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great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 63
Date: September 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. All the boxers look real. This game is also very hard. I would buy this game.

a half hearted effort for a sport that takes heart

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When making a new edition of a game it has become customary to add to previous editions. EA Sports has obviously ignored that standard and not only not added anything new to this game but has ommited so many options that game is actually worse than the original Knockout Kings for PS1. I don't even know where to start, so why not with the graphics. Ignore the fancy images you see on the box or maybe in magazines, the game doesn't look any better than just a higher resolution version of it's PS1 counterpart. They are nowhere near what EA has accomplised with it's other PS2 games, like Madden, NHL or even SSX. And that's just the beginning. The create a boxer option is so limited, you have a total of six different looks for a boxer. That's right, only six. You can't choose whether you want a certain skin color with a certain hair style mixed with a certain face. Even the original KK had an almost unlimited create a boxer range, and that game came out three years ago. As far as gameplay, why bother. All you have to do is use the same combinations over and over again to knock out an opponent. Hardly a challenge. And the career mode is a joke. Even if you win the title, after three defenses of the belt the game retires the boxer. That's not a career. There's no reply value in that. What about defending the title until your boxer gets old and his skills deteriorate and it's actually a challenge to keep winning. The way it is now, your boxer will be a skill level of 100 on all abilities by the time he wins the championship and is unbeatable even against Ali. I knocked him out in the 5th the first time I fought him. The career mode is the equivalent of playing Madden without a franchise option. Who cares if you win the Super Bowl if you can't defend the trophy. It is obvious that EA held out so many options on this game because they figured while lacking what it's PS1 versions have it's for the PS2 and they can add those opions next year to justify making a 2002 edition. If that's the case, you might as well skip this version and wait for next year. Just load up your PS1 KK 2000, adjust your PS1 browser to run at fast speed and smooth out the graphics, and you have a much better game that doesn't look that much different, and has a lot less load times throughout the game. A truly disappointing effort, and because of it I will never buy another version of Knockout Kings. I sold it back three days after I bought it for half the price I bought it for, so I lost half my money on a game to a company that didn't even have the decency to put half an effort into the game. It's a low blow.

The best sim-boxing game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i bought this game last night and its the best. this game isnt your ... arcade boxing game like ready to rumble this is a great sim

The Best Boxing Game to date!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing intelevision boxing back in the early 80s thinking "This has got to be the worst piece of mess that I've ever seen". Then I played Punch out on Nentindo in the late 80s and then Nentindo came out with a Middlewieght Boxing game in the early 90s that was at best "OK". After playing these games I thought that the possibility of ever playing or seeing a high quality boxing game was null and void.....That is until the KNOCK OUT KINGS series. Needless to say this series is excellent. It's the JOHN MADDEN of Boxing Games. It a game that will be the model for future boxing games.....and it just keeps getting better and better. The Latest version of KK is by far THE BEST BOXING GAME EVERY MADE. Most of the all-time greats are represented in this game people like HEAVEYWEIGHTS MUHAMMAD ALI,JOE FRAZIER,KEN NORTON,LARRY HOLMES,ARCHIE MOORE,FLOYD PATTERSON ECT. MIDDLEWIEGHTS...SUGAR RAY ROBINSON,MARVIN HAGLER,SUGAR SHANE MOSELY,SUGAR RAY LEONARD,ROBERTO DURAN ECT. LIGHTWEIGHTS...ARRON PRYOR, ALEXIS ARGUELLO, HECTOR CAMACHO, DANNY LITTEL RED LOPEZ ECT. It has an excellent Career Mode where you can retire your boxer. This game kicks butt. It's a must buy....and again the best boxing game ever....that is until KK 2002?

Great Boxing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have been a boxing fan of video games since the original atari's came out. I enjoyed Knockout Kings 2001 graphics, different boxers and the ability to create your own boxer. You see mouth piece's flying out, blood and everything. The only drawback I see is it takes a while to load. But it is worth the wait. The punch combos are great, and the training bouts really help you figure out the combos. If you are a boxing game fan, this is the game!

Dissapointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For all the hype in previous reviews about this being the "Best boxing game ever made" this game sure has alot of flaws. First of all thats a pretty bold statement to make especially when this game lacks many of the features of its predecessor, the original Knockout Kings from 1999. In the career mode you have just 4 or 5 faces to choose from, unlike in the original Knockout Kings where a huge selection of trunks, hairstyles, and faces were at the gamers disposal for creating the ideal fighter. And why retire the fighter after he wins the title? Why not let him go deeper into career mode? Sure, the graphics in this game are improved but the hard hitting shots and sounds are lacking, making this a game that you easily get bored of. Sure there is a nice selection of fighters and they are recreated nicely here what with the amazing graphics of the PS2 but you just dont feel the exitement that you did in the original. In the original you could feel your player hit the canvas when he was knocked down. You could feel your player get rocked after a hard shot that stunned him, I just dont see those features here, and as a matter of fact its a mystery to me why Electronic Arts takes away many good features of their games each year, theyre supposed to improve on their flaws not completely change a nearly perfect game. The slugfest mode is a joke and is more attractive to people who like arcade games not serious boxing. The loading times in this game are atrocious. There is a huge loading time between every round and this ruins the game. There is no flow in a game that stops to load after every round. Too many flaws for a game that is supposedly claiming to be "The best boxing game ever". It will be lucky to crack the top 3.....

Is This PS1or PS2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks the graphics are the exact same as the regular Playststion. If I had known the graphics were so poor there would've been no way that I would've purchased KOK. I was terribly disappointed dont get me wrong if you have no tatse for good graphics you will proably enjoy this game, but I expected better graphics out of the PS2. I didn't upgrade from a PS1 to a PS2 spending over 300 bucks for the same graphics as PS1. If Sony keeps this up they will definetly be sorry when the X-Box comes out!

Rent this game first

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll tell you right now, rent this game first before you buy it. One thing that will really dissapoint you is the audience. The audience looks TERRIBLE! The audience contains only like 10 people but they are multiplied probably 20 times!! So your basically looking at 10 BLURRY figures in the audience. Also as mentioned above the loading time is terrible. 75% of your time will be speant at the loading screen. Another thing I was uncomfortble with was the training. The training is very very very boring. There is one segment that I could never get through just because the controls were toooo hard...im pretty sure that some of you will know which segment im talking about...One thing I really didnt understand was why couldnt you fight another made up boxer?? I remember playing Evander Holyfields Boxing game for Sega Genises and it probably had the same options(if more) than this game has and the graphics are probably better too!! I have to say, the only good aspect of this game is it contains many many well known boxers, it is fast paced, and it has excellent music. That is why I gave it three stars...again rent it first, I borrowed it from my friend and was happy to give it back.

Lets get it on!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Boxing hits PS2 with a bang. This game is excellent. Its got lots of real boxers and even Mills Lane stepping into do some reffing. EA sports has looked into every little detail. The boxers look great even thier faces look just like them. They also show damage over time by bruising and some times cuts even open up and blood gushes as you get hit. The new combo system is the best in any boxing game ever which adds lots of depth to gameplay. Also its cool that some dirty moves have been added like elbows, headbuts and kidney punches to name a few. But don't abuse them or the ref will penalize you. This game only fails in two places. First the training mode - although it teaches you the basics it is very boring and second there is a small load time between rounds. These two things keep it from being a five star game.

LOAD TIME ...!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Load time on this game ALL through the game is HORRENDOUS and COMPLETELY KILLS any redeeeming factor in this game. DONT EVEN RENT THIS ... of a GAME!

graphics ... game is too short. career mode is limited. LOAD TIME is the WORST and LONGEST LOAD of any game out there. EA really released a DOG in this one. Ultimate Fighting for Dreamcast is 100 times better than this junk ...

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