Wrestling Impact Fighting ultimate

The controls are pretty standard for a wrestling game.

You have the ability to punch, kick, and grapple against your opponents,

with the left trigger serving as your modifier for more powerful attacks.

You have a few advanced moves as well, including Irish whips and counters, but nothing you haven’t seen in other wrestling titles.

The controls could've been improved upon due to the slight lag between button presses and moves being carried out.

This problem isn’t that noticeable when you’re button-mashing your way through a punching combo,

but when you try to utilize the overly-touchy reversal mechanic, it can be a huge issue.

Pulling off a proper reversal correctly is a real pain, and can lead to some frustrating beatdowns.

The game offers up a story mode that puts you in control of Suicide, a popular fighter within the Wrestling Impact Fighting ultimate universe.

During a championship match, you decide to win against your opponent instead of taking a fall.

This wasn’t the smartest move, as Suicide is then severely beaten and left for dead.

After an extensive rehabilitation and some reconstructive surgery, you begin the long hard road back into the wrestling circuit,

and try to discover who was behind your assault.

The game’s story mode is a simplistic affair throughout,

lacking in any sort of customization elements and only serving as a means to unlock characters for exhibition matches.

The story is nothing to get excited about, but the lack of any form of customization is definitely the biggest bummer.

There is no way to upgrade your character or gain new abilities as you play through the story,

which simply unfolds from one cutscene to another and from one fracas to another. There’s no way to personalize the experience whatsoever.

This also carries through in the exhibition modes. There is no proper season mode outside of the story mode,

and the exhibitions modes are shallow. While there are quite a few diverse modes here, including fan favorites like Ultimate game,

weapon-supporting full Metal mayhem, and a 16-player elimination tournament mode,

these are ultimately empty events without any real reason to feel invested in the long term.

Graphically, the game Wrestling Impact Fighting ultimate is a mixed bag. Some of the character models look pretty simplistic and lack in overall detail,

but the animations are well done and the framerates are solid.

The music is pretty generic hard rock, and the voice work is pretty standard fare for a wrestling game, albeit pretty cheesy.