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Not worth the money or the time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I like many who bought this game am a boxing fan. With EA Sports pulling it's sucessfull simulation "Knockout Kings" off the ps2 platform, I was left to look elsewhere for "sweet science"(boxing) action. After months of looking and finding just old boxing games or cartoonish boxing games I thought I was out of luck. Then came "Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing". I had always liked Mike Tyson and remembered playing "Mike Tyson's punchout" for the Nintendo Entertainment System so I decided to buy.

When I got the game home I was very excited because the graphics looked very solid. However the Gameplay is another story. When I had my first fight I was appauled at how little strategy it took to fight. It was usually just stand in the middle of the ring and hit buttons to knock over your opponent. However, if you do get knocked over forhget about getting up because in some scenarios you have to hit three buttons at once. Three buttons in ten seconds! Get Realistic!

Secondly, with every fight you have you earn money to improve your boxer. While this is realistic it causes a problem because a person could just get knocked out many times and builld up to be a great fighter without winning one fight. Once again kind of a cheap thing to do.

The create a fighter mode gives many options except every face they offer looks like Tysons. Oh and when you get done creating yourself, you have the option to acctually spar(fight) with Tyson in training. If you can spar with Tyson in training why would you want to work to get to fight him in career mode. Kind of defeats the purpose.

The sound is one of the brighter aspects of this game. When fighting you will hear your corner or the audience giving you advice even though this advice is not very good or useful. This game has announcers but they only speak between rounds or after the fight when showing highlights. The referee will appear at the beeginning of the round and then dissapear. Once again NOT REALISTIC!

Overall, this game looks like it was rushed out onto the shelves to fast. The developers at Codemasters should've thought weather they wanted to make this title an Arcade game or a realistic simulation. There were no answers to that before buying this game and after buying this game I must say I'm still confused. All I can say is that the Codemasters just relied on the Mike Tyson name alone to sell this game and it might work once but it won't work again. The codemaster slogan, "genius at play" doesn't work for this game because their is nothing too genius about this game and if Mike Tyson expects to get out of bankruptcy by the sales of this game well he better hope he gets a rematch with Lewis because this game doesn't solve his problems it just causes more of them.

To balance out questionable reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Be very careful when reading the glowing reviews posted on this game that are posted here. I have heard that the actual people behind lame games go on and post great reviews to fool people into thinking the game is a winner and spike sales. My suggestion is to check out the online unbiased sites such as IGN.Com and Gamespot.Com where reviews can be trusted. So far I have seen very bad reviews from the legit sites on this game with most saying the animation is very jerky and the controls rough..so the reviews posted here leave me very suspicious. I purchased the 1st game for the PS1 and it was horrible, so this one I will wait to see what legitimate reviewers say. The fact the same company came out with both games makes me nervous since the 1st was such garbage.

June 27 update
Here is an update. IGN.Com just gave the game the worst review. Here is the punchline:

"Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Codemasters unleashes one of the worst boxing games in recorded history."

THIS IS A TRUE HALF STAR GAME!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game [is] bad. i bought this game with some doubt in my mind. i should have listened to all of the bad reviews it recieved. i read maybe 3 review that gave the game less than a 3 outta 10...

the gameplay: i thought that the game didn't use the power that the PS2 could put out. the fighters looked as if they were just punching accross the other fighter. plus the worst feature was when you got KO'd you had to hit the triangle, square, circle and the x in a certain order to get back up and if you didn't then you were out. i also thought the game should have had some more reputable names, hell i would be happier if TYSON was on the KO kings from now on...

my words of advice: don't look at, don't buy, don't rent, and don't borrow from your friends

yours truly,
trooperdeex

Mike Tyson's Boxing gets KO'd for the 2nd time.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you remember Mike Tyson's Boxing on PS one then you know better to skip PS2 version. This game really sucks!! The controls are shabby and take time to get used to. Once you get knocked down it takes a great effort to get your boxer up. The graphics are ok, but not great. This is really a waste of gamers money. If You are a fan of Mike Tyson I suggest you take out your Nintendo Game system and buy Mike Tyson's Punch Out at a pawn shop. That was the best game Tyson has ever brought out. Remember stay away from this stupid boring game.

Mike Tyson's Super Prison Break-Out!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Why would somebody name a product after a cheater/ woman-beater/ goober like Mike Tyson?

Beware ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...You may not have to guess how I feel about "Mike Tyson's Heavyweight Boxing". It is a horrible game and was no fun at all. The graphics are pretty good and the control method is quite a good idea but the game itself is very frustrating and ridiculously hard. Even after I used a cheat to unlock Tyson, I still got pounded and KO'd by Audley Harrison within 30 seconds.

I'm really disapointed because I have been waiting for this game to come out for months and now that it has I wish I hadn't bothered.

There are much better fighting games on the PS2 but unfortunately it is still lacking a good boxing game.

This is supposed to be the dumbest boxing game ever made.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Need I say more? It's supposed to be HORRIBLE. Buy Knockout Kings instead.

Game Sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks all the way around. Not near as fun as the other ones with mike tyson.

The best boxing game I've played yet.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: June 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I received my reserved copy yesterday and I have only now put the pad down. The custom boxer facility in particular, is great fun. In two player mode you can pit Tyson against all manner of your monstrous creations. Hairstyles, beards, bodyhair, skin colour can all be adjusted. Height, scale of torso, arms, legs, gloves are also infinitely adjustable.
I'm not a big fan of Mike Tyson but the quality of graphics, game play and shear depth of features sold this one to me. All in all it's simply a more complete game experience and feels more rewarding than any other boxing title I've played.
I'd recommend this title to anyone who likes fighting games.

"THE GAME I NEVER STOPED PLAYING"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay this is an emergency message.... dont listen to anyone who thinks this game [is bad] this game [Rocks} sure its not like knockout kings 2002 wich [was bad] anyway, but Iron Mike Tyson Heavyweight boxing is sooo awesome and is totally worth buying heres the FACTS people problably dont like parts of this game because its like nfl blits but trust me this game rocks its really hard but when you unlock iron mike tyson its a whole different story tyson makes the game soo awesome especially when you get tysons skills. it took me a while to get his skills but now im knocking everyone out.I give it five stars for good graphics,awesome fighting, and when tyson is done with an opponent he makes them look like freddy kreuger. So dont listen to negitive people who say that this game [is bad] IT ROCKS!

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