Experience boxing action both inside and outside the ring. Don King Presents Boxing is equal parts sports simulation and true boxing drama. The action within the squared-circle accurately mimics the sport's tactics and hard knocks by letting you create angles and openings using a full arsenal of true 3D motion captured movement and punch mechanics found only in the real world sport until now. Outside the ring, the drama continues as you are faced with temptations inherent in any professional athletes' life, where you must balance these trappings of notoriety with the hardship of training in order to find the road to glory. As you progress through your career, a live-action documentary tells your story, warts and all.

User Reviews about Don King Boxing

I usually stick to the playstation and PSP for playing games, but figured I'd try out the Nintendo DSi. There is no Fight Night title for the DSi, so I figured I'd check out this Don King boxing game. I'm surprised to find that the game is very fun to play. It has a few drawbacks, but otherwise, I would recommend you give it a try.

The punch controls are great. The screen is split up in four sections and each section represents left and right head punches or left and right body punches. You tap the stylus in one of the four areas for a straight punch or jab, move it left to right for a hook, or up for an upper cut. I have found that the controls are not only easy, but pretty accurate as well. You use the L button to block. You can also use the directional buttons to move around the ring.

What is good about the first person perspective on this game, is also what's bad. When playing games on the Fight Night franchise, you see your boxer, the full body. This is a first person perspective where you are shown the angle of facing your opponent, and you can only see your gloves. The good thing is you can see your punches land easier. The bad thing is that you cannot see where you are being hit, so it's harder to block or cover up. Also, because you only see the gloves, it appears a bit more sloppy because most of the time the gloves don't even appear to be attached to any body at all, they are cut off before the elbows even. Yet, this does not make the game any less fun.

I find the game challenging, and the more you practice your punches, the better you get. You could find yourself having hours and hours of fun with this game. You get to unlock different opponents in the game as you progress. The trainer tells you things between rounds via text on the top DS screen.

The game is no Fight Night game, and it's not perfect, but for the Nintendo DS or DSi, this is as good as it's going to get right now. I have a lot of fun playing this game at 33 years old, and I'm sure you will too. Give it a try...it's one of the best DS games I've played so far. -- BEST BOXING FOR THE NINTENDO DS...FIGHT NIGHT STILL BETTER!!

Don King Boxing is a solid boxing game. As you progress in your quest for more wins, you unlock boxers to fight in Classic Fights and get to use them in exhibition. The most notable boxers are Leon Sphinx, Joe Frasier, Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano.

There are four mini games to include jumping rope, heavy bag, speed bag, and focus mitts. 2 of the games use the X, Y, A, B buttons and the focus mitts and 2 use the stylus. As you beat tasks with the speed bag, jump rope, heavy bag and boxing mitts, you can add 10 points to 4 characteristics of your boxer - making him a formidable fighter. There is no way to add more points once you have performed the milestones of the different skills. This takes a lot of hand eye coordination and there is a pattern to the various tasks. The boxing mitts, heavy bag and speed bag are the easiest whereas jump rope requires multiple button pushes which are more challenging.

The theme music is the same but catchy. On Career Mode, you get to hear the Rocky theme. Practice mode allows you to learn the basic movements around the ring, dodging, blocking, uppercuts, super moves, jabs, straight punches and combinations.

This is a 1st person perspective where you visualize your gloves and face your opponent. Surprising, you have a lot of control to move around the ring (I try to corner my opponent as I pummel him with punches). You can adjust your level for easy, medium or hard. There is a learning curve to being able to box and block so use the practice mode. I highly recommend training your boxer for every opportunity to increase your attributes by 10 points.

Graphics are good for a DS game. I was playing it on a DSi so I noticed none of the 'slowdown' in the heat of battle, as I have heard from some people. Everything is replicated to be pretty 'realistic' such as your coach saying how slow you punch, as you train. There is the introduction of your fighter, the start of the match when the boxers faceoff, and the sound of the bell. Even the detail from your round by round score is posted. As your boxer gets injured, he gets bruises on the face and body on the insert screen. It is odd that the bruises reset after someone is knocked down or when the next round is played. You don't have to worry about blood, since there are no effects of blood splattering.

One of the most interesting effects is when you get knocked down. Instead of rapidly pushing buttons, as you would on this games predecessors, you have to wipe off blood from the screen with your stylus (Very neat effect). As you are about to get knocked out (as I was the first 2 to 3 rounds), your screen turns red as your energy flashes; quite a nice touch.

Gameplay is fun, whereby you navigate through the ring with the cursor pad, block with the L or R buttons and hit by tapping/sliding the stylus. Some have told me about the game slowing down but I didn't notice that on my DSi.

Career Mode lets you battle with one boxer. As you defeat each boxer, a green check mark appears next to the Ring's name. There are no 'rankings' like in conventional boxing. As you win, you unlock the boxers you defeat and you unlock rings in which to fight (and unlock 'classic boxers' from the 30s, 70s and 40s, as stated above). What is not too realistic is your boxer fights in the lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight classes.

This is a very entertaining game and it captures a lot of the essence of boxing from training to fight night to the fight percentages, at the conclusion of the match.

Once you beat all of the boxers, you get to wear Golden Gloves, shorts and shoes. There is no 'title belt' or title defense. Replay is fun but there are a limited number of boxers to fight (you end up fighting the some of the same boxers in different fighting venues).

PROS
1st person perspective boxing
Career mode
Graphics
Game controls

CONS
Limited customization of boxer (color of skin, color of gear, small tattoos)
Limited number of boxers

Great game. I really enjoyed it. -- Let's Get Ready to Rumbl-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-e!