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This in conjunction with professional wrestling standards allows for unique hybrid-style matches.
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Such stipulations place emphasis on strike combinations, judo takedowns, and submissions and allows strikes to cause substantial damage. In a first for 3D wrestling games, an entirely unique grappling system was also developed for mixed martial artists which corresponds with optional shootfighting rules. VPW 2 boasts hundreds of moves including many prohibited in mainstream American wrestling such as the dangerous hangman's DDT, Russian neckdrop, and Burning Hammer.
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It also introduced the running grapple as an intuitive counterpart to the long-established running strike. It did, however, resurrect the test-of-strength grappling function and the striking combination grapple from 1998's WCW/nWo Revenge. VPW 2 omitted the newly introduced Cage match and First Blood match of WrestleMania 2000 as they were unconventional to Japanese wrestling (although, a "First Blood" option does exist, whereby, if the wrestler bleeds twice the match is stopped by the official). Asmik Ace Entertainment was only licensed to genuinely represent talent from AJPW thus, for legal purposes, all other performers were given generic names and altered apparel with the ability to be modified by the player.
#Virtual pro wrestling 2 mods license#
It features no WWF license and is based entirely on Japanese wrestling consequently, unlike previous games which included WCW wrestlers, none of the current WWF superstars at the time were included in VPW 2. Features Ĭatering to the Japanese fanbase, Virtual Pro Wrestling 2: Ōdō Keishō deemphasizes the gimmicks and theatrics of American wrestling while introducing various competitive, sportsman-like attributes of puroresu. The game was said to have over 1,000 different move combinations and a roster of "way over 100 fighters". Modes boasted were Tournament, League, Ranking and Grand Meeting, as well as the newly added Belt Edit, Champion Road and an expanded player creation mode.