... how do I get all these on the game? I'm shit at modding and all that stuff so fingers crossed its not difficult to do..again thank you for such a great breakdown and I cannot wait to get into this game!!!!

PREACH BROTHER.

Best review of this game ever...spot on mate!!!

12 minutes in and now I'm buying this game and watching A.I. go at it.

Great video thanks. Still best wrestling game. Its so interesting

But what about the PS4 Version? Im hoping we get to the exact same freedom as in the PC version

Now we have fighting road and soon fire promoter Gm mode

I used to love wrestling games but stopped buying them around 2006. While I enjoyed the first few games from Yuke's, I became bored because I felt like I was playing basically the same game year after year. It also didn't help that they'd introduce new animations while retaining the older more basic animations from earlier games. The quality felt inconsistent and detracted from the polish of the game. In the old days it was great because the license changed hands every so often, so you'd see different developers takes on wrestling (gameplay and mechanics), different engines, different approaches to animation and different games across platforms. While one game may have had a more responsive feel and play better in a fighting game sense, another will have nailed the animation/motion capture better and/or have a better sense of weight. It's great to see another option in the form of Fire Pro Wrestling World and how much attention to detail there is. I'll definitely give this one a go, though I will admit, it still isn't my ideal wrestling game. I always wanted to see the fighting genre, but wrestling games in particular evolve in terms of dynamic animation and to introduce some elements of physics simulation. I'd like to see animations for moves change as the wrestlers become tired. I'd like so see animations/collisions look different depending on the distance and angle to the opponent. I'd like to see a similar system to the Euphoria engine that blends physics and animation so that if you throw someone from the top of a cage or through a table, the animation looks different pretty much every time. There are also little things in wrestling games that get very little consideration. For example, the vast majority of wrestling games have a problem with how they deal with moves (particularly vertical suplexes) performed near the ropes. The animation just runs as normal but the characters will sort of slide because of an invisible barrier. It might sound like a small thing, but it really detracts from immersion. Wrestlers don't just perform moves with no regard for their surroundings and as such, it's actually a fairly fundamental flaw inherent to pretty much every wrestling game I can think of. In the WWF games on Mega Drive/SNES, they'd hit the rope which didn't look great but was better than an invisible barrier. While the Fire Pro solution of having them throw the opponent out the ring is probably my favourite yet, it still isn't very convincing. There are two better solutions. For a game aiming for realism, the best solution would be to have the wrestler manoeuvre their opponent away from the ropes or angle the direction of the move away from the ropes. The other solution for a less realistic game would be physics (like Euphoria). I think it would look pretty brutal suplexing someone into the turnbuckles and watching them collapse in a heap on their head, or be suplexed onto the ropes and potentially see them bounce around draped backwards over it. A 3D wrestling game with dynamic animations and physics combined with Fire Pro's game logic would be amazing.

this game is more complex than 2k games....i luv it

Just checked Steam Workshop, current count is 24,287 creations.

The only thing I like more about the ea game sis the creation suite. Hard to see what your choosing from fire pro

AKI games are the best. Syn Sophia need to make another wrestling game A.S.A.P. It's long overdue.

Jsut bought on sale on ps4 and I love it. It is hard to pick up and play but once you get the ins and outside it's so much fun! I used to play wwe2k games and they got so boring. This I can play non stop no problem.

So are there "limits" on to whom can wear a Bear Suit? Can female wrestlers wear them too? Or Just male wrestlers? Thanks :)

So my question is, why the hell can't we get real wrestling games like this on consoles instead of being forced to buy the WWE 2K garbage that comes out every year?

you got to press Down an Run button to pick up a weapon

I don't really have room for a PC game on my laptop, I think I'll be content and happy with the PS4 version coming out. I loved FP Returns so this next one should be good. Do you know if the PS4 version will be able to download wrestlers ala Community Creations in WWE 2K?

I was into this game really late, found the one for PlayStation 2 and bought the system again just to play it. Liked it but i have this thing about getting the entire experience, like you character feeling and looking like a champion, WALKING OUT WITH THE BELT!!! Little things like that missing in wrestling games irk the crap outta me. I remember when the wwf games were like that, took them years from then to figure out o hey i should have them wearing the title in an entrance instead of it being some dialog about your the champ and you have no gold was so ever to show

Have you found the "3D movement" mechanic at all useful?

How’s is any wrestlin game a simulation when I can’t set up spots before a match? Do devs not understand that?

I've sometimes wondered if the strikes should have some sort of slight auto-aim (regarding your point at around 13;00)

I'll buy it if they put in a multiplayer story mode we can edit everything in.

Should i have a controller to play this or is it alright to play it with mouse and keyboard?

I'm still having problems downloading wrestlers to the ps4

Any of this on PS4?

Can someone explain to me why does the impacts of moves look like the do so much damage that any 2k games can show you

What about the dlc on console ??

Over 56k wrestler in 2019 :O

This game would kill on the switch

great review! i went from hating this to giving it another shot and loving it.

Is there an option to lower the speed? The action seems fast paced and very arcade like. It would be great to watch simulated matches at a slower pace

Its coming to PS4 soon. How do i get all the wwe wrestlers past and present?

I hope they fix the submission system. I hated how in fpw: returns, you can damage a guy's neck, but he'd tap to a sharpshooter.

I wanna make a death jam icon can I?

Do you have to download real wrestlers one at a time, or are there packs now? I want to create AEW promotion in the game. I’ve never played FPWW, but I’m convinced on buying now that TEW2020 is a disaster, so far.

One thing that I don't like about the game is the lack of selling - selling animations. You hit a big move on someone, they just pop back up...you're 20 minutes into the match and hit them with a big move, they pop back up. Every match plays the same....30 minutes long with 32828 false finishes and last minute kick outs. There should be additional animations for seeing the wrestler holding their head on the ground, rolling around in pain, holding the ropes for support etc.

I had joe rogan suplexing butterbean out of the ring into explosive barbed wire, buy this game Buy this game now

Once you get pass the learning curve. Great game. The amount of customization,Blood,spiked pile drivers. is unreal, Years ago we played the saturn version a 4 player battle royal match and set the count to 2 epic matches. If you are truly a wrestling fan then you owe it to yourself own and play this version. The luchas perform different than say the undertakers. Juventud, Blitzkrieg,jushin thunder they are all their. Single match partner sneak attacks run to the ring hit you with a pipe and leave. LOL

I love fire pro wrestling the last one I had was the one on PS2 and they brought it back for PS3 but I'm going to get the PS4 for Christmas I've been waiting for the price drop and I'm getting fire Pro I'm getting NBA 2K 19 I'm getting the Grand Theft Auto and I might get WWE 2k19 can't wait i had thec1 the 2 the 3 twice and now the 4! God is good.