Fire Pro is Good to Go
Agetec is bringing the BEST. GAME. EVAR to the PS2.
Published: August 8, 2007
Around the offices here, we hate but one genre more than your typical sports game, and that's wrestling games. How anyone can play the clunky, slow, busted, pointless exercises in 3D bumbling for more than five minutes without tearing their hair out and going insane is beyond us. But 2D wrestling games... well, they're not a whole lot better. Not unless they're Fire Pro Wrestling Returns, that is. Why? Well that's just like asking an EMT why he's giving CPR to that dying cheerleader with the slightly too-short skirt and conveniently shredded top or... um... okay, fine, we've never actually played the games, but those that have seem to rave about 'em.
“We have been working for years to bring the Fire Pro series to North America,” said Mark Johnson, producer for Agetec, Inc. “Now that we’re finally cleared to publish the game, the real work begins. We’re doing everything we can to make sure the game is translated successfully without taking away one iota from the gameplay that’s made this Fire Pro a fan favorite.”
We pray for the brave men and women of Agetec's localization department for there is a good chance they will never meet the impossible expectations of the rabid Fire Pro Wrestling fanbase and when but a single mistake is made, the offices will be seized and their faces eaten by those would would desire naught but perfection from a game that has never even been released here in the US. In English. On the PlayStation 2.
Consider us cautiously optimistic, though; if the screens we managed to steal are any indication, throwing dudes on logs made out of barbed wire and watching insane introductions with lasers and stuff might just make for something that will keep us from flipping out and punting a baby every time someone mentions wrestling games.
“We have been working for years to bring the Fire Pro series to North America,” said Mark Johnson, producer for Agetec, Inc. “Now that we’re finally cleared to publish the game, the real work begins. We’re doing everything we can to make sure the game is translated successfully without taking away one iota from the gameplay that’s made this Fire Pro a fan favorite.”
We pray for the brave men and women of Agetec's localization department for there is a good chance they will never meet the impossible expectations of the rabid Fire Pro Wrestling fanbase and when but a single mistake is made, the offices will be seized and their faces eaten by those would would desire naught but perfection from a game that has never even been released here in the US. In English. On the PlayStation 2.
Consider us cautiously optimistic, though; if the screens we managed to steal are any indication, throwing dudes on logs made out of barbed wire and watching insane introductions with lasers and stuff might just make for something that will keep us from flipping out and punting a baby every time someone mentions wrestling games.