don king presents: prizefighter
Don King’s Prizefighter Soundtrack Is Funktastical
2:20AM Mike Fahey | There is no way in hell I will every buy a copy of 2K Sports’ Don King Presents: Prizefighter. I hate Don King, I’m not all that fond of boxing, and…wait, did you say Bootsy Collins? Awww dammit. That’s right, Bootsy Collins is doing an original song for the upcoming fighting game, and when you add in songs by Parliament, James Brown, George Clinton, and Tower of Power, you’ve got an oddly funk-hungry Fahey on the verge of shelling out $US 60 based on the game’s soundtrack alone. Then of course I remember iTunes, but it was damn close there for a minute. Joining Bootsy and the crew are some bands of the less funky persuasion, such as Run DMC, Suicidal Tendencies (though Infectious Grooves was pretty damn funky), Blue Oyster Cult, and Iggy Pop, so there really is something for everyone to remember to download from iTunes. Hit the jump for more info while I dig up a gift card I have lying around. More »
Don King Presents: Extreme Fectaculosity
1:20AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
Don King’s Sweaty Half-Naked Men
2:40AM Mike Fahey | While 2K Sport’s stab at the boxing genre, Don King Presents: Prizefighter, may boast a robust story mode that takes you out of the ring to experience all aspects of the sport, at its core boxing is about one thing: Sweaty, half-naked men beating the hell out of each other. They’ve just released the first few screens of the game, and I’m not sure they are going in the right direction here. Granted, my only up-close and personal knowledge of half-naked, sweaty men is myself, but something seems off here. Where’s the realism? Not one of the featured fighters is covered head to toe in body hair, and what’s with those lumps all over their bodies where their life-affirming fat should be? Come on guys, you can do better than this. I was going to post a pic for comparison, but my camera seems to have spontaneously exploded as the result of a thousand voices simultaneously screaming, “No!” Huh. More »
