Boxing Manager 2

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Life Expectancy 70%

Instant Appeal 66%

Graphics 54%

Addictiveness 60%

Overall 65%

Marcus Berkmann 65%

D&H SPORT SIM SPECTACULAR D&H Games £9.99 cass (each game) Reviewer: Marcus Berkmann Football Director? I know it's hard to iamgine anyone getting bored with the best of all footie management sims (I still think it's streets ahead of FD II), but you never know, it's possible. All well and good then that those sim-freaks at D & H ( which stands for De Salis & Huggard, triv fans) are in the process of turning virtually every other imaginable sport into the same sort of management sim. By an amazing coincidence, I have three of the little critters sitting in front of me. Now, I'm willing to agree that whether or not you like Grand Prix, Cricket Captain and Boxing Manager 2 will depend very much on whether you like those games - but I'm absolutely certain that if you didn't like FD, you'll HATE 'em with a passion. So if the mere sign of the legend 'Please Wait' drives you insane with fury, turn to another page now. (Go on, I'll understand.) So let's dig in, before these games get cold. BOXING MANAGER 2 This update of last year's rather dreary Boxing Manager 1 adds a spanking new graphic element in that, yes, you do actually fight. This will probably be bad news for anyone who doesn't care for actually fighting, but then anyone who is down on violence is hardly going to be buying a boxing game, are they? Still, it's all here, in the usual D&H style. You can go for the WBC Championship, for the WBA (What've West Bromwich Albion got to do with this? Ed) or even the IBF. You can fix a fight, take a dive, even do TV interviews (although not, sadly, with 'Arry). I am perhaps less drawn to the idea of this one than the other two (which may have been why I left it 'til last), but it's a well-proportioned game nonetheless, with probably little, if any, regard for accuracy. Still, there's a strong sense of atmosphere, even if no-one ever seems to be pummelled a la Mike Tyson and put in hospital (now there's realism!). Rampant pugilists should lap it.

Biff! Baff! Thock!! Oooh, you brute, what an absolutely darling pair of gloves!!!

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