King of Colosseum II

Infobox VG| title = King of Colosseum II


developer = Spike
publisher = Spike
designer =
engine =
version =
released = 2004
genre = Sports game
modes = Single player, multiplayer
ratings = ESRB: Teen (T)
platforms = PlayStation 2
media = DVD
requirements =
input = Game controller

"King of Colosseum II" is a professional wrestling video game featuring wrestlers from New Japan Pro Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Zero One, NOAH, World Japan and Freelance wrestlers. Developed and Published by Spike and only released in Asia, this game is thought of as the 3D version of the other Spike wrestling franchise, Fire Pro Wrestling.

Features

"King of Colosseum II" has several game modes, including Match Maker, Survival Road, Dojo, Exhibition Match, Title Match and Wrestler Edit/ Wrestler Create. Match types are varied and include UWF and MMA style rules. You can change various rules such as 10, 20 or no count outs, submissions only and even rounds.

Gameplay

The grappling system in the King of Colosseum series is unique. First a person must perform a grapple (there are several different types including Exploder position, Vertical suplex position, Belly to belly position, and so on). From there the player must press either square, circle, triangle, X or R1 to perform a move from that position at a specific time (the timings can be learned through trial and error or via the Dojo mode). If you press triangle and circle or square and X you could perform a Powerball move - a finisher or very powerful move.

Roster

Wrestler and MMA Samples

King of Colosseum II allows you to win Samples. These are unlicensed wrestlers. Although they are not official, they are obviously supposed to be certain wrestlers. The sample wrestlers/fighters are:

New Japan Pro Wrestling NJPW

*Masahiro Chono
*Tatsumi Fujinami (LOCKED)
*Yuji Nagata
*Hiroyoshi Tenzan
*Manabu Nakanishi
*Osamu Nishimura
*Shinsuke Nakamura
*Tadao Yasuda
*Yutaka Yoshie
*Hiroshi Tanahashi
*Shinya Makabe
*Takashi Iizuka
*Blue Wolf
*Toru Yano
*Naofumi Yamamoto
*Hiroshi Nagao
*Seiji Sakaguchi (LOCKED)
*Kengo Kimura (LOCKED)
*Osamu Kido (LOCKED)
*Kazuo Yamazaki (LOCKED)
* Junji Hirata (LOCKED)
*Kuniaki Kobayashi (LOCKED)
*Yamamoto Kotetsu (LOCKED)
*Scott Norton
*Josh Barnett
*Mike Barton
*Black Cat (LOCKED)

Makai Club

*Kantaro Hoshino
*Kazunari Murakami
*Katsuyori Shibata /Makai #4
*Mitsuya Nagai / Makai #5
*Ryushi Yanagisawa
*Makai #1
*Makai #2

Crazy Dogs

*Michiyoshi Ohara
*Hiro Saito
*Tatsutoshi Goto

NJPW Junior

*Jushin "Thunder" Liger
*El Samurai
*Koji Kanemoto
*AKIRA
*Minoru Tanaka
*Masayuki Naruse
*Masahito Kakihara
*Jado
*Gedo
*Wataru Inoue
*Katsushi Takemura
*Ryusuke Taguchi
*Hirooki Goto
*Black Tiger III

Pro Wrestling NOAH

*Mitsuharu Misawa
*Akira Taue
*Yoshinari Ogawa
*Takeshi Rikioh
*Takeshi Morishima
*Takuma Sano
*Masao Inoue
*Daisuke Ikeda
*Mohammed Yone
*Takashi Sugiura
*Kishin Kawabata
*Masashi Aoyagi
*Naomichi Marufuji
*Kotaro Suzuki
*Satoru Asako (LOCKED)
*Mitsuo Momota
*Rusher Kimura (LOCKED)
*Haruka Eigen
*Mighty Inoue (LOCKED)

BURNING

*Kenta Kobashi
*Tamon Honda
*Kentaro Shiga
*Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
*KENTA

STERNNESS

*Jun Akiyama
*Akitoshi Saito
*Yoshinobu Kanemaru
*Makoto Hashi
* Izu

TEAM KAOS

* Too Cold Scorpio
*Richard Slinger

All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW)

*Keiji Mutoh
*The Great Muta (LOCKED)
*Kokushi-Muso (LOCKED)
*Toshiaki Kawada
*Satoshi Kojima
*Arashi
*Hiroshi Hase
*Nobutaka Araya
*Mitsu Hirai Jr.
*Shigeo Okumura
*Hideki Hosaka
*Tomoaki Honma
*Kazushi Miyamoto
*Masayuki Kono
*John Tenta
*George Hines

RO & D

*Taiyō Kea
*Jamal
*D'Lo Brown
*Bull Buchanan
*The Gladiator
*Gigantes

ALL JAPAN JUNIOR

*Masanobu Fuchi
*Kendo Ka-Shin
*Kaz Hayashi
*Ryuji Hijikata
*Taichi IshikarI

ZERO-ONE

*Shinya Hashimoto
*Hashif Khan (LOCKED)
*Shogun (LOCKED)
*Masato Tanaka
*Tatsuhito Takaiwa
*Naohiro Hoshikawa
*Kohei Sato
*Tengu Kaiser
*Wataru Sakata
*Hirotaka Yokoi
*Ryuji Sai
*Kazuhiko Ogasawara
*Fugofugo Yumeji
*Jun Kasai
*Yoshihito Sasaki
*Shinsuke Z Yamagasa
*Fuyuki Takahashi
*Kuroge Wagyuta

EMBLEM

*Shinjiro Otani

ZERO-1 WORLD

*Tom Howard
*The Predator
*Steve Corino
*C. W. Anderson
*Samoa Joe
*King Adamo
*Low Ki
*Vansack Acid

World Japan

*Riki Chōshū
*Norio Honaga (LOCKED)
*Masa Saito (LOCKED)
*Tomohiro Ishii
*Takashi Uwano
*Koichi Kimura

U-FILE CAMP

*Kiyoshi Tamura

FREELANCE

*Genichiro Tenryu
*Kensuke Sasaki
*Power Warrior (LOCKED)
*Yoshihiro Takayama
*Shiro Koshinaka
*Takao Ōmori
*Katsuhiko Nakajima

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