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Fight Night: Round 2 is the sequel to EA Sports' acclaimed Fight Night 2004. It is a boxing game descended from the lineage of the Knockout Kings series of games and is produced for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube consoles. It is the only Fight Night game to appear on the GameCube.
ports' Fight Night series began life as Knockout Kings on the PlayStation, Xbox and Game Boy consoles/devices.
otal Punch Control, a control scheme introduced in Fight Night 2004, returns in Fight Night: Round 2.
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Fight Night: Round 2 is the sequel to EA Sports' acclaimed Fight Night 2004. It is a boxing game descended from the lineage of the Knockout Kings series of games and is produced for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube consoles. It is the only Fight Night game to appear on the GameCube.
History
EA Sports' Fight Night series began life as Knockout Kings on the PlayStation, Xbox and Game Boy consoles/devices.
Gameplay
Total Punch Control, a control scheme introduced in Fight Night 2004, returns in Fight Night: Round 2. With Total Punch Control, movement and most maneuvers, including punching, leaning and blocking, are performed with the left or right analog sticks, modified by the left or right triggers. For example, with the default controller configuration, moving the right thumbstick up and to the left will cause the fighter to throw a straight punch with his left hand, while holding down the right trigger while performing the same movement and then holding will cause the fighter to raise his guard to the left side of his head, ready to attempt a parry.
Fight Night: Round 2 expands upon the Total Punch Control scheme with the addition of another feature, the EA SPORTS Haymaker. An EA SPORTS Haymaker is a more powerful version of one of the basic power punches (hooks and uppercuts) and is performed by pulling the analog stick back before performing the movements for a regular punch. If it connects, a Haymaker causes quite a bit of damage, can stagger the victim and may cause an instant knockdown, regardless of the victim's health or stamina status. If blocked, the Haymaker does very little to no damage while consuming a great deal of stamina from the attacking boxer. If parried, the attacker is pushed off-balance and is left vulnerable to a Haymaker or combination attack.
Other features include:
- A slightly altered interface in which both fighter's health and stamina are displayed on the bottom of the screen.
- The addition of an amateur boxing league that has the fighters wear head protection and fight in shorter matches (typically 4 rounds)
- Joe Tessitore is the new commentator.
- Illegal maneuvers, including head butts, elbow attacks, and low blows. These attacks do somewhat more damage than a normal punch and have a greater chance of opening up a cut, but repeated usage will result in point deduction and eventual disqualification.
- Clinching: Any boxer may attempt to clinch his opponent at any time. If successful, both boxers will regenerate health and stamina faster as long as they are clinched. Clinching too often, however, will result in point deductions and eventually, disqualification.
- KO Moment. When a fighter's health is depleted, the game enters the KO Moment. In this mode, the camera zooms in on the fighters and the crowd and announcer are muted. If the ailing fighter accumulates enough damage or is hit by a Haymaker during this period, he will be knocked down. If the defending boxer escapes a knockdown, then after some time the game will return to normal and the defending fighter will be given a small amount of health. A successful clinch by either boxer will end the KO Moment prematurely. This feature can be toggled off.
- Enhanced character models that sweat, swell and bleed.
- EA SPORTS Cutman: a mini-game that takes place after every round. In this mini-game, the player manipulates the analog sticks in order to heal damage (bruises and cuts) to their boxer's face accumulated during the course of the match. If too much damage is incurred on any one area without being healed, the fight will end in a technical knockout (TKO) in favor of the injured boxer's opponent. This feature can be turned off for regular matches and is not available at all in the amateur league.
- More items to purchase from the Fight Store.
- Current and historical boxers from all weight classes like Muhammad Ali, Juan Manuel Marquez, Roberto Durán, Roy Jones, and Evander Holyfield.
- Fabolous (all versions) and Little Mac (Gamecube Version) as unlockable characters.
- EA SPORTS TRAXX: featuring music by Fabolous, David Banner, Geto Boys, and Pitbull.
Boxers
Heavyweight: Roy Jones Jr, James Toney, Muhammad Ali, Chris Byrd, Joe Frazier, Evander Holyfield, Sonny Liston, Rocky Marciano, Ken Norton
Light Heavyweight: Jeff Lacy, Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones Jr, James Toney, Antonio Tarver
Middleweight: Bernard Hopkins, Ray Robinson, Jermain Taylor, Ronald Wright, Jake LaMotta
Welterweight: Ricky Hatton, Roberto Duran, Arturo Gatti, Shane Mosley, Ray Robinson, Miguel Cotto, Ray Leonard, Micky Ward, Ricardo Mayorga
Lightweight: Mike Anchondo, Jesse James Leija, Roberto Duran, Arturo Gatti, Juan Lazcano, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Shane Mosley
Featherweight: Marco Antonio Barrera, Kevin Kelly, Derrick Gainer, Diego Corrales, Juan Manuel Marquez, Rafael Marquez, Erik Morales, Manny Pacquiao
GameCube extras
In the GameCube version of Fight Night: Round 2 the Super NES game Super Punch-Out!! is playable. In addition, it is possible to unlock Little Mac as a playable character in the main game.
Reception
It was included on Game Informer's "Top 50 Games of 2005" list.
In popular culture
The game was featured in the film Grandma's Boy during the opening scene.
The game was also featured in the film The Break Up in the scene where Vince Vaughn is playing a console as Jennifer Aniston gets out of the shower.
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