We have just posted our review of Don King Presents: Prizefighter.
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A little generous in teh score, but over all the review hits home. Gameplay is very lacking.Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/complex219 -
I pretty much agree with your comments. I gave the game about a 7, but I could see even giving this game a 5. In the end, I'll get 40+ hours of gameplay out of it so its not too bad. You nailed it though, the game is a little stiff, it can turn into button mashing if you don't learn all the controls, and the story mode has little or no replay value. On top of that only 5 created boxers really brings the game down. The atrocious scoring system may be one of my biggest complaints too.
I think it was a good 1st effort. If they fix some things and add a robust career mode, I would buy PF2 if they ever make it.Chalepa Ta Kala.....Comment
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Now I never been a fan of boxing games on last gen or this gen(I did love Mike Tyson's Punch-Out & Ring King, but that was so long ago)so maybe my opinion shouldn't matter, but I must say the hit detection in this game is by far the worst I have seen in a boxing game. I was watching my cousin play it yesterday & he was loving it I was like "you are staggering him and ur barely touching him." I give this game a 2 out of 10. Stick with Fight Night. Its looks better & moves more smoothly.If your looking for the best online leagues for NCAA 2010, then come to www.traditionfootball.com
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Stick with Fight Night ... at least until Facebreaker comes out ;-)
It certainly hasn't been a very good spring for 2K Sports critically, with both this and MLB 2k8 not exactly earning rave reviews.
What really concerns me is that both of these games seem to have been shipped no with "that's not a big deal" kind of problems and flaws but instead "that should never be allowed to happen" problems and flaws.
Like MLB 2k with the stuttering and frame rate issues and made the game very tough to play early on. And now a boxing game that apparently isn't good at knowing whether either boxer got hit or not.
As the saying goes, once is a fluke. Twice is a pattern.If you can read this, you don't need glasses.Comment
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I understand all the complaints except for button mashing fests. I simply don't have these and dominate anyone who tries to get involved in this kind of fight. If you combined the right stick with the left trigger, you can miss and defend a large majority of the shots.Comment
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i think his complaint was mostly about when playing the computer in career mode ...If you can read this, you don't need glasses.Comment
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Well, they closed down 2k LA for a reason. They just were not very good. I dont know who's making the new MLB2k game. They also handed off NHL to Visual Concepts who is by far the best sports gaming developers out there. Venom is fairly new to 2k, but they just didnt polish the game the way games need to be polished.
NBA2k9 needs to be that damned good, but 2k8 was that damned good, so we will see, but they cannot continue to put out unfinished products.
The guy from OS did praise Top Spin 3. Hopefully they nail this one.Comment
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I dont think you can even button mash in career mode. The cpu will knocked ya out quick. At least from my experiences. If you box smart and know how to throw combos you can take them all out fairly easy. I am only 18 matches into career mode with a 15-3 record and 9 knock outs.Comment
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I wonder if you lose a certain amount of fights if it will make you stop. I am 23-8-1 with 16 KO's. I have only been KO'd twice. There is one dude that will give you fits. I wish I could remember his name, but if you are 18 fights in, he'll come up quick. He wanted to fight toe to toe, but I moved that to the outside because he was lightning quick. When I moved to outside, he did too and he was still lightning quick. I lost to him twice on the third fight I caught him in the 9th and knocked him down and then finished him off with a liver shot for the TKO. I've had a couple guys beat me twice. Every fight is pretty much a challenge, although I destroyed that Silva clown 99-91 on all 3 cards.Chalepa Ta Kala.....Comment
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With all due respect (and not in a Ricky Bobby tone), I don't see it either way. I finished 41-0 in my career and had to seriously gameplan some of those.
And of all my fights online, anyone who came out button mashed either got destroyed or immediately adjusted.
You can go Ali on guys and make them hit air often if you defend.
This game has some seriously suckage things about it, no doubt, but the button mash is just something I am not seeing, especially with the blue meter that makes you slow.Comment
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I agree. This game has some issues with my main gripes being judging and collision detection (which you can argue are very important in a boxing sim). For some reason though I can't get enough of it as I really enjoy the pace of the fights, esp. multiplayer. I've played this way more than I did FN3. Good Review though. I'd give it a 7.5-8.0, even higher if those two issues were fixed.EA and 2k have the unfortunate task of trying to balance on a tightrope of fun and sim while trying not to fall 10,000 feet to their death. Instead of a safety net waiting down below there will just be angry customers quick to move out of the way and talk of their failure.Comment
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I just can't believe they released this game with the hit detection as horrible as it is. I mean how you gonna get knocked downwhen the glove just barely hit ur chin & to make it worst they show the knock down in slow mo so you can see how bad the hitdetection is. Some1 at 2K needs to be reprimanded for let this flaw slip through.If your looking for the best online leagues for NCAA 2010, then come to www.traditionfootball.com
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There are glitches, the hit detection is bad, the judging is bad, but the core gameplay is still the best on next gen consoles. That's if you're truely into boxing and understand the simulation aspects of it. As with mostly all of 2ks games, especially APF and now PF, they don't really cater to the casual fan. So, there's not much there if you don't care for having to setup combos, sticking and moving, establishing the jab, jabbing to the solar plex, working angles, etc etcComment
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