Fire Pro Z- Everything You Need to Know

[Guest Ronixis]

Ok, since some people are Die Hard Fans of Fire Pro (Like Me) here is the news about Z:

 

Japan Street Date: June 5 2003

Pre-Orders are Already Set at TheRage and NGage.

Cost: 65 Bucks (105 Preorder)

 

What it has as of now:

Its on CD ROM- Near the range of 225 Megs by last count, could be around 300 Megs

There are 148 stars when the game starts, and there will be 48 unlockables.

1448 Moves

398 Heads, and 3 new Body Types.

 

Promotions in the Game:

 

New Japan

All Japan

Zero One

NOAH

WJ

Kaientai Dojo

Legends*

Lucha(CMLL)

UFO

Takada Dojo

Pancrase

Grapple House (Pride, K-1, UFC, etc...)

America(NWA-TNA/WWA)

WEW

Michinoku Pro

Toryumon

Big Japan

Osaka Pro

Free (Indies)

 

Notice there is a MEGA Promotion Missing. First time for everything I guess.

 

Oh and the list of the 144 Stars?

 

http://crippler192.home.attbi.com/fpz/roster.txt

 

Not sure which moves will be on the Game as well. But you can bet your bottom Dollar the F5 will be there...and the sharpshooter with Critcal.

 

Oh and there a story mode like in FPG.

 

Titles can now be won in Tournments/Leages/and Battle Royals-however this has not been confirmed.

 

Many other things has not confirmed as of yet.

 

Ronixis...

[Guest Memphis]

Thanks for the update Ronixis. Just wondering, what system will this be available for? It's probably right in front of me however I cannot locate it.

 

Thanks.

 

M

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I think it's PS2, but I might be wrong

[Guest Sandman9000]

He's right, Z is PS2 exclusive.

 

D was mad fun, so if anyone has a modded PS2 and can get this game, I highly urge them to spend the money. They will not be disapointed.

[Guest Cavi]

This and All Star Pro Wrestling III (and the Metal Slug 3 port) this summer makes me glad I picked up a JPN PS2.

[Guest Smell the ratings!!!]

it'll be a long time till i can afford this but, just out of curiosity, is a flip top still the way to go for playing japaneses games on an american ps2?

[Guest Ronixis]

Not sure if a Flip Top will work with Fire Pro Z until SpunkWhy or Montior test the game out, and that could be at least a good 6 weeks from now.

 

But I think it will work with the Flip Top...

 

I am certain if it does not work with the Flip Top, then they will make certain corrections to that program.

 

But I did hear about some kind of USB thing that could play Imports...Not sure if it works, or even exists. But if it does and for the right price, it could end Flip Tops for good...

 

Anyway, back to the game-

 

Here is a video for the game:

 

http://kocaccess.gswf.org/fpz.zip

 

GET the newest DivX Codec before dowloading this.

[Guest El Gigante]

Looks like a great game, I'm going to have to get my hands on it somehow.

[Guest Sandman9000]

Damn, no love for Extreme Blade (Elix Skipper). This close to having XXX in Fire Pro Z.

 

Also no love for Super Dragon or Amazing Red. They work for All Japan, right?

[Guest mach7]

Woah, what's with the total absence of WWE? Normally the Firepro series would have a slew of North American talent... it's wierd to see that the only ones on there now are mainstays in Japan.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Hey that's true. Where are all the American Stars?

[Guest sean pyro]

I'm really disappointed on the fact no WWE stars will be in the game, I've read that the reason why is because Yukes gave them some shit.

 

Thats a shame since this is *RUMOR* to be the last Fire Pro game..

 

 

But anyways here's the list of Wrestlers in the game.

 

(note: it was posted by a forum memeber over on GameFAQS FPZ board)

 

New Japan:

 

Fujinami

Chono

Nagata

Tenzan

Nakanishi

Iizuka

Kantaro Hoshino

Nishimura

Yasuda

Hirata (Makai Mask #1, Super Strong Machine)

Ryushi Yanagisawa

Tatsutoshi Goto

Hiro Saito

Yoshie

Nagai (Makai Mask #5)

Hiroshi Tanahashi

Shinsuke Nakamura (only a rookie, hope he has a decent moveset or we'll have to remake him in a few months)

Ohara

Blue Wolf

Norton

Giant Silva

Mike Barton

Giant Singh

Jim Steele

Super J (jeez, why is he still in?)

Liger

Kanemoto

Heat (Minoru Tanaka)

AKIRA

Jado

Gedo

El Samurai

Kakihara

Tiger Mask 4

Naruse

Shinya Makabe

 

All Japan:

 

Tenryu

Mutoh

Kawada

Kojima

Hase

Arashi (?)

Nobutaka Araya

Honma

Miyamoto

Abdullah

Steve Williams

Taiyo Kea

The Gladiator

Johnny Smith

Fuchi

Kendo Kashin

Kaz Hayashi

Jimmy Yang

 

Zero One:

 

Hashimoto

Ohtani

Masato Tanaka

Matt Ghaffari

Tom Howard

The Predator

Steve Corino

Takaiwa

Kazuhiko Ogasawara

Naohiro Hoshikawa

Low Ki

 

NOAH:

 

Misawa

Kobashi

Akiyama

Y. Ogawa

Taue

Tamon Honda

Takeshi Rikio

Takeshi Morishima

Takuma Sano

Akitoshi Saito

Jun Izumida

Daisuke Ikeda

Muhammed YONE

Masao Inoue

Kentaro Shiga

Takashi Sugiura

Vader

Scorpio

Tsuyoshi Kikuchi

Kanemaru

Marufuji

??? (no idea, Kotaro Suzuki or Makoto Hashi perhaps)

KENTA

 

WJ:

 

Chosyu

Sasaki

??? (Shiro Koshinaka?)

Yoshiaki Yatsu

Kenzo Suzuki

???

 

WJ:

 

Chosyu

Sasaki

Shiro Koshinaka

Yoshiaki Yatsu

Kenzo Suzuki

Don Frye

 

Kaientai Dojo:

 

TAKA Michinoku

Minoru Fujita

 

HIDE/Legends:

Karl Gotch

Lou Thesz

 

Lucha:

 

Dos Caras Jr.

El Hijo del Santo

Negro Casas

Dr. Wagner Jr.

Black Tiger 3

 

UFO:

 

Naoya Ogawa

Kazuyuki Fujita

Kazunari Murakami

 

Takada Dojo:

 

Sakuraba

Takada

Yamamoto (not sure if its Kennichi, Yoshihisa, or someone else)

 

Pancrase:

 

Minoru Suzuki

Yuki Kondo

Sanae Kikuta

Ikuhisa Minowa

Yuko Takahashi

 

Grapple House (Pride, K-1, UFC, etc...):

 

Hidehiko Yoshida

Masaaki Satake

Kiyoshi Tamura

???

Rumina Sato

Hiromitsu Kinbara

Bob Sapp

Rickson Gracie

Royce Gracie

Antonio Rodrigo Nogeira

Mark Coleman

Semmy Schillt

Igor Vovchanchyn

Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic

Ernesto Hoost (has "Mr. Perfect Game" as a nickname. this may also be what Blood Raven was talking about)

Jerome le Banner

Peter Aerts

Mike Bernardo

Gary Goodridge

Vanderlei Silva

Ken Shamrock

Bitsadze Tariel

Volk Han

Mark Kerr

Hans Nyman

Wataru Sakata

 

Legend:

 

Karl Gotch

Lou Thesz

 

WEW:

 

Kuroda

Kanemura

 

Michinoku:

 

Shinzaki

Hamada

Sasuke

Dick Togo

Ricky Fuji

Curry Man

 

Toryumon:

 

CIMA

Mochizuki

Magnum TOKYO

SUWA

Fujii

Dragon Kid

Susumu Yokosuka

 

Big Japan:

 

Ryuji Yamakawa

Shadow WX

Men's Teioh

 

Osaka:

 

Super Delfin

Takehiro Murahama

Gamma

 

Free:

 

Takayama

Fujiwara

Onita

Yoji Anjoh

Takao Omori

Hayabusa

Tarzan Goto

Alexander Otsuka

Mr. Pogo

Mr. Gannosuke

Mammoth Sasaki

Yuki Ishikawa

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga

HISAKATSU (Ohya)

GOEMON

Bill Goldberg

Sabu

Masao Orihara

Gran Naniwa

Ikuto Hidaka

Sanshiro Takagi

Onryo

 

I'm soooooooo going to drain Fuck Goldberg with Sapp

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Didn't someone already post the list of wrestlers in the game? And their list had some names that aren't on your list.

[Guest sean pyro]

I didn't make the list like I said and this is the first FPZ thread I have seen here..

 

The list was translated from this site http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Bingo/...8559/rename.htm

 

Fireproclub is reporting the same list.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Oh and the list of the 144 Stars?

 

http://crippler192.home.attbi.com/fpz/roster.txt

This is what I meant. From the first post of this thread.

[Guest Memphis]

LYGER POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

...Sorry, but i felt it was necessary.

 

M

[Guest benoitrulz4life]

There is a complete list on the deathvalleydriver.com message board, just look on the first page or two and it should be there.

 

As for the lack of American wrestlers, I wouldn't be surprised if the heads were nonchalantly included, after all, there are about a hundred heads that don't have characters. If they're there, it would be a simple task to create them with FPD as a model.

[Guest Smell the ratings!!!]

I wouldn't be suprised if Yukes got shitty about the WWF guys. Because they make shitty games, I imagine Yukes as shitty people.

 

And yeah, it's never been terribly hard to make someone in firepro due to the 480,000 heads, 300,000 costumes and 4.2 billion moves.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

And the only way to get a Fire Pro game in the States is via download (ROM & emulator) or import (which requires an add-on)...argh...

[Guest benoitrulz4life]

FPD only requires a GameShark, which was twenty bucks. I don't how they are going to convert the import for play on American PS2's, if they even are.