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A Button Mashing Mess !!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What can I say I could not wait for this game to come out and now I wish it never did !! What was EA Sports thinking on this one ? Not even a way to train your fighter you just jump in the ring and start flinging punches and who ever is lucky enough to land the most wins !! And when you fight Ali even in the esay mode you all but have to hit him with a Bat to beat him !! This game is just a big mess !! Save your money and your time on this one I wasted mine a lot of mistakes by EA sports on this one !!

Mannnnnnnn

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is tyte as ..., its ten times better than all the other knock out kings. Those peices of ... were [bad], but this one on the other hand is a masterpiece (although your hands do get rather tired from openin up a can of ...). I am not disappointed at all in this game, keep up the good work EA Sports( thats all I by Ea sports)

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i thought this game would be another ok boxing game, but unlike the other one i enjoy the graphics a lot more and i think it is really fun. I only wish mike tyson was in it.

Disappointing Game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"KO Kings 2002" is an ok game with great graphics, but it is ridiculously HARD to play! If you get frustrated easily DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! Every fighter, even the rookies with supposedly low power and skill can beat you up no matter how good you are. Really frustrating and a huge disappointment. Go with KO Kings 2001 where you at least you have a chance to win!

Better Than Fight Night 2004

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'll try to keep this review short and simple. I own 2 boxing games for the xbox. Fight Night 2004 and Knockout Kings 2002. Fight Night 2004 has slightly better gtaphics and seems to be a "deeper" game, but Knockout Kings 2002 is funner and more playable. In Fight Night 2004, your fighter almost seems to be anchored down....which makes an aggressive attack almost impossible. In Knockout Kings 2002, you can move more freely about the ring...making offense and defense more controllable. Also, controlling punches in Fight Night 2004 is very difficult and slow. Boxing is a fast sport based on instinctive reactions, Fight Night 2004 makes this nearly impossible. Knockout Kings 2002 on the other hand is straight forward and instinctive while still giving you control over a full aresenal of punches and combinations. I have yet to play Fight Night Round 2, hopefully it's a drastic improvement in playability over Fight Night 2004. To sum it all up, Knockout Kings 2002 is a better game than Fight Night 2004.

kicks ... boxing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game rocks, love the graphics, love everything about it, worth the money, what else can i say ... overall kicks...!!!

EA needs to stick to Football

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

No one can call this a boxing sim with a a straight face. It's a arcade button mashers nightmare of the worst kind. How can EA, who is KNOW for making great sports title drop the ball (no pun) on KK2. First off, EA needs to put as much time & effort on it's boxing games like it does with it's other sports titles. For those who think this is a boxing sim, let me point some things out. Real boxers don't throw 160 punches a round. All boxers don't get up 4 times in the a fight like EA would like you to believe. I'm led to think EA never watched a fight their entire lives considering there are NO one punch KO's. It's the typical, reduce the fighters health to zero before knocking him out/down routine. In this day & age of true gaming sims this doesn't cut it. Like football players every boxer is unique. Boxers fatigue differently, etc. Not all boxers are the same as EA would like you to think. I'm not talking about the obvious attributes like speed & power. They need to take into consideration the boxers heart, chin, defense, illegal tactics, combination punches, signiture punch, boxers weak points, choking in big fights, having a off night, etc.. I might sound harsh, but when I hear of a boxing sim I get very skeptical. EA is insulting boxing fans all around of world with this title by claiming it's a 'sim'. Call it what it is a arcade boxing game with boxers. & why aren't all the fighters real? Football has how many hundreds of players & EA could only come up with 21 real fighters!! Very bad. I suggest they try very, very, hard by inlisting the aid of boxing experts, boxing fans, & trainers alike. This is the only way to get a real boxing sim up & running. The bottom line is EA doesn't care about boxing games so they don't put in much realism to it. You cannot fool me by having great life like graphics when the core of the gameplay isn't.

Anyone who wants a real boxing sim check out lance heffner boxing game. It's great. A true boxing fans dream. There are no graphics so you arcade boxing type fans wouldn't like it..

Good game, but some problems.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game has good graphics and fight sequences. The boxer's facial features and expressions when they get hit is realistic as well, which is one of the reasons why I like this game.

Some of its problems is that Muhammad Ali is too strong and too fast. I was able to beat him, but it took a while to figure out his style. In fact, so much attention and skill is given to Ali that one would think the game should be called Muhammad Ali boxing rather than KK 2002. Another problem is that it's hard to throw body blows. I accidently discovered how to throw body blows when I pressed a bunch of buttons. Until that point, I didn't know I was able to use body punches.

It was disappointing to see only a few popular boxers in this game. It would have been cool to see Dempsey, Marciano, Liston, Tyson, etc.

Getting Knocked Out By Knockout Kings

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow! What an experience. This game is great. The boxers in here give you a new fight experience everytime.

I can't stop playing this game. My favorite boxer is Joe Frazier. He is a punishing hitter. I like to corner the other fighter and really let him have it.

Ali is tough. I can't beat him and he has the most wicked finish of a fighter that I've seen of the game.

Love the sound too! This is a great game.

Oh man! It's UGLY!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Oh man! It's UGLY! I don't know what hurts more... the entire game or the fact that I called all the retail stores and check this website because I could not wait for this game to come out. I played this game and man it is Ugly! Yes the graphics are great but the overall game play is horrific. In Knockout Kings 2001 - Boxers were able to enter with music, some of them even had them had their own dance. The overall gameplay was much more enjoyable. I just hope that if they do come out with a Knockout kings 2003, it would be in the format of 2001. Also with the addition of Felix Trinidad, Bernard Hopkins, Vladimir Klitshko... they should include Kosta Tsyzu. The only good thing about this game is that they took out David Reid. Other than that ...It's UGLY!

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