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Rocky: Simply the Best !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 44 / 49
Date: October 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having played the Playstation 2 and Xbox and versions of the game at ECTS 2002 trade show I can tell you that Rocky is quite simply the best movie licences ever produced and one of the best games you will have played for many a long year.
Fans of the movie are going to love it because the game has a visual flair and an immense depth that recreates the sweet science of boxing perfectly and even if you have no knowledge of the Rocky films you will not believe the enjoyment this game can induce.

The boxing itself is easily the best 3D interpretation of the sport to date and makes all other contenders, such as Knockout Kings 2002, Ready 2 Rumble and Mike Tyson's Boxing, look punch-drunk has-beens surviving on past glories.
The graphics are excellent, great lighting effects, fully 3D crowds, and the atmosphere and fantastic soundtrack all use the Playstation 2 and Xbox power to full effect.

The single player mode is superb, but get together with some friends for a session in Exhibition mode and you can expect whoops and hollers to rival the best multiplayer games.
In fact this game has the only multiplayer game to rival Halo.

This brilliant arcade boxing game is based on all five films, and a worthy accompaniment to them. The beauty is that gamers unfamiliar with the series will admire Rocky for its power and simplicity, while film buffs who know little about games will appreciate how true the spirit of the celluloid version it is.

It has captured the essence of Stallone's scripts, acting and OTT fight sequence with remarkable flair.
Fan of the movie? Get Rocky! Fan of boxing games? Get Rocky? Fan of the Playstation2/Xbox? GET ROCKY

Pretty good, not the best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good, but it is certainly not the best it could be. This game has the "Good Things" and the Bad Things." I'll start with the good.
The Good Things
1.The graphics are good, but not the best. Some of the boxers are not as muscular as they should be, but the graphics aren't solid like The Legend of Zelda Windwaker.
2. The story is great. It basically follows the Rocky movie series. I do wish you could be boxers like Clubber Lang and Apollo Creed during movie mode.

3. Every button on the left control pad is a punch, and you can use the arrows and the "R1" button to combine with the other buttons to make a stronger or faster punch.
4. The variety of characters is amazing. Once you beat the game, there are many characters, such as Ivan Drago, you can be during exhibition mode. Now for the bad things.
The Bad Things
1. On movie mode, once you get to a certain point the game becomes virtually impossible. The beginning of the game through the Rocky IV part is no challenge.
2. It is really hard to gain points for strength, speed, stamina etc. unless you use auto train. The only easy one to gain points is for strength. You also lose points when you win a fight.
3. You almost always fight a boxer with points that exceed yours. But for me, stats doesn't really matter, because I kick their butts!
Those are really the goods and the bads about Rocky. If you are a huge Rocky fan, I definitely reccomend this game. If you are uncertain about the game, like I was, rent it first. Again, this isn't as good as it could be, but overall is a really good game.

If you MUST have a boxing game . . .

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The first thing you will notice about the game is how ridiculously disproportionate the characters look. Wow, in a world of Dead or Alive Extreme Volley Ball, couldn't UBI Soft do better that this? Okay, but you get to beat up on Apollo Creed and all the other antagonists from the Rocky movies, so maybe there is something here. Not so. I was bored in minutes. With so many excellent fighting games out, how can one endure repeating a few simple moves? (Punch, punch, jab . . . jab, punch, punch.) It's pretty bad. And when you get hit hard, little blue start appear above your head. Once I got hit with a jab the stomach, and the character flipped up and around, and landed facing down on the mat. It was more like a move in professional wrestling. But hey, if you really want a boxing game, you might like it.

This game has the eye of the tiger

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Any Rocky fan will enjoy this game. Everything is perfect, with the exception of whoever was imitating Burgess Merrideth (Mickey). Mickey sounds constapated. Other than that small flaw, the rest of the game is perfect.

Rent or Buy?: First a quick test:
1) What is Mickey's last name?
2) In which Rocky film is Rocky in his Prime?
3) Is there going to be a Rocky VI?
4) What is Drago's first name?
5) What is tommy gunn's nickname?

Answers:
1) Goldmill
2) Rocky III
3) Yes
4) Ivan
5) Tommy "Machine" Gunn

If you got one or more of these right, you must like Rocky, and if so, you MUST buy this game.

GC/XBOX/PS2?:
I have played GC and PS2 versions, and PS2 version is the best of the two.

Guess what?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: November 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THis is the best game ever. When i heard this game was coming out I knew it was going to be great. Rocky is one of the best movies ever and the game is just a good. Probably the best boxing game ever. It's so tight.
It was cool.

Big Truck

THIS GAME WAS POORLY MADE!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: December 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Rocky himself did not look right, his arms were to short and body was too small, and as for the fighting it was boring,there was not many punches you can do, and the sound effects sucked i was looking forward to this game,and i was very disapointed. i should have designed this game myself because it was missing so much. WASTE OF MONEY

ROCKY is rocky!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is rather ingenious, and i say that because no one ever thought to make a game out of such a sucessful linear non-star-wars or action/adventure movie. i rank this game w/ KO Kings 2002, i am a huge Rocky Balboa fan (Rocky: II;III;IV) anyway, i had some skepticism of this game because of The Mike Tyson game(awful!).

however this game is very promising,right now, i am in the movie mode and i have completed Rocky I, so now i am in Rocky II and darn-it it is gettin' crazy, the AI is really smart. the fighters at this point are alot smarter, they will try and trick you. you will be fighting in a round and you will be ahead, then the round is over, both fighters will get a score say rocky-10 and the other fighter-8, so your up by 2 points, well if you don't KO your opponent you will lose if you don't have more points than him. then the other guy starts to get a huge second wind and it's curtains for rocky. that is how you get tricked. one other thing that .... as you progress through the game is that you have to get your self up if you get knocked down (flaw) like in the Tyson Boxing game. another thing that stinks is this game fighting combos are pretty limited. i mean you start to get whaled on w/ the stronger fighters and all you have as a strategy is to 'bob-n-weave' and back away and sneak in some upper-cuts when you get a chance.

creativity, you don't find this in many fighting games, but this one has it. i love how the movie mode really correspondes w/ the movies. it is so neat, i won't spoil it, you just have to see for yourself. anyway, i will keep at it, i really want to beat this game, i beat KO kings w/ Joe Frazier to Ali and that wasn't easy, by the way i did it twice, so i hope that i can do it again w/ this one. i really recommend that people buy this game, because it has enough other stuff to keep gamers happy.

outta' 10, i gave it 8.2

A Real Knock-Out

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I saw this game at a retailer here and being a fan of the Rocky films, I knew I had to have it so I got it, popped it in the PS2 and was amazed with what I saw. It's exactly like the saga of Rocky Balboa beginning from the chapel match against Spider Rico in 1975 to the brutal no rules street fight with Tommy Gunn in 1990. This one's got most of it covered. It has excellent graphics in the fight venues and beautifully choreographed fighters with changeable costumes and actual boxing moves used everywhere. It's got great sound too. I had to turn my volume down to about 5 decibals to keep from blasting crowd noises and music throughout my house. The FMV sequences are amazing. ROCKY depicts Apollo Creed's discovery of Rocky and leads up to the Bicentennial Superfight in Philedelphia. ROCKY II shows Rocky and his dog, Butkis watching Apollo on TV talking trash about Rocky and how he doesn't have the guts to stay in the ring 5 minutes with a superior athlete like him. That one is very realistic because if you notice it, Rocky's turtles Cuff and Link are in the bowl on top of the TV and Rock and Adrian's wedding photo is there too. ROCKY III shows Rocky doing rather well and Clubber Lang's jealousy. It goes into showing an obituary for Mickey in the paper and Clubber's intense training. "You had your shot, now give me mine!" ROCKY IV, my personal favorite shows Ivan Drago's scientific demonstration and his ruthless murder of Apollo Creed. "If he dies, he dies. I cannot be defeated." and ROCKY V sums up Tommy Gunn's training and betrayal and Washington's speech about how he must taunt Rocky to provoke a fight. They were all very realistic and just movie dialogue and some voice action was used to make the sound. There's also an intro showing movie scenes and the credits show movie press stills. After completing movie mode, you unlock the knockout tournament in which you fight through bronze silver and gold belts. It's extremely fun. You build Rocky's strength with training sessions and can even do an Autotrain where you can build his stats and not even go through a session. Though i reccomend going through the sessions to build Rocky up faster. The only things wrong with this game are the facts that Adrian and Pauly aren't even in any FMV sequences, the fighters you go against become too predictable, and only the Rocky theme, Gotta Fly Now, is used as music. They should've put No Easy Way Out and Eye of The Tiger in as well. Plus you get sluggish after you come up on extremely tough fighters. It took me at least 19 tries to defeat Austrailian boxer Tim Simms. But other that this, this game is perfect. Menu Navigation is easy and has help options if you're confused and a sparring mode and exhibition matches to practice for big rounds in movie mode. Buy this game. It's a real Knock-out!

Good, but there is room for improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being that I am a Rocky fan, I wanted this game for x-mas. I enjoyed playing it. They got many of the movie locales down nicely and the main boxers from the film looked like they were supposed to. I also liked the fact they used actual boxer names from the film (they did cheat a little bit using 'Kofi Langton instead of Jeff Langton'). There would be a few things I would change. I think that any boxer should be allowed to compete in the movie mode, not just Rocky. Also the scoring was a little messed up as no round ever went under 10-8. Probably the toughest boxer to face in the movie mode is Tim Simms. I can't beat him without cheat codes. I liked all the made up locales like the 8 Ball Club, Liberty College, Big Rock Arena, and Titan Beach. This is a must for any Rocky fan, and better than some of the boxing games I've played in the past year or so.

Rocky is totally Underrated

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am shocked that so many video game sites wrote this game off as mediocre. There is nothing mediocre about the game, yeh it has it's flaws, but so does every game. There are a couple different modes in the game: Knockout, Exhibtion, and Movie. Movie Mode is where you can unlock all the characters & arenas. Some of the boxers in the game you can unlock: Tommy Gunn, Ivan Drago, Clubber Lang, Apollo Creed, Union Cane, Joe Czak, Billy Snow, The Rock Statue (yes it is alive lol), and good ol' Mickey Goldmill Rocky's Trainer. The Movie Mode follows the storyline from the Rocky I-V you first battle as Rocky I then II then III then IV and finally at V. The graphics are pretty good, gameplay rocks, and it's certainly worth $19.99, but certainly not $49.99 when it orignally came out. So if you're a big fan of the Rocky films, I highly recommend getting this game, you'll have fun playing it.

Prognosis: Excellent

-Dr Gamer

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