Some even ran with very few errors and looked close to being something you’d pay to play. Remembering the freeware gaming scene in the 2000s, many business managers came along and had great concepts. Overall, it came off as the superior choice if you really wanted a deep-for that decade-wrestling sim. The last two also tied into what kind of angles and matches were available to the company.
Going further, the Extreme Warfare franchise would allow for players to manage TV deals, sponsorships, merchandising, show production, and content rating. Ryland made these selectable by the player while booking a show or assigning pushes. Jennings’ game allowed for you to set a talk show segment for the company and authority figures. Promotion Wars featured venues you could select for your show while Ryland wouldn’t include this in the Extreme Warfare franchise until TEW started.
However, that’s where the similarities ended. You could also run a training or developmental camp in both titles and manage your titles. In both games, you ran a wrestling promotion, managed feuds, booked shows, and handled wrestlers’ employment. While the height of both titles was around the same period and both were similar in simplicity and features, EWR always came off as the more professional-looking alternative.
Unfortunately, it’s not as lively as the EWR fanbase which has made modern-day and fantasy mods for the final release for about sixteen or seventeen years now. In four years, it would reach the best remembered and final version 1.3.ĭuring that three-year period, Ryland’s Extreme Warfare Revenge title would see more updates before the announcement of Total Extreme Warfare 2004, the first paid game in the franchise.Įven after the development ended on Promotion Wars, there is still a very small community around making updates for the game’s database. I first ran into Promotion Wars in 2003 but it has been around since 2000. Promotion Wars: The Forgotten Wrestling Sim This time, let’s look at a forgotten wrestling booking sim in Adam Jennings’ Promotion Wars from the early 2000s. A few months back, we went into Adam Ryland’s Extreme Warfare and Total Extreme wrestling booking series.