Booking Revolution (Wrestling)
- complete with sophisticated ratings that measure the entertainment you're providing. As a fully playable wrestling management sim, it's also your responsibility to put the right person over in the right way at the right time for maximum impact! But with a locker room full of egos and rival promotions fighting to beat you in the ratings, your dream job could turn into a nightmare.
Upgrade to "Pro" to start at a promotion of your choice with full privileges
- such as hiring new talent. This also grants you access to the editor, where you can save your changes to all 350 characters across all 9 promotions to create your own universe. You can then enjoy acting out your own dream matches with no pressure in "Exhibition" mode with immortals who are always at full health.
The following guide assumes that you are familiar with the basic controls from Wrestling Revolution:
RATINGS SYSTEMThe key ingredients to a "good" match are as follows:
- The "Popularity" of the wrestlers involved determines how much the fans will care about their actions. It affects their overall enthusiasm for the match, as well as how much they will "pop" for key moments (such as a near fall). In some instances, it is "Strength" that determines how entertaining an attack is, etc.
- The purple vial indicates whether there is a Face-Heel "chemistry" between a good guy and a bad guy. Without this, the match may lack meaning (although especially popular or talented wrestlers can overcome it). Wrestlers who are friends in real life may also have automatic chemistry.
- The green scales indicate whether the match is evenly "balanced" or not. Fans will quickly lose interest if one person dominates and they are not convinced that anybody could win at any moment. It is important to keep an eye on the health meters and make sure there is some back-and-forth.
- The clock grows increasingly solid, indicating that the match is running is too long. The fans have a limited attention span depending on the scale of the match. It is not impossible to make gains after boredom has set it, but it's certainly harder. Note that the last minute of a match ceases to be boring! Long-sighted bookers can use this for exciting time limit draws.
- The skull & crossbones indicates that the match is relying too much on extreme violence. Fans can become desensitized to this after a while and it will lose its impact. The damage is not permanent though, and faith can be restored if you lay off the weapons.
- A flame around the rating indicates that there is an established rivalry that the fans are getting a kick out of seeing. This enhances their enthusiasm for the match
- as well as providing pre-match "hype" (a better starting score). You can use promos to create rivalries if they do not happen naturally.
- The overall score for a show is the average of all the matches on the card
- with the "main event" being twice as significant as all the others. It is slightly more generous than the rating for a single match, as it is not expected that every match on the card will be a classic. A 5-star show may be one full of 4-star matches!
I regret that there is more to this game than I could ever explain here! I hope you enjoy figuring some things out for yourself.
* Please note that Wrestling Revolution depicts a fictitious universe and is not affiliated with any real wrestling promotions.
Category : Sports
Reviews (26)
As good as old N64 WWF Games!! Of course the graphics and presentation are on a smaller scale but for move sets, the ability to customize and create your own wrestlers apparel, looks, gimmick, and even entrance (which needs to be addressed), you cant go wrong with this one. Feels like a button masher trying to get up when you're knocked down or trying to reverse an opponent's move. The ONLY downside ive found is that when i try to add my mp3 files to wrestlers entrances, the game crashes😩
This game is great, but there isn't enough money to go around. You have about $344,000 and at the end of each show I always loose money. Even if I keep defaults and keep expenses at a minimal I still loose money. The cost to run a show is realistic, but the starting amount of money is not. Please raise the starting amount of money (preferably to $1,000,000) so we can draft and book in the best way.
My experience with Wrestling games made by MDickie are quite in between. However most of the things in those games are not what suit my style. Don't get me wrong, I like many of the features like starting different matches with different wrestlers of your choosing but they don't mix well with what this game and the 2D version has. The controls are too clunky. Without a basic understanding of these controls, you'd better off simulating the entire match instead. But even then, the AI is quite challenging to say the least and even spamming them or mashing them won't give you even a slight advantage. If you don't have good depth perception, you will have a bad time because the angle and direction of your hit to someone will usually miss due to the depth because it is 2D. The ratings system is quite out of luck and events of the match vary throughout and they can be unexpected. They're quite the worst actually. I was playing WR3D with my friend who is really good at the game and even with him doing the work in the booking section, it isn't worth it. If the mechanics are worse in WR3D and WR, then it goes at the same category with Booking Revolution. I don't recommend this game however I do encourage you to play some of the PC versions as they are not clunky despite them being really old. I also recommend Hard Times especially on the mobile. The controls are the same however with much more freedom to play, it isn't clunky as it is. I like most of the MDickie games but this one is not my suit. I know this game or any other game made by Mat Dickie are not going to be updated considering his retirement and his focus on the Switch and I respect that. I hope sooner or later he would return for the people's favor but he does deserve a break once in a while because of his timely work. This is just my take and I hope you all have a great day.
The game is good but a few adjustment will make the game more better. (1) more championship templates (2) The ability to choose where you want to take over from (3) the ability to write your own storyline. (4) ability to name PPVs, gimmick also.
It is okay because it allows you to pick the script from your rosters but I wish there were more scripts to choose from also we need to be able to name payper views and make gimmicks I also wish there was a woman's division so men can't fight women. And more championships to select from. And they need money in the bank and other matches. And everyone can't have the same moves (slingshot,headlock,headlock takedown).
This game is terrible! This is a rip-off of Wrestling Revolution. Because of the ads, that is also a reason. When I play the game, there are too much ads around. Some more, where is the Royal Rumble? This app does not have good quality. When you book a show, the stars refers to the game. The crowd is copyrighted and the game is very messy and terrible! I wish Booking Revolution or Wrestling Revolution was never downloaded. Otherwise, you will feel the ads everywhere when you play it.
Can you fix the American wrestling group inheritance. I spent 2 hours settling up the roster with real names, then clicked to start and it freezes. But online federation will run. I bought the game a while ago and continue coming back to it. I love it and just run AI.
This game is the best booking games I have ever played! But keeping the same dialogues give us making a same storyline. So add more conversations in the next update and add new face wrestlers and try to move very Old wrestlers to Hollywood or create a new promotion called Legend. (My one and only request is add more dialogues) Thank you
The game has good graphics. But it's not like 3D. The moves are great. The moves will really make wrestling revolution a very great game. But the thing I don't like in this game is that there is no eye button in it and the stars drop too fast for my liking
The game is good, but I have some suggestions. This games is ment to be more backstage than the other wrestling games by this same developer, but it feels like a plain copy. I'd suggest that you create storylines and pick who wrestles, but not need to actually control the wrestlers. If you chose who wrestled and depending on how popular the current feud was and not you're controlls this game would be 1000x better. If the developer is reading this, please take my idea into consideration.
This is my favourite game on the app store! This game is the deffinition of fun whilst wrestling! It's so cool! You can make people do promos to hype up your rivalries! There is even a hair vs hair match! Not that much you get them in any sort of wrestling games, all this and it's free! Well they may be in game packages but they dont force you! Oh yeah and the background music is awesome! This is the best game ever!
Had some fun at the beginning, but the more you play, the more you realize it's just a lot of stupid randomness you have no control over. A wrestler from a different promotion randomly bought my company and started making me change my champions because they weren't big enough draws. And does anyone actually get a 5 star match? It decreases faster than you can execute moves. Not to mention the control system is awful and makes no sense. Time waster, not much else
Yes i loved this game when i was a kid but this new update has a few bad things about it don't call me a hater cause im just stating the facts to make the game better, first pls can u put where u don't have to pay to go to what ever roster you want, if u can't do that then at least put the glitch back in. Overall it's a really good game i played it since i was eight and i can't stop thank u Mdicke for making these games that we all can enjoy.
Update: I contacted the Devs via email this afternoon. They immediately wanted to work with me to try to make things right and resolve the issue. Appendectomy this game is so old that they've done almost everything they can with it and the bugs might not be fixable. Even still, some of the measures they took to go out of their way to make things right. were above and beyond what other developers would do.
Great. Excellent. Brilliant! A fully featured wrestling game with complete freedom to use. Just one advice, if we could use our own music it would be perfect.
This is a booking sim not a wrestling sim... It forces you to play every match you make and the controls are just awful also the ai is so difficult if your trying to let one person lose be that person... Way easier
loved this game... I've been playing this game for years and still loving it. Please add some more wrestling moves (such as styles clash & double chickenwing slam) and a women's championship.
Takes far too long to get through a show if you have to play every match. Should be able to sim the matches as the purpose of the game is to be the booker not the player.
I LOVED the game... Back in the day.. I just recently got it back and idk if there was an updated or what. But things are a HELL of alot different. There were only a few things you couldnt do before, if you didnt contribute some money. Which was understandable. But when i first got this game on my new phone, i couldnt even sign contracts. Change peoples names. Ect. So when i got a card, Instantly gave the 3 4 buck to the game. And still, i couldnt change names, sign contracts. Its crazy.
This is a really cool game, my only problem is that without the pro license, its kinda impossible to stay out of debt, although i haven't figured out how to fire people before the end of their contract
Great game. Only problem is that there should be more. More customization options. And more match choices. And i really hate when the owner asks you to do stupid changes or he'll fire u.
Excellent, probably the most believable wrestling game I've ever played because of the detail the creator mdickie has put into it. Just disappeared it's taken me so long to discover the thing as this is by far what I've been looking for in a game for a hell of a long time.
I really wanna give a 4 or 5 star rating but I cant because everytime i book a match and try to play it it freezes on the crowd and i cant play the match so i keep restarting it.
A few adjustments could make this game that much greater. (1) The ability to write your own storyline. (2) More Championship Templates. (3) Ability to schedule match cards beyond just one show at a time. (4) Ability to name PPVs, gimmick PPVs also.
Please can you add more females and have women's championship at least on Federation Online, Strong Style Wrestling and All American Wrestling. I want to have a legit women's division but there is no championship and I have to sacrifice my midcard championship and pretend it's a women's championship. Personally, I think it's 5 stars but I'm giving 4 because of this.
So I've had about 5 games in my phone total made by Mdickie for a long time. The style is pretty consistent between each game, and the controls are also the same. However, sometimes the way that the game works can be confusing, especially in HardTime, WR2D and this game. When you try to hit your opponent, the chances of you actually hitting them is low, while other times, you miss. If this game and the others were updated sometimes, I wouldn't mind playing it. Overall, it can be fun to play.