Wrestling Spirit 3

It breaks my heart to give this a thumbs down. I am an independent professional wrestler, so the subject matter of this game is extremely interesting to me. I love the idea of playing a game as a struggling Indy wrestler trying to make it in a cutthroat and difficult business. Indy wrestling is driving 250 miles to get paid $20 to wrestle some has been who thinks he's too good for you and intentionally makes you look bad. Its about passion and love for the carefully constructed performance art that is professional wrestling. This however offers nothing to simulate that experience. Instead, you have a completely luck based system that in my few hours of play seems heavily and consistently biased toward the CPU (the last match I played I did five strikes early in the match, calculation gave each around an 80% chance to hit, four missed). You face no name indy wrestlers that inexplicably have unbeleivable statistics and are seemingly impossible to beat because of the luck based gameplay...

DO NOT BUY! This game is blatantly advertised wrong. Most of the features listed as "Career Features" are not included in the game. I have the feeling that the description is more accurate to the (by far superior) predecessor Wrestling Spirit 2. Unfortunately you may sink hours into the editor (trying to include reallife stats and such) and creating your own wrestler with the moveset you see fit, before you even get into your first day of your career, which means that once you figure out how much of an empty shell this game is, you are not eligible for a refund, because you had the program running for more then 2 hours. So if you want a game like this, with these features I encurage you to head over to greydogsoftware's homepage and buy Wrestling Spirit 2 from their shop (which is ironically even 5$ cheaper then this).

So I'll preface this by saying that while I *do* recommend this game, it is a very niche sort of title so not everyone will enjoy it. Those that will enjoy it, will enjoy it a lot. Here's what it is; if you've played any of the 'Total Extreme Wrestling' games, or its older free version called "Extreme Warfare Revenge', it is similar. In fact it uses the same in game world, promotions, and wrestlers. But rather then taking the role of a booker and handling all the behind the scenes stuff, you actually step into the role of a wrestler as you guide the wrestler through their career. You have multiple modes for this, either a career mode where you can take control of any wrestler in the game, or the more difficult "Rookie To Legend" mode, where you create a wrestler from scratch and set out to make your name in the independent scene and get signed with larger and larger companies, as you carve out your legacy. The career mode works like this; choose an available storyline, wrestle in f...

this is tough to review, personally i love the game, however i do have to say buyer beware, this game is NOT for everybody. do research before buying. its a very specific type of game that markets to one demographic of players. if you aren't in the text based wrestling sims player demographic, prepare for a bad time. likewise, if you ARE in that demographic this game is fun and interesting. Long story short, the game is what is, and if you dont like it thats fine, it wasnt made for you in mind. This game was made with a very specific type of gamer, it just so happens that I am one of those types.

The learning curve for this game is steep. The ability to counter moves supposedly is simple, but the random dice rolls destroy any chance of you actually mounting a defense. An example would be blocking. They compare your strength to your opponents strike, and then generate a random # to compare it to your opponent's strike score. If your strength is 478 and your opponent's is 20, that would mean you should have a decent chance to block right? Wrong. He potatoed me a couple of times, and I was rolling 23s and 46s out of 200 or even 1000. Your starting character is just above the enhancement talent, but even then, you struggle to beat them. I was more looking for a game where you book matches, and tell a story in the ring to get crowd reaction, as opposed to just selecting moves and hoping for the best. I could play the WWE game and do what this game does, and have less frustration.

I had initially written a negative review for this game. But my opinion has changed, the game is great, it just takes a long time to figure out what your supposed to do. You do require a lot of patience to figure this one out, but for me it is totally worth it.

The game will not work for me it will start but as soon as i am on the main menue it will not let me click on anything that involves the game

Although The Rng Fighting system seems a little unfair at times, as well as Wrestling Spirit 2 being a much better entrant to the series,the crew at Grey Dog compensate that with an infinite amount of ways to customize each wrestler, including the move-set, Want Andre The giant to be able to do a Hurricanrana? Do it! Want Rey Misterio jr to make The Worm his finisher? Do it!You can edit Workers during the game to be able to simulate age decline if you're not a fan of how the game does it, as well as changing their names and home regions.All in all,Wrestling Spirit 3 is, at the very least, an ok way to spend 20$. 7/10 Edit: I should say that you have to mod in real-world wrestlers. But the cornell-verse of workers that Mr. Ryland has come up with is rather good too

I enjoy the game, but I have a constant crash of run-time error 3021, for that reason alone I can not recommend it. Other than that the game is awesome if you like text based games. I still play it because the error is random but sometimes I have to do the same match 3 tiems in a row. Sometimes I can play an hour or two before I play it. If this was fixed I would definatly says its a 4 star game.

Wrestling Spirit 3 is an addicting game playing off an enticing concept. But it's also terribly balanced, dry, and overpriced. When the game works, there's a niche audience who would enjoy it (that's me!), but the constant crashing kills an already middling experience. ...As my playtime clearly shows, I still kind of like this game; I'm a masochist like that. But nothing makes me use my safe word quite like "Run-time error '3021': No current record".