[Leo656]

No real opinion, in all honesty I don't play a lot of them. But I'm glad they exist for those who like and play them.

Although I've been playing this dumb little game called Wrestling Empire once in a while lately, after watching a video about it on Wrestling Bios. It's... kinda lousy, very slow and clunky. But it's actually kind of impressive simply because one guy made the entire thing by himself. It's not "good" but it's a lot better than you'd expect something like that to be, and there's fun to be had if you just wanna kill a couple minutes.

It's kinda like Fire Pro in that almost all the wrestlers are very blatantly based on real-life wrestlers from different federations and eras, just with their names changed and some different costuming. And it's kind of an homage to the old N64 wrestling games even though it doesn't control the same, but like presentation-wise. There's a Career and Management mode complete with text-based promo and cutscenes, and if you go into Free Roam before your match you can wander around at like the Subway or on the streets outside the arena and whatnot, picking up food to restore your health or pick fights with random characters walking around. In Career you can start rivalries, sign contracts with various different promotions for different amounts of money and creative control... sometimes weird stuff will happen, like I accidentally signed a terrible contract right out of Wrestling School, since I really needed the money badly (your funds dwindle week-to-week until you sign a good contract, and if you go broke I think the game ends), and since I had no creative control the very first thing the promoter did was stick me in an ugly outfit which I couldn't change in the Menu; thankfully, after I won a few matches, a different company offered me a much better deal and I took that one. Stuff like that is pretty cool.

It's kinda neat. It just takes some getting used to. I've only played it on my phone so far, I imagine the Steam version with a controller would be a lot better but I didn't feel like paying $20 for it, so I just got the free version for my phone even though you only have like half the roster available in that version.

Not especially "good", but fun in a weird way.

Do PopCap still count? I remember I played some of their stuff on Xbox Live Arcade back in the day when I first got my 360. Some of those were okay.