Victorious Boxers: Revolution
Xseed Games - Xseed Games
Nintendo Wii
Release date: 2007-10-16
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Victorious Boxers: Revolution
Date undefinedMany gamers complain too much too easily about video games, their playability, graphics, sound, story, and Victorious Boxers is no exception. VB is quite a good game, the thing is that it requires a little bit of patience.
The first true drawback is the unability of allowing left handed positioning: a true setback for lefties such as myself, but not so bad to make me stop playing the game as other worse case-scenarios such as Virtua Tennis 3.
Now assuming you belong to the remainig 95% of the planet that's right-handed, the only thing you need to go through VB is as I said before patience. Swing mode 1 is perhaps the best mode to go, after you have completed the tutorials, which are decent and could be better. Another review posted how unfair people are to the expectations on how the wii remote should reproduce exactly what you do with your hands/arms, and this is pretty much the open-mind policy you have to accept while playing VB. It's not like the Wii remote does not do at all what you swing, in fact most of the time it is pretty accurate. Of course, if you get desperated and start swinging your arms fast and mad, it is obvious that there will be errors on the detection. This is where the patience element comes in.
Contrary to Wii Boxing where all you have to do is beat the crap out of the other guy, VB requires you to literally plan the fight and dance around the ring for a while, hit a few punches here and there and then go back, just like a real boxing match. In story mode, the first opponents can be beaten by following the Wii Boxing strategy, but after a few bouts, you realize you need to think and build a strategy move on through fighters. Some fights even need you to use the "rope a dope" Muhammed Ali strategy of out-lasting your opponent, taking punches in the first round to make him run out of stamina and try to knock him down on the 8th or 9th round. This opens up the door for the other aspect that frustrates gamers that buy VB on high expectations: The variability of the story mode.
Unlike Punch out where you have just this one guy breezing over the cirquit, in story mode you go over the careers of four or five different boxers, boxers with different strenghts and different weakness, therefore that require a different plan and a different strategy against any given fighther. So what worked for Ippo may not be useful for Kimura. Actually Kimura's first fight was a real pain to pass for me and my friends.
So after you have accepted the facts explained above, VB becomes a fun game for a Saturday night party with your friends. What we do is get together 3 or 4 of us, and we alternate fighting on story mode so that we have enough time to recover for the next fight. The vs mode is fun as well, only be sure of not defending your title over and over again because after three fights you'll end up pretty much exhausted and won't be able to win again.
I'd say the game deserves 3 1/2 stars, but between 3 stars and 4 stars I'll give it a 4/5. It's a good buy.
Victorious Boxers: Revolution
Date undefinedI love wii boxing & found the graphics too simplified, though since I lack control with my fighting from lack of training, I use speed over technique/precision. My views on Victorious Boxer was a horribly short tutorial, unhappy you have to hit buttons to guard or bob/weave (which gives it more of a learning curve taht should have been avoided) but sensed it had better responsiveness to wii boxing. I also found the drawing style of the look of the game harder to see the opponent's punches & the character moved much faster like real life, though harder to see. With all that, I did sense it recognized my punches better then wii boxing.
I asked a friend who has a black belt in several styles of martial arts & has trained for more then a decade try out first the wii boxing for his very first time. I had him do the training w/the punching bag & though he liked the simulation feel, he was disappointed with it the lack of recognition of his precision punches especially uppercuts & hooks. This carried over into the matches & though he liked it, he was more disapointed by the limitation.
He tried out Victorious Boxers next, agreed on the way too brief tutorial & then kicked b*tt on the game in only a few seconds with the settings on medium for both him & the computer opponent. He was VERY impressed with the recognition by a landslide over wii boxing. Though he was going to be late for something, he did not want to stop playing.
(The Victorious Boxer game was set on swing/punch only, just like wii boxing, no nunchuck control stick used for walking or classic style.)
Victorious Boxers: Revolution
Date undefined...but, overall its a good looking, enjoyable boxing game. I'm not too sure what some of the other reviewers were expecting, i mean lets face it, the Wii-mote will always be a little hit and miss.
You dont need to be a fan of the Anime to enjoy this (in fact, i think this title will draw in some new fans) - the visuals are great, and the story is fun. Overall a cool title.
