Don King Boxing

by 2K Games

Product Features

• Get ready to rumble at real venues, such as Madison Square Garden, Boardwalk Hall, and Trump Taj Majal
• Unique gameplay provides over 20 real licensed boxers, a deep career mode, and more
• Using a first person split screen display, friends or foes can box against each other with the same menacing proximity found in the actual ring
• Go toe-to-toe against your friends using the first-person, split-screen display
• Unique tutorial mode employs exercises and techniques used by boxing's best trainers

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013Y1G7S
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 31, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,229 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #3 in Video Games > Wii > Sports > Boxing

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii

Amazon.com Product Description

In collaboration with the legendary boxing promoter Don King, 2K Sports brings you Don King Boxing for the Nintendo Wii. With the Wii version of this game you'll get a sense of what it's like to be a real professional boxer in your very own living room -- especially when you take full advantage of the game play with the Wii Balance Board. Although the Wii Balance Board enhances your experience, it is optional for game play.

Get ready to rumble at real venues, such as Madison Square Garden, Boardwalk Hall, and Trump Taj Mahal. View larger.

Provides unique game play with over 20 real licensed boxers, a deep career mode, and more. View larger.

Go toe-to-toe against your friends using the first-person, split-screen display. View larger.

Unique tutorial mode employs exercises and techniques used by boxing's best trainers. View larger.

Duck, Dodge, and Punch. . .Without any of the Pain
Duck and dodge blows, throw counter punches with both hands, all while trying to maintain your center of balance on the Wii Balance Board. And when you combine this unique game play with over 20 real licensed boxers, a deep career mode, and an intuitive multiplayer, split-screen mode, you've got a gaming experience that immerses players into the sport. Standing on the Wii Balance Board will make you feel like you've just stepped into the ring, but without the intense pain and broken noses.

Real Venues and a Deep Career Mode
Get ready to rumble at real venues, such as Madison Square Garden, Boardwalk Hall, and Trump Taj Mahal. You'll experience epic 3D boxing action on the Wii as every head and body shot draws you further into each match through an immersive, first-person camera system. Don King Boxing gives you the opportunity to live out the rags-to-riches underdog story of "The Kid" in the deep career mode. From his rough-and-tumble start at the local boxing gym to his rise to fame as an international star, you can experience both the big victories and hard knocks of professional boxing.

Mini-Games, Toe-to-Toe, and Fitness game play
Play fun mini-games to earn fitness points and track your progress with a Fitness Chart and in-game calendar, all of which help improve your boxer's stats. You can also go toe-to-toe against your friends using the first-person, split-screen display. Friends or foes can box against each other with the same menacing proximity found in the actual ring, but without any of the bumps or bruises. And if you'd like to use the game to get in shape, you'll appreciate the unique tutorial mode that employs many of the exercises and techniques used by boxing's best trainers to develop skills and improve fitness.

Product Description

Experience boxing action both inside and outside the ring. Don King Presents Prizefighter is equal parts sports simulation and true boxing drama. The action within the squared-circle accurately mimics the sport's tactics and hard knocks by letting you create angles and openings using a full arsenal of true 3D motion captured movement and punch mechanics found only in the real world sport? until now. Outside the ring, the drama continues as you are faced with temptations inherent in any professional athletes' life, where you must balance these trappings of notoriety with the hardship of training in order to find the road to glory. As you progress through your career, a live-action documentary tells your story, warts and all. 14 fight gyms and arenas including the renowned Madison Square Garden, Trump's Taj Mahal, and Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Multiplayer lets you go head-to head against your opponents on the same machine or online to see who is the better fighter pound-for-pound.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has Potential But Not What It Could Be, April 15, 2009

By 

Lisa (NJ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Don King Boxing (Video Game)

After I bought the Wii and got hooked on Wii Sports Boxing, I began looking for a more realistic boxing game that was more challenging and expansive. Naturally, when I saw that 2K had hooked up with Don King for a game I was excited. I was really hoping for a game that would have the size and depth of EA Sports Fight Night, but would successfully integrate the Wii movement based controls creating a game that was both fun and a good fitness tool. Unfortunately, the game is just not what it could be. In career mode, the story and the training are not integrated. I think it would be better if training exercises were required in between fights to get ready. However, while training improves the user profile, it is not directly associated with the fighter in career mode. I was also disappointed that a lot of the greatest boxers of all time are no where to be found in the game. Naturally, they took the few guys who are still around that Don King seems to have a relationship with along with some classic fighers from the past. Still, no Ali, no Foreman, no Leonard. On the plus side, the fighting itself is far better than Wii Sports. The movement recognition is better and the fights are more challenging. You can't just sway back and forth and punch when the other fighter misses. All in all, it's a good game if you're in it strictly for how bad you can beat down your friends or computer opponents, but it doesn't reach the full potential of a Wii boxing game. Until EA Sports puts out Fight Night for the Wii, this is probably the best true boxing game out there.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wii Sports Still More Fun, March 31, 2009

By 

still6345 - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Don King Boxing (Video Game)

Only played a few minutes, but to this point the game is not that impressive. The balance board doesn't add much to the game, and you can also play without it. It's used for dodging and ducking, without it you just move the Wii Remotes. Somehow the Wii Sports Boxing feels more intuitive and you can just do a lot of punching rather than positioning. This game has basic punches jab, straight, and uppercut.

Also, there are few recognizable name boxers in the game to start such as Joe Louis and Norton and you cannot create your own boxer. The story mode is all documentary video clips and on my tv they are a little grainy. The boxers during fighting look ok.

Overall somewhere in the middle I think, but no where near a great game to get excited about, and reasonable to pass on if you so choose.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quite the mixed bag, April 11, 2009

By 

Random1 - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Don King Boxing (Video Game)

If all I cared about was the in-ring boxing with all its strategies, then probably I would be a lot hotter about Don King Boxing. The actual fighting is pretty good: You get tired and need to rest, need to block and dodge based on what's coming at you, and can stun your opponent giving you another opening. These are things that make a boxing game more realistic and after a bit of learning I'm starting to enjoy myself in the ring. This is why I have the fun set pretty high, if all I care about is fighting (which is probably the case for a lot of people), it's pretty fun.

That's where the fun ends, however. The actual story mode appears to be completely lineal. I had gotten the idea that'd I'd be making decisions along the way: Do I party or train? Fight a guy for the money or look for a real challenge? Instead it's whether I won or lost, and even that doesn't appear to disrupt my career too much. Listening to assorted people tell my story is pretty cool... for a few minutes. Then it gets downright monotonous.

The training mode takes everything good I've seen from other games, and throws it out the window. While it has some good points (heavy bag is pretty fun), it makes other things almost unbearable. I tried combination punching and got miss after miss even though I knew I was throwing the right punches at the right time. Doesn't make me want to keep trying. But supposedly training (that is, training well) will make your stats go up in career mode, so it's hard to avoid doing it.

Whoever wrote the manual needs to get their facts straight about some of the boxers featured in the game. I was stunned at some of the stuff I was reading because it's completely wrong, or at least out of date. This doesn't affect the gameplay but lowers my opinion of 2K Sports.

Overall I go back and forth between enjoying myself and feeling like I wasted my money. Consider carefully.

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