Overview
Wrestle Kingdom is a wrestling game released exclusively for the Japanese market on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 in December of 2005. It was developed by Yuke's, using a modified version of the engine used for the WWE: Day of Reckoning series.
Wrestle Kingdom is known for stradling the line between realistic wrestling simulation and arcade-y action wrestling, taking elements from both subgenres to craft its own persona.
The Xbox 360 version of the game suffered a recall when it turned out that the game had issues with saving to the system's internal hard drive.
Playable wrestlers
The stable of playable characters amassed 46 on Xbox 360, and 47 on PlayStation 2. It calls from all three major Japanese wrestling promotions: All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Noah, as well as freelancers and unaffiliated legends.
- Masahiro Chōno
- Shinsuke Nakamura
- Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Masked Devilock
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan
- Yūji Nagata
- Manabu Nakanishi
- Tatsumi Fujinami
- Masked Devil Liger
- Tiger Mask (original)
- Tiger Mask IV
- Kōji Kanemoto
- Minoru
- Wataru Inoue
- Jado
- Gedō
- Antonio Inoki
- Brock Lesnar (PS2 exclusive)
- Giant Bernard (PS2 exclusive)
- Keiji Mutō
- Great Muta
- Satoshi Kojima
- Arashi
- Taiyō Kea
- Kaz Hayashi
- Mitsuhara Misawa
- Kenta Kobashi
- Jun Akiyama
- Akira Taue
- Takeshi Rikiō
- Takeshi Morishima
- Yoshinari Ogawa
- Mohammed Yone
- Naomichi Marufuji
- Kenta
- Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Takashi Sugiura
- Yoshihiro Takayama
- Toshiaki Kawada
- Gen'ichirō Tenryū
- Kensuke Sasaki
- Riki Chōshū
- Kazunari Murakami
- Katsuyori Shibata
- Shin'ya Hashimoto
- Osamu Nishimura
- Jamal
- Kazuyuki Fujita (Xbox 360 exclusive)
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