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Fight Night Round 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A friend recommended this game to me and being the boxing fan that I am I wasted no time jumping on my computer and ordering it.

I was addicted to the game for the first couple of days. I spent a lot of time perfecting my haymaker and parrying skills. Most of my attention went into my career boxer.

Controls:
I have run into some people who think that using your right analog stick for punching is difficult and ruins the game for them. All I can say is Control Configuration #3 is the way to go. I suggest that if you are having issues with the control setup, go through each of the configurations and find one that suits you. I warmed up to the right analog stick pretty quick.
All in all, the controls are easy to comprehend with a little practice.

Graphics:
The graphics are decent and are much better than what is usually found on the PS2. I love the blood and sweet pouring off the faces of the boxers and the fact that you can tell where most of your punches are landing depending on what side of your opponents face is devasted the most. The venues are decent, growing steadily better in detail as you progress through the game.

Game Modes:
There are three game modes; Career Mode, Hard Hits, and My Gym. Career mode allows you to create a boxer from scratch or use an already existing one. You then take your boxer from nobody to somebody. Throughout career mode you will have oppertunities to unlock buying options to purchase gloves, pants, etc. to help increase your stats. Hard Hits allows you to choose a professional boxer in any weight catagory and play against a friend or computer opponent. Hard Hits is like a normal boxing match. Each round is played until a man falls. The person with the most knock downs wins. My Gym allows you to improve your focus trianing skills that will be needed in your career.

Online Play:
I cannot comment on this since I have never tried it. I have heard bad things regarding the amount of cheaters online though.

Sound/Music:
The announcer is cool. Calls the fight in a professional manner. I could do without the music. The music is the games one major downfall. It is repetitive and can get extremely annoying. The sound of punching, heavy breathing and sounds of pain coming from the ring is excellent.

Overall:
This game is great fun and can keep you glued to the screen for several hours.

My Major Cons:
-Music
-Excessive use of Haymaker by computer(making it necesary for you to fire back with an excessive amount of haymakers to even the match).

Fight Night Round 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

New to the PS2 World but this was well worth the $15 I paid for the
game. Boxing,graphics and overall game is very good. Would highly
recommend it.

Um, yeah, this is addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Back in January, with a $25 mall gift certificate to burn, I was running out of ideas what to buy, when I stumbled upon a slightly used copy of this game. I looked at the back, saw you could create your own boxer, thought it might be fun, and purchased it. I had no idea it would be as full-on addicting as it is!

Even if you are not a huge boxing fan, this game is fun as hell, for one simple, addicting reason: you can not only create yourself (and a damn good likeness, might I add), but you can create your enemies, make them suck, and then go into "play now" mode and PUMMEL THEM! Nothing is more fun than landing haymaker after haymaker on your foe, as they stumble, barely conscious, bleeding out of their eyes, nose, and mouth, ahehehe.

And if you are a boxing fan, then check this out. All of the punches, moves, blocks, et cetera are here, as well as many pro boxers, including Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, and even classic boxers like Jake LaMotta (of Raging Bull infamy) and Rocky Marciano. My only complaint is the crappy rap "music", but that's not really that big a deal.

5 stars all the way. This is one of the most fun games I've ever played. Cheers!

NATION OF GODS AND EARTHS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

GREAT GAME. THIS GAME IS VERY REALISTIC BUT DOESN'T GIVE ENOUGH PRAISE TO ALLAH.

THE BOXERS ALL PRAISE HIM IN THE RING BUT EA DOESN'T GIVE PROPS WHEN PROPS ARE DUE. IF YOU HEAR THE BOXERS TALK THEY PRAISE ALLAH BEFORE EVERY MATCH... SOMEHOW IT DOESN'T TRANSLATE WELL IN THIS GAME.

THE BOXERS FACES ARE SUPER REALISTIC AND THE GAME IS INCREDIBLY UNIQUE. TO USE THE ANALOG STICKS AS PUNCHES IS REVOLUTIONARY. YEAH ITS WORTH $50. ONE OF THE ONLY GREAT GAMES EA HAS EVER MADE. I'M NOT A FAN OF EA AS A COMPANY BECAUSE MOST OF THE STUFF TEHEY DO IS VERY GENERIC.

OVERALL, THIS GAME ROCKS. I'M A TOUGH CRITIC OF GAMES BUT THIS PASSES WITH FLYING COLORS.

great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i have this game and its awesome. the only complaint is the instruction manual is inadequate.

Beating up someone never felt so simple before

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome in controls and its very exciting. The controls are so simple once u get used to them, you can concentrate on the game itself and not on how to use the controls to beat the game(some games are exactly like this, u have to beat the controls and not the game itself). Here, once u get in the ring it feels very real. Best part about the game are the strong punches u can throw (of course if you threw something like this in the real boxing match, u'd probably kill your opponent), these land like atom bombs, each one that scores brings up a feeling of a job well done. Of course this game is not for everyone and people with love for strategy may not like this as this game requires simple strategy "Hit your opponent and don't get hit yourself" so whenever you're tired of all the "complicated mind games" just pop this one in and have yourself a "non-stop action" experience. This game is that kind of game which u can play every day and never get tired of playing, just like all other successful fighting games. Assuming 5 stars is "THE BEST" game I gave this game 4 - very good.

WHAT A GAME... AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man this game is awesome. If you learn how to do a haymaker well you can bash the heck out of your opponents. This is even better when you play with a friend. The only drawback in this game is that TYSON is missing Why?????. All round the game is good. The graphics are fantastic. The cutmen, training sections are fun. You can play for hours and hours and never get bored. 5 stars all the way. Dont wait buy it now.

amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: March 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

AS A COMPANY ELECTRONIC ARTS STINKS!!!!!!!! BUT SOMEHOW THEY HAVE MANAGED TO TURN THIS GAME INTO SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. FNR2 IS GREAT.

WOW. ITS AWESOME.

Best boxing game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off this is the best boxing game ever. You can get into the game right when you start playin it just takes a little while to get use to the controls, but once you get use to the controls you will have a blast with the haymaker's. Haymaker's make the game better with huge uppercuts or other moves. This game is worth the money and you will probably play it for a long time. The carrer mode is alright but once you start to be in the 30's and 40's you start to lose everything you get fat and you may start to lose more fights with some of the bigger and better stars.It is also pretty sad watching your favorite boxer getting fat and the crap knocked out of him too. There are alot of boxers to chose from like Bernard Hopkins or Jermaine Taylor. There is no Mike tyson but thats not enough to bring the game down. There are probably thousands of ways you can customize a boxer or create a boxer. I reccomend this game to any boxing fan. Go buy it and have a blast!!

why it is the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i think that this is one of the best games out right now and it is a must get.this game deserves five and a half stars.more than the best.your reviewer jason lyle

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