Pretty Good
posted by Frodo423 (NEWBURGH, NY) Oct 22, 2010
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I rented this game with little expectations (the last boxing game I had was for PS2 a few years ago). To me, previous boxing games have been one dimensional and shallow. My first impression was that the game was slow, i.e. the loading screen, the menu, even the boxing itself. You would throw punches with the stick and have to wait for the boxer to catch up, sometimes throwing an extra 3 or 4 punches you didn't want to throw. The punch stick wasn't too hard to learn, but I'm sure you'd have to play it for hours in order to master it. I can throw body punches at will, and sometimes flub the left straight (when fighting with a southpaw). Legacy mode is interesting and fun, and the story is good, but I'd like to see them take it a step further. The only options you really have in the Legacy menu is to change outfits, fight, or train. Although the training is fairly simple, there's little freedom with allocating skill points, or training more than once between fights. If you are more of a stay at home gamer who doesn't venture online much, this game will hold your interest for a few days. If you like the online gameplay, then you will like this A LOT. You can fight online with your created fighter, as well as download other user's created fighters (I downloaded all the Rocky characters, a few old boxers like James Buster Douglas, and, of course, CHUCK NORRIS). All in all, I was entertained with this game, and hope that they continue to give the legacy mode more personality and options.
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