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Posted on June 3, 2013 at 04:58 PM.

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After animating Action Arcade Wrestling 2 for over a year, programmer Erik Novak celebrated the completion of all the game's animations by posting this highlight reel to YouTube today, which contains almost every move possible in the Xbox 360 Indie game:

According to Erik and Dave Horn, the second member of Action Arcade Wrestling 2's development tag team, "There were moves that had to be cut because of memory. The animations alone take up over 25% of AAW2's memory budget on the Xbox 360."

Action Arcade Wrestling 2 will launch sometime this year exclusively on the Xbox 360's Indie channel, though an exact price and release date have not been determined.

The developers further teased wrestling fans by posting a picture of the game's control scheme, which resembles AKI's old Nintendo 64 wrestling titles:

Every wrestler in Action Arcade Wrestling 2 will have access to:

4 strong grapples
4 weak grapples
1 standing finisher
1 submission move
1 submission finisher

Action Arcade Wrestling 2 will ship with an undecided number of generic grapplers, plus gamers will be able create their own wrestlers featuring custom moves and custom textures.

The confirmed list of match types is as follows: