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| From: Xseed Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.33
You Save: $3.66 (12%)
New (18) Used (5) Collectible (1) from $21.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1025
Format: Cd
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 0.5 x 7.5
MPN: 80707
Model: 80707
UPC: 853466001070
EAN: 0853466001070
ASIN: B000V7Y6IE
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not bad if you learn it. Better than Wii Boxing. December 25, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you actually learn how to throw punches and use the controls to move and block, it is a very enjoyable game. It's about 90% responsive to your punches. There are six basic punches- straights, hooks, and upper cuts both left and right. Once you learn to move and time your punches rather than flailing wildly away, you will enjoy this game. It's decent exercise as well. Just not much depth in gameplay. The anime drama aspect is so so for me.
 Not as good as Wii sports November 27, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yet another Wii game that fails to beat the Wii sports controls (see also Super Swing Golf, etc..)
The game comes with a variety of different control schemes but why bother? Most don't work
and I didn't buy a wii to use a joystick.
Only "Swing mode 2" kinda works asuming you don't need to block or dodge quickly. Of course you can't beat the hard level without being able to dodge and block well... So your kinda screwed unless you go back to your gamecube controller. (Again I bought a Wii to escape joysticks)
What's really terrible is the games controls don't work as well as Wii sports boxing. I found after looking online for tips I was able to get the punch I wanted 95% of the time in Wii sports (it's all about turning your wrists)- but on Victorious boxers the best i was able to get was maybe 60%.
I was always able to dodge and block when I wanted in Wii sports... Victorious Boxers makes this a chore. Worse Victorious boxers want's you to aim your punches... of course the only way to aim for the body with your punches is to duck first (i.e. dodge forward) and there is a slight delay when you go from block to dodge... just slight enough for the fast characters to nail you in the face... long before you threw the body punch you wanted- Very annoying.
The story may be based on a popular Anime but I can't imagine why. The story sucks and the character design isn't great either. (esp the failed crosshatch shading they tried to use)
Even worse you quickly realize that you have to turn off the story segments if you want to beat story mode (as the story segments will cause you to auto-lose) Again kinda Lame.
It's not a terrible game, but could have been much much better.
It does have one thing Wii sports doesn't and that's a lot of boxers to play against and more levels to beat.
I use it as part of my morning exersise, but I wouldn't pull it out for friends to play.
 Stick with Wii Boxing November 26, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Don't waste your money. As frustrating as Wii Boxing can be . I find the controls to be way more responsive in Wii Boxing. At least in Wii Boxing I know when the punches are connecting but in Victorious Boxers missing a punch and connecting a punch seem the same to me.
The first 2 control options which use the remote and the nunchuck to punch seem to work fine in the tutorial but is a crap shoot during sparring. I didn't even fell like wasting my time with the story mode at this point.
For now Wii Boxing with all of it's flaws is the "King of the Ring" as it is still way more fun and a lot less frustrating than Victorious Boxers. Best to just wait for something else to come along.
Far better than Wii Boxing, but still far from the ideal boxing game November 23, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
After almost a month of delay I finally received Victorious Boxers: Revolution.
The positives are that, in contrast to Wii Sports Boxing, when you throw a punch your character actually throws a punch.
The downsides though are fairly numerous. 1) The punching detection isn't consistent - a jab or a straight punch are frequently detected as hooks and uppercuts. 2) It doesn't seem to detect where your hands are for guard, high guard, low guard, neutral, nor does it detect holding your hands up in the air for taunting motions. 3) Motion is fairly clumsy and inconsistent if you use the strictly body movement based detection (ie lean and holding down buttons - then the direction you lean is the direction you move) also if your hands are in proper guard position while holding the wiimote it detects it as if you are swaying back. 4) Easy should be called 'ridiculously easy' I beat the entire game in a couple of hours including sitting through most of the cut scenes (towards the end I skipped all of the cut scenes). 5) At times the opponents motions are weirdly fast - ie they will zip past your character to his side 6) The cut scenes are typical 'anime' - a style of animation that I happen to find annoying. It has, in my opinion, poor dialog, and mediocre animation and voice acting. 7) The training options are extremely weak - all it has walkthroughs for the basic motions and combinations - but there isn't any ability to do common boxing training stuff at all - no working the heavy bag, no speed bag, no sway bag, no endurance games, no trainer or training partner to work on combinations or defensive or offensive skills.
While it is clear from the above that it has a number of shortcomings and is far from what I've been dreaming of for a boxing simulator for the Wii, it is still a heck of a lot more fun than mashing buttons so a fun of 4, and a overall of 3.
MUCH better than the Wii Sports boxing, but still not that great. November 21, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This boxing game is much faster and much more responsive than the boxing game on Wii sports. But it's still not that great. It can easily keep up with rapid punches, but it has a difficult time recognizing which kind of punch you're trying to throw. It only picks up on upper-cuts and hooks about half the time. The cut scenes are LAME and super-long. But who the heck would buy this game for the cut-scenes anyway? You can duck and weave and block and punch like there's no tomorrow, so you'll be sure to get some exercise. It probably gets your heart rate up better then any other game on the Wii. It gives you several different control options. The best one is called Swing Mode 2. In this setup, you do all the real punching but move your boxer around with the control stick (much more responsive than tilting the remote and nunchuck for movement). There's some glitches in the game, especially in the tutorial. But who cares? It's all about the boxing! The two-player setup works pretty good as long as you don't get ticked off when your boxer throws a left hook rather than an upper-cut. Plus some of the boxers are much better than others (and it's hard to know who is tougher than who). So it's best if both players pick the same boxer - making it an even fight. Worth $40? Probably not, but if you want to get some exercise punching like hell, then it's at least worth $30. Hard-core gamers will think this game is terrible. They'll point-out the glitches, the bad music, the awful cut-scenes, the bad graphics, etc. But anyone who just wants to beat the daylights out of a virtual character with real punching (not sitting on the coach while rapidly pressing A...with potato chips nearby) will look past all the problems and enjoy the game.
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