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Fire Pro Wrestling D |
Scans |
Human,
publisher and progenitor of the Fire Pro Wrestling series is
gone (the travails of bankruptcy...) but the flame continues to flicker through Spike. In
their first outing with the Fire Pro license, Spike combines
the best elements of previous games and adds some new wrinkles
to a renowned gaming lineage.
Spot impressions: The presentation and visuals
are little evolved from Fire Pro Wrestling G (PS) or Six Man
Scramble on the Saturn. The wrestlers are slightly larger and
better defined (muscles bulge and ripple) and the camera keeps
on top of the action, often zooming in when the action gets
hot and tangled. A variety of matches and modes may be played
out including Barbed Wire Death Match, Victory Road, Six Man
Tag and the internet only Battle Royale where eight individual
modem players grab a wrestler and enter the ring.
A huge number of Japanese wrestlers may be chosen
but many WCW and WWF Americans are represented as well. All
have been given fictional names due to licensing issues but a
rename function is available to change monikers to the correct
ones. For example, Steel Gold Steam Odin is the WWF's Stone
Cold Steve Austin, although Steam Odin sounds okay also.
NJPW's Hiro Saito is now Raising Hiro, and so on and so forth.
Players bored with real world wrestlers may also create their
own bruiser and endow him or her with over 1300 moves and
choose from 280 faces.
The gameplay remains true to form with a bounty
of actions, moves, and grapples to perform. Fans familiar with
the Fire Pro style will feel right at home, nothing much has
changed in this department. The amount of options and moves
make this a deep blue sea to discover, uncover, and
master.
The limited edition of Fire Pro Wrestling D in
stock today includes a "rare" trading card that can
be used with the Fire Pro Card Bout game that is due out in
March. Pre-orders will ship today but new orders will ship on
Monday, March 4.
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Fire Pro
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Due to the amount of
pre-orders that NCS will process today, no shipping changes
will be accepted. Order revisions will be unfair to other
customers whose orders need to be processed and shipped today
as well. Thanks for understanding.
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| Zone
of Enders Update |
Limited
Edition |
NCS expects Zone of Enders regular and limited edition
to arrive tomorrow morning. Due to some confusion among
customers, we wish to clarify that the limited edition does
not include the Metal Gear Solid 2 playable demo. Only the
regular edition will include this item. NCS has sent out
confirmation e-mails for the limited edition this morning,
please try to reply by today so that we can ship
tomorrow.
Konami has set up a MGS 2 demo ranking
site where players who finish the demo can paste their
resulting password online and view their level of skill and global
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Zone
of Enders LE includes the following bonus items for
collectors: A 150 page artbook with ZOE mech designs and character sketches,
a mini-cd containing the Z.O.E. theme song, and a DVD featuring the
"Z.O.E. 2167 Idolo" movie, which is a prequel tale
to the storyline in the Z.O.E game. Pricing is set at US$153.
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