Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing

 Xbox
Metascore
37

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 10 out of 13
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  1. TeamXbox
    78
    The game is as good a boxing game as you are going to find, but it’s not great.
  2. GameZone
    69
    Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing has a slew of faults that inevitably bring the title down but that’s not to say that you won’t have a good time in the ring.
  3. Official Xbox Magazine
    55
    Mediocre. [Nov 2002, p.125]
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  5. Xbox Nation Magazine
    40
    The deep create-a-boxer mode is the only aspect of the game that truly excels, but one good feature doesn't even out a sub-standard title. [Fall 2002, p.120]
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  6. GameSpy
    40
    The most disappointing aspect of the game, however, is the lack of attention to detail. The loading times are atrocious simply to go from one menu to another, you cannot improve your fighter's abilities between fights in the Title Belt mode, and there's no Training mode.
  7. Operation Sports
    35
    From a simulation perspective, the game suffers because there is no way to control the pace of the fight. The jab and the straight cross have very little effect on the computer so you are forced to get in close and throw uppercuts and hooks the entire time.
  8. Gaming Age
    33
    The game is a mess from the opening bell to the K.O. punch. As for differences between the two versions, nothing was touched up for the Xbox version, and both games are virtually identical.
  9. IGN
    31
    An all around mess of a game, Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing is officially one of (if not THE) worst examples of digital boxing we've ever seen.
  10. TotalGames.net
    30
    It doesn’t seem to know whether it wants to be a realistic simulation of the sport or a straight-out arcade game, as it stands it manages to succeed as neither.
  11. Media and Games Online Network
    30
    Probably the baddest boxing game on the planet, in a bad way.
  12. GameSpot
    28
    Quite possibly one of the most confused games and most definitely one of the worst games to be released so far in 2002.
  13. Maxim Online
    20
    Pathetically boring.
  14. Gamer's Pulse
    14
    Although I have no gripe with the stable of boxers included here, I think the game would have been a lot more enjoyable if other equally despised personalities were licensed for the game. Just imagine the possible matches, Tyson versus O.J. Simpson, Hussein versus John Rocker, Bin Laden versus Enron board members. That would be fun no matter how bad the game sucked.

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  1. Reddead
    May 13, 2004
    0
    Sucks badly its so bad it made my face hurt.
  2. [Anonymous]
    Aug 4, 2002
    1
    Character creation was abysmal, also it is horribly confusing and anti-player friendly, like super-star like game.