Don King Boxing

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  • Summary: 2K Sports, in collaboration with legendary promoter Don King, brings you an unprecedented look into the sport of professional boxing. Feel what it's like to be a real PRO boxer in your very own living room with the Wii Balance Board™. Duck and dodge blows and throw counter punches with both2K Sports, in collaboration with legendary promoter Don King, brings you an unprecedented look into the sport of professional boxing. Feel what it's like to be a real PRO boxer in your very own living room with the Wii Balance Board™. Duck and dodge blows and throw counter punches with both hands, all while trying to maintain your center of balance on the Wii Balance Board. Add to that over 20 actual licensed boxers, a deep career mode, and an intuitive multiplayer split screen mode, and you’ve got a gaming experience that immerses players into the sport of boxing like never before. [2K Sports]… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. Official Nintendo Magazine UK
    86
    Serious boxing action that isn't spoilt by silly effects. Don King's Boxing is a great option. [Apr 2009, p.68]
  2. Game Over Online
    69
    Don King Boxing is not a bad game, but it’s not nearly as good as it could have been.
  3. Games Master UK
    62
    It's got solid controls, but there's not enough variety in its structure and the single-player challenge quickly becomes boring. [May 2009, p.85]
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  4. IGN
    58
    Boxing is one of the more demanding sports to try and bring motion control to, and while MotionPlus could change all that once is releases later this year, 2K China included just one control scheme in Don King, and it only sort of works.
  5. GameSpot
    55
    Good controls can't cover up for the boring, lifeless fights.
  6. InsideGamer.nl
    50
    Don King Boxing isn't a great game. The video's before the fight are the only good thing about the game. The fighting system does work, with the exception of the hooks. This is frustrating and kills the gameplay. Besides that it is fair to say that the graphics are pretty messed up.
  7. Gaming Age
    25
    To date there is no way to come closer to real boxing, without getting a bloody nose that is, than Don King Boxing. So, if you are a hardcore boxing fan or a fan of the genre I would suggest that you pick this title up. For everyone else, the controls, visuals and music make me suggest that you keep on looking.

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