Wrestling All Boxing Stars

Wrestling All Boxing Stars has many different exhibition modes that let you quickly hop into the ring and brutalize your opponents to your heart's content.
However, you'll first want to pummel your way through Story mode to unlock the bulk of the game's 50-plus wrestlers,
since only about a third are available from the get-go.
In Story mode, you play as Suicide, a successful wrestler who fights his way up the wrestling circuit ranks for a chance at the title in a major televised match.
After being approached by rival wrestlers who threaten him to throw the match, he decides to curb-stomp his opponents anyway.
Ticked off by the victory, Suicide's rivals brutally attack him after the match,
beating him within an inch of death and leaving him bleeding in a Tijuana alley.
With his memory fuzzy and his face reconstructed by plastic surgeons, Suicide gets back into the ring south of the border and begins his ascent back up the wrestling circuit ladder.
The story itself is pretty straightforward wrestling drama fare that plays out through a mix of static sequences and nicely animated cutscenes.
Not everyone will enjoy being railroaded into playing a canned story as a single preset character rather than starting a custom wrestler from scratch--a fairly standard option that's noticeably absent here.
However, the visuals both in and out of the ring are crisp, and the hard rock soundtrack does a good job of keeping the adrenaline flowing.
When plowing through the main Story mode, you'll bludgeon through match after match using the same core movesets against a rotating medley of opponents in different arenas.
Cutscenes break up the pacing a bit, but there's otherwise very little to be concerned with beyond pummeling your next batch of opponents into submission and moving on.
Match types do change up every so often, offering a good mix of one-on-one, tag team, and free-for-all encounters, among other cross this line.
The default difficulty offers a steep challenge that feels too unforgiving at times, particularly when you're stuck facing a string of multiple opponents in the same match.
As your ripped foes get tougher, their aggressiveness and stamina increase dramatically,
and all enemies in general seem to have an uncanny knack for effortlessly pulling off counter moves that turn your own attacks against you.
Wrestling All Boxing Stars is a shame that doing the same to them is all but impossible with the inconsistent controls.