Fire Pro Wrestling (2012 video game)

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Fire Pro Wrestling
Developer(s) Spike Chunsoft
Publisher(s) Microsoft Game Studios
Series Fire Pro Wrestling
Platform(s) Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade)
ReleaseSeptember 21, 2012
Genre(s) Fighting, wrestling
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer

Fire Pro Wrestling is a professional wrestling video game in the Fire Pro Wrestling series, developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox Live Arcade in 2012.

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Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1]

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