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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.

Dont waste your time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ill keep it short, dont waste your time. Load times are horribly long and they focus too much on the boxers of my grandpas age. They try and add new things like female boxers (only like 3 or 4 of them) but you cant have a career with them. Also it would be cool if you could create a boxer with a name longer than 5 letters. And stuff like choosing your corner men is stupid too cause they all look the same and dont do anything anyway. Now dont get me wrong I love EA sports, I think they are the best, but this game ... im sorry. Dont waste your cash on this!!! Or go ahead, but dont say I didnt warn you!!!

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 ...

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've had this game for four hours...and that's 3 hours 50 minutes too long. I'm taking it back tomorrow. It's just a bunch of random button mashing. Combos don't really work or seem to make a difference. The graphics are pretty pathetic...the boxers heads are always pointed towards the screen...I guess the developers were proud of the faces. \

Is this ps2 or N64?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: February 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As far as I am concerned, this game is disappointingly boring and just the same Playstation1 game all over again, where is the gameplay. If I may suggest: DON'T BUY THIS GAME Buy Ready 2 Rumble round 2, Its better and more realistic.

SLOW

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Thisis disappointing. It seems slow and sluggish, especially when compared to Ready2Rumble. Plus, it has to hit th disc for an annoyingly long time to see the between rounds movies/scenes. Because of this, it is difficult to get into any kind of flow.

It is a fairly realistic game requiring you to work jabs, etc. in order to set up big punches. But overall, I'm glad I only rented it instead of dropped ... on it.

And the graphics are pretty lame too...

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!

OK Boxing Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is just average in my opinion. Also, I simply don't understand how "Felix Trinidad" could be missing?!! As I recall he was the best fighter when this game was released. Kind of a disappointment.

Very Good Graphics & Gameplay But Too much Loading Time

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is visually and responsively pretty good, the graphics and gameplay are very good. However the major drawback of this game is all the loading time. It loads before the game, after the introductions, between rounds and after the fight when the decision is made. The Boxers come to the ring with no enterage and no robe. When you knock out someone in real life the ref doesn't take both boxers to the center of the ring for the decision (do the people who design these games even watch boxing??). Also you can't fight created boxers in exibition mode or against eachother. One last thing, the damage to your opponents is very limited. You can hardly see the cuts, there is no drippings of blood and very little swelling of the eyes or face. Overall the game is pretty disappointing, especially with the supposed enhancements of PS2. (Rent before you buy!!!!)

knockout kings is dissapointing!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: February 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

So many people gave this 5 stars. why? the graphics are subpar, and the playability is not very good. If you don't have a playstation 2 yet, don't worry because there is only 1 really 5 star game out for it being SSX. If you have a playstation 2 and are thinking about this game, don't or you'll be sorry.

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