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0 It’s Wrestlemania week so here are 6 Wrestling Games on PlayStation that you can play right now on PS4 and PS5.
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This list has you covered for all types of budgets, gameplay modes, with both arcade and SIM style games featuring your favourite current/legendary wrestlers. So whether you want to brave the fight alone or challenge some buddies in couch co-op/online multiplayer, then there is something here for every wrestling fan.
Fire Pro Wrestling World
Release: 28th Sept 2018
Metacritic: 79
Trophies: 32 (incl Platinum)
Longevity: 60hrs+
Fire Pro Wrestling World is a comprehensive wrestling game where every component can be customised – from the wrestler to the ring. Fight for victory and the winner’s belt!
Unlimited customisation possibilities – Build your perfect wrestler and assign to him a devastating arsenal of attacks, throws and holds. Even the ring where the bouts take place can be customised.
Realistic simulation – Give your wrestlers their own personalities. Do you prefer the fans’ favourite or the villain who likes to pull dirty tricks?
Online mode – Share your own wrestlers with other players and organise bouts, tournaments, championship fights and battle royals with players from around the globe.
We gave it the Thumb Culture Gold Award in our PS4 review.
AEW: Fight Forever
Release: 29th June 2023
Metacritic: 64
Trophies: 39 (incl Platinum)
Longevity: 35hrs+
Developed by YUKE’S Co., Ltd., creators of numerous, multi-million unit selling wrestling games, AEW: Fight Forever combines arcade-wrestling game feel with innovative All Elite Wrestling finishers and tandem offensive moves.
First-ever, officially-licensed All Elite Wrestling game! All Elite Wrestling is the fastest growing wrestling promotion in history! Combines nostagic arcade wrestling feel with innovative All Elite Wrestling finishers and offensive moves.
Talent roster combines 50 + of the biggest names to enter the ring plus brand new, high-flying AEW stars! More than 10 gameplay modes include singles, tag-team, 3-way, 4-way, ladder, Casino Battle Royale, Falls Count Anywhere, Unsanctioned Lights Out, Exploding Barbed Wire Death, and online match types!
It bagged the Thumb Culture Gold Award in our PS5 review.
WWE 2K24
Release: 8th March 2024
Metacritic: 81
Trophies: 63 (incl Platinum)
Longevity: 10hrs+
Join the biggest superstars in sports entertainment as WWE 2K24 presents a retelling of WrestleMania’s greatest moments from the last 40 years.
Take part in some of wrestling’s most unforgettable and career-defining matches, choosing from the likes of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Undertaker and Andre the Giant, alongside current contenders “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, John Cena, Rhea Ripley and Roman Reigns.
Develop feuds, weekly shows and more in Universe mode, WWE 2K24’s ultimate sandbox, with expanded rivalry actions, all-new cutscenes, and support for double-title matches!
Action Arcade Wrestling
Release: 10th Aug 2021
Metacritic: 65
Trophies: 10
Longevity: 3hrs+
Perform a BODY SLAM, knock’em down with a CLOTHESLINE, pull off the classic PILEDRIVER AND… shoot LIGHTNING BOLTS into your opponent’s face?! Whatever you do… don’t find yourself looking up at the lights!
Action Arcade Wrestling brings everything you love from 90’s wrestling games with its own twist of chaos and fun. Join the action and step through the ropes in this fast-paced, arcade wrestling extravaganza to superkick the overly simulated wrestling games out of the ring! Choose from a roster of 30+ outrageous wrestlers executing their powerful attacks and superhero-like abilities in the most over-the-top wrestling game ever conceived.
Need more wrestlers to choose from? Go to the Creations menu and choose from hundreds of user-generated wrestlers and arenas to download and play in the game!
It took home the Thumb Culture Gold Award in our Xbox review.
Retromania Wrestling
Release: 22nd Aug 2023
Metacritic: 66
Trophies: 39 (incl Platinum)
Longevity: 2hrs+
RetroMania Wrestling is a pick up and play arcade wrestling game with beautiful 2D sprites, incredible backgrounds and fast-paced arcade style game play. With 16 playable characters from legends up to today’s superstars, RetroMania has something for everyone.
There are 4 distinct game modes including Story Mode and over 50 possible match variations!
Do you have what it takes to step into the RetroMania Wrestling ring?
WrestleQuest
Release: 30th March 2021
Metacritic: 73
Trophies: 41 (incl Platinum)
Longevity: 50hrs+
THE ULTIMATE PRO WRESTLING ADVENTURE – Powerbomb and piledrive your way through a massive pixel art universe where professional wrestling and RPG fantasy collide.
WRESTLE WITH DESTINY – Take a hero’s journey …in tights! Upgrade from aspiring rookie to world champ by training, learning, glamming, and SLAMMING to the top of the pro wrestling food chain.
YOUR IDOLS AWAIT – Draw inspiration from wrestling icons like “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Jake the Snake Roberts and even Andre the Giant. Explore worlds based on their lofty careers.
HEART-POUNDING ACTION – Classic RPG combat meet wrestling moves, match styles, and gimmicks galore.
GOOD GUYS, BAD GUYS, LIZARDS, ROBOTS, AND MORE – Wild realms, exotic monsters, action figure fighters, and spandexed allies await as this fantasy goes beyond the ring.
GEAR UP ON YOUR WAY TO THE TOP – Choose your moves, style, taunts, and even your entrance as you learn what it takes to be the cream of the crop in the pro wrestling world of your dreams.
Grab a controller, dish out your fave finishing moves and go for the 1… 2… 3!
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