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Don King Presents: Extreme Fectaculosity
Posted by Mike Fahey at 1:20 AM on April 16, 2008
The man actually says "extreme fectaculosity" in this trailer for 2K Sports' Don King Presents: Prizefighter. Now I'm tempted to buy the game just to hear him say more completely made up words. As for the game itself, the rhythm-based training mini-games look pretty damn nifty, and for Wii owners there is always the fact that the game will support the Wii balance board for some of the training exercises, so if anything it gives you something else to do with your plastic rectangle. I'm just concerned that the extreme fectaculosity could increase the possiblization of desensification to violenciferocity in our children, which would be bad-tastical. In other news, my spellcheck just killed itself.


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Agies
Posted 2:27 AM 16/4/08
@TheAngryHeretic: Here here!
Agies
TheAngryHeretic
Posted 2:00 AM 16/4/08
@Hubert Humphrey Methadone: Being one of the few people who enjoyed 2K's All Pro Football, I would be there day 1 to pick up Emmitt Smith's 2K9 All Pro Football.
Even without the NFL license, 2K made a good football game.
TheAngryHeretic
willsueforfood
Posted 1:56 AM 16/4/08
Three red lights of life!
willsueforfood
Surlaw-the-Mai
Posted 1:50 AM 16/4/08
that article just made my day:
I'm just concerned that the extreme fectaculosity could increase the possiblization of desensification to violenciferocity in our children, which would be bad-tastical. In other news, my spellcheck just killed itself.
Surlaw-the-Mai
rdj
Posted 1:49 AM 16/4/08
Extreme spectaculosity maybe? Meaning it is of spectacular quality? Added to my dictionary.
rdj
ekkobi
Posted 1:49 AM 16/4/08
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: I hope so. Otherwise it wouldn't be Don King!
I like the faces on this game. I might just get it, just for that effect.
ekkobi
evensteven
Posted 1:47 AM 16/4/08
"In other news, my spellcheck just killed itself."
best. line. evar.
evensteven
LittleBigPlaneteer
Posted 1:45 AM 16/4/08
Why is the PS3 being snubbed?
LittleBigPlaneteer
poduski
Posted 1:43 AM 16/4/08
Did he say "intestinal fortitude" at the end? Maybe there's a digesting mini-game.
poduski
Hubert Humphrey Methadone
Posted 1:42 AM 16/4/08
Does this mean we can look forward to Emmitt Smith's 2K9 All Pro Football?
Hubert Humphrey Methadone
Truepatriot
Posted 1:42 AM 16/4/08
all these made up words cause to much fustigation.
Truepatriot
scarshapedstar
Posted 1:42 AM 16/4/08
I get extreme fectaculosity whenever I eat a Moe's burrito.
scarshapedstar
TheAngryHeretic
Posted 1:41 AM 16/4/08
I hope that it is at least as good as Fight Night round 3. also, it was not listed for PlayStation at the end of the clip. I hope that it does make it to the PS3.
TheAngryHeretic
Kyle81
Posted 1:38 AM 16/4/08
Oh loo.... oh wait EA just announced Fight Night 4!
Don King wha?
Kyle81
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 1:36 AM 16/4/08
Maybe he meant to say "extreme fecalosity". Still a made up word but more fitting to what Don King is all about.
Mr.SithNinja
Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
Posted 1:36 AM 16/4/08
Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
NKato
Posted 1:36 AM 16/4/08
Of course your spellcheck just killed itself. :p
NKato
Grumps
Posted 1:34 AM 16/4/08
it still looks exactly like fight night besides the mini games. They remind me of riddick bowe for snes, which was awesome. I may have to get this.
Grumps
Hubert Humphrey Methadone
Posted 2:37 AM 16/4/08
@TheAngryHeretic: @Agies: When it comes out, let's all go online and get "debacled".
Hubert Humphrey Methadone
ZhouYu
Posted 2:37 AM 16/4/08
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a brand new meme.
ZhouYu
H8ff0000
Posted 2:33 AM 16/4/08
H8ff0000
silvrbak
Posted 3:09 AM 16/4/08
Not that it is any better but Don King does not say "extreme fectaculosity". He says "extreme spectaculosity".
silvrbak
thelastslice
Posted 3:06 AM 16/4/08
Mike you did an okay job making up words, but those had a shred of actual wordiness to them. That's what makes Don King special. I can't even begin to guess what fectulosity means.
In all seriousness, I can't wait to try this game. Gives yet another reason to buy a balance board.
thelastslice
zanzibarlegend
Posted 3:46 AM 16/4/08
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: no silly he exploits you, forces you to take a lose fights for money,lets you go on a booze and drug binge, end up on a reality tv show as a has been, and then he takes your money.
there. glad we cleared that up
zanzibarlegend
Bluecell
Posted 3:42 AM 16/4/08
Exercise your brain so you can win the game.
The three red lights of life make it Orgasmic Delightful.
For those uneducated in the way of Don King.
[xbox360.ign.com]
Bluecell
jp182
Posted 3:36 AM 16/4/08
yeah i think its spectaculosity, but it sounds like his dentures got in the way.
jp182
nxp3
Posted 3:34 AM 16/4/08
Don King is so idiobrainfrifucked.
nxp3
symbspider33
Posted 4:22 AM 16/4/08
Naaww this game looks bad, but since there will not be a fight night round 4 or 09 or whatever( there putting out that arcade boxing game called facebreaker) This game will get good reviews. (hoe sad!)
symbspider33
Nikolii
Posted 4:04 AM 16/4/08
Barring it actually implementing Wii controls in a way that makes it interesting and fun, I don't see this being worth the development costs.
Why?
Quick, name 10 active boxers. You can't. Nobody can. Boxing as a relevant sport is dead and will remain dead until they actually create one federation/league/ladder/whatever and unify the titles and make it accessable to normal cable TV and stop putting the marquee fights on PPV.
Video Game boxing has a better future with things like facebreaker than hyper-realistic boxing sims IMO.
Nikolii
bluemanrule
Posted 4:00 AM 16/4/08
@silvrbak:
Word! It is "Extreme spectaculosity".
Ah Well, at least this game looks like it won't "Fade into Bolivion" :) Gotta love Tyson
bluemanrule
HurricaneDave
Posted 4:43 AM 16/4/08
@Nikolii:
Easy
Juan Manuel Marquez
Manny Paciaqio
Isreal Vasquez
Rafeal MArquez
Juan Diaz
Joel Casamayor
Nate Campbell
Anthony Peterson
Junior Witter
Paulie Malinaggi
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Miguel Cotto
Antonio Margarito
Paul Williams
Carlos Quintana
Joshua Clottey
Shane Mosley
Zab Judah
Andre Berto
Andre Ward
Corey Spinx
Vernon Forrest
Kelly Pavlik
Jermain Taylor
Joe Calzaghe
Bernard Hopkins
Chad Dawson
Glen Johnson
Antonio Tarver
Roy Jones Jr.
David Haye
Steve Cunningham
Wlad Klitchko
Those are off the top of my head right now, there are others but I would have to think hard about them.
HurricaneDave
Sasquatch
Posted 4:30 AM 16/4/08
Spectaculosity. Ok. That makes more sense. After all, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Sasquatch
jynxycat
Posted 5:20 AM 16/4/08
Wait, why would I play this over Fight Night ?
2K all-pro football was complete ass, and I don't doubt this will be any better.
jynxycat
theALLseeingEYE
Posted 5:09 AM 16/4/08
Very good trailer. I really hope the story is all amounts Rockstar style goodness. I love their gritty, down to earth style. A solid narrative in a boxing/fighting game would be awesome.
theALLseeingEYE
pastepunkjames
Posted 5:06 AM 16/4/08
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus:
You took the words from my mouth!
pastepunkjames
HurricaneDave
Posted 4:51 AM 16/4/08
Can't wait to buy this game, I hope next time (if there is one) 2k can partner Arum, Golden Boy, and DKP so that we can get a great range of fighters.
HurricaneDave
BtownDesignGuy
Posted 5:30 AM 16/4/08
The minigames can't be a good sign. Developers keep trying to "add depth" by adding something that isn't actually a part of the play experience you bought the game for. Ugh.
But that's just my opinion. Some people like the minigame distrations.
BtownDesignGuy
dunetiger : the mekuri master
Posted 6:06 AM 16/4/08
I cannot believe the avaricularity of Don King Wong, thinking that he can make a game that's more spectaculous, more incredifabulous, more fantaglorious than Fight Night! Just looking at this invites the depricocity of gamers everywhere! It oozes the clonularity! It wants to be Fight Night, but it's no more than a shadow! A copy! A doppletexasranger of a gamatrocity!
Actually, it doesn't look half bad.
dunetiger : the mekuri master
HurricaneDave
Posted 6:02 AM 16/4/08
@BtownDesignGuy: How else would you improve your boxer?
I like the minigames, I wish they presented the rhythem games in a way in which the buttons didn't have to flash on the screen though.
HurricaneDave
zerostylin
Posted 2:38 AM 16/4/08
@LittleBigPlaneteer
i beleive that the PS3 version will come out a couple of months after the Xbox360 version
zerostylin
Ossisk
Posted 2:25 AM 16/4/08
Ossisk
Sasquatch
Posted 7:14 AM 16/4/08
@HurricaneDave: Thanks Dave. It's good to know there are some boxing fans left out there. And did you see the beating Cotto handed Gomez on Saturday night? I can't believe he didn't kill him.
Sasquatch
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 7:13 AM 16/4/08
@dunetiger : the mekuri master: This will be the pinicalization of the pugilisticatory arts in the digitization world. Just look at the intenciocity, and the fercociatatiosness in those warriors facialistic expressions! They are ready to burninate the sqraureified circulifation! This will be the ultimitified craptastical crapification that this gamified planetoid has ever witnessed in the historification of our Nation!
Mr.SithNinja
Sasquatch
Posted 7:13 AM 16/4/08
@jynxycat: "...and I don't doubt this will be any better."
[en.wikipedia.org]
Sasquatch
HurricaneDave
Posted 8:02 AM 16/4/08
@Sasquatch:
Yeah I saw that mismatch. I'm sad that the fight was even made. Cotto should have fought Clottey or Collazo, because Gomez will never be on his level.
But yeah, there are some boxing fans left, the promoters don't make it easy for our ranks to grow though.
Did you see the Dawson/Johnson fight. Fight of the year nominee for me.
HurricaneDave
KM91
Posted 8:24 AM 16/4/08
I wonder where he ever got the word "fectaculosity" from.
KM91
okenny :)
Posted 9:11 AM 16/4/08
I can't help but to smile when I hear Don King talking and you guys mimicking him is comic gold :D There is a method to that mans madness and if you think he's an idiot then he's got you right where he wants you :)
okenny :)
Nikolii
Posted 8:45 AM 16/4/08
@HurricaneDave:
You're doing better than 98% of the general populous, who simply haven't heard of anyone on that list except Mayweather.
Let's rephrase. If I asked a casual sports fan to name 10 MLB players, they probably could. Same for NFL, NBA, and they could probably name 5 NHL/NASCAR guys. Boxers? Simply not part of the American sports culture as it once was. No good TV matches outside of ESPN Classic, the heavyweight division might as well be dead compared to how it used to be, and its really hard to get into something that is completely splintered, has a worse TV deal than the NHL and has all of the personality of a horse race.
It sucks, I enjoy watching and going to the occasional fight, but the sport is in shambles.
Nikolii
Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice
Posted 9:31 AM 16/4/08
What the fuck is "fectaculosity", Fahey? He said "Spectaculosity".
/Which isn't any better, I know.
Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice
TheCheese33
Posted 11:15 AM 16/4/08
I thought this trailer was a joke when I first saw it. I heard that phrase watching the GTTV premiere of the trailer, and had to rewind five times to see if I heard it right. I think I'll start a list of "Don King's Made-Up Phrases" when I get the game. In fact, I HAVE to get it now!
TheCheese33
m3rcer
Posted 12:17 PM 16/4/08
It's going take more than a video of one punch knockouts for me to compare it to fight night. Let's see some combos, let's see a couple rounds of movement... and let's press the damn mute button already!
m3rcer
artofwar420
Posted 2:44 PM 16/4/08
HELLS YES! Oh and if you haven't listened to the "Three Red Lights" podcast from IGN, you gotta, if only for Don King's appearance.
artofwar420
mcderek3000
Posted 8:56 PM 16/4/08
I just played Jade Empire and realised that one of the characters is a parody of Don King.
mcderek3000
kingme
Posted 9:42 PM 16/4/08
the whole game itself is just a meh....but man those mini games looks so cool
kingme
dunetiger : the mekuri master
Posted 10:30 PM 16/4/08
@Mr.SithNinja:
haha I know it's not much of a comment, but that was a great bookend to my day!
dunetiger : the mekuri master
MySoul7
Posted 7:22 PM 17/4/08
IT'S NOT ON THE PLAYSTATION3?!?!!?!
WHAT THE HELL!!!
MySoul7