IT'S NOT ON THE PLAYSTATION3?!?!!?!

WHAT THE HELL!!!

MySoul7

@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

the whole game itself is just a meh....but man those mini games looks so cool

kingme

I just played Jade Empire and realised that one of the characters is a parody of Don King.

mcderek3000

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

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

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

What the fuck is "fectaculosity", Fahey? He said "Spectaculosity".

/Which isn't any better, I know.

Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice

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 :)

@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

I wonder where he ever got the word "fectaculosity" from.

KM91

@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

@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

@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

@jynxycat: "...and I don't doubt this will be any better."

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Sasquatch

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

@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

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

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

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

@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus:

You took the words from my mouth!

pastepunkjames

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

@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

Spectaculosity. Ok. That makes more sense. After all, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

Sasquatch

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

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

@silvrbak:

Word! It is "Extreme spectaculosity".

Ah Well, at least this game looks like it won't "Fade into Bolivion" :) Gotta love Tyson

bluemanrule

@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

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

yeah i think its spectaculosity, but it sounds like his dentures got in the way.

jp182

Don King is so idiobrainfrifucked.

nxp3

Not that it is any better but Don King does not say "extreme fectaculosity". He says "extreme spectaculosity".

silvrbak

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

@LittleBigPlaneteer

i beleive that the PS3 version will come out a couple of months after the Xbox360 version

zerostylin

@TheAngryHeretic: @Agies: When it comes out, let's all go online and get "debacled".

Hubert Humphrey Methadone

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a brand new meme.

ZhouYu

H8ff0000

@TheAngryHeretic: Here here!

Agies

Ossisk

@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

Three red lights of life!

willsueforfood

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

Extreme spectaculosity maybe? Meaning it is of spectacular quality? Added to my dictionary.

rdj

@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

"In other news, my spellcheck just killed itself."

best. line. evar.

evensteven

Why is the PS3 being snubbed?

LittleBigPlaneteer

Did he say "intestinal fortitude" at the end? Maybe there's a digesting mini-game.

poduski

Does this mean we can look forward to Emmitt Smith's 2K9 All Pro Football?

Hubert Humphrey Methadone

all these made up words cause to much fustigation.

Truepatriot

I get extreme fectaculosity whenever I eat a Moe's burrito.

scarshapedstar

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

Oh loo.... oh wait EA just announced Fight Night 4!

Don King wha?

Kyle81

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

Of course your spellcheck just killed itself. :p

NKato

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