Tumble Wrestling wants to lay the smackdown on other iOS games

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Tumble Wrestling wants to lay the smackdown on other iOS games
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There’s a new challenger hoping to seize the title of best wrestling game on iOS — a quirky, physics-based fighting game called Tumble Wrestling.

Part retro flashback to pro wrestling games on the NES and part Super Smash Bros., the game lets players compete to knock opponents out of the ring with a barrage of grappling moves.

I’m a big pro wrestling geek. (I wrote for a pro wrestling magazine for the best part of a decade, and frequently annoy my Cult of Mac colleagues with requests that they check out the latest AEW show.) But there hasn’t really been much in the way of highlights when it comes to the Sport of Kings on iOS.

Tumble Wrestling hopes to be the grappling champ

I’ve not yet had the chance to dive into Tumble Wrestling, but it looks entertaining. The game serves up a variety of wrestlers to choose. In the tradition of pretty much every unauthorized wrestling game in history, the characters bear a striking resemble to real wrestlers, only with slightly tweaked names.

That means an all-star cast of people who look suspiciously like The Rock, Razor Ramon, Rey Mysterio, The Ultimate Warrior and more. In keeping with the excellent WrestleFest, the new button-masher game aims to be a fun experience rather than a super-serious pro wrestling simulation. Moves include power slams, Irish Whips, elbow drops, Atomic Drops, pile drivers and more. Players must weaken their opponents before finishing them off with a trademark move.

Tumble Wrestling looks a bit limited on the animation front, but I’m not going to hold that against it until I’ve given it a go. As my enduring love of the Fire Pro Wrestling series shows, it’s never worth writing off a wrestling game because of perceived graphical limitations.

Price: Free

Download: Get Tumble Wrestling from the App Store (iOS)

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