Fire Pro Wrestling Returns

"When you see a $15 price tag, you have to expect a $15 product. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns is such a product; it will draw the attention of those hardcore wrestling fans who love to customize their characters and anything else they possibly can. I have met these gamers—one man I met while working in a video game store actually bought memory cards weekly to create more and more characters in his wrestling games. That guy would find an infinite amount of enjoyment here."

Fire Pro Wrestling Returns is archaic, arduous, and arcane, but is it fun? Absolutely.

Even with everything Fire Pro Has going for it in terms of matches, edit options and modes, the controls are going to put a lot of wrestling fans off. Movement is governed by the d-pad and has a steep learning curve that we're still trying to master. This is a game of timing, and if you mistime it or button mash, you're screwed. Whereas other wrestling games on the market have you hit run and head toward your opponent, Fire Pro leaves aiming your run up to you. That might not sound like much, but as you get used to the switch, expect to run yourself into a barbed wire mess more than once.