King of Colosseum II

Overview

King of Colosseum 2 is the sequel to both King of Colosseum: Red and King of Colosseum: Green. King of Colosseum 2 (commonly abbreviated as KoC II) features real licensed Japanese wrestlers unlike its animated 2D counterpart, the Fire Pro Wrestling series. Many major promotions are covered in KoC II such as New Japan Pro Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH and Pro Wrestling Zero-1 as well as all the factions within the promotions. The game is presented as a realistic (in terms of pro-wrestling anyway) simulation of the Japanese take on the legendary sport. Many details are present such as a dynamic referee in the match as well as realistic Japanese commentary throughout the matches that increases in excitement and enthusiasm as the match progresses closer to the hot finish.

CONTROLS:

The controls in King of Colosseum II also have some similarity to Fire Pro Wrestling, in that the grappling is timing-based, leading to failure for button-mashers. The KoC games use a "clutch" system, in that when a grapple is initiated, another button must be pressed at the right moment during the grapple animation to execute a move. The player presses the R1 button and another face button in tandem to start a grapple, then following with yet another face button press to perform a move. The controls also apply to Mixed Martial Arts fights and mat wrestling situations.

MATCH TYPES:

King of Colosseum II features the common match types seen in Japan (aside from Deathmatches, which are prominently featured in the Fire Pro games):

• Singles - your meat-and-potatoes one on one wrestling match
• Singles w/ Manager - Bring a manager with you to be sneaky.
• Tag Team - Use L1 to tag in your partner and beat the opposing team into the mat.
• Handicap Match - Someone else and their partner will beat you into the mat, or vice versa!
• Triple Threat - A hectic three-way-dance with frequent pin and submission breaks.
• Battle Royal - Four men enter and one man leaves in this classic match type.
• 5 vs. 5 Team Elimination Match - Each team gets five wrestlers and opposing team members take turns fighting each other.

MODES:

King of Colosseum II features various modes of play:

• Exhibition Match - For a quick wrestling fix, the quickest way to get started.
• Survival Road - KoC's equivalent of a story mode. Fight the top wrestlers in each promotion to unlock new wrestlers, rings, wrestler templates, and outfits.
• Match Maker - Be the booker! Book matches and shows and see how the audience reacts and what kind of ratings you can get!
• Title Match - Fight for and defend the various real-world belts included in the game, such as the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, or the Triple Crown.
• Series Mode - Fight in or sim tournaments such as the G1 Climax or the Champion Carnival, or create your own tournament.
• Edit Mode - Here, you can create your own wrestler, edit a default wrestler, create a wrestling promotion, re-order the character select screens, and more.
• Dojo - This is KoC's training mode, in which you can learn the timing of the grapple system as well as other important gameplay mechanics.
• Options - Here you can adjust game settings, sound settings, and you can view each wrestler's in-game match history.

MATCH RULES:

King of Colosseum II features various match rules options, these are the match type available:

• Puroresu - Basic wrestling rules, rope breaks, pin or submission to win.
• Vale Tudo - Modern MMA rules, you can defeat your opponent by Ko or submission only. You can set up Rounds and the duration of the fight .
• Ultimate Crush - NJPW's variation of the vale tudo rules. 3x5 minutes rounds.
• U-Style - UWF/Early Pancrase rule set, match are 15 minutes, and not broken into rounds, rope break and knock down cost a point.
• American - Similar to most of the american wrestling game out there, wrestlers can power up by taunting and finishers do much more damage, shorter flashier matches.
• MUGA - Classic Rikidozan era rules.
• Free - You can mix and match the various rule sets to create your own type of match.

Notable US Wrestlers in the Game

King of Colosseum 2 features a number of notable US wrestlers, including:

D'Lo Brown

Mike Awesome (as "The Gladiator")

Steve Corino

C.W. Anderson

Samoa Joe

Low Ki

"Earthquake" John Tenta

Too Cold Scorpio

Scott Norton

The game also inlcudes several look alike wrestlers, some of them of which that have been slightly altered to avoid legal issues due to the fact that some of them were signed to rival promotions at the time. These wrestlers include Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Brock Lesnar, the steiner brothers, and Chris Benoit, among others.

Default Roster

All Japan Pro Wrestling

1. Arashi
2. George Hines
3. The Great Muta
4. Hideki Hosaka
5. John Tenta
6. Keiji Mutoh
7. Kokushi-Muso
8. Hiroshi Hase
9. Masanobu Fuchi
10. Masayuki Kono
11. Nobutaka Araya
12. Satoshi Kojima
13. Tomoaki Honma
14. Toshiaki Kawada

RO&D

1. Bull Buchanan
2. D'Lo Brown
3. Gigantes
4. Jamal
5. Taiyo Kea

AJPW Jr.

1. Akira Nogami
2. Kaz Hayashi
3. Kendo Kashin
4. Mitsu Hirai Jr.
5. Ryuji Hijikata
6. Taichi Ishikara

Freelancers

1. Black Tiger 3
2. Shigeo Okumura
3. Takashi Uwano
4. Wataru Sakata

NJPW

1. Black Cat
2. Blue Wolf
3. Hirooki Goto
4. Hiroshi Tanahashi
5. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
6. Josh Barnett
7. Kazuo Yamazaki
8. Kengo Kimura
9. Kensuke Sasaki
10. Kotetsu Yamamoto
11. Kuniaki Kobayashi
12. Manabu Nakanishi
13. Masa Saito
14. Masahiro Chono
15. Mike Barton
16. Naofumi Yamamoto
17. Osamu Kido
18. Osamu Nishimura
19. Scott Norton
20. Seiji Sakaguchi
21. Shinsuke Nakamura
22. Takashi Iizuka
23. Tatsumi Fujinami
24. Togi Makabe
25. Toru Yano
26. Yuji Nagata
27. Yutaka Yoshie

Crazy Dogs

1. Hiro Saito
2. Michiyoshi Ohara
3. Tatsutoshi Goto

Makai Club

1. Hiroshi Nagao
2. Junji Hirata
3. Kantaro Hoshino
4. Katsuyori Shibata
5. Kazunari Murakami
6. Mitsuya Nagai
7. Ryushi Yanagisawa
8. Tadao Yasuda

NJPW Jr.

1. El Samurai
2. Gedo
3. Jado
4. Jushin Thunder Liger
5. Katsuhiko Nakajima
6. Katsushi Takemura
7. Koji Kanemoto
8. Masahito Kakihara
9. Masayuki Naruse
10. Minoru Tanaka
11. Norio Honaga
12. Ryusuke Taguchi
13. Wataru Inoue

Pro Wrestling NOAH

1. Akira Taue
2. Daisuke Ikeda
3. Haruka Eigen
4. Kotaro Suzuki
5. Masashi Aoyagi
6. Masao Inoue
7. Mighty Inoue
8. Mitsuharu Misawa
9. Mitsuo Momota
10. Mohammed Yone
11. Naomichi Marufuji
12. Rusher Kimura
13. Satoru Asako
14. Takuma Sano
15. Takashi Sugiura
16. Takeshi Morishima
17. Takeshi Rikio
18. Yoshihiro Takayama
19. Yoshinari Ogawa

Burning

1. Kenta Kobashi
2. KENTA Kobayashi
3. Kentaro Shiga
4. Tamon Honda
5. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi

KAOS

1. Mike Awesome
2. Richard Slinger
3. 2 Cold Scorpio

Sternness

1. Akitoshi Saito
2. Jun Akiyama
3. Junji Izumida
4. Makoto Hashi
5. Yoshinobu Kanemaru

Zero1

1. FugoFugo Yumeji
2. Fuyuki Takahashi
3. Hirotaka Yokoi
4. Jun Kasai
5. Kazuhiko Ogasawara
6. Kohei Sato
7. Naohiro Hoshikawa
8. Riki Choshu
9. Ryouji Sai
10. Shinya Hashimoto
11. Shinsuke Z Yamagasa
12. Takao Omori
13. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
14. Tengu Kaiser
15. Yoshihito Sasaki

Fire Emblem

1. Kuroge Wagyuta
2. Masato Tanaka
3. Shinjiro Otani

U-File Camp.Com

1. Kiyoshi Tamura

Zero1 World

1. CW Anderson
2. King Adamo
3. Low Ki
4. Samoa Joe
5. Steve Corino
6. Sylvester Terkay
7. Tom Howard
8. Vansack Acid

Edit Templates

1. Abdullah the Butcher
2. Akebono Taro
3. Akira Maeda
4. Alexander Karelin
5. Alexander Otsuka
6. Andre the Giant
7. Andrey Kopylov
8. Antonio Inoki
9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
10. Atsushi Onita
11. Bas Rutten
12. Big Van Vader
13. Bob Sapp
14. Brian Adams
15. Brian Kendrick
16. Brock Lesnar
17. Bruiser Brody
18. Bryan Clark
19. Chris Benoit
20. Chyna
21. CIMA
22. Curry Man
23. Daijiro Matsui
24. Dan Henderson
25. Dan Severn
26. Dick Togo
27. Don Frye
28. Donovan Morgan
29. Dory Funk Jr.
30. Dragon Kid
31. Dynamite Kid
32. Eddie Everett
33. Ebessan
34. Eiji Ezaki
35. Ernesto Hoost
36. Fedor Emelianenko
37. Frank Shamrock
38. Fritz Von Erich
39. Mr. Gannosuke
40. Gary Albright
41. Gary Goodridge
42. Gerard Gordeau
43. Giant Baba
44. Gilbert Yvel
45. Goldberg
46. Gran Hamada
47. Gran Naniwa
48. The Great Kabuki
49. The Great Sasuke
50. Hakushi
51. Hayabusa
52. Hayato Sakurai
53. Heath Herring
54. Hiromichi Fuyuki
55. Hiromitsu Kanehara
56. Hulk Hogan
57. Igor Vovchanchyn
58. Jason DeLucia
59. Jerome LeBanner
60. Jim Miller
61. Jimmy K-Ness
62. Jinsei Shinzaki
63. Johnny Ace
64. Jumbo Tsuruta
65. Katsuhisa Fujii
66. Katsumi Usuda
67. Kazuki Okubo
68. Kazushi Sakuraba
69. Kazuyuki Fujita
70. Ken Shamrock
71. Kenzo Suzuki
72. Kevin Nash
73. Kimo Leopoldo
74. Kintaro Kanemura
75. Kosei Kubota
76. Kozo Takeda
77. Kushinbo Kamen
78. Magnum TOKYO
79. Mark Coleman
80. Mark Hunt
81. Mark Kerr
82. Masaaki Mochizuki
83. Masaaki Satake
84. Masutatsu Oyama
85. Matt Ghaffari
86. Michael Modest
87. MIKAMI
88. Mike Bernardo
89. Minoru Suzuki
90. Mirko Filipovic
91. Mike Tyson
92. Muhammad Ali
93. Naoya Ogawa
94. Nathan Jones
95. Nobuhiko Takada
96. Osamu Tachihikari
97. Peter Aerts
98. Mr. Pogo
99. Quinton Jackson
100. Renato Sobral
101. Renzo Gracie
102. Ricardo Arona
103. Rickson Gracie
104. Road Warrior Animal
105. Road Warrior Hawk
106. Rodrigo Gracie
107. Royce Gracie
108. Ryan Gracie
109. Ryuki Ueyama
110. Ryan Sakoda
111. Sanshiro Takagi
112. Satoru Sayama
113. TAKA Michinoku
114. Takehiro Murahama
115. Tarzan Goto
116. Terry Funk
117. Terry Gordy
118. Tetsuhiro Kuroda
119. Tiger Mask 1
120. Tiger Mask 3
121. Tiger Mask 4
122. Wanderlei Silva
123. Willie Williams
124. Volk Han
125. Yoji Anjo
126. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
127. Yoshiaki Yatsu
128. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
129. Yoshito Sugamoto
130. Yuki Ishikawa