Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing

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Let's get ready to rumble: the title borrows ring announcer Michael Buffer's famous call, and Buffer himself appears in the game, which tells you exactly what kind of boxing this is. Ready 2 Rumble Boxing burst onto the scene in 1999 as one of the Dreamcast's breakout launch games, and Midway brought it to the Nintendo 64 that November in a port by Point of View. Forget simulation. This is boxing as pure spectacle, built for the kind of competitive couch sessions that defined N64 game nights.

The roster is where the personality shines. Each boxer is a caricature in the best sense, with exaggerated proportions, outrageous taunts and a showman's swagger borrowed from pro wrestling. Afro Thunder became an instant cult favorite, Boris "The Bear" Knokimov brings the Russian heavyweight menace, and the N64 version adds a fighter you won't find on the other consoles, J.R. Flurry. Swelling and bruises build up on fighters' faces as the rounds wear on, a small touch that makes every fight feel like it is taking a toll.

The mechanic that sets Ready 2 Rumble apart is the RUMBLE meter. Land hard blows or taunt your opponent and the letters fill in at the bottom of the screen; spell out the whole word and you can power up and unleash a Rumble Flurry, a wild combination that can end a fight on the spot. It gives matches a rhythm of build-up and payoff that keeps both players invested from the opening bell to the final round.

Head-to-head is where the game comes alive. Trading haymakers with a friend and saving the Rumble Flurry for the perfect moment produces the kind of shouting matches people still bring up decades later. The N64 port isn't as pretty as the Dreamcast original, but it keeps the roster, the meter and the attitude, and it gives an N64 library the cartoon boxing showdown that Punch-Out!! never brought to the console.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1999
Publisher
Midway
Players
Single player, Split screen
About the game

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is a boxing game for the Dreamcast, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64 and it was released in 1999 by Midway. The success of the Dreamcast version led to it becoming one of the few Sega All Stars titles. Like Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series it features many characters with colorful personalities (i.e. Afro Thunder, Boris "The Bear" Knokimov, etc.); however, unlike the Punch-Out!! series, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is in 3D, thus allowing for more control over your character in the ring, and also enables the players to choose whichever fighters they want. Throughout the fights in the game, there is a special RUMBLE meter which fills up, one letter at a time, until the word "RUMBLE" is spelled at the bottom of the screen. Letters can be obtained by successfully landing hard blows or taunting the opponent. Once the meter is full, the player can power himself up, enabling access to a special move called "Rumble Flurry", which might as well instantly knock the opposite player out cold. One unique graphic feature of the game is the gradual bruises gained by players as the fight progresses (like hematomas and swellings), present in all fifth-generation versions.

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