MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.8

• Popularity:

  #4 in Wrestling (out of 10 products)

• License:

  Free to try; $14.99 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  3.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 15 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  130,901

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/XP, DirectX 7.0 drivers

• Limitations:

  3-use trial

• Date Added:

  March 24, 2005

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version MDickie's Wrestling MPire 1.7 MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.7

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Publisher's description of MDickie's Wrestling Mpire

From MDickie:

Take part in gaming's biggest ever wrestling world--featuring over 200 wrestlers, spread across nine talent pools. As if that's not challenging enough, the Wrestling Mpire is also a place of business--where you must negotiate contracts, manage your finances, form relationships, and develop your character. Then all that remains is to step into the ring for the wildest wrestling action of all time--featuring up to 30 characters on screen, and up to 100 fully interactive items and weapons.

Version 1.8 adds several new moves to the character.

Editor's review of MDickie's Wrestling Mpire

• 3.0 stars

You can dress this game up, but you can hardly get it into the ring to wrestle. While MDickie's Wrestling Mpire offers plenty of character-customization features, poor controls and miserable graphics barely make it a contender. The action of the game is straightforward: you train your wrestler to take part in matches with the goal of winning the cash prize. You can construct your ultimate wrestling machine with the game's ample character options (even choosing his clothes) but given the poor graphics resolution, the athlete resembles a brick wall more than a svelte wrestling star. The game's biggest problem aside from its poorly drawn world is its game controls. There's little guidance to show you how to take down your opponent, and none of the action is intuitive. While we were impressed with the more than 20 camera angles through which you can observe the action (or lack thereof), the angles don't help you move your character any more effectively. As a final blow, the program's hefty download (85MB) is hardly justified given the game's poor graphics. While wrestling fans might be able to overlook all these shortfalls, we weren't. MDickie's Wrestling Empire has plenty of tricks, but it's just not a whole lot of fun to play.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 15 votes
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• 4 stars

  Version: MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.8

  "One of the best wrestling games"

  by ruthatplay on October 21, 2007

  Pros: It's hard to pinpoint one thing I like the best. It's very playable, can be played over and over with no boredom. Mods can be added to add some real life to it. Mods can also improve the graphics. It's realistic, too.

  Cons: If you prefer a game with excellent graphics, you may want to look elsewhere. Also, if you have an older computer, it may have problems. Updating your computer, such as your video card, will help.

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• 5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.8

  "EXCELLENTE, FANTASTICO, A MASTERPIECE"

  by yo1me2 on January 7, 2006

  Pros: EVERYTHING, BARBED WIRE ROPES,SO MANY WRESTLERS, MATCH TYPES

  Cons: NOTHING AT ALL

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• 5 stars

  5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

  Version: MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.8

  "Brilliant!"

  by SimonSayers on April 16, 2005

  Pros: Great game with HUGE amouns of replayability. Training your guy in story mode and getting transfered to different Wrestling shows is great fun, its cool to see your guy progress from a weedy rookie to a bulky professional that the crowd loves. Unlike commercial games you can batter up your opponent and injur them so they're unable to return to the show for weeks or you can even kill/permanately paralise your opponent. Which is nice for the hardcore fans.

  You can also modify any texture in the game, so you can create you own attires and edit arena and weapon textures. Anything thats in the folders and is a texture you can edit, which also ads a great deal of replayability.

  Another great thing that commercial games don't have is the amount of wrestlers you can have in the ring. THIRTY, yes 30 wrestlings is the maximum you can have in the ring at once. You can also set matches rules.

  A 30 man cage match with the ring filled with tables and TNT? sound good?

  Thats just one of the hundreds of possible changeable match options.

  Arean customisation is quite good too, add a cage, wire mesh, plastic cage even.

  Have ropes barbed wire, on fire...and even electrified.

  You walk your own entrance, theres no same entrance all the time like in commercial games, although the only thing you can do is walk/run and taunt while you walk down to the ring and maybe get a cheap shot on your opponent before the bell rings.

  ANY move is interuptable, if you're doing a submission and someone kicks you, you will stop doing the submission.

  Plus there are no invisible walls near the ropes, if you do a suplex or a toss near the ropes you opponent will go flying over onto the concrete. You can also do any move onto weapons and even onto other wrestlers. You can also do moves with weapons, so if you do mounted punches on your opponent while holding, say a Dagger, you will still do the mounted punch grapple but youll be holding the dagger still which adds lots of damage. You can even set weapons on fire!

  Cons: None.

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• 2 stars

  3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  Version: MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.8

  "worse wrestling game ever"

  by hoboloco on February 23, 2006

  Pros: its a wrestling game lots of options great customiszation

  Cons: gamecontrols are not there, graphics would be alright if this were 1994 even for amature game makers, i only played the demo and thats i needed to get bored out of my face, like most of mdickies games its repeative the same game new job role, I much prefered his original federation online which to me ranks high up in wrestling games. this one lacks period dont believe me play the demo and youll find out cant believe i wasted my time downloading it. mdickie needs to get off his ego trip and stop making games.

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• 5 stars

  Version: MDickie's Wrestling Mpire 1.8

  "Masterpiece"

  by johncena_bharat on August 15, 2007

  Pros: i like everything of this software

  Cons: nothing

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