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Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Codemasters
Developer: Atomic Planet
Genre(s): Sports
Players: 8
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: July 16, 2002
Summary
Rain the hurt on your enemy with over 600 brutal power punches, illegal moves, signature blows and combos. Take your opponent apart through 9 separate game modes - Belt Mode, Speed Boxing, Exhibition Mode and more. Fight in 20 international arenas including Carnival City, Caesars Palace & Wembley Arena. Create unique custom fighters then upgrade them with over 185 unlockable improvements. Also features the Polymorphic & Interpolative Node-mapping facial damage engine. [Codemasters]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
TeamXbox
The game is as good a boxing game as you are going to find, but it’s not great.
Read Full Review >GameZone
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing has a slew of faults that inevitably bring the title down but that’s not to say that you won’t have a good time in the ring.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
Mediocre. [Nov 2002, p.125]
GameSpy
The most disappointing aspect of the game, however, is the lack of attention to detail. The loading times are atrocious simply to go from one menu to another, you cannot improve your fighter's abilities between fights in the Title Belt mode, and there's no Training mode.
Read Full Review >Xbox Nation Magazine
The deep create-a-boxer mode is the only aspect of the game that truly excels, but one good feature doesn't even out a sub-standard title. [Fall 2002, p.120]
Operation Sports
From a simulation perspective, the game suffers because there is no way to control the pace of the fight. The jab and the straight cross have very little effect on the computer so you are forced to get in close and throw uppercuts and hooks the entire time.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
The game is a mess from the opening bell to the K.O. punch. As for differences between the two versions, nothing was touched up for the Xbox version, and both games are virtually identical.
Read Full Review >IGN
An all around mess of a game, Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing is officially one of (if not THE) worst examples of digital boxing we've ever seen.
Read Full Review >Media and Games Online Network
Probably the baddest boxing game on the planet, in a bad way.
Read Full Review >TotalGames.net
It doesn’t seem to know whether it wants to be a realistic simulation of the sport or a straight-out arcade game, as it stands it manages to succeed as neither.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Quite possibly one of the most confused games and most definitely one of the worst games to be released so far in 2002.
Read Full Review >Gamer's Pulse
Although I have no gripe with the stable of boxers included here, I think the game would have been a lot more enjoyable if other equally despised personalities were licensed for the game. Just imagine the possible matches, Tyson versus O.J. Simpson, Hussein versus John Rocker, Bin Laden versus Enron board members. That would be fun no matter how bad the game sucked.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 0.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Red dead gave it a 0:
Sucks badly its so bad it made my face hurt.
[Anonymous] gave it a 1:
This game disappointed be a lot, maybe because I expected it to be as good as the awesome classic, Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!
[Anonymous] gave it a 1:
Character creation was abysmal, also it is horribly confusing and anti-player friendly, like super-star like game.
