CornOnTheCabre
for all of the countless hours i have spent into customizing this game, I have honestly maybe played through 9 or 10 matches. it's basically just a dollhouse for wrasslin fans.

Maru
Fire Pro is a good game if you spend time learning to play it.

spikestoyiu
What's so bad about it? I've never played it, but I always believed it was the end-all-be-all of wrestling games.

CornOnTheCabre
I think it was mainly that I hated playing with the computer and none of my friends would give this game more than 30 seconds of their time before basically repeating essentially what themilkshark said sans Chris Chan remark and "love it".

Hooker
The game works on a timing system, and once you have the timing down, you will win every single game against the computer. It's lots of fun against other people, however. Plus, they introduced a match rating system in Fire Pro Wrestling A that I think gives the games a unique appeal since it changes it from a pro-wrestling fighting game to a pro-wrestling game (where you're actually trying to entertain an audience with a match as opposed to win a match).

This video sucks.

Hooker
If you're interested in the actual gameplay, the gist of it is that right when the two wrestlers lock up (looks sort of like a hug; they do it when they walk into one another), there's a specific moment in time where you're trying to time your move. If you do it before that point, you're screwed, so button mashing is out. The person that hits their button the closest to that point will get to do their move (with some limitations - stronger moves have innate chances of being countered, but those chances decrease as you beat up on your opponent, so you can't just do your best move from the start).

Maru
You should've tacked on a few stars just for giving you an excuse to pontificate at length about an ancient wrestling game.

CornOnTheCabre
:( I enjoyed his pontification.

And yeah, it was definitely just that the computer seemed to lack any variance after a few rounds of play, and the fact there wasn't really any kind of Story/Campaign Mode didn't do it any favors in that regard.

in all the Kickstarter frenzy, I'm kind of surprised that I don't see some kind of FPW or FPW-inspired game getting crowdfunded right now. especially after that XBLA catastrophe that seemed to have no target audience whatsoever (did that even get released anywhere?)

SDAusmus
Well, Suzuki is more of a pro-wrestler than an MMA fighter now...