Rocky Comes To Switch In Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions

As a big Rocky/Creed fan, I’ve gotta say...man, I’m sold.

So this is a new game, and not an N64 remaster? Graphics were a bit, underwhelming.

@rjejr I was thinking more that it looked like a mobile port.

Yo Adrian! I did it!!! As a long time fan of the movies I'll probably pick this up. Would be cool if they had Little Mac as a guest character.

I was "What?!" when i saw Rocky. 😲
It was a Boxing game on Nintendo Switch.
But.... It didn't have any Health Bar on the top nor the Super Moves meter on the bottom. 😫
Gaaah...!!! 😖
I really want a Boxing / Kickboxing game with Health bar and Super Moves meter displayed so i can tell my boxer condition.
It was same case as Hajime no Ippo on PS2 / Wii again. 😓

Looks like they've taken the Creed game they made for VR, used all the assets and then adapted and altered it enough to make it its own flat-screen game.

Looks a little off but I love me some rocky so ill play it

@nessisonett @rjejr Yeah not impressive hope they improve frame rate before the Spring

The Rocky game that came out for PS2/GC/Xbox was pretty fun, so I'm hoping this will be fun. Im intrigued but...at the moment Im waiting.

"a true underdog journey" sounds compelling

@elpardo1984 @nessisonett I guess it's b/c I'm old - 55 now - that the phrase - "It looks like a mobile port" never enters my mind. Well unless it's a port of a mobile game I know is a mobile game b/c I played it, and there are very few of those b/c I'm old.

I've owned nearly every console - certainly 1 per gen - since the PS1, and I still own an Atari 7800, so my brain always compares games to those, not mobile. Funny enough I never have owned an N64 but whenever I see anything that looks pointy I think N64. I have played a few on Wii/U so I know what they look like, and I hate the look.

So yeah, this 1 is a pass. Though I do own Labo VR so if they put it in first person on there I would be tempted for Rocky nostalgia. Also have a PSVR headset, might look better if it gets ported over there. I checked PS and no mention of it yet though.

idea is awesome but it looks so studdery , hope thats not how it will run in Spring 2021

@impurekind my thoughts as well after working out over the home quarantine months with creed on psvr.

Rocky on GameCube were a great game.

I'm looking forward to this.

It looks like a dream for Rocky lovers, but I'm afraid it's going to be bad...

@NintendoByNature Yeh, the gameplay did look a touch janky, but I'm prepared to reserve judgement on any Rocky game. Hope it's decent.

...But why did Clubber Lang look about 7 feet tall?

@Pally356
I have that game on GCN and XBOX. It still holds up. I hope this game can capture the same magic.

I will keep an eye on this one.

@gcunit yep. I'll check it out down the road and give it a fair shake it ite worth it

I have no desire to play this game. However, I'm surprised by the positive support for this game in the comments.

The VR game is fantastic, but the VR is such a huge part of what makes it good.

Played a Rocky game on the PSP. It was fun, though the gimmicky magic bits were a bit jarring.

I’m up for this, needs some visual upgrades but there’s time. Will look out for this.

Game looks pretty fun honestly. Would be kinda cool if they could add in a few guest fighters or perhaps female fighters like Laila Ali or Maggie Fitzgerald from Million Dollar Baby.

@dkxcalibur Fun looking game from an underrepresented genre based on a popular movie series? Why are you so surprised?

Still own Rocky for Master System and the Cube and PS2 Rocky games. Good stuff! Let’s hope this turns out well.
No Tommy whats his face that Rock had the street fight with?? Terrible Rocky movie lol

@joey302 Man...I love Rocky 5.

It may not seem great, but as a Rocky fan since childhood, I'll keep an eye on it.

Shovelware

Rocky looked more authentic on the Master System

Never watched a Rocky film, but this looks like it has potential.

I bought that VR Creed game on sale over a year ago but haven't had a chance to properly play it.

This game got my attention. I hope it gets a physical release too.

@rjejr I actually thought that it looked like the GameCube/PS2 game, albeit with the animation being a bit more janky, but it still gives me some positive vibes nonetheless, because the GameCube Rocky game was simply great fun to play.

@Silly_G Say what now?

All kidding aside, though, if you even remotely like boxing movies, especially those that give of that kind of "arcadey", slightly over the top eighties action movie feel, then you could definitely do worse than watch the early Rocky movies, especially the first two.

As the series moved on, it became even more over the top, and even though I still enjoyed the later movies as well, they were a bit too much, to put it mildly. The first movie is actually inspired on a real life story, and it's actually a pretty good boxing movie in its own right, also as a product of its time, so I can easily recommend it to you.

For moments I thought this was EA Sports UFC, well now this looks appealing.

Reminds me a lot of Ready 2 Rumble Boxing on the Dreamcast, who else remembers that game?

Fight Night and Punchout!! are my high water marks for good boxing games. So the reviews will have to win me over on this.

The sound effects sounded off to me, amost cheap. don't know why. Anyone else?

With Rocky returns on Nintendo Switch, i really hope there will be another 3D Boxing games on Nintendo Switch.
2D / 3D Chibi Boxer with Street Fighter Alpha / Pocket Fighter style is very welcome too.
But i prefer K-1 from PS2 / Kickboxing games returns on modern console.

This game should be pretty good, you have to watch all the Rocky movies in order to truly appreciate it!

@rjejr graphics are actually around a PS3/Wii level. Far better than a 64.

@ThanosReXXX @Dirty0814 I said "remaster" of an N64 game b/c it looks better than an N64 game but they kind of look angular like an N64 game would have been. The graphics NOW are of PS3/Wii quality, which is what I would expect a ground-up remaster of an N64 game to look like. 😁

Hopefully some time in the next few weeks we'll see what a Switch remaster of an actual N64 game looks like, Super Mario 64, then we can continue this conversation. Hopefully it looks better than this.

Can't wait to see what Sunshine looks like, that already looked great on the Gamecube. Galaxy they could pretty much just release as it was but in widescreen and HD.

N64 games though, they need all the help they can get, and then some. Remakes don't count as remasters but they did a good job w/ Conker.

Maybe they'll remake Mario 64 w/in the Odyssey engine? Would explain the delay and deafening silence.

@rjejr the angular thing was common with boxing games because of the view back then. This game looks like it will follow that aspect.
As for a remaster I think it will be more of a complete set redrawn to be without criticism. Me I would be fine with just a port myself of any of those games. As far as that goes star wars pod racers was a 64 game so there's a remaster to look at and compare. Maybe Nintendo can do better.

@rjejr I understood what you meant by it, but for me personally, the first thought I had was "hey, this reminds me of Rocky on the GameCube", so I never made the N64 connection with it.

@ThanosReXXX Good reason. I thought it was some N64 boxing game but I've never actually played 1.

I would think an HD remaster of R2R Boxing 2 could be close to this.