Welcome to our review of Boxing Champs, a game promising to keep you fighting till the end!
More than just a boxing game, Boxing Champs mixes fast and fun top-down arcade graphics and animations and mixes it with simulated game-play to give the real feel of boxing. Feel every punch with full punch control using the Right Stick. Start swinging away and challenge friends in multiplayer, or make history by moving up the ranks in career mode to become the undisputed world champion. Snap the jab from the outside, and throw combinations, or get inside and brawl away with hooks and uppercut. Capture the spirit of boxing and knock it out of the ring.
Single player or multiplayer, take on the AI or challenge friends for all the title belts. Fight in Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, the Downtown Gym or the Boxing Champs Arena.
Create your very own boxers, with over 70 hairstyles, change hair color, body color, body type, gloves, shorts and boxer stats. The possibilities are endless! There are 30 Boxers pre-included in the roster.
Create your own fighter, and with your trainer, move up the world rankings, There are 4 different champions, Clean the mess up and win all 4 belts to unify the titles.
Full Punch Control: Use the Left Stick to move and the Right Stick to punch with these intuitive controls for a boxing game, feel every punch as you move the Right Stick in the direction you want to punch, with vibration giving that extra feel when you land. For those who prefer buttons, you can also use the buttons to punch.
Boxing Champs is quite a game to play. The early games in career mode are so easy, that it suddenly catches you off guard that it became a really hard game. The learning curve is not something to ignore. While fun to play, really fun to play, when it hits you, it is too late already.
Boxing Champs is in my eyes a game that is great for party mode, but the single player often felt a little strange to control. When playing against friends, you can just button mash and laugh away while hitting your virtual opponent, but in single player mode, you often hit in mid-air because your character fails to move properly. In career mode especially, this was an issue for me.
More than once, I was getting hit needlessly because my character failed to even hit towards my opponent. I know there were stats for some fighters like increased speed and such, but I had one fight where it took me 3 tries just to get my fighter to face my opponent, let alone being able to block punches properly. Might have been a fluke, but it felt intended to me.
Do not get me wrong, despite all these negative comments I am making, this is still a fun game, but for me personally, not the career mode, but just the occasional fight that kept me entertained. But at the same time, how much value does a game have when its main “attraction” is not the best one? I leave that to you.
In conclusion, Boxing Champs has a lot of diversity, both in character creation as in fighting options, sadly it failed to leave a lasting impression on me. I did enjoy some aspects of the game enough to give this grade.
