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A New Review

Don King Presents: Prizefighter

Now I have always considered myself a mild boxing fan, I like to watch the occasional fight on TV, and I enjoy playing boxing games, but I have missed out on the last few boxing titles to come out, the last one I really played was the first Fight Night (formerly the Knockout Kings series) on the original Xbox, So i was some what excited to play this one. I had heard mixed reviews on it but was excited for my first taste of Next-gen boxing (that brings up another issue now that the xbox 360 is 3 years old can we really call it "Next gen"...well that's a rant for another time).

Prizefighter is half boxing game half documentary. This has to be one of the most unique game presentations I have ever seen. A lot of games immerse you in the story and have you feel as though you are playing through a movie (The Halo series is a great example of this) but this game literally has filmed a documentary (its a fictitious story of course) to surround the in game action. The game has you create your fighter nicknamed "the kid" and then goes about chronicling your rise to world champion. You train in between fights which consist of button timing type mini games to boost your stats and will occasionally get offers to do TV commercials or other various things that take away from your regular training. Along the way you run into a little bit of everything from breaking your hand before a fight (thus only being able to throw punches with one hand) to having the opposing boxer hopped up on pain killers and virtually indestructible. The story is very well done and the documentary aspect adds a nice touch around the game play.

As for the game play itself its fairly well done. The control is well laid out with the face buttons being your punches and the triggers and bumpers handling blocking and punch modifiers. The in ring action is fluid and is a somewhat accurate representation of real boxing, though as with any boxing game I have ever played the pacing is not accurate, there is way more action than a true match, but it is a video game so that's expected. The difficulty is one gripe I have, I started on the default medium setting and promptly got my rear end handed to me 3 straight fights (which oddly enough earned me an achievement...LOL) so I ramped it down to easy and sailed through the rest of the game never losing a fight. I really should have gone back and played another fight on medium to see if I had improved but didn't get the chance.

Overall Prizefighter was a decent boxing game but not worth a full retail purchase so it gets the stamp of.....

TRY IT

Happy Hollidays

Let me start off by saying Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to everyone. Obviously there has been a lack of posts latley and that can be blamed squarly on the wonderful holliday season wich has limited my free time, but I plan on getting back into the swing of things. I hope that everyone has been enjoying my posts latley and hopefully I can get a little more regular with them. And please if you enjoy my blog and know anyone else that you think might enjoy it pass a link along, the more the merrier.