We've not had a great streak with wrestling games on Switch. After WWE 2K Battlegrounds proved rather disappointing, WWE 2K18 offered us an abysmal port and Wrestling Empire proved to be a bug-ridden (but nonetheless entertaining) mess, it falls to RetroMania Wrestling to give Switch players the grappler they deserve.
Classed as an official sequel to legendary 1991 arcade title WWF Wrestlefest, it's arriving digitally for Switch on February 26th. In preparation, developer Retrosoft has just released a brand new launch trailer, outlining what we can expect.
It confirms four different gameplay modes will be available. Story mode is top of the list, alongside a Versus mode that offers 50 different match types between 2-8 players locally. A separate "10 Pounds of Gold" and "Retro Rumble" option can also be spotted.
You'll be able to choose from 16 playable Wrestlers, too. That includes the iconic Road Warriors, Big Stevie Cool, Colt Cabana, Zack Saber Jr, Tommy Dreamer, and more.
For the physical collectors, a Limited Run Games release was also confirmed back in November. We're still awaiting further details, but we'd expect to hear more about this closer to launch.
Will you be picking up RetroMania Wrestling? Let us know down below.
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Not another wrestling game....
As a die hard fan of the original two this looks great. Stinks that it can't have more older wrestlers but I guess at some point no one knows now who most are except old farts like me lol. Might have to give this one a try.
Ooh, I didn't realise this was coming to Switch. Good news.
Awesome. The original Wrestlefest game is still fun to this day. And since there's no good wrestling game on the Switch yet, we need one.
Side question, is WWE 2K18 fixed at all by now? Cos sometimes it goes on sale for ridiculous prices, like £3. If its not a complete mess anymore and is passable, that's probably worth it. Price of a pint. Like I picked up one of the NBA 2K games for a couple of quid, I know nothing about basketball, but it's fun
Hells yes! I still have the occasional bout, in the original wrestlefest on my phone.
My type of wrestling game!*
*and I don't like wrestling.
Yea ill grab it. Waiting on pricing details.
Will wait and see. WrestleFest is one of my favorite arcade games so hopefully this is a better then WrestleFest game and not a poorly done homage.
Some good reviews and a $9.99 sale will be my “must buy” situation.
This game is looking a bit worse with every video I see.
I dunno, some of the animations look worse than Wrestlefest, no?! Like the collision detection is off and/or the interaction pieces seem off?
I’d need a pretty big sale to get me to take the plunge at this point, or double the roster (since most here are unknowns to me).
This game really needs to add a CAW option, of the 16 playable wrestlers I only like 5 of them. The options to create more wrestlers like Fire Pro GBA would be fantastic.
I like the look but it’s missing my wrestlers, so I’ll probably pass
Fire Pro could EASILY run on the switch and I remain perplexed why Spike hasn't ported it. Frankly, with the robust community that game has, it would the only wrestling game we need for this console generation.
You’re way too harsh when it comes to Wrestling Empire. Everyone should give it a go - I believe there’s a demo available?
I wonder how they settled on who they could use? Just seems a strange collection.
@Sinton Exactly! Plus he is adding/fixing a whole bunch of stuff soon
I agree. Wrestling Empire is fun!
@Mana_Knight More then likely they used whatever Wrestler they could get the rights for to use. So basically anyone who wasnt signed with WWE at the time since Vince holds onto those rights with an iron fist. I mean Zach Sabre Jr is with NJPW, Tommy Dreamer is Impact and Colt Cabana is with AEW currently but they all have the rights to their own names and such.
@Mana_Knight small development team with small budget. They have done a great job from what I can see. More wrestlers will come via DLC if the game sells well enough. Obviously any future wrestlers will be free agents or guys who currently hold there own image rights. Plenty of good indie wrestlers should come hopefully.
@Tasuki forget WWE. Literally every promotion in the world. having access to just ROH wrestlers for example would cost a bag of money which the development team just could not afford. They got lucky with Zach Zabre and Jeff Cobb for example as they had not signed to New Japan when they were approached.
Definitely excited for this if it impresses me enough, I will double dip on the physical release. I grew up watching wrestling haven't really been into it since the attitude era. WWF No mercy is my favorite N64 game.
@Muddy_4_Ever I would love to see Fire Pro Wrestling World come to the switch. I picked it up for Ps4 day one what a great Wrestling game!🙌🏽
@Sinton I just acquired it yesterday and have had a blast so far!!
The roster is so random. Some oldies like Legion of Doom (which is great), Austin Idol, Nikitta Kollof and Bwo. The Aldis and Cabana from NWA; Bey, Cardona, Myers and Dreamer from Impact, Cobb and Sabre from New Japan and War Horse from AEW. I feel like they should have tried to keep modern day wrestlers from 1 or 2 promotions. Make it just NWA wrestlers even.
This looks amazing. Count me in!
I am in also and Wrestling Empire is a great game too.
@Sinton He's just salty and jealous that one guy made a game that got published with promotion by the console maker and did more with his time in just a year than he did with his entire life.
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