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❤ Precise, Technical Grappling

Players must carefully time button presses to execute grappling moves and strikes, rather than button mashing. This creates an emphasis on precision and strategy, as players must read their opponent's moves and counter accordingly. Executing moves involves a rock-paper-scissors system, where different move types counter each other.

❤ Diverse Wrestler Archetypes

The game's logic system defines each wrestler's behavior, style, and move set. Attributes like flexibility, recklessness, and selling ability impact how they perform in the ring. This allows for a diverse range of playstyles, from power wrestlers to high-flyers, technical mat specialists to brawlers.

❤ Expansive Match Variety

Players can compete in hardcore "Deathmatch" rules with weapons like barbed wire and landmines, or in no-holds-barred "Gruesome Fighting" bouts. The game also supports tag team matches, battle royals, tournaments, and league-based promotions, allowing for complex, multi-faceted events and storylines.

❤ Lifelike CPU Simulations

The game's robust AI system gives each wrestler a defined personality, strategy, and behavioral patterns. Players can customize the AI, tuning attributes like aggression and showmanship. This results in nuanced, lifelike CPU-vs-CPU matches that many players enjoy watching unfold.

❤ Rewarding Learning Curve

The timing-based controls and intricate mechanics take time and practice to master. However, dedicated players praise the depth and strategic element this brings, once the fundamentals are learned. Helpful training and tutorial modes, as well as a passionate community, ease the initial difficulty.