\"Fight Night Round 2\" is the sequel to \"Fight Night\" and it is a big step up from \"Fight Night\". \"Fight Night Round 2\" brings all of the best from \"Fight Night\" plus more.
Controls/Gameplay:The controls are just so great on this game. You use your right joystick to throw punches (Straights, jabs, hooks, uppercuts and haymakers) while you use your left joystick to move, R plus your right joystick blocks different ways and L plus your right joystick bobs and weaves. You can always throw your illegal punches, signature move and taunts with the remaining buttons. The newest and one of the real exciting new features in the controls of \"Fight Night Round 2\" is the haymakers and haymaker meter you get now. You can throw haymaker hooks and uppercuts by winding up, just make sure you hit because it\'s easy to get countered.Gameplay was simple, everything was setup pretty well. You can start up right away and go head to head with a friend or you can create a character to use in head to heads or start a career with either one of the characters in the game already or by making your own. When making a character there is so much you can do, it\'s very detailed. You can do the basic stuff like, height, fat, muscle, hair, etc. but you can also adjust how wide the face is, how long the nose is, how the eyes are shaped, how the face is shaped, and more it\'s VERY detailed.When you start off you\'ll start off fighting amateurs for only 300 dollars a fight but it\'s okay because as you go through your first fights it will teach you how to punch, parry, throw haymakers, block and bob and weave. Once you progress to the professional league you start doing training like combo dummies, weight training, heavy bag, etc.Another new feature is you can hire people before your fight for a certain amount of money. You can hire a better cutman, either one that heals swelling faster or one that heals cuts faster. You can hire a entourage to escort you to the ring and this helps boost stats and you can also pay for better trainers.A real neat thing about \"Fight Night Round 2\" is the fact that once the round is over you go to your corner and now you have cutmen. What happens is it will say press A to heal swelling or press B to heal cuts. Once you do that in all for corners it will show numbers of how bad the damage is, the higher the worse. You use your left joystick to choose what you want to work on and you\'re right joystick to move this little white blip to keep up with another meter and it helps heal the swelling and cuts.Sound:The sound on fight night is very well done. The soundtrack they have for the game isn\'t the greatest, in fact some of the songs I found to be completely annoying so I disabled them in options. Other than that the ingame sounds were great. The audience sounded good and the sounds of landing your punches and especially your haymakers.Graphics:WOW! is all I can say, the graphics on \"Fight Night Round 2\" are simply amazing! All the fighters are VERY detailed. When you\'re sitting in your corner with your cutmen now you can see the sweat running down the fighters. You can also see blood running when they have a cut on their eye or their nose is bleeding. The details of the face are amazing as well, some of the best graphics I\'ve seen on XBox so far.Overall:If you like any type of boxing game this is a MUST have no matter what. Though I didn\'t get to try the internet with this game, for the single player alone I would get this game. A lot of improvements from the last \"Fight Night\" and things to keep you busy in between rounds like your cutmen really add to this game. One of, if not, THE BEST boxing game I have ever played. This game gets a straight 5.0 from me. Well worth the money if you like boxing.
"Fight Night Round 2" is on sale March 1, 2005 and is rated . .
