Don King Boxing
Experience boxing action both inside and outside the ring. Don King Boxing is equal parts sports simulation and true boxing drama. The action within the squared-circle accurately mimics the sport’s tactics and hard knocks by letting you create angles and openings using a full arsenal of true 3D motion captured movement and punch mechanics found only in the real world sport until now. Outside the ring, the drama continues as you are faced with temptations inherent in any professional athletes’ life, where you must balance these trappings of notoriety with the hardship of training in order to find the road to glory. As you progress through your career, a live-action documentary tells your story, warts and all.
14 fight gyms and arenas including the renowned Madison Square Garden, Trump’s Taj Mahal, and Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Multiplayer lets you go head-to head against your opponents on the same machine or online to see who is the better fighter pound-for-pound.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Excellent !
SUPER ! still WII remote hand movement is a tad off but faster and more accurate than most. Super calorie burner ! May sound fake but I use it as a pre-heavybag workout,I wear 12 oz gloves or wieghts and get my hands movin.Works GREAT I just won my division at the gator nats. !
my beef is tht so far I havent figured out how to make the character that I build up via training to by my fighter , I always gotta use the pre-packaged fighters. Don is cool too with his played -out hairdoo !!
4 Stars Not as good as I hoped. Still Enjoyable
DK Boxing for the wii is pretty good. The reviews out there are pretty accurate. After that it’s a matter of taste so I recommend try before you buy.
Pros
Controls capture about 80% of the punches I want to throw. In contrast to wii boxing, the left jab is hard to effect, while the left uppercut and hook are much easier.
Moderately Fun
Historical Fights Bring Back Good Nostalgia
Cons
Depth perception is a problem
Not clear when you hit and when you get hit
The story mode of the kid was wasted on me.
Training mode is repetitive. It would be better, and seemingly not so difficult, if the program constructed specific exercises based on previous performances.
Tutorial seems to have some bugs where you get stuck
3 Stars Has Potential But Not What It Could Be
After I bought the Wii and got hooked on Wii Sports Boxing, I began looking for a more realistic boxing game that was more challenging and expansive. Naturally, when I saw that 2K had hooked up with Don King for a game I was excited. I was really hoping for a game that would have the size and depth of EA Sports Fight Night, but would successfully integrate the Wii movement based controls creating a game that was both fun and a good fitness tool. Unfortunately, the game is just not what it could be. In career mode, the story and the training are not integrated. I think it would be better if training exercises were required in between fights to get ready. However, while training improves the user profile, it is not directly associated with the fighter in career mode. I was also disappointed that a lot of the greatest boxers of all time are no where to be found in the game. Naturally, they took the few guys who are still around that Don King seems to have a relationship with along with some classic fighers from the past. Still, no Ali, no Foreman, no Leonard. On the plus side, the fighting itself is far better than Wii Sports. The movement recognition is better and the fights are more challenging. You can’t just sway back and forth and punch when the other fighter misses. All in all, it’s a good game if you’re in it strictly for how bad you can beat down your friends or computer opponents, but it doesn’t reach the full potential of a Wii boxing game. Until EA Sports puts out Fight Night for the Wii, this is probably the best true boxing game out there.
2 Stars Quite the mixed bag
If all I cared about was the in-ring boxing with all its strategies, then probably I would be a lot hotter about Don King Boxing. The actual fighting is pretty good: You get tired and need to rest, need to block and dodge based on what’s coming at you, and can stun your opponent giving you another opening. These are things that make a boxing game more realistic and after a bit of learning I’m starting to enjoy myself in the ring. This is why I have the fun set pretty high, if all I care about is fighting (which is probably the case for a lot of people), it’s pretty fun.
That’s where the fun ends, however. The actual story mode appears to be completely lineal. I had gotten the idea that’d I’d be making decisions along the way: Do I party or train? Fight a guy for the money or look for a real challenge? Instead it’s whether I won or lost, and even that doesn’t appear to disrupt my career too much. Listening to assorted people tell my story is pretty cool… for a few minutes. Then it gets downright monotonous.
The training mode takes everything good I’ve seen from other games, and throws it out the window. While it has some good points (heavy bag is pretty fun), it makes other things almost unbearable. I tried combination punching and got miss after miss even though I knew I was throwing the right punches at the right time. Doesn’t make me want to keep trying. But supposedly training (that is, training well) will make your stats go up in career mode, so it’s hard to avoid doing it.
Whoever wrote the manual needs to get their facts straight about some of the boxers featured in the game. I was stunned at some of the stuff I was reading because it’s completely wrong, or at least out of date. This doesn’t affect the gameplay but lowers my opinion of 2K Sports.
Overall I go back and forth between enjoying myself and feeling like I wasted my money. Consider carefully.
3 Stars Not what I thought
I heard this game was going to be better than prize fighter, so I was highly anticipating it’s release; however, when I got the game and popped it in and started playing dissatisfaction followed. You can’t create your own boxer, you don’t have the option to choose to train or to go to a magazine photo shoot for a cover story. There isn’t much liberty in deciding your road to fame. You also don’t necessarily train as done in prizefight after every match. You can get out of story mode and choose to do so, but as far as training within, I have yet to have to do so. It’s hard to understand some of the video footage. It’s nowhere near the fun I thought, but still entertaining. I gave it a three because I bought it and don’t want to think that I bought a game that is only a 1 or 2 star, but that may be more fitting. Nonetheless it can be fun.
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