Earlier on this month, 2K Sports delayed (without explanation thus far) Don King Presents: Prizefighter for the Nintendo Wii. Originally planned for release next month, the Balance Board-supported title has now been pushed back until March 2009. Such a long delay led many to believe that the Nintendo Wii build was destined for the trash can (particularly as the Xbox 360 version wasn't received brilliantly), but a 2K Sports message board admin has now confirmed that it is still in the works, albeit with a different publisher or developer (it isn't too clear which) at the helm.
Don King Presents: Prizefighter was released on the Microsoft Xbox 360 (to, it has to be said, mixed reviews) back in June of this year. Still, with Balance Board training tasks in the Nintendo Wii version, we were looking forward to its Autumn 2008 release... ...but now it appears that the title's launch on the Wii has been pushed back quite considerably, all the way until, according to the game's official website, March 2009.
An updated image of the box art for Don King Presents: Prizefighter has surfaced on EBGames' website today. Nothing special about that on its own, but a closer look reveals a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo, suggesting that the boxing simulation will support online play. The question is whether this includes the Wii Balance Board use, which Balance Board Blog reports, the game already supports.
TeamXbox reports that 2K Sports announced today the artists featured in the soundtrack and ring walk music for the highly anticipated boxing video game, Don King Presents: Prizefighter. To accurately capture different eras of boxing atmosphere, Venom Games compiled more than 70 songs to complement the game, from rock to rap to metal to soul and funk. The soundtrack will include artists and songs such as Run DMC's It's Tricky, and Survivor's massively popular Eye of the Tiger, along with legendary funk bassist, Bootsy Collins, who will provide an exclusive original Prizefighter theme song for the game.
Ripten writes: Among the deluge of press releases we receive daily, it's nice to see a little bit of effort exerted for once. This letter from Don King, declaring that language can't describe the sheer magnitude of magnificence of his new game, seems to be representative of the hype we can expect to see more of for Prizefighter, which King considers the best anything ever.
Don King Presents: Prizefighter is sure to have enough fantabulous spectaculosity in it considering the game's namesake, but today things got a bit funkier as Bootsy Collins revealed that he produced an original theme song for the upcoming boxing title.
2K Sports today announced it has partnered with the king of boxing promotion Don King, to launch the brand new site, HypeKingdom.com in support of the highly anticipated boxing video game, Don King Presents: Prizefighter. Fans can now enroll in the University of Hype to learn the art of larger-than-life self-promotion, while getting new insight into the man behind the mania.
On their official site the BBFC has took the time out to rate two more upcoming games. The first is the forthcoming boxing title 'Don King Presents: Prizefighter' by 2K Games and the other is the MMO 'Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures' by Eidos. Both games got a 15 rating.
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Don King Presents: Prizefighter will be hitting the Xbox 360 this spring, but in September the game will be released on the Wii and DS. It's the Wii version that sounds most exciting, with developer Venom Games including support for the soon to be released Wii Fit Balance Board. We're also including Wii Fit and the Balance Board, and we're very excited about this, said Matthew Seymour, Executive Producer, 2K Europe. Myself and the developers love the Balance Board, and we'll be utilising that not to fight, because that would be a little weird, but for the training games. So doing the jump rope training game, and push ups and all of that kind of stuff, will all be nicely woven using the Balance Board.
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