Rocky
- For Play on Your Gamecube
- Published by Ubisoft
- Game Genre: Sports, Game Sub-Genre: Boxing
Product Description
It was only a matter of time before ol’ Rock stumbled back into the world of video sports meeting, but no one guessed his comeback would be so splendid. Stallone’s visage makes his way owing to the tales of each of the five existing ROCKY films, going toe-to-toe with such rivals as Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago, and Tommy Gunn. Taking place in the settings of the movies, bouts can be played against AI opponents or other players. The only disappointment is that you can’t beat up that irritating robot that Pauley bought in ROCKY IV.Amazon.com Product Description
In UBI Soft’s Rocky the cartoonish spinning, backwards punches, and rope-crashing choreography of the movie franchise are replaced by sound boxing fundamentals and realistic moves. Boxing purists will be well pleased with the realistic game design, including dead-on graphics and enough jab, hook, clinch, and affront capability to satisfy any bloodlust. Movie fans will delight in controlling or opposing all the Rocky legends, from the Aliesque “King of Sting, Master of Disaster” Apollo Creed to Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago, and more. While the gameplay is no giant leap forward (even from boxing classics like Sega Genesis’s Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing), this game is a must-have for Rocky fans, a excellent buy for boxing fans, and a pleasant, if not revolutionary, choice for gamers. –Patty Stuart
Pros
- Re-makes the look and feel of the Rocky movies
- Multiplayer capability
- Features all of Rocky’s movie adversaries
Cons
- AI quickly becomes predictable and simple
- Scoring system has an 8-point minimum per round
- Complicated training exercises can limit progress
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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 Barrage 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 brilliant fighting sports meeting out, how can one endure repeating a few unadorned moves? (Punch, punch, jab . . . jab, punch, punch.) It’s pretty terrible. And when you get hit hard, small 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 go in qualified wrestling. But hey, if you really want a boxing game, you might like it.
Rating: 2 / 5
Having played the Gamecube,Xbox and Playstation 2 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 sports meeting you will have played for many a long year.
Fans of the movie are going to like 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 brilliant, splendid lighting effects, fully 3D crowds, and the atmosphere and fantastic soundtrack all use the Xbox and Playstation 2 potential to full effect.
The release 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 sports meeting.
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 potential and simplicity, while film buffs who know small about sports meeting will appreciate how right 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 sports meeting? Get Rocky? Fan of the Gamecube/Xbox/Playstation2? GET ROCKY
Rating: 5 / 5
game was fun rather simple to beat,nice graphics ,seemed alittle slow at first but remember”getting strong now”.Game has a nice punch.
Rating: 3 / 5
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Rocky is in fact a pretty decent boxing game. The characters look excellent, the controls are in fact honestly tight and feature a wide variety of moves, and the storyline follows the Rocky films pretty well. The whole thing is pretty entertaining.
For a while. Then you start seeing the flaws.
First, the AI cascade for unadorned combinations way too easily. You can in fact go owing to pretty much the entire game doing the “jab,jab” combo over and over — the CPU will either block it (90% chance, which at a snail’s pace wears him down), try to punch you and take a jab in the face (5% chance), or in fact hit you with a jab, from which you will probably recover quick enough to hit him with your next punch (5% chance). If you avoid the combos that the AI just can’t deal with, it’s in fact challenging and fun — but that’s a pretty huge hole to avoid falling into.
Second (and perhaps more fatally), the game doesn’t make enough use of its movie licensing. The core gameplay is in fact pretty excellent, but if you changed the characters’ names and looks, it certainly wouldn’t feel much like a Rocky game. They use a few small snippets of “Gonna Glide Now”, but that’s it! Where’s the symphonic score? Where’s “Eye Of The Tiger”? Where’s that song from Rocky IV that Survivor sings while Rock’s getting ready to fight the huge Russian dude? Furthermore, the atmosphere of the game just doesn’t seem to keep up with the storyline — it always sounds (and often looks) like there are about 20 people in fact cheering for you — they could use some much better crowd audio and visual effects. Compare this with something like Def Jam Vendetta, where they manage to do this much more effectively. It’s particularly noticeable in some of the larger arenas, where you can see that there are really about a dozen “people” that are just copied over and over (and go in exact synchrony). For a movie series whose high point was always the dramatic conflict in the ring, the game just doesn’t capture it.
Sadly, I can’t recommend this one for more than a rental. If you really like it (and you might), you can probably get it cheap now. But hey, at least it’s better than most movie translation efforts you see…
Rating: 3 / 5
Okay, I’ve never played a boxing game before, so I don’t know how this fares within that genre. Frankly, I don’t play sports sports meeting at all; I just got this becuase it seemed cool that I could be a 3D fake Sylvester Stallone in a game. That said, I feel like the game was more than worth the $$$ I paid for it; in fact, had I paid the full $$$$ when it was first released, I reflect I would still have felt it was a sound investment. Thus far, I’ve only played the game on simple mode, and for the most part it is just that: simple. I have a feeling, though, that it gets a excellent deal harder as you increase the difficulty, which makes playing on simple mode probably more a training session that anything else.
The cut scenes are a bit bland and repetitive; that’s my only real criticism. Otherwise, it’s a blast. I got quite a thrill out of (finally; he was tough) whooping Ivan Drago’s butt, for example.
By and large, if you’re a huge sports sports meeting fan, you should probably check out some other reviews to get a sense of how the game works on that level. If, but, you are like me, don’t give much of a hoot about boxing sports meeting and just want to play a game based on a splendid movie, then I highly recommend this title.
By the way, is this the only Best Picture Oscar winner to have a video game based on it?
Rating: 4 / 5