RetroMania Wrestling

WWF Wrestlefest is probably the most fun, pick up and play wrestling video game ever created. You put a quarter in, start pressing buttons, and you start doing things that make sense. RetroMania Wrestling obviously takes a lot of inspiration from that game, but the core game engine isn't the fun, intuitive, pick up and play system of Wrestlefest. It's based off the timing driven Fire Pro Wrestling engine. Which I hate. I never know what the game wants me to do. Mercilessly, this game has an option to turn on indicators that tell you exactly why you are losing every single grapple, and that helps, but it also exposes what I had been suspecting after struggling with games like this for a long time which is a large number of lock ups are just randomly awarded to your opponent regardless of how good your timing was. I hate that. It makes a confusing, obtuse system even more confusing and obtuse. This never ends up being the fun and experimental experience I want it to be. I never have the time or space to think ahead and try to uncover new techniques because I am always straining to survive the next 5 seconds. This one just isn't for me.

If you like Wrestling and old school vibes this game is for you! I LOVE the mix of LEGENDARY & Up and Coming stars! Some i would like to see is: The GodFather/Papa Shango, Eddie Guerrero, JCW (Violent J & Shaggy 2 Dope), Luchadores: (Mistico, Templario, Máscara Sagrada) A collab with Nacho Libre would be very cool (Nacho, Esqueleto, Ramses). Also would like to see Create a Wrestler/Arena mode and maybe more weapons to use. I recommend Visual Assist ON and you will learn from there. Would be cool if they gave a lil more in depth tutorial tho

It was fun for the first 4 hours apparently, and I got most of the way through the story. A bit hard to control at times but it was still fun. Now, when I come back, the controls don't seem to work. Grappling seems completely random and I can't even get past the tutorial.

RetroMania... Well, what can I say about this game? I absolutely love it. Now, I have said this before in my Fire Pro Wrestling World review, I will say it again briefly, yet add to it. WWE has their games from THQ and eventually 2K. AEW has AEW Fight Forever, Fire Pro is technically NJPW. RetroMania... well, I will say that this game is primarily NWA, the National Wrestling Alliance, but it really isn't. I would say that this game is NWA and a mixture of independent promotions, such as Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore, and there are some ECW wrestlers in this game as well, such as the Blue World Order. Now, you may have read other reviews and find that this game is a spiritual sequel to WWF Wrestlefest, and indeed, you are correct to find that. I think this game takes a step further than that with the variety of matches you can do. I will say there are some limitations to this game. Like many others said, you can only do so much, the roster is rather small, and there is no means to download wrestlers from Steam Workshop. This is, I believe, a negative thing, and I hope that the team that created this game. Don't get me wrong, for $20, the base game is not bad. And extra $10 you …

Honest opinion. The game sucks. The CPU is too aggressive and unforgiving so it goes from trying to set up a wrestling match to getting dry humped but a jobber for 10 minutes straight. Hell I couldn't even win the "mash button" prompts to win a grapple with my macros fixed to where it was auto rapid fire. It has potential but they screwed it up and the dlc not being free and taking damn near three years to release definitely makes me say get it for under five bucks. Other than that save your money.

It's a pretty okay retro arcade style wrestling game.