History VideoGame / WrestlingMpire

** In extreme cases, it is possible to outright ''kill'' someone, in which case they're

* CareerEndingInjury: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]]

* DeconstructiveParody: Like all [=MDickie=] wrestling games, Wrestling Empire shows the unfortunate side of pro wrestling. Players can take steroids to increase performance but lower your life span or recover from injury slowly but lose their popularity. One minute they are holding championship gold, the next they will be asked to job out or take a pay cut. Players can even go an entire session and [[ICouldaBeenAContender never get signed to a promotion]]. And no matter how great career goes, it will end either in retirement or death.

* PointBuildSystem: You can trade points between Strength, Agility, Skill, Stamina and Toughness at character creation as you see fit; these are percentage values from 1% to 99%. You can then increase these values further through [[TrainingFromHell training that saps your health,]] and they can also be affected at random by matches and events.

** CREATIVE CONTROL lets the wrestler refuse a booker's decision at the cost of Attitude points. NO CREATIVE CONTROL is the opposite.

** CREATIVE CONTROL lets the wrestler to refuse a booker's decision at the cost of Attitude points. NO CREATIVE CONTROL is the opposite.

* EvilCounterpart: Some of the clauses of a wrestler's contract are these. The "good" clauses are in greem while the "bad" clauses are in red.

** CREATIVE CONTROL lets the wrestler to refuse a booker's decision at the cost of Attitude points. NO CREATIVE CLAUSE is the opposite.

* AnyoneCanDie: Random events and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the player's actions]] can both lead to wrestlers being killed in the ring.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Booker Mode has the incredibly remote Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard islands as '''wrestling territories'''.

Like most [=MDickie=] games, Wrestling MPire is infamous for its [[GoodBadBugs glitchiness]] and quirks; notably, however, it's the game that the engine used for ''VideoGame/HardTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'' was initially made for, so it tends to be a little more sane and user-friendly than those games are (if [[SoBadItsGood not by much]]).

''Wrestling [=MPire=]'' is a game made by Mat Dickie (otherwise known as [=MDickie=], the creator of the infamous AuthorTract game ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'' and "prison simulator" ''VideoGame/HardTime''). The game is, well, a WrestlingGame; in the career mode (the main mode of the game), you create your own wrestler and attempt to raise them from wrestling school to the heights of a big promotion, racking up as much money and as many titles as possible.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can fairly easily injure, dismember, or paralyze/kill any wrestler you end up in a match with by simply beating the absolute tar out of them with a weapon.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Booker Mode has the incredibly remote Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard islands as wrestling territories.

* DueToTheDead: In Roaming mode prior to the public memorial show for a dead character, a private funeral will be held at the cemetery. Should you [[VideoGameCaringPotential attend the funeral]], you'll get some positive "Attitude" points.

** Some of the game's promotions also correspond to Real Life promotions, with All American Wrestling corresponding to Pre-Attitude Era WWE, Federation Online corresponding to Wrestling/AttitudeEra, Ruthless Aggression Era and PG Era WWE and Weekend Warriors corresponding to the UFC. The rest are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] (like Strong Style Wrestling being a mish-mash of ECW, TNA and AEW with a [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul Heyman]] Expy as its booker) or entirely fictional (like Wrestling Revolution, a promotion made up of [=MDickie's=] previous characters with the [[AuthorAvatar man himself]] as its booker.)

''Wrestling [=MPire=] REMIX'', an updated version of the 2008 iteration, can be downloaded [[{{Freeware}} for free]] on [[http://www.mdickie.com/games_blitz.htm MDickie's website]], though it requires the use of [=DGVoodoo2=] or a similar program to work properly on Windows 10 computers. A new updated version, with the less [[XtremeKoolLetterz amusing]] title of ''Wrestling Empire,'' can be [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1620340/Wrestling_Empire/ purchased on Steam]] or Nintendo Switch for twenty dollars.

* AnArmAndALeg: Infamously, the game allows you to ''dismember people'' by beating them badly enough. While this is reasonable enough if you're using a meat cleaver or explosives, it starts to get a little absurd when you're bashing people's arms off with a chair or a lead pipe.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Booker Mode has the remote Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard as wrestling territories.

** Some of the game's promotions also correspond to Real Life promotions, with All American Wrestling corresponding to Pre-Attitude Era WWE, Federation Online corresponding to Attitude Era and beyond WWE and Weekend Warriors corresponding to the UFC. The rest are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] (like Strong Style being a mish-mash of ECW, TNA and AEW with a [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul Heyman]] Expy as its booker) or entirely fictional (like Wrestling Revolution, a promotion made up of [=MDickie's=] previous characters with the [[AuthorAvatar man himself]] as its booker.)

* HoaxHogan: ''Wrestling Empire'' has Hal Coogan, who has the same build, facial features and moves as the Hulkster.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Booker Mode has Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard as wrestling territories.

** Some of the game's promotions also correspond to Real Life promotions, with All American Wrestling corresponding to Pre-Attitude Era WWE, Federation Online corresponding to Attitude Era and beyond WWE and Weekend Warriors corresponding to the UFC. The rest are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] (like Strong Style being a mish-mash of ECW, TNA and AEW with a Paul Heyman Expy as its booker) or entirely fictional (like Wrestling Revolution, a promotion made up of [=MDickie's=] previous characters with the [[AuthorAvatar man himself]] as its booker.)

** Some of the game's promotions also correspond to Real Life promotions, with All American Wrestling corresponding to Pre-Attitude Era WWE, Federation Online corresponding to Attitude Era and beyond Wrestling/WWE and Weekend Warriors corresponding to the UFC. The rest are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] (like Strong Style being a mish-mash of ECW, TNA and AEW with a Paul Heyman Expy as its booker) or entirely fictional (like Wrestling Revolution, a promotion made up of [=MDickie's=] previous characters with the [[AuthorAvatar man himself]] as its booker.)

** Some of the game's promotions also correspond to Real Life promotions, with All American Wrestling corresponding to Pre-Attitude Era WWE, Federation Online corresponding to Attitude Era and beyond Wrestling/WWE and Weekend Warriors corresponding to the UFC. The rest are CompositeCharacters (like Strong Style being a mish-mash of ECW, TNA and AEW with a Paul Heyman Expy as its booker).

* {{Expy}}: The game's rosters are filled with expies of various real-life professional wrestlers, including [[Wrestling/JohnCena Jimi Sierra,]] [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Redneck Rosteen,]] [[{{Wrestling/Kane}} Cabal,]] and [[HoaxHogan Terry Duggan.]]