Want a 20-man battle royale that takes place inside a steel cage and wrestlers can only be eliminated by submission? Um, that’s a bit of a strange stipulation, but you can do it anyway.Īccompanying the Exhibition mode (which is what encompasses all the above match types) there’s also a surprisingly engaging Career mode. You can then go into the individual settings for each type and customise them further to your liking. Players can choose between 26 preset match types, ranging from standard singles and tag matches to the likes of ironman, first blood, street fight, table and Royal Rumble matches. The sheer number of playable grapplers isn’t the only surprise in this game: there is an absolute wealth of game modes too. Naturally, you can also create your own wrestlers. If you can recognise any of them, the in-depth editor mode means one quick name change later and they’re authentic. Some are surprising: the AAW section has some fairly niche ‘90s era WWF stars like Nailz, Skinner and Luna Vachon, whereas the Hollywood one mainly consists of wrestlers who’ve been involved in the movie business at one time or another: The Rock, Roddy Piper, Batista, even Andy Kaufman. Many of the preset wrestlers look suspiciously like real-life ones. The game’s enormous roster of more than 350 wrestlers is divided into 10 separate promotions, and it’s clear which many of these are based on: All American Wrestling is supposed to be old-school WWF, Strong Style Wrestling is a homage to ECW, and the like.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Despite this, it’s still easy to identify most of the famous faces included in this game if you know your squared circle (especially if you’ve been a fan for a number of decades, like this writer has been). There's no official licence attached, so you won't find real-life wrestlers here. Characters and environments are extremely chunky and low-poly, and wrestler animations are slow and deliberate. ![]() In case it wasn't immediately obvious by looking at the screenshots, Wrestling Empire is based on the Nintendo 64 era of wrestling games, in particular, those developed by AKI: the likes of WCW/nWo Revenge, WWF WrestleMania 2000 and (of course) the aforementioned WWF No Mercy. On top of that, regardless of what you think of it, the fact that the entire thing was developed by a single person has to be respected when you see what’s actually been pulled off here. However, that’s not to say it doesn't have a few interesting quirks that make it entertaining, if not necessarily for the right reasons. We’ll save you the suspense just now: Wrestling Empire definitely isn't that.
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