Evander Holyfield's 'Real Deal' Boxing
Reviewed by Dyson Turner
Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing was a pretty good
boxing sim. Way better than some earlier sims like Buster
Douglas. The graphics were tight and Holyfield looked
exactly like his real life counter part at the time this was
made. The sounds could have been better were overall
reasonable. This game was pretty good but left much to be
desired from it. Upon first inspection this game was pretty
good and I really played it a lot, but when you delve deeper
into it you will realize what you actually have. A good
boxing sim that had potential to be even better.
Story
Well their isn't really a story when you think about it. You
are a young street fighter and you're trying to work you're
way to the top of the heavyweight division. Holyfield just
became champ and he is undefeated, it's your job to try and
take him down. Not easy tasks considering you have to fight
you're way through 30 over boxers just as hungry and blood
thirsty as you. You have to train hard and tough to get your
shot. Well considering that is the story on almost every
boxing game, fight through a bunch of guys to work your way
to the top and beat the champ at the time. Nothing real
knew, but you really don't think about a story too much.
Graphics 9.0/10
The graphics were great. The boxers were huge and drawn real
well. Everyone was fictional except Holyfield but the guys
did have distinctive looks. The view was a side view and the
arena changed a little bit. Well you had a little screen on
top next to your power bars this informed you what part of
the ring you were in. Even though you couldn't tell you were
on the ropes from the main picture look up there and you can
see. In the beginning of your lustrous career the arenas are
practically empty. This made the game seem a quite more
realistic even though all the people looked similar with
only maybe 6 different types. The ring girl looks pretty
good too, and she was design well.
Sound 7.5/ 10
Except for the generic music in the beginning and in between
fights there wasn't any. All though the music in the
beginning was pretty good, it wasn't spectacular. Your heard
fighting sounds like punches and the ref's count. You even
had taunts once in a while, which were usually, a guy
calling you a wimp or saying come on, and even come on and
fight you wimp. The audience had a weird way of chanting
when you were down, and you heard your heart pounding sort
of. Well That's what the Genesis was trying to simulate. All
in the entire graphical and sound department were great.
Game Play 9.0 /10
This game was for 1 or 2 players. You had two modes of play
exhibition, and career. In exhibition you picked any boxer
you wanted even Holyfield, and slugged it out with the top
fictional competition. You and a friend or a could
do this. Then there was the career mode where you made your
own boxer. You made everything from his hair cut his face
skin complexion, and his trunk color. Then you give him
starting stats; the best thing to start with was speed and
power. Speed and Power could get you past the beginning
competition. Then as you won fight you got the option to
choose 3 different types of training, training like weight
lifting ultimate gym spa and many others. Depending on what
stat needs to be raised is the one you choose. Every 5 or 10
fights that you have, you will see Evander Holyfield, well
not really see him, he will be on a black & white screen, he
tries to discourage you by saying things like if you fight
me I'll crush you. If you win the title, and after 25-30
fights you will start weakening. Even if you win your fight
eventually you won't be able to keep your stats up like you
use to, and you will probably lose your belt if you don't
retire, and keep falling down the ranks until your are force
to retire after 40 fights. If you happen to stay on top and
get career earning of over 50 million dollars, you will be
remembered as the Greatest. Even after you retire you can go
to this screen and see that your name and record and how
your boxer looked is still their. The difficulty is
intermediate, although when you first fight Holyfield he
will seem unstoppable, but he can crumble just like anybody
else. There is a save feature to save your career and your greatest.
Overall 8.0 /10
This was still a pretty good game marred just by a few
things. The game was actually too easy, if you made a guy
with all speed and power and corner the opponent you could
easily drop him. Their should be some type of evade move to
get out of corners, and it seem liked they were all over the
ring because you can constantly trap even when your not near
the ropes. The replay value was pretty low too, because they
were nothing to do besides trying to become the greatest.
The fun factor was high if you had a friend along playing,
but it seems harder to trap human player in the corner than
the player. Well besides the trapping thing this
was an excellent boxing sim. All though others on the market
like Muhammad Ali Boxing and some of the others were clearly
better than this. This was Sega's first try on a boxing
game, and I have to admit it was a good one and all the
little quirks and problems were worked out on Greatest
Heavyweights. If you like Evander Holyfield and you like
boxing this is a definite game, for you because even though
the few problems it has its an over all good boxing sim and
an enjoyable one during your first play through.
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